Hacker News: rbosinger

New comment by rbosinger in "Ball Pit"

rbosinger — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 22:09:36 +0000

I opened that on a Pixel 9a and was impressed on how well it worked. There's something neat about this.

New comment by rbosinger in "Veloren, an open source game, release 0.16"

rbosinger — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 23:21:31 +0000

Does Vintage Story not feel very polished? I was just about to find some time to try it.

New comment by rbosinger in "Show HN: Improve cognitive focus in 1 minute"

rbosinger — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 17:23:42 +0000

Maybe be able to control the breathing speed (the circle animation speed) would be handy. Unless this is supposed to be scientifically the speed I should be breathing for optimal health or something. My body wanted to go a little slower than the circle moved and I found myself speeding up to keep time. Or is that the point?

New comment by rbosinger in "Pocketbase: Open-source back end in one file"

rbosinger — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 17:44:03 +0000

I've been using Pocketbase for personal projects on the machine I use to self-host services. It's great. You get CRUD and real-time stuff for free and I didn't really have to spend much time learning to start working with it and having it running in an LXC.

New comment by rbosinger in "Mindustry: Open-source automation tower defense game"

rbosinger — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 16:03:33 +0000

It's one of the only games I play! I have it on Android and one thing I like is that it's fast to open up and play a bit, save, and then quit. No ads or a bunch of intros to try to skip, etc.

New comment by rbosinger in "HTML First"

rbosinger — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 23:55:13 +0000

Yeah I stopped reading as soon as I saw this one.

New comment by rbosinger in "How to Do a Full Rewrite"

rbosinger — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 16:53:18 +0000

I normally agree with this sentiment but I have a story about this. I was in a situation where I was handed over old projects to expand on and the choice to rewrite or build on the same codebase was up to me and another dev (management didn't care or know what should be done in this regard). As "mature" devs we knew rewriting wasn't a great idea. So we code splunked for months, wrote tests, upgraded and cleaned out code bits at a time. Only after succeeding in this did we realize that 85% of the existing code was unused and most of the remaining 15% had pretty substantial bugs in it and naturally ended up mostly rewritten to fix. Turns out the previous dev worked alone for years, didn't use source control, didn't ever delete anything, and that the company has quite a history of pivots. After stepping back from this we realized we should have rewritten, that we basically did anyhow, except we took the longer road to get there but now still have to continue with some of the framework/lib choices the previous dev had made because we opted to stick with them in order to facilitate this piece by piece "rewrite". I don't think we did anything wrong here but it's funny how taking this mature approach, in retrospect, probably didn't help much and now we're beyond the opportunity for a rewrite. I know some folks will say that what we did was actually a first step towards a proper rewrite, and I'd agree, except the time to do that never came.

New comment by rbosinger in "AWS us-east-1 down"

rbosinger — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 19:28:24 +0000

It's always during the demos to the stakeholders, isn't it?

New comment by rbosinger in "YouTuber who staged plane crash faces up to 20 years jail"

rbosinger — Fri, 12 May 2023 00:04:16 +0000

> Over the next few days, he cut up the plane into small pieces, and dumped the parts in trash bins in and around Lompoc City Airport.

I once helped a friend do something like this with a bunch of garbage from a house party he threw at his parents place and wanted to cover up. We drove around dropping bits of the 10+ bags of trash in bins here and there. I'm in awe imagining doing this with a plane.

New comment by rbosinger in "McDonalds Event Driven Architecture"

rbosinger — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 00:58:39 +0000

Both my partner and I always have trouble with the McDonald's app (for ordering). I use Android, she uses iOS. As a developer, I've said to myself "This feels like a React Native app that's calling into a mess of microservices" (having worked on that type of project more than once myself).

Anyway, I only skimmed the article, but I had a chuckle seeing the title of this article pop up on HN at all.

New comment by rbosinger in "Ask HN: Is long-term employee commitment to the same company still appreciated?"

rbosinger — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 21:19:22 +0000

I still consider this when hiring. I don't necessarily see a 10 year tenancy as major bonus points but do consider a flurry of short full time gigs to be a red flag. It's not about loyalty so much as that often it can take 6+ months to really get productive amongst an existing codebase and culture. That's also the point where the developer might really start to drive on more intense projects. If they're always leaving before this point that's great for them but not so much for us.

New comment by rbosinger in "Ask HN: Where does your mind wander to?"

rbosinger — Fri, 20 May 2022 15:20:24 +0000

I often have made up comedic skits running through my head, often starring friends, family, and myself. And I make myself laugh out loud and probably look a bit crazy to others. People regularly around me know I'm just making myself laugh though and ask "what's so funny?". I can never explain because the skits often have inside jokes from previous skits. It's all in my head so these inside jokes are some serious inside jokes.

New comment by rbosinger in "Uninhabitable places in 2100 (interactive map)"

rbosinger — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 22:10:45 +0000

Strange. Works really well on my Pixel 4a.

New comment by rbosinger in "Someone should probably start a bright home lighting company (2019)"

rbosinger — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 16:58:11 +0000

I bought a studio LED panel from Amazon (for videography generally). It came with a stand that attaches to the desk to be used as a webcam light but I mounted it on a shelf and it hangs over my head like the sun. It has a 3000k-8000k temperature range and that and the brightness can be controlled by a remote. There are a bunch like this available under different brand names. For the price I've found it to be a good solution for now and I also have a photography light as a bonus.

New comment by rbosinger in "Show HN: Google Drive to SQLite"

rbosinger — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 17:12:41 +0000

I dived into Datasette a bit last year. Simon has a whole set of tools around SQLite and data analysis with it. I haven't used any of it for anything major but I love to see what he's got going on. My Google Drive is out of control, I hope I can find the time to try this one out.

New comment by rbosinger in "From Node to Ruby on Rails"

rbosinger — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 16:05:34 +0000

I can see this. I worked with Rails for years and recently switched to an all JS stack (serverless, React). I have fun with it in general. TypeScript and the intellisense I get with that in VSCode is great, but overall I feel like I've gone way down in productivity. At first I thought it was due to my being new to this ecosystem but it has been a while now and I've concluded that there definitely is some extra burden with this modern stack. Perhaps it will turn out that the extra work and headache will lead to a more performant and maintainable codebase than we might have achieved with Rails. Time will tell for that one but at the moment it feels like we drown a lot of developer time on tooling, strange issues, and reinventing things that have come with battery-included frameworks like Rails.

New comment by rbosinger in "M1 Macs cannot support dual Extended displays through their Thunderbolt 3 ports"

rbosinger — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 20:14:30 +0000

Thanks for the answer!

> There is noticeable input lag (my guess is around 100ms) that makes mouse and keyboard input feel sluggish.

That's interesting to hear. In some of these videos (and additional Reddit/YouTube comments on them) it seemed like a lot of people would say "yeah but it will have lag" and the person making the video would claim that it doesn't seem to while dragging windows all over the place in their videos. The rotation seems to be a problem across the board though.

These things are difficult to dissect. It could be that there is lag for these other guys, but they aren't the type to notice. Or maybe they didn't get lag because of some detail in their set-up that differed from yours.

Oh well. I don't even have two monitors right now and probably don't really have enough room for a second one. I had hoped to get one this year though.

Maybe I'll get the M1 and just keep working with the one monitor. If I decide it's time for an upgrade maybe I can go the route discussed elsewhere in this thread and get an ultrawide, or a single 40+ inch 4k.

EDIT: Video example of what I'm talking about:

No lag with a displaylink second display on the 2020 M1 MacBook Pro!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1J3lSZfrko

He's not typing anything though. But for this guy it generally _looks_ like it's close to behaving like a normal second monitor.

But then here's this thread complaining that a particular dock, with 4k displays, is super laggy: https://support.displaylink.com/forums/287786-displaylink-fe...

New comment by rbosinger in "M1 Macs cannot support dual Extended displays through their Thunderbolt 3 ports"

rbosinger — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 17:04:47 +0000

This has been a big one for me in regards to pulling the trigger on an M1 (and I need something new for work very soon).

I found a whole bunch of YouTube videos of people using DisplayLink adapters such as various docks from Targus or smaller single adapters from StarTech (brands likely don't matter but this happens to what people are testing in these videos). They all show good results. Comments all say "DisplayLink is faking it and it's gross" but the people making these videos say "Sure, but it's not gross. It's working almost perfectly."

Anyone here have any experience or thoughts on this?

I'm not gaming or needing to do high level graphics or video editing on a 2nd or 3rd display. Just basic dev stuff and window management.

New comment by rbosinger in "Ten year study: No link between violent video games and aggressive behavior"

rbosinger — Tue, 29 Dec 2020 16:13:38 +0000

There are more people around. More cars. Where I live, there's about 1000x more needles than when I grew up. Way more crazy people roaming around. Maybe statistically they aren't causing any problems, but they sure harass me enough. Especially when it comes to "playing in the woods". The woods around town are the worst place now. We used to find camps and places where teenagers would party here and there but now when I walk in the woods (unregulated, non-protected "parks", or outskirts of real parks) there's people camping out and smoking, drinking, doing whatever. Both my hometown and where I live now are like this. It's not my imagination. My parents see the same thing. I don't care if the statistics say it's better.

New comment by rbosinger in "Psiloscoby: Psilocybin Brewed by Kombucha"

rbosinger — Fri, 27 Nov 2020 02:32:05 +0000

So where do I buy one?