Hacker News: t_mahmood

New comment by t_mahmood in "Show HN: Mail Memories – A desktop app to rescue photos from Gmail"

t_mahmood — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 17:29:39 +0000

Interesting! I already have a Python script that can download anything from Gmail. Making it a product?! Really have not thought about it! Which is why I am probably broke Ha Ha

New comment by t_mahmood in "Can you see three trees?"

t_mahmood — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 21:12:55 +0000

My previous house, which was a pretty big "modern" house, on 7th floor, had no tree in view, I didn't realize how it affected me, but everyday I grew more cluster-phobic, days went I was having sudden panic attacks, with sudden imagination of being stuck in a closed box.

Now we changed to a much smaller house on 5th floor, it's so much older than the previous house, but it has a lake side view full of trees, I can look out and see them from my window.

And now I realize in some extent, how badly the previous house affected me. My cluster-phobic episodes are completely gone, and I don't have those stuck feelings any more. I know I still have it, i feel it coming if the door knob gets slightly stuck, and takes little bit more time, but other then that none of the actions that used to cause it, not causing it anymore.

In our city we build jail cells for house in the name of safety. So all windows of the house are grided with no way to get out of the house in case the front door caught fire. But these trees gives me peace. I don't have to look at them, knowing that they are just by the window, makes me so much relaxed.

I still can't fathom how people can cut them down

New comment by t_mahmood in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

t_mahmood — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 09:11:58 +0000

Now i have a demo version of the app, You can try here: https://github.com/tmahmood/fluffy_sparrow/releases/tag/v0.0...

Let me know what do you think

New comment by t_mahmood in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

t_mahmood — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 21:20:41 +0000

Thank you. Corrected

New comment by t_mahmood in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

t_mahmood — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 20:50:36 +0000

Working on my simple, frictionless journaling tool, that focuses on simplicity, and being lightweight, but still quite powerful.

And I plan to have more features like: time tracking, kanban, read later links, scripting etc, in the same simple interface.

The important part is, data is and will be stored in a single text file. No online interaction.

Right now you can

  - Take notes
  - Create to-do/mark them done
  - Organize notes/todo in projects or tags
  - Inline calculation using fend [1]
  - Powerful undo/redo
  - Archive notes that are not needed

You can check the screenshots of the app here: https://tmahmood.github.io/fluffy_sparrow/

Right now there is no demo version.

[1] [fend](https://printfn.github.io/fend/documentation/

New comment by t_mahmood in "A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones"

t_mahmood — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 14:30:17 +0000

I'm using a OnePlus 7, as my daily driver. Because it was bootloader unlockable, and LineageOS exists, I still can use it. And it performs respectfully, and serves my purpose. Except, my banking software, and digital payment applications, all works

So, OEM just have to let us unlock the bootloader, just let us unlock it after they stop selling it, and it would reduce so much waste.

They are just so greedy

New comment by t_mahmood in "The 29th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) 2025 Winners"

t_mahmood — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 08:25:31 +0000

Maybe, but it can't make the gameboy code look like a gameboy too, unless asked to, and that probably would not work even. That's the difference between an LLM and a human, and that's what make this competition worthwhile.

New comment by t_mahmood in "I design with Claude more than Figma now"

t_mahmood — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 07:55:31 +0000

Hey, at least vi vs emacs is fun, no matter how crappy as an editor Emacs is, no one is getting paid by privacy invasive corporate, to sway people, to cash out more money

New comment by t_mahmood in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)"

t_mahmood — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:19:55 +0000

  Location: Bangladesh
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Rust, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Django, FastAPI, Flask, Pydantic, SQLModel, Linux, Amazon Seller API, Tauri, Iced-rs
  Résumé/CV: https://tmahmood.github.io/tmahmood/resume.html [WIP]
  Email: Provided upon request

Hey! I am Tarin, I have been a software engineer for 15+ years. Developing software is my passion. I can dive in to any codebase and figure it out quickly, find any issues you are having, and solve it. I am also pretty good at cleaning up AI slops.

I am looking for freelancing projects, give me your challenges, issues, I can't 100% guaranty that I WILL solve it, but I will definitely find something that will help us solve it.

Please DM me!

New comment by t_mahmood in "Nvidia RTX Spark"

t_mahmood — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:27:57 +0000

Okay, but still it's highly skeptical trusting MS, and NVIDIA.

New comment by t_mahmood in "Surface Laptop Ultra"

t_mahmood — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 09:28:12 +0000

I believe Linux supports Wacom tablets pretty well, I have one which worked without any issues, and buttons can be fully customized. The pen broke though, so it's now collecting dust, and I'm not in situation to replace it.

Unfortunately for Surface pro, some parts of the touch screen was damaged during battery replacement. But the parts that works, works well.

New comment by t_mahmood in "Surface Laptop Ultra"

t_mahmood — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 07:54:00 +0000

And I have one that I use as thin client for my desktop, Linux made it usable! 10 year old surface pro 3, 8 to 9hr battery life, takes less than 20s to boot up to Gnome, no issues browsing on Firefox, it's a solid device on the go. And to my total surprise, it retained charge even after almost a month of no usage.

New comment by t_mahmood in "Nvidia RTX Spark"

t_mahmood — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 07:31:10 +0000

After nvidia's many years of neglecting Linux, paired with direct Microsoft's involvement? Are we going to trust them, to allow installing Linux in these easily?

I don't think so.

This most likely be a winmodem situation, again

New comment by t_mahmood in "Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL"

t_mahmood — Sun, 31 May 2026 20:39:17 +0000

We are not in any kind of disagreement :)

I'm just leaving the information about the gui option to other who may not be aware that it can be done from the gui too, and think its difficult to do in Firefox.

New comment by t_mahmood in "Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL"

t_mahmood — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:29:41 +0000

You do now do this from `Profiles` menu too, without going down to CLI path. It's extremely simple now.

New comment by t_mahmood in "Why is Vivado 2026.1 dropping Linux support for free tier?"

t_mahmood — Sun, 24 May 2026 08:46:18 +0000

When they do not have any justifiable answer, or don't want to answer, but need to keep the facade on, they'll sidestep and tell you how hard they are working on something, and how many unrelated things they've archived.

- A regular tactic used by our former autocratic ruler, or most corrupted people

New comment by t_mahmood in "The Art of Money Getting"

t_mahmood — Sat, 23 May 2026 19:55:22 +0000

Glad to hear! And I understand, yeah there are weird people who just want to make things difficult for everyone else.

And, I really believe you are, and glad for having this conversation, This is something, I believe we all fell in love with the internet heh. As I'm going through a bad patch of life, this made me smile. Thank you.

New comment by t_mahmood in "The Art of Money Getting"

t_mahmood — Sat, 23 May 2026 19:15:47 +0000

I still don't get it why me being skeptical considered trolling. I don't troll. And, my comment was definitely, absolutely, not an attack.

But true, I didn't check your profile initially, so, my conclusion was uncalled for, and wrong.

So, really, was not trolling, and no attacks intended.

New comment by t_mahmood in "The Art of Money Getting"

t_mahmood — Sat, 23 May 2026 18:51:42 +0000

Interesting, why do you think it's an attack? I was skeptical, and I felt there is a common theme. if I'm wrong, I sincerely apologize, but I can't brush off the feeling.

But hey, maybe I'm really over-thinking, so I'll go off.

New comment by t_mahmood in "The Art of Money Getting"

t_mahmood — Sat, 23 May 2026 18:43:10 +0000

And you would absolutely be wrong. Why would my username make you think it's a troll?

No intention to disrespect anyone, I said what the comment felt like.