Hacker News: speq

New comment by speq in "Git rebase -i is not that scary"

speq — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 11:36:22 +0000

The most important thing to happen to git in its entire history is jj as a better porcelain to git, so that you don't need to read entire books to get it right.

New comment by speq in "Bashblog – a single bash script to create blogs"

speq — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 10:35:11 +0000

Nim might be an option. It even has a subset to be used for scripting purposes.

New comment by speq in "Almost one in 10 people use the same four-digit PIN"

speq — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 11:36:20 +0000

Yes, there's some solid theory behind it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Bruijn_sequence

It seems that you can do it in 10003 key presses. Calculation for this this exact example is in the Wikipedia page.

New comment by speq in "Show HN: An open-source notification infrastructure"

speq — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 12:19:16 +0000

https://ntfy.sh/ is also worth mentioning in this space.

New comment by speq in "Joining CSV Data Without SQL: An IP Geolocation Use Case"

speq — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 03:38:17 +0000

qsv has more features nowadays:

https://github.com/jqnatividad/qsv

New comment by speq in "Zero-Downtime Hetzner Deploys with Ansible"

speq — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 13:56:22 +0000

Hetzner looks so good and I wanted to move my storage there, but as I tried to create an account I was requested to upload the picture of an ID. I said OK, I mean, they're just trying to guard against some edge cases. However, then they just sent an email that my account is closed and this is final. No answer to my mails either.

As a result, I'm obviously very reluctant to believe the praise about them as I found this incredibly rude. There ought to be a better way to do this. I realize that this is only tangentially related to their technology, but still.

New comment by speq in "Consider Using CSV"

speq — Sun, 11 Dec 2022 13:58:55 +0000

There's a fork with new features: https://github.com/jqnatividad/qsv

New comment by speq in "Thank HN: You helped me get a new job"

speq — Fri, 17 Jan 2020 06:59:26 +0000

I was a lurker, but your post has inspired me to create an account. Thank you for reminding us that people can be good.