Hacker News: sbaildon

New comment by sbaildon in "Tidal AI Policy"

sbaildon — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:59:26 +0000

You open the music you download with something like IINA or Doppler, and you're off to the races. What exactly is the hurdle?

New comment by sbaildon in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

sbaildon — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:44:01 +0000

The author has the same problem as myself; there’s a permanent imprint on the screen that sits right where the screen makes contact with the topside of the touchpad.

It’s quite an annoying flaw, and i’ve only had this problem with the machines since the M1 redesign

New comment by sbaildon in "Tesla ending Models S and X production"

sbaildon — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 12:29:48 +0000

The linked article is clear as to why the S and X don’t need to be in Tesla’s product line

> Tesla’s far more popular models are the 3 and Y, which accounted for 97% of the company’s 1.59 million deliveries last year

New comment by sbaildon in "I accidentally became PureGym’s unofficial Apple Wallet developer"

sbaildon — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 17:04:01 +0000

Similar story with Better’s leisure centres. A frustrating app that only needs to display a barcode, and it doesn’t even rotate.

New comment by sbaildon in "jj: a Git-compatible VCS that is both simple and powerful"

sbaildon — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 09:34:11 +0000

Mitchell of Hashicorp and Ghostty fame uses jj

https://x.com/mitchellh/status/1845869748841832667

New comment by sbaildon in "Little Snitch feature nobody knows about"

sbaildon — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 16:54:12 +0000

How come you’re nesting?

New comment by sbaildon in "Thoughts on Elixir, Phoenix and LiveView after 18 months of commercial use"

sbaildon — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 12:35:30 +0000

>> Grouped aliases/imports/requires are a mis-feature in my view. They save a few characters when typing but they complicate searching for module uses and refactoring.

> Totally agree with this. I prefer to not use aliases most of the time, or to explicitly list out each module path separately if they are too long to fit inline. All preferences though.

recode[0] has a formatter plugin that reformats grouped alias/import/requires

[0] https://github.com/hrzndhrn/recode

New comment by sbaildon in "Delayed Messages on iOS"

sbaildon — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 04:41:28 +0000

There’s an automation that’s triggered when you receive an email. Coupled with Mail’s “Send later” feature in iOS 16 and some parsing, you can send messages at any time you want.

New comment by sbaildon in "Exposing a web service with Cloudflare Tunnel"

sbaildon — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 15:21:24 +0000

Another one for the alternatives list is Kilo[1]

It's a wireguard based kubernetes network overlay. I use it to access private services in my homelab cluster from my laptop, phone, etc.

[1] https://kilo.squat.ai

New comment by sbaildon in "Phone is still the best way to order pizza"

sbaildon — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 07:58:07 +0000

Thank you — the demo restaurant wasn’t set to be open 24h

New comment by sbaildon in "Phone is still the best way to order pizza"

sbaildon — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 00:13:45 +0000

I bought a burrito during lockdown in the UK, but it was such a miserable experience.

The menu wasn’t particularly intuitive, and took me a few minutes to pick out what I wanted — then I was greeted with a registration page. Email, password, phone, address, you name it, they wanted _everything_ — I only wanted to collect. They didn’t take mobile wallet payments either! Manual card entry!

I feel like the restaurant recognised they had a problem, but contracted out a solution to the lowest bidder that actively went out of their way to design the worst UX.

In the end I actually went ahead and built a platform that’s not user hostile.

Im going to rewrite the landing page and do another round of marketing soon. The page that I wrote in an afternoon is far too negative in hindsight. It needs a positive spin.

https://plated.direct

New comment by sbaildon in "UxPlay: AirPlay Unix mirroring server"

sbaildon — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 12:54:41 +0000

Looks like the project is maintained under a different account now

> It is now hosted at the github site https://github.com/FDH2/UxPlay (where development and user-assistance now takes place)

https://github.com/FDH2/UxPlay

New comment by sbaildon in "Postgres is a great pub/sub and job server (2019)"

sbaildon — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 23:43:50 +0000

Oban[1] from the Elixir ecosystem leans on Postgres for job scheduling

[1] https://github.com/sorentwo/oban

New comment by sbaildon in "Super Mario 64 has been ported to iOS"

sbaildon — Sat, 09 Oct 2021 21:58:11 +0000

The web experience has been reduced to an indexer. Following the HN link, there's an option to open the app store, or navigate to the subreddit's index. Even choosing to navigate to the index and open a post directly displays the same prompt.

New comment by sbaildon in "Google’s apps to embrace iOS on iOS"

sbaildon — Sat, 09 Oct 2021 10:21:35 +0000

My expectations mirror your own, but a few of Jeff's thoughts imply that they won't take this path:

> App bars become UINavigationControllers. Standard controls just need light branded touches. Lists can align with modern UITableView and list-based collection view APIs. Menus are just UIMenus.

> And the best code is often no code :)

> The time we're saving not building custom code is now invested in the long [...]

New comment by sbaildon in "iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max"

sbaildon — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 18:31:45 +0000

There's barely a lightning ecosystem left now—the only remaining products are the entry-level iPad, AirPods {,Pro, Max}, and the computer peripherals.

New comment by sbaildon in "macOS persistence – Beyond the good ol' LaunchAgents"

sbaildon — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 08:11:27 +0000

This was outdated last time I checked. It doesn’t cover launchctl‘s v2 CLI interface with bootstrap/bootout subcommands

Check out this https://babodee.wordpress.com/2016/04/09/launchctl-2-0-synta...

New comment by sbaildon in "We Still Don’t Get Things Done"

sbaildon — Sat, 31 Jul 2021 16:21:49 +0000

Anecdotally from myself, colleagues, friends, blogs, and random forum posters, 4 solid hours of knowledge work is right on the nose.

I work on my own time, starting almost immediately after waking up with the sunrise. I get in 3-4 hours while the world is quiet leading up to lunch time; then I'll cook some lunch and go training. Post-lunch work is autopilot admin or operation tasks. There are days where focus is amped up to 11 and the brain fog doesn't set in—but those days are rare.

I'd say that your feelings of "cheating the system" are ingrained by a culture that doesn't apply to your profession.

New comment by sbaildon in "Migadu – No-nonsense multi-domain email at a flat price"

sbaildon — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 09:03:33 +0000

I use migadu for all my side-project-esque domains because of their pricing, and their service has been wonderful.

Unfortunately I’m still using another provider for my primary domain because I can’t get real time push notifications on Apple Mail with Migadu—they’re limited to 15 minute fetches for best case scenario

New comment by sbaildon in "How to Work Hard"

sbaildon — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 17:25:01 +0000

Certainly not out of fashion. I’m approaching 30, and I’ve spent 2 and a half years in and out of a hostel in London. Fantastic life experience