Hacker News: shambulatron

New comment by shambulatron in "NASA has a list of 10 rules for software development"

shambulatron — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 22:54:54 +0000

He is the odd

New comment by shambulatron in "Some of us like "interdiff" code review"

shambulatron — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 19:43:57 +0000

Have you come across `git rebase --update-refs`? This automatically moves your "intermediate" branches during a rebase and sounds like it could be useful in your situation.

New comment by shambulatron in "Hacking ADHD: Strategies for the modern developer"

shambulatron — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 21:17:07 +0000

brain.fm really seems to help me out, when I remember to use it!

New comment by shambulatron in "Lazygit: Simple terminal UI for Git commands"

shambulatron — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 19:18:48 +0000

This was my bugbear for a long time too, and then I found fzf-git.sh (actually its PowerShell equivalent, PSFzf).

fzf (absolutely incredible tool with many uses) gives you fuzzy searching of anything you care to name, and fzf-git combines this with shell key bindings to let you pop up a fuzzy-searchable list of branches/commits/tags/whatever while typing your fixup command, then paste the object you select into your in-progress command line.

No more counting commits in log output to know how many ^ to put after HEAD, or copying out segments of commit SHAs!

New comment by shambulatron in "When feedback is not a gift"

shambulatron — Tue, 30 May 2023 11:21:28 +0000

> It's a review for a product

Right, so that cuts both ways. Then review the _product_, rather than using the review as a channel for a whinge about how it didn't land in your hands as soon as you'd have liked. That misses the point of what reviews are too.

New comment by shambulatron in "Ask HN: What's your favorite programmer niche?"

shambulatron — Sat, 15 Oct 2022 20:12:51 +0000

What have been some highlights for you? This is something that's struck me in passing a couple of times as a potentially interesting kind of project.

New comment by shambulatron in "Ask HN: What are some tools you wish you had while doing your day to day work?"

shambulatron — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 08:30:13 +0000

Head tracking (without full VR) is quite a big niche in flight/space sims, whether just for rotations or a limited amount of translation as well. It's much more natural using your head to look around, keeps your hands on the flight controls, and frees up hat switches and other buttons which no longer need to serve that purpose.

New comment by shambulatron in "Fraidycat: Follow from afar"

shambulatron — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 13:19:21 +0000

I run Fraidycat in a separate Firefox profile which I don't use for anything else. If I want to hang onto a link from a feed, I'll just open it again in my main profile. I've found a side benefit in that the slight extra friction of opening a window for a new profile results in less frequent checking for feed updates, which seems like a good thing for me.

I also have my Fraidycat profile set up with the Temporary Containers extension, so that every link I open from my feeds automatically opens into an ephemeral container and nothing is shared. Doesn't protect against Fraidycat itself, but does keep things of only passing interest nicely hived off from everything else.

New comment by shambulatron in "Sherlock lives in public domain, US court rules"

shambulatron — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 01:32:24 +0000

Good plug. Joined!