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New comment by szopa in "Make Tmux Pretty and Usable (2024)"

szopa — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:49:20 +0000

Yeah, that really sucks. I couldn’t quite believe what was the case and spent many hours trying to debug it.

New comment by szopa in "The Brainrot Industrial Complex"

szopa — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 05:37:29 +0000

I’m starting to feel that comments about an article being AI-generated are super low value AND super low effort. Who cares? Soon most of the text you’ll be dealing with is gonna be AI generated. But there’s still good and bad AI generated content — start judging it by its merits.

New comment by szopa in "Emacs and Vim in the Age of AI"

szopa — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 06:52:50 +0000

I have been a die hard emacs user for 20 years, and I have a very nice emacs setup (if a little bit idiosyncratic, but all emacs configs are idiosyncratic). However, recently I realized that I read code, but almost never write it. What is more, I spend a lot of time doing it in tmux, over mosh, from my phone. Emacs ergonomy is just not great if all you have is a horrible phone keyboard (and no swiping, because tmux redraws the screen if you swipe). And then I discovered helix. It has all the things I was jealous about vim, BUT it has sane defaults ootb. And truth be told, another thing I use a lot is bat, which is cat with syntax highlighting and an automatic pager.

New comment by szopa in "Learn to play Go"

szopa — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 16:41:57 +0000

Thank you for herding all the cats! :)

Some other interesting aspects of the camp:

The event’s currency are Łosie, which you get by taking part in classes and winning tournament games. By the end of each week there’s an auction where you bid for prizes. You can use your Łosie from previous years, but Tasuki implements an inflationary monetary policy to keep old-timers from becoming too rich (every year Łosie rewards get doubled).

Some people have been coming from abroad for many years, and at some point just figured out it makes sense to learn Polish (not the easiest of languages).

New comment by szopa in "Learn to play Go"

szopa — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 16:27:37 +0000

Apparently in manga and anime regular characters are often drawn as if they were European-ish (so, some of them are going to have blue eyes or blond hair, not common in Japan). This convention is in part historical (matching American comic books that inspired manga), and in part to make the characters more characteristic and easier to distinguish from each other. But in HnG this applies only to Japanese characters – people from abroad are drawn in a more naturalistic and stereotypical way. Koreans and Chinese will look actually like Asians, and Americans and Europeans will be an even more exaggerated version of themselves. I guess it’s a very different sensitivity than what’s common in the US right now.

New comment by szopa in "Learn to play Go"

szopa — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 06:43:27 +0000

I first learned to play Go back in university, but never got very good (it was competing with learning how to program). Many years later, shortly after the war in Ukraine started, I was looking for an activity to share with my 8-year-old son. Life was chaotic then: everyone was anxious, we were hosting a refugee lady, and I could see the stress taking a toll on him. I wanted something where it would be clear we shouldn’t be disturbed – and Go fit perfectly. We started playing, and it was fun. One of the great things about Go is its elegant handicap system, which makes it possible for players at very different levels to still enjoy a fair, challenging game.

Since then, we’ve been going to the local Go club in Warsaw, and it’s become our main hobby. We play each other almost daily, travel to tournaments (sometimes abroad), and even spend our vacations at Go summer camp.

The camp is actually a magical event. It takes place at a campsite in the middle of the Kaszuby Lake District. The conditions are spartan – you either live in a tent or a five-person cabin, and hot water is scarce. But the crowd that gathers there is incredible. Over breakfast you might get an impromptu intro to lambda calculus, in the evening you might end up in a deep philosophical conversation, or hear travel stories from far-off places, or suddenly learn way more about knitting than you thought possible. When we first went, it felt like discovering our long-lost family.

The Go community is much smaller than chess, but also far more tight-knit and welcoming. I’ve heard chess can be more cutthroat, while in Go there’s this unspoken understanding that if you drive people away, you’ll have no one left to play with.

When I travel, I like to drop in on local Go clubs. It’s always been a great experience – I especially enjoyed visiting the San Francisco Go Club in Japantown.

I play almost exclusively over the board. I prefer long, thoughtful games, and I can’t really focus the same way on a screen.

Oh, and the anime about Go, Hikaru no Go, is really good (you should watch it even if you don’t care about the game).

New comment by szopa in "React is winning by default and slowing innovation"

szopa — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 05:19:31 +0000

One consideration that that is missing: how familiar are LLMs with this technology? And from this point of view the app has sailed, I’m afraid we are stuck with the frameworks that are available today for eternity, for better or worse. And maybe that is not such a bad thing. I don’t do full stack programming in my day job, but I have this crazy idea that if I ever have a startup idea, I want to be able to code an MVP. So, every two years I do a deep dive and write a toy web app. I’m always learning something new on the frontend (fun!), while on the backend I just use Django, so it just works as it used to, except it usually gets more convenient in many small ways (boring). Sometimes there’s such a thing as too much fun.

New comment by szopa in "Yoko: A Biography"

szopa — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 20:47:03 +0000

One color go is a training method used in go… I wonder if that was her inspiration.

New comment by szopa in "The Last Stand of the Corporate Peacock"

szopa — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 12:01:39 +0000

I started at a hybrid company a few months all, after working remotely for a long time (way before Covid). I was initially very skeptical, but then I noticed that coming to the office positively affects my psychological wellbeing. I actually enjoy hanging out with my colleagues.

I really liked the dream of working from wherever, but now I would prefer not to go back to remote work. Granted, this very much depends on your coworkers.

New comment by szopa in "Build a working game of Tetris in Conway's Game of Life (2014)"

szopa — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:07:18 +0000

This is simply… incredibly impressive. I wasn’t expecting they would build a computer all the way up from a CPU and memory to an assembler to a compiler, all in the game of life.

Kudos.

New comment by szopa in "Show HN: Convert your LinkedIn profile to a resume"

szopa — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 20:31:40 +0000

I was the founding site lead of a Polish office of U.S. tech company, with an initial target of a hundred developers. After looking at… many resumes I realized I strongly disliked custom resumes. As much as I wanted to appreciate uniqueness and creativity, it got in the way. What I really wanted was something as standard and easy to read as possible. Ideally a LinkedIn profile.

Don’t get me started about cute resumes that were written as code, etc. I hated them and hated myself for how much I hated them.

New comment by szopa in "Truffle ISLISP"

szopa — Tue, 14 May 2024 04:33:45 +0000

Why should we be excited about this?

The Last Decade of the Interface Worker

szopa — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 18:04:48 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.toasterthoughts.eu/posts/interface-worker/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38631445

Points: 5

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New comment by szopa in "Louis Armstrong's Last Word"

szopa — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 05:41:50 +0000

That’s also my favorite song by Louis Armstrong! It was used in Fallout 2, and it started my fascination with Satchmo.

New comment by szopa in "Judas goat"

szopa — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 12:04:39 +0000

I see your male walking with fluffy dog, and raise you a male with a fluffy dog picking up the poop after the dog. I’m tall, dress in black, and have a black beard (so potentially scary), and after such a maneuver it seems I become the first choice to ask for help.