Hacker News: rscrawfo

New comment by rscrawfo in "Show HN: Piruetas – A self-hosted diary app I built for my girlfriend"

rscrawfo — Sat, 02 May 2026 12:36:26 +0000

Same issue for me.

New comment by rscrawfo in "Apple Studio Display and Studio Display XDR"

rscrawfo — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 16:38:30 +0000

The price point is super painful. 2k would have been bad enough but I would have considered it. It’s a no go at $3,300 for me.

New comment by rscrawfo in "From VS Code to Helix"

rscrawfo — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 15:41:05 +0000

There are pretty good terminal alternatives to gitlens - lazygit being the one I go to. I like it far more that gitlens.

Jupyter is harder, I haven't found anything that gets me there yet.

New comment by rscrawfo in "Scammed out of $130K via fake Google call, spoofed Google email and auth sync"

rscrawfo — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 19:19:55 +0000

Fidelity does as well, although the message switches to state only read the code if you've called them directly.

New comment by rscrawfo in "You can now disable all AI features in Zed"

rscrawfo — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 17:50:41 +0000

Does Helix fit that bill for you? It's fast, modal and very little config required.

I think there's also a fork if you can't let go of the VIM bindings.

New comment by rscrawfo in "A Billion Pixels a Second: Inside Apple's iPhone 16 Camera Labs"

rscrawfo — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 12:48:18 +0000

When you’re just running out the door with your kids it’s hard to pick up the full frame behemoth.

I’ve been considering a m43 for that reason.

New comment by rscrawfo in "Superfile – A fancy, pretty terminal file manager"

rscrawfo — Sat, 11 May 2024 01:16:53 +0000

Check out helix for a good example of this too. Not quite as visible, but entering certain modes gives you a list of available shortcuts you can use from there.

Space for example opens a list with ten or twenty commands that remind you how to open the file picker, open editor list, problems window, etc…

New comment by rscrawfo in "Superfile – A fancy, pretty terminal file manager"

rscrawfo — Sat, 11 May 2024 01:12:24 +0000

As someone that used to agree with you, I’ve come to admit there are benefits.

Information density and shortcut availability are two of the big ones.

But the biggest for me is composability. I can query any data using their cli and open it in visidata nearly instantly. Just pipe it in. The interface is awesome compared to other query viewers I’ve found. It makes it easier to drill in and see results. Quick pivoting, Filtering and more

New comment by rscrawfo in "Cleaning up my 200GB iCloud with some JavaScript"

rscrawfo — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 13:26:08 +0000

I would if you want to use it as backup. But if you just use it to display photos and have another process for sync it’s absolutely fantastic!

To me it’s better than any other interface I’ve tried. Commercial or home lab.

New comment by rscrawfo in "Nearly Cheating"

rscrawfo — Sat, 25 Nov 2023 16:48:42 +0000

The chances that he wins on any given day are the same, but not that he will win within x days. Right?

New comment by rscrawfo in "iOS 17 is available today"

rscrawfo — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 23:52:12 +0000

Not right now. I believe there was an article recently saying custom browser may soon be allowed on iOS, but nothing right now.

New comment by rscrawfo in "Waku: The Minimalist React Framework with Server Components"

rscrawfo — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 13:37:17 +0000

Completely agree, but I’ll through in two more reasons.

Debug ability. It’s so helpful being able to isolate the network layer and treat each layer independently.

State ownership. It’s nice to know that this is client side state, or this server side state. RSC obscures this.

Honestly I feel like the hype is mainly so people can avoid http requests.

New comment by rscrawfo in "Once hailed for decriminalizing drugs, Portugal is now having doubts"

rscrawfo — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 11:48:58 +0000

That’s the reasoning for my question. Just last night I was reading about a local homeless man who was scared to go to the local shelter and had things stolen when he had.

But I also wanted to ask the OP (who mentioned housing as a right) how that could be avoided.

New comment by rscrawfo in "Once hailed for decriminalizing drugs, Portugal is now having doubts"

rscrawfo — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 11:28:48 +0000

This is a real question, not a retort.

But I have known addicts, they don’t exactly take care of their things. It’s very easy to imagine that much of the state supplied housing would quickly become unsafe and or destroyed.

How do you handle that?

New comment by rscrawfo in "HouseWatch: Open-source tool for monitoring and managing ClickHouse clusters"

rscrawfo — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 00:03:44 +0000

Aggregation is a huge reason. For rolling up data, something can’t like Clickhouse can’t be beat by oltp

New comment by rscrawfo in "Full Time"

rscrawfo — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 15:53:14 +0000

Both of your top two projects are very interesting to me at the moment. Especially your Wikipedia mirror.

Just today I realized how distracting too many hyperlinks can be. And Wikipedia is full of them! It feels so much easier to read an article without them. Now I just wish Wikipedia had more supporting graphics to help engage readers in a more productive manner.

New comment by rscrawfo in "I'm never investing in Google's smart home ecosystem again"

rscrawfo — Sun, 07 May 2023 10:55:05 +0000

Last time I tried Plex for photos it was pretty terrible.

Clearly not their focus. I still use it for audiobooks and live tv, but I migrated photos to photoprism which is great.

Also check out photo structure. The author posts here sometimes. Both are great apps.

New comment by rscrawfo in "JavaScript import maps are now supported cross-browser"

rscrawfo — Wed, 03 May 2023 14:17:56 +0000

This is something I’m facing now. Even hundreds of files slow things down. Code splitting is the answer, but that adds some other complexity that we may not want.

New comment by rscrawfo in "Observable Plot: A JavaScript library for exploratory data visualization"

rscrawfo — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 10:37:24 +0000

Heads up… Your scaling seems broken in iOS. There’s a scrollbar but some of the content is still cut off.

New comment by rscrawfo in "Microsoft is slowly rolling out ads in the Windows 11 start menu"

rscrawfo — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 20:23:39 +0000

This drives me crazy ever single day.