Hacker News: simonmic

New comment by simonmic in "jj – the CLI for Jujutsu"

simonmic — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 03:58:52 +0000

This is great, thanks.

New comment by simonmic in "jj – the CLI for Jujutsu"

simonmic — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 03:17:15 +0000

You can turn that off (I do). In your config file:

    [snapshot]
    auto-track = "none()"

Auto-tracking could be a great default in certain projects, and a terrible one in others. jj doesn't require it at all and is still awesome without it.

Bonus tips:

    # show help by default, as the subcommands do
    [ui]
    default-command = "-h"

    # more readable log (also affects jjui)
    [templates]
    log = 'builtin_log_oneline'

New comment by simonmic in "The future of version control"

simonmic — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:55:50 +0000

You can turn off the auto-tracking, and add your files manually.

New comment by simonmic in "Show HN: Ditch your budget app subscription. Surebeans is a modern YNAB4"

simonmic — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 18:53:41 +0000

And in case anyone else finds this thread: I tried the app, and it's great!

New comment by simonmic in "Wired headphone sales are exploding"

simonmic — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 23:18:09 +0000

Mine do. The phone's lightning connector socket has become "flaky" (from age, or lint..), and at this point I must hold the phone in hand rather than in pocket while walking, for uninterrupted playback.

New comment by simonmic in "Show HN: Ditch your budget app subscription. Surebeans is a modern YNAB4"

simonmic — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 06:56:51 +0000

Ah, that makes sense.

New comment by simonmic in "Show HN: Ditch your budget app subscription. Surebeans is a modern YNAB4"

simonmic — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 11:16:24 +0000

It sounds cool, congrats!

If it's based on hledger, you'll need to license your source code under GPLv3, won't you ?

My Claude Code Toolkit

simonmic — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 09:55:48 +0000

Article URL: https://newartisans.com/2026/02/my-claude-code-toolkit/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47286130

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by simonmic in "Zig Libc"

simonmic — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 19:51:23 +0000

The linked blog post about making this is an excellent read.

New comment by simonmic in "One Number I Trust: Plain-Text Accounting for a Multi-Currency Household"

simonmic — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 21:11:27 +0000

Think of it as an intuitive alternate notation. + means debit, - means credit.

New comment by simonmic in "Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig"

simonmic — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 09:07:33 +0000

This seems good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRoYKBXWJes

New comment by simonmic in "Btop: A better modern alternative of htop with a gamified interface"

simonmic — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 05:49:23 +0000

Some recent notes, somewhat mac-specific:

"I'm having trouble finding one true activity monitor on mac. I tried all of these on mac with certain criteria in mind (reliability, renicing, good UX):

- Activity Monitor: doesn't update charts when in background, doesn't show nice value, doesn't allow renice, doesn't hide idle processes

- Apple's top: non-standard, information overload, no nice/renice/idle/filter

- htop: doesn't show accurate process cpu usages (known bug awaiting release), no idle hiding. (Use latest release to avoid crashes.)

- btop: hangs (known bug awaiting release), no nice/renice/idle hiding

- bottom: basic

- gotop: I forget

- glances: pretty good, supports nice & renice. That or htop seem to be the only options for that. glances is CPU-heavy.

- zenith: also good, faster, and at least shows nice. (Crashes if you sort by it, known bug awaiting fix.)"

I went with zenith.

New comment by simonmic in "Zig and the design choices within"

simonmic — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 22:16:26 +0000

Lauding with faint blame ? :)

New comment by simonmic in "GHC now runs in the browser"

simonmic — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 03:43:59 +0000

You're speaking of "GHC haskell" there. Yes that is the main stream - and this will get solved there sooner or later - but you can also do a fair amount of Haskell without GHC. Eg MicroHs is getting increasingly capable and I believe is highly bootstrappable.

New comment by simonmic in "GHC now runs in the browser"

simonmic — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 03:31:20 +0000

I always liked https://www.extrema.is/articles/haskell-books/haskell-tutori... . But there's a lot out there. Have a look at https://joyful.com/Haskell+map . Or: read code. Or, just build practical stuff and seek help in the chats/fora when you hit problems.

New comment by simonmic in "GHC now runs in the browser"

simonmic — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 03:25:06 +0000

Yes, it's still a thing.

New comment by simonmic in "GHC now runs in the browser"

simonmic — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 02:18:28 +0000

https://joyful.com/Haskell#What+are+some+Haskell+apps

New comment by simonmic in "Movycat – A terminal movie player written in Zig"

simonmic — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 03:24:09 +0000

I had the same question. The demo video does not look like half blocks. More details of the terminal, font, window config used would be illuminating.

Matrix: Post-mortem of the September 2 outage

simonmic — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 23:06:21 +0000

Article URL: https://matrix.org/blog/2025/10/post-mortem/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45754271

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

New comment by simonmic in "The Mainframe Six (2022)"

simonmic — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 18:40:46 +0000

Not loading for the last two days, but also available here: https://web.archive.org/web/20250717160838if_/https://www.ha...