Hacker News: seg6

New comment by seg6 in "My server is a phone now"

seg6 — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 03:14:57 +0000

Love the idea, great work!

New comment by seg6 in "My server is a phone now"

seg6 — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 02:20:19 +0000

I meant it from the server’s perspective: VPS before, phone now. The article clears up any ambiguity pretty quickly.

New comment by seg6 in "My server is a phone now"

seg6 — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 02:20:07 +0000

I meant it from the server’s perspective: VPS before, phone now. The article clears up any ambiguity pretty quickly.

New comment by seg6 in "My server is a phone now"

seg6 — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 02:16:08 +0000

The main difference is that Camoufox doesn't have an iOS 6 client. Surf is built around that client experience: omnibox, tabs, history, uploads/downloads, touch input, and audio/video streaming targeting 60fps. So Camoufox is great for running browser instances on a VPS, but it doesn't really replace what Surf is doing for an old iPad.

New comment by seg6 in "My server is a phone now"

seg6 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 23:53:48 +0000

Some newer phones support bypass charging, which powers the phone directly instead of continuously cycling the battery. Mine doesn't support that, unfortunately, so I've limited charging to 80% to reduce battery stress.

My server is a phone now

seg6 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 22:49:23 +0000

Article URL: https://seg6.space/posts/phone-server/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49226636

Points: 224

# Comments: 87

New comment by seg6 in "We finally learned to center a div, then browsers added sidebars"

seg6 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:57:39 +0000

Fair enough, that criticism resonates. I've decided to keep this behaviour only in the extension and have reverted it from the blog. Thanks!

New comment by seg6 in "We finally learned to center a div, then browsers added sidebars"

seg6 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:51:41 +0000

I’ll accept that not everyone likes a portrait page on a landscape screen, that’s a matter of taste. But if you’re going to invoke Usage and Abusage, grammar, punctuation, and "basic decency", it would help to identify an actual error. And perhaps write "it’s" correctly while doing so. I’m also unclear what moral failing you think an A4 aspect ratio represents.

New comment by seg6 in "We finally learned to center a div, then browsers added sidebars"

seg6 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:33:32 +0000

A bit of context, since this is much less serious than it may have sounded:

I use a single browser instance in a tiled window manager, occupying a fixed window directly in front of me, usually with a sidebar open. When a site intentionally centers a fixed-width container, the sidebar leaves that container visibly off the dead center of my screen. I happen to dislike that. This is a personal aesthetic preference for my particular setup, not a claim that viewport centering is generally wrong.

The intended behavior does not remove content or replace responsive layout. The sidebar still narrows the webview and the page reflows normally, the correction only repositions the container that was already meant to be centered, so its center remains in the same physical place. If content ends up covered, offscreen, or stuck in the wrong state, that’s a bug.

I don’t particularly mind the brief movement while toggling a sidebar, since the browsers I use already visibly resize and reflow pages while doing so.

I’m considering reverting the behavior on the blog and keeping it extension only. I’ve also added GIFs to the post showing the intended effect.

New comment by seg6 in "We finally learned to center a div, then browsers added sidebars"

seg6 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:30:00 +0000

I’ve added GIFs showing the intended behavior. The brief movement doesn’t bother me, opening or closing a sidebar already resizes the webview and causes pages to reflow in the browsers I use. Ending in the wrong state after repeatedly toggling it is a bug. And yeah, if you prefer viewport centering, there’s no reason you’d want to use the extension.

New comment by seg6 in "We finally learned to center a div, then browsers added sidebars"

seg6 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:26:00 +0000

Agreed, both outcomes are bugs and neither is intended. The idea is simply that, content the site author intended to be horizontally centered stays literally centered on my screen when browser UI changes the viewport.

New comment by seg6 in "We finally learned to center a div, then browsers added sidebars"

seg6 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 23:57:44 +0000

The point of centering an element horizontally is to make sure that the content you’re viewing is directly in front of you. Browsers with a sidebar shift the content to the right, assuming the sidebar is on the left, which I’ve come to dislike! Others have expressed the same preference, hence this little snippet on my website.

We finally learned to center a div, then browsers added sidebars

seg6 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 22:24:00 +0000

Article URL: https://seg6.space/posts/center-div/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176055

Points: 187

# Comments: 164

New comment by seg6 in "Bringing the modern web to the original iPad mini"

seg6 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 08:19:50 +0000

The source code is available on GitHub: https://github.com/seg6/rbrowser.

Bringing the modern web to the original iPad mini

seg6 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 22:46:08 +0000

Article URL: https://seg6.space/posts/resurrecting-ipad-mini/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48999384

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Concurrent device registration without Redis

seg6 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 02:12:49 +0000

Article URL: https://seg6.space/posts/concurrent-registration/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48351921

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Building a Licensing System from First Principles

seg6 — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 17:16:56 +0000

Article URL: https://seg6.space/posts/software-protection-system/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47289490

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by seg6 in "Helix: A post-modern text editor"

seg6 — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 09:23:39 +0000

Helix has been my main editor for a few years now. I went from Sublime Text to VS Code to Neovim, and eventually landed on Helix. I’ve shipped a lot of code with it, and my config is still under 50 lines, even with a few extra keybindings to emulate some Vim bindings I still find useful. I didn’t find the keybindings particularly hard to get used to, and switching back and forth between Vim and Helix has never been much of an issue when I’ve had to work on a system without `hx`.

For the curious: https://github.com/seg6/dotfiles/blob/1281626127dfbf584c2939...

Hijacking Chrome's Network Tab to Debug an Electron App

seg6 — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 01:39:23 +0000

Article URL: https://seg6.space/posts/debug-proxy-ffi/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46388418

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The Frontend Auth Middleware: Cross-Origin Iframes Without Third-Party Cookies

seg6 — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 05:36:25 +0000

Article URL: https://seg6.space/posts/the-frontend-auth-middleware/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46382354

Points: 2

# Comments: 0