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New comment by sdovan1 in "Why I forked httpx"

sdovan1 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 08:48:46 +0000

I guess the Discussion on Hacker News href should be "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47514603" instead of "news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47514603"

New comment by sdovan1 in "XML Is a Cheap DSL"

sdovan1 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 13:10:12 +0000

Sometimes I wonder why we need to invent another DSL. (or when should we?)

At work, we have an XML DSL that bridges two services. It's actually a series of API calls with JSONPath mappings. It has if-else and goto, but no real math (you can only add 1 to a variable though) and no arrays. Debugging is such a pain, makes me wonder why we don't just write Java.

New comment by sdovan1 in "Show HN: Shittp – Volatile Dotfiles over SSH"

sdovan1 — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 15:52:45 +0000

Overriding HOME variable is neat! Make things much easier.

New comment by sdovan1 in "Show HN: Shittp – Volatile Dotfiles over SSH"

sdovan1 — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 15:25:47 +0000

We usually work on the VM with daily-built ISO. For example, I would compile and upload Java program to the frontend team member's VM, and type "srt" for "systemctl restart tomcat."

New comment by sdovan1 in "Show HN: Shittp – Volatile Dotfiles over SSH"

sdovan1 — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 15:20:22 +0000

It's not obvious, but the shitt-p is borrowed from an anime character. So it should pronounce like sheet-p: https://ipa-reader.com/?text=%C9%95it%CB%90opi%CB%90

New comment by sdovan1 in "Show HN: Shittp – Volatile Dotfiles over SSH"

sdovan1 — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 12:33:11 +0000

I often need to login to colleagues' machines at work, but I find that their settings are not what I am familiar with. So I wrote an SSH wrapper in POSIX shell which tars dotfiles into a base64 string, passes it to SSH, and decodes / setups on the remote temp directory. Automatically remove when session ends.

Supported: .profile, .vimrc, .bashrc, .tmux.conf, etc.

This idea comes from kyrat[1]; passing files via a base64 string is a really cool approach.

[1]: https://github.com/fsquillace/kyrat/

Show HN: Shittp – Volatile Dotfiles over SSH

sdovan1 — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 12:33:11 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/FOBshippingpoint/shittp

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46344381

Points: 136

# Comments: 85

New comment by sdovan1 in "Japan to revise romanization rules for first time in 70 years"

sdovan1 — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 01:48:52 +0000

FWIW, it's HTML ruby tag, not the language.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...

New comment by sdovan1 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

sdovan1 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 01:49:52 +0000

A dotfiles carrier for SSH session called shittp[1], inspired by kyrat[2]

[1] https://github.com/FOBshippingpoint/shittp

[2] https://github.com/fsquillace/kyrat

New comment by sdovan1 in "Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools"

sdovan1 — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 02:52:21 +0000

> The next time you’re about to name your project after your favorite anime character, pause. Ask yourself: “Would a civil engineer name a bridge support system this way?” If the answer is no, choose a better name.

I'm creating a dotfiles to remote SSH session tool in shell. At first, I wanted to call it "sship", but that name was already taken. Something like "ssh-dotfiles-carrier" felt too long for a command, and abbreviating it to "sdc" would lose the meaning.

So yes, I eventually named it "shitt-p" (character of Hitman Reborn!), since I wanted it to relate to "sh"...

New comment by sdovan1 in "Patterns.dev"

sdovan1 — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 03:17:17 +0000

- Java Design Patterns

https://java-design-patterns.com/

Spring Boot Startup Analyzer

sdovan1 — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 12:23:39 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/alexey-lapin/spring-boot-startup-analyzer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45952984

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

ShellSpec: BDD unit testing framework for shell scripts

sdovan1 — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 15:39:10 +0000

Article URL: https://shellspec.info/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45876965

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by sdovan1 in "XSLT RIP"

sdovan1 — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 08:03:08 +0000

I've worked with a hospital, their electric medical records are written in XML, and use XSLT to render HTML.

New comment by sdovan1 in "Scripts I wrote that I use all the time"

sdovan1 — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 01:20:17 +0000

I have three different way to open file with vim: v: vim (or neovim, in my case) vv: search/preview and open file by filename vvv: search/preview and open file by its content

    alias v='nvim'
    alias vv='f=$(fzf --preview-window "right:50%" --preview "bat --color=always {1}"); test -n "$f" && v "$f"'
    alias vvv='f=$(rg --line-number --no-heading . | fzf -d: -n 2.. --preview-window "right:50%:+{2}" --preview "bat --color=always --highlight-line {2} {1}"); test -n "$(echo "$f" | cut -d: -f1)" && v "+$(echo "$f" | cut -d: -f2)" "$(echo "$f" | cut -d: -f1)"'

New comment by sdovan1 in "Jiratui – A Textual UI for interacting with Atlassian Jira from your shell"

sdovan1 — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 01:33:53 +0000

JIRA web eats all my memory on Firefox, so laggy that pressing a button takes 3 or 5 seconds, not to mention page transitions. It only becomes usable when I add the uBlock Origin rule[1]:

  yourcomany.atlassian.net##+js(aeld, /^(?:mousemove|pointermove|pointerout|pointerover|touchmove)$/)

[1] https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Jira-questions/Re-Re-...

New comment by sdovan1 in "Fastest website in Japan – Hiroshi Abe's homepage"

sdovan1 — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 16:57:01 +0000

Hiroshi Abe [1] is a Japanese actor whose official website is run by a fan. The site has a nostalgic look with a minimal design (40kB, images included) and is still actively maintained today.

Instead of ping 8.8.8.8, some will test their internet connection with Hiroshi Abe's homepage because of the speed. There are even challenges where people try to speedrun the site or conversely, make it load as slowly as possible [2].

Google translated page: https://abehiroshi-la-coocan-jp.translate.goog/?_x_tr_sch=ht...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshi_Abe_(actor)

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKjBw_jEcZk

Fastest website in Japan – Hiroshi Abe's homepage

sdovan1 — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 14:09:25 +0000

Article URL: http://abehiroshi.la.coocan.jp/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45182176

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by sdovan1 in "Embedding documentation in shell script (2007)"

sdovan1 — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 02:29:46 +0000

I have a function in .bashrc to read the pod in browser:

  read_pod_html() {
    local html=$(mktemp --suffix '.html')
    pod2html --css='https://www.w3.org/StyleSheets/Core/parser.css?doc=XML&family=7' "$1" > "$html"
    /usr/bin/x-www-browser "$html"
  }

Embedding documentation in shell script (2007)

sdovan1 — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 02:29:46 +0000

Article URL: http://bahut.alma.ch/2007/08/embedding-documentation-in-shell-script_16.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45111682

Points: 1

# Comments: 1