Hacker News: reayn

New comment by reayn in "Yyvette's Bridal"

reayn — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 05:15:32 +0000

Lovely website, though I never quite understood why they portray the BMW 8 series saloon as a missile launcher truck.

https://www.lingscars.com/personal-car-leasing/bmw/8-series-...

New comment by reayn in "Show HN: I built a site that finds the cheapest place to buy a book"

reayn — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 03:50:51 +0000

Love the cheeky jab at George R.R. Martin, the site works fantastically, though as others have mentioned an ISBN search would make the entire workflow miles more efficient.

New comment by reayn in "Stable Diffusion Textual Inversion"

reayn — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 12:32:17 +0000

The given example is shockingly similar to what may actually pop up on the HN front page.

New comment by reayn in "The erosion of the Mac experience"

reayn — Sat, 20 Aug 2022 15:55:07 +0000

As a former moderator of r/unixporn (I went by u/fps_co1ncidence) and a longtime ricer of all types of Linux WMs/DEs, I can most confidentially assure you that there is nothing futuristic about what goes on there, just a lot of pointless tinkering and dotfile copy pasting.

The macOS experience is exponentially more polished and Apple will have to screw up phenomenally even from their current position to feel any threat from the FOSS community.

New comment by reayn in "Moving a macOS window by clicking anywhere on it"

reayn — Thu, 05 May 2022 18:24:55 +0000

If I remember correctly it has something to do with Microsoft patenting window drag/snapping to the edge of the screen for resizing.

New comment by reayn in "SnappyMail – Modern, lightweight and fast web-based email client"

reayn — Wed, 04 May 2022 10:22:00 +0000

I mean, it's fast, that's all it claims to be really.

The UI is nothing that can't be fixed with an admittedly large amount of CSS tweaks :)

New comment by reayn in "Howdy – Windows Hello style facial authentication for Linux"

reayn — Tue, 26 Apr 2022 23:09:37 +0000

In such a situation I'd assume you have much more important things to worry about...

New comment by reayn in "Moreutils: A collection of Unix tools that nobody thought to write long ago"

reayn — Sat, 16 Apr 2022 09:51:24 +0000

Oh my bad, i had a bit of a stroke writing my comment lol.

New comment by reayn in "Moreutils: A collection of Unix tools that nobody thought to write long ago"

reayn — Sat, 16 Apr 2022 00:56:40 +0000

Pressing ZQ in insert mode also provides the same effect!

New comment by reayn in "GTK4 Matrix Client"

reayn — Sun, 10 Apr 2022 18:15:02 +0000

Terminal clients like weechat[1] might catch your attention, but I'm pretty sure what you're looking for just doesn't match up with modern UI conventions.

I can also personally vouch for weechat, it's extremely customizable and fun to use.

1. https://matrix.org/docs/projects/client/weechat-matrix

New comment by reayn in "Tell HN: iOS Signal eats your disk space"

reayn — Sun, 10 Apr 2022 01:21:35 +0000

I semi-frequently send audio files to one of the aforementioned friends of mine, and that’s about it. Everything else is just images (which signal compresses to oblivion btw) and stickers.

The fact that there’s no way to view individual files that have been sent to/from me (+ their sizes) and remove them—like there is for messages.app in macOS—makes troubleshooting even harder here.

I will admit though that I haven’t looked too far into the problem but it’s seems to be an issue that just about every signal user I know deals with.

New comment by reayn in "Tell HN: iOS Signal eats your disk space"

reayn — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 23:07:14 +0000

It also eats up disk space on macOS (and I assume every other desktop considering the client is the same), I've had to reinstall it multiple times now just to save almost a dozen gigabytes of space...

I'm not even an active signal user, I only have a few friends on there, I can only imagine what it's like for someone who uses signal as their only chat app, it must get crazy.

Disappearing messages (4 weeks etc.) help mitigate the problem a little bit from what I've noticed but it's nowhere near a complete solution.

New comment by reayn in "Ask HN: Share your personal site"

reayn — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 21:48:43 +0000

https://reyan.co

Hand crafted html/scss and posts full of quite literally no meaningful content, just nice design. I’ve taken the time to make it reasonably responsive too so i’ll most likely take a break for the next couple years before adding animations or something.

Use a New IEEE Standard to Design a Safer Digital World for Kids

reayn — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 03:27:40 +0000

Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ieee-standard-protecting-kids-online

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30914996

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by reayn in "My macOS keyboard shortcuts"

reayn — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 13:53:49 +0000

First and foremost, they should work everywhere, especially the places you describe, almost every native widget (even in third party native apps) should support the readline bindings.

If, however, you desire more control, you can use Karabiner-Elements [0] and one of the many [1] community made emacs-like configurations to have this behaviour system wide, these also add many many more keybinds (such as C-w to delete last word) to further emacsify your workflow!

1. karabiner-elements.pqrs.org

2. https://ke-complex-modifications.pqrs.org/?q=emacs

New comment by reayn in "ReVanced"

reayn — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 15:49:57 +0000

works like a charm here as well, and saves me from having another pretty much useless website-as-an-app installed on my phone!

New comment by reayn in "Ask HN: What book changed your life?"

reayn — Sat, 19 Mar 2022 17:05:25 +0000

Think and Grow Rich has been absolutely phenomenal in spearheading the mindset shift I've had over the past couple years, and I could not recommend it any more to anyone who wishes to have financial success in life.

Some may consider the book and its ideologies excessively materialistic, but I personally find that outlook refreshing especially considering the subject matter: making money; furthermore I think that take is a little baseless as the viewpoint on willpower etc. that Napoleon Hill provides can apply to far more than just accumulating wealth if utilized correctly.

All in all though, it was easily one of the most life-changing books I've ever read and I'm glad to see it's affected others positively too, cheers!

New comment by reayn in "How Good Is Monterey’s Visual Look Up?"

reayn — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 15:35:34 +0000

I don't know what I expected to see after clicking on to that article but I can't say I'm disappointed lmao.

New comment by reayn in "I have no capslock and I must scream"

reayn — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 22:57:46 +0000

It's actually one my favorites, just remap it to CTRL or something similar and bam! You have one of the most ergonomically accessible modifier keys, much better than stretching your pinky all the time.

New comment by reayn in "Apple’s Mistake (2009)"

reayn — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 21:42:43 +0000

Not to be the devil's advocate here but... that seems fine to me? Lots of more technical people complain about terrible changelog entries (I've seen quite a few posts on HN about it too iirc), so I guess no matter what Apple does in this case they'll be a target; just that kind of situation.

Maybe it could be a per-project toggle whether having a "what's new" section is necessary (though on second thought toggling that off might become the new norm leading back to the good old useless changelogs).