Hacker News: techplex

New comment by techplex in "Ask HN: Who is the inspiration for your thinking?"

techplex — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 01:17:45 +0000

My dad — for curiosity and creativity, and for teaching me to go after what I want rather than assuming something can't be done.

Bryan Cantrill — for shaping how I think about building productive engineering teams, especially teams working at the messy and fascinating interface between hardware and software.

Alan Kay and Seymour Papert — for changing how I think about computers, education, and learning. The best tools don't just give people answers; they give people an environment where they can explore, experiment, and develop their own understanding.

Paul Akers, Norm O'Hara, and Ryan Tierney — for showing what Lean can look like when it leaves the PowerPoint deck and actually reaches the manufacturing floor. Continuous improvement works when the people doing the work are empowered to see problems and improve the systems around them.

Linus Torvalds — for the relentless pursuit of technical quality and the willingness to challenge decisions when the engineering isn't good enough.

Looking at the list, I realized there's a common thread.

Be curious. Build things. Learn by doing. Give people the tools and agency to improve their own work. Don't accept "that's just how we do it" as an answer. And when you want something, be willing to go after it.

I suspect I'm still figuring out how much each of these people has influenced the way I think.

New comment by techplex in "Show HN: Hyprsqrl – open-source revolut you can self-host (live iban/sepa/ACH)"

techplex — Fri, 16 May 2025 04:32:40 +0000

this seems really interesting, but I'm no up to speed on all the sconyms. what does this actually do? why would I want to use it? I think I understand that this is a tool to move money between fiat currencies using crypto. is that right?

New comment by techplex in "The software you need for holiday overdecoration"

techplex — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:32:39 +0000

If you are in the greater Boston area stop by: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBxB1aroSqE.

Lots of animated displays in New England: https://www.nelights.org/

New comment by techplex in "Show HN: Free QR Code Generator with SVG Download – No ads, expiration, sign up"

techplex — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 11:03:25 +0000

This is fantastic, would you consider adding some other types of QR Code, wifi, Contact Info etc? I've had good luck with the generator from https://qrcode.tec-it.com/en but your UI is much better!

New comment by techplex in "Show HN: BudgetFlow – Budget planning using interactive Sankey diagrams"

techplex — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 12:42:50 +0000

This is a neat view into budgeting. What are your future plans? Will you have tools that help see how the different pockets grow over time?

New comment by techplex in "Cheyenne Super Computer Auction"

techplex — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 15:28:34 +0000

https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxiL2_knQQyrYUenU0PCCcZZpzfQwCq6L...

New comment by techplex in "Feds want to ban the Flipper Zero – Experts say it's a scapegoat"

techplex — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 18:02:05 +0000

Why not hate the cell phone manufacturers for not making secure devices?

New comment by techplex in "Show HN: SnapCode – a real Java IDE in the browser"

techplex — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 13:32:08 +0000

Does that mean the user's code is compiled in the browser? Is the compliation a feature of Cheerpj?

New comment by techplex in "XLights – open source light sequencer and show scheduler"

techplex — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 14:38:00 +0000

The DIY Lighting community is quite impressive. Last year 938 displays in 27 countries participated in a project called https://xlightsaroundtheworld.com/ where we all play the same song and sequence and a montage is created. https://xlightsaroundtheworld.com/category/all-projects/

$7500 EV tax credit will end for Model 3 RWD and Long Range

techplex — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 15:45:42 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/Tesla/status/1734903337894518991

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38629054

Points: 30

# Comments: 24

Gitlab admits IT ineptitude in finance reporting is ongoing

techplex — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 12:04:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/07/gitlab_finance_control_warning/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38567983

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by techplex in "Show HN: Simple List Merge Tool Built So You Don't Have To"

techplex — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 13:11:21 +0000

This is awesome. I frequently merge lists in google sheets. Any thoughts about offering a google sheets addin?

New comment by techplex in "Scientist: A Ruby library for carefully refactoring critical paths"

techplex — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 02:38:33 +0000

This is fantastic! Do folks do this manually in other languages or are there proven packages folks use?

Cloudflare Dashboard Logins Failing

techplex — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 11:56:22 +0000

It seems cloudflare is having some sort of outage. `wrangler tail` reports "no healthy upstream"

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38112230

Points: 11

# Comments: 4

New comment by techplex in "Shelf – open-source asset management software"

techplex — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 02:31:15 +0000

checkout https://grocy.info/

Java Swing Implemented in JavaScript/HTML5 Transpiler

techplex — Fri, 12 May 2023 13:34:11 +0000

Article URL: https://sourceforge.net/projects/swingjs/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35916020

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by techplex in "Best ecommerce UX practices from mcmaster.com"

techplex — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 15:44:15 +0000

I've heard you can contact support to get a shipping quote before placing your order.

New comment by techplex in "Ask HN: Confluence Alternative(s) Supporting Markdown?"

techplex — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 15:56:43 +0000

Lots of options in Awesome SelfHosted: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#wik...

Checkout Bookstack https://www.bookstackapp.com/

Graph Database on the Client – Instant

techplex — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 17:05:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.instantdb.dev/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32279410

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by techplex in "Show HN: Qwikdraft: Voicefy Your Drawings"

techplex — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 19:51:49 +0000

What is the proper format of the excel file? No matter what I try the pdf fails to load.