Hacker News: seawlf

New comment by seawlf in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)"

seawlf — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 15:04:00 +0000

I'm building a new terminal multiplexer called cy: https://cfoust.github.io/cy/index.html

It records your sessions and is configurable with Janet, a Lisp. I'm having a lot of fun with it! (It's also the only thing I ever seem to post about on HN, heh)

Show HN: Cy, the time traveling terminal multiplexer

seawlf — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 16:44:40 +0000

cy is a new terminal multiplexer (akin to tmux, screen, et al.) that records your terminal sessions so that you can replay and search through them at your leisure. It comes out of the box with a powerful fuzzy finder and uses Janet, a Lisp-like programming language, for configuration.

As someone who does all of their software development in the terminal with text-based tools, I came to believe that it would be useful to be able to play back and search through everything that I do. I also felt like terminal multiplexers were stuck in a rut, and could be much more than what they are. cy was born from the idea that the terminal is a powerful medium that has yet to reach its full potential. A better terminal multiplexer will help it get there.

cy is still experimental. If you encounter any issues or have suggestions, feel free to create an issue on GitHub or reach out!

cy is open-source software (MIT license) and forever will be.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41008363

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

Show HN: Sour – classic arena FPS in the browser

seawlf — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 19:49:45 +0000

Hello HN,

Cube 2: Sauerbraten is an open-source arena FPS with sophisticated map editing tools that had its peak popularity around 2010. There were some nascent efforts to port it to the web that I have taken over in the past couple of years, and it's finally ready to share with you!

Sour is a continuation of Sauerbraten that aims to modernize the game and bring it to a broader audience by making the full game experience available to web browsers on desktops and mobile devices. The eventual goal is to be a web-based and open-source alternative to Roblox et al, which allow players to create their own maps and game modes.

We're in need of contributors with experience in any of the following: C++, WebGL2, Emscripten, React, TypeScript, and Go. Check out our repo here: https://github.com/cfoust/sour And join us on Discord here: https://discord.gg/WP3EbYym4M

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34646828

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by seawlf in "Phantom – forward-thinking concept of OS that's not Linux-derived"

seawlf — Mon, 21 Oct 2019 21:50:43 +0000

This is not a hard-and-fast rule. There's hardly agreement in style guides on this note. Don't be a jerk and nitpick style on the internet; it does not add to the conversation. https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/13631/is-an-apos...

New comment by seawlf in "Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces"

seawlf — Mon, 01 Oct 2018 15:42:31 +0000

I took the class this textbook is used for a couple of years ago at UW. Andrea was a fantastic teacher and it was the easiest presentation of the material I'd ever found! Seriously, read this textbook. It's full of wit and information.

New comment by seawlf in "A Mansion Filled with Hidden Worlds: When the Internet Was Young"

seawlf — Sat, 21 Jul 2018 19:05:35 +0000

Yes, the scripting and building is all "online" as you put it. There are essentially no barriers to building, all you have to worry about is the primitive limit.

New comment by seawlf in "Startup School Beijing"

seawlf — Wed, 25 Apr 2018 13:49:57 +0000

>ideologically more neutral I hardly feel like the global market will accept Chinese alternatives as being "ideologically neutral" in any sense of the phrase.

New comment by seawlf in "100 days with Rust: a series of brick walls"

seawlf — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 16:28:12 +0000

As someone who has been programming in Rust for nearly a year, even for commercial purposes, this article is baffling to me. I've found the compiler messages to be succinct and helpful. The package system is wonderful. It's dead easy to get something off the ground quickly. All it took was learning how and when to borrow.

New comment by seawlf in "Startup founders throughout the Midwest are doing something new: staying"

seawlf — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 21:49:08 +0000

Having just moved to SF from Madison, I have to say that the engineering competence of teams there is disappointing in comparison to the Bay Area. Not only that, but Madison companies really do not pay well at all. You can't expect to keep talent if you aren't paying for it.

New comment by seawlf in "Amazon Is Hiring More Developers for Alexa Than Google Is Hiring for Everything"

seawlf — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 01:13:17 +0000

Holy shit, that first one is so annoying. I don't understand how even the shoddiest of voice assistants on the market get it right but Alexa doesn't.

New comment by seawlf in "Amazon Is Hiring More Developers for Alexa Than Google Is Hiring for Everything"

seawlf — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 01:12:46 +0000

The thing is, ALL other voice assistants I have tested get this right. I have submitted three reports to Alexa support about this very thing and they don't care. It's ridiculous that doing something that is so common would be so ingratiating.

New comment by seawlf in "Single Page Application Is Not a Silver Bullet"

seawlf — Sun, 04 Feb 2018 17:53:17 +0000

I've worked on a number of SPA's over the years and I always run into the problem of getting my team to give a shit about performance. "We're not Google," they protest. Frankly for a lot of people it's the trade-off of slow client performance for development velocity. It's much easier to just throw on another state for new functionality than it is to consider what parts of the page can be static and how they can be rendered.

New comment by seawlf in "The Men Who Want to Live Forever"

seawlf — Sun, 28 Jan 2018 01:01:13 +0000

It's frustrating that the author takes what is a reasonable field for humans to research and conflates it with some kind of sexist drive for domination. Personally I feel like this sort of hogwash (the author even stops short of saying "as a mother") undermines the credibility of the NYT.

New comment by seawlf in "Apple, in Sign of Health Ambitions, Adds Medical Records Feature for iPhone"

seawlf — Wed, 24 Jan 2018 21:16:26 +0000

I use Authy and LastPass all the time on my Apple Watch. It's really an incredible experience to have all of my digital identity on my wrist.

New comment by seawlf in "Digital Minimalism for the Working Hacker"

seawlf — Mon, 15 Jan 2018 17:53:00 +0000

For what it's worth, you can just to Ctrl+K (and I assume Cmd+K) in Slack to quickly jump to a channel, no need for shift.

New comment by seawlf in "The State of Atom's Performance"

seawlf — Wed, 10 Jan 2018 21:20:08 +0000

I don't think that's a good justification for slow startup time and general sluggishness. Despite having 30+ plugins and 800 color schemes installed vim starts up in just a few milliseconds on my work rig. I code all day every day.

New comment by seawlf in "How the Scripto App Became a Fixture of Late-Night Comedy News"

seawlf — Wed, 10 Jan 2018 10:30:34 +0000

scripto.computer's Git repo is exposed http://scripto.computer/.git/HEAD

New comment by seawlf in "The Rise of the State Machines"

seawlf — Sun, 07 Jan 2018 22:56:48 +0000

I wrote a game for mobile devices in JavaScript that used a state machine and it worked far better than I could have imagined. It surprises me that there isn't a good web framework that does something similar, though Angular's notion of states comes somewhat close.

New comment by seawlf in "Announcing Rust 1.23"

seawlf — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 23:54:03 +0000

I'm writing a text editor. I love it, its handling of UTF-8+ strings makes me want to bawl with the amount of time I've dumped into handling that in other contexts. The lifetimes take some getting used to but after you do, the language is a breeze and so much fun to work on.

New comment by seawlf in "Show HN: Solo – App for sharing loneliness and aloneness"

seawlf — Mon, 25 Dec 2017 02:10:36 +0000

This site has an exposed Git directory, so you can clone the whole thing. Funnily enough, it appears to be actually talking to a MySQL database. http://sharesolo.com/get_notes.php

Also, all of the credentials are there. I won't post them, but lordy, please close this before your database is wiped.