Hacker News: shoobs

New comment by shoobs in "If an AI agent can't figure out how your API works, neither can your users"

shoobs — Tue, 20 May 2025 16:27:50 +0000

I did an experiment a few weeks back as a bit of a litmus test for a new data format my team and I have been working on. I fed the spec documentation into ChatGPT and asked it to write a file reader for it. It spat out a mostly-correct implementation almost immediately, and with some extra coaxing managed to fix the small bugs in it too.

To be fair, it's a very simple format, but it made me feel good about the quality of the documentation.

New comment by shoobs in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2025)"

shoobs — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 17:37:57 +0000

ALT | Remote (EU) | Full-time | Frontend Software Engineer

We're a small, established company specialising in subsurface instrumentation development, as well as the software needed to handle subsurface data. As of right now, we're working on a product to streamline management, delivery and visualisation of data.

Currently chasing a frontend developer with a flair for UI/UX design, and experience in Vue.js and D3. Must have a strong mathematical background.

Open to employing via company-of-record (such as remote.com), or direct B2B consulting. If you're in Luxembourg, we can employ you directly. Reach out to me at jobs alt.lu.

New comment by shoobs in "When a hyperspectral image is a cube"

shoobs — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 05:26:06 +0000

I work in the borehole instrumentation industry, and lots of our customers get hyperspectral data from core. I'm working on a new data delivery and management platform, and I've made sure our data structures can handle hyperspectral images. Multidimensional arrays are front and centre. I too think of spectral images as "cubes".

One thing that stems from this is the question of how you visualise it. False colour mapping?

New comment by shoobs in "The Arduous Luxembourg Visa Process"

shoobs — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 05:19:54 +0000

Oof, that's tough. I'm over here on a blue card, and I found that the initial application and dealing with department of immigration was actually really streamlined. Everything is very manual and personal over here, but there are a large number of public servants that are very welcoming and happy to help out.

New comment by shoobs in "Adventures Making Vegemite"

shoobs — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 14:21:44 +0000

I've noticed the umami flavour that tends to develop when cooking beer for a long time. An Irish stew with Guinness in it, or a gulas using beer as the staple liquid all develop Vegemite like flavours.

I love it, but I think a lot of non-Aussies don't recognise the similarities.

New comment by shoobs in "Who is attending FOSDEM '24?"

shoobs — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 17:29:23 +0000

For those that aren't aware, it's a free conference focusing on all things open source - https://fosdem.org/2024/

Who is attending FOSDEM '24?

shoobs — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 17:27:40 +0000

I'm currently on a train from Luxembourg to Brussels. Looking forward to my first FOSDEM experience and seeing what it's all about.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39231426

Points: 4

# Comments: 4

New comment by shoobs in "Live Feed: SpaceX Starship Rocket 2nd Launch Integrated Test Flight"

shoobs — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 11:58:27 +0000

Not an actual live feed. It looks like the launch will be soon. Official details can be found here: https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-...

New comment by shoobs in "I walked across Luxembourg"

shoobs — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 10:48:27 +0000

There are multiple official camping grounds and caravan parks on the route. Unfortunately wild camping isn't allowed anywhere. I know that some people still try it, and probably so long as you're somewhere off trail, camp late and leave early nobody will bother you.

New comment by shoobs in "I walked across Luxembourg"

shoobs — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 10:44:32 +0000

Thanks for the recommendation. I used KML files and manually connected them, but a router would've been handy. I'll give it a shot.

New comment by shoobs in "I walked across Luxembourg"

shoobs — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 04:57:26 +0000

A few months back I dragged myself away from Tears of the Kingdom and went on a four day hike across the entirety of Luxembourg.

I planned my route using open source GIS tools, and did the cross country walk over a long weekend back in June.

I walked across Luxembourg

shoobs — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 04:57:26 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.ioces.com/matt/posts/i-walked-across-luxembourg/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37218841

Points: 398

# Comments: 234

New comment by shoobs in "Tesla exaggerated EV range so much that drivers thought cars were broken"

shoobs — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 04:52:44 +0000

It's why I switched my Model 3 to just report battery percentage instead of estimated range. Their charge usage algorithm in their route planner is very impressive. Even across 300+ km trips, I've never seen it out by more than a few percent. From what I can see, it's most affected by wind. I guess they don't input weather into the estimation model.

My experience is that real world usage gets me about 85% of the advertised range for most of the year. I average around 160 Wh/km for the driving I do, so with a pack capacity of 75 kWh, that's about 470 km. Advertised range here in the EU was 530 km.

New comment by shoobs in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

shoobs — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 04:37:09 +0000

https://blog.ioces.com/matt

I post pretty sporadically about things I'm working on or that interest me. Electronics, coding, food, general hacking and making.

There are only a handful of posts there now, with 2 or 3 in the pipeline for the coming months.

Improving Mazzilli's Driver – Better gate driving for the classic ZVS converter

shoobs — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 19:22:22 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.ioces.com/matt/posts/improving-mazzillis-driver/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36395459

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by shoobs in "Haptick, Part Two – Bring-up and testing of a prototype 6DOF input device"

shoobs — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 08:33:45 +0000

Author here. This is just a bit of technical discussion on the first bring-up and testing of a new design of force/torque sensor that utilises a Stewart platform geometry. The ultimate goal is that it'll become a fully functional SpaceMouse style device, which at the moment are really only available from one manufacturer due to many mergers and acquisitions and some heavy patent enforcement.

I've released the design open-source, so if anyone is interested in contributing, check out the GitHub repository. Let me know if there are any questions or feedback.

Haptick, Part Two – Bring-up and testing of a prototype 6DOF input device

shoobs — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 07:32:16 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.ioces.com/matt/posts/haptick-part-two/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35066268

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by shoobs in "Rewrite, refactor, or reinvent? Lessons from 6 software rewrite stories (2019)"

shoobs — Sat, 04 Feb 2023 20:02:17 +0000

Most of the key authors are still with the team, though some of the old crew will start retiring shortly.

New comment by shoobs in "Rewrite, refactor, or reinvent? Lessons from 6 software rewrite stories (2019)"

shoobs — Sat, 04 Feb 2023 08:58:15 +0000

These stories are great, and totally resonate with me at the moment. I'm managing a team working on a 30 year old codebase. It is in technical debt, like many codebases that old. That being said, the codebase is full of so much good stuff from hard learned lessons over 30 years, and that's where its value lies.

I'm convinced that the way forward is not to refactor or rewrite it, but to produce something new and different that draws on the 30 years of experience learned during the development of the original product. And, like Basecamp, run them side-by-side and allow users to chose what they want.

New comment by shoobs in "Full 6 DOFs Space Mouse"

shoobs — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 22:01:19 +0000

I've been working on of these for a little bit as well. I have a prototype that's working, but has a few problems I hope to solve in the next iteration.

Mine is based on a Stewart platform with strain sensors for each truss.