Hacker News: tharropoulos

New comment by tharropoulos in "Show HN: I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers"

tharropoulos — Thu, 21 May 2026 10:18:26 +0000

Really nice work. We went down a similar rabbit hole recently and reverse engineered the Aerials catalogue to figure out how Apple wires this stuff up, so seeing another open source project doing this is great. The detail I love most and one I can't replicate on our own tool is how the animation persists between the login window and the live desktop. We built phonto as a cross platform take on the same idea, https://github.com/museslabs/phonto. I was about to start writing an article on the whole reverse engineering process and this might be the nudge I needed to start working on it.

Linux, RSI and the Endless Search for Ergonomics

tharropoulos — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:11:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tharropoulos.dev/blog/the-endless-search-for-ergonomics/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48210043

Points: 3

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Transitioning from Corporate to Open Source at 23 y.o

tharropoulos — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:44:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tharropoulos.dev/blog/transitioning-from-corporate-to-open-source/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47836896

Points: 2

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New comment by tharropoulos in "Show HN: WebRockets – Rust-powered WebSockets library for Python"

tharropoulos — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 14:45:20 +0000

In terms of feature-completeness, where does this lie exactly? Is this ready for production or more like a pet project I can mess around with?

New comment by tharropoulos in "Intelligent Search in Rails with Typesense"

tharropoulos — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 08:48:18 +0000

Typesense also maintains a native Rails integration (fork of Algolia's one). You can automatically index on write, conditionally index documents based on business logic and a bunch more.

https://github.com/typesense/typesense-rails

New comment by tharropoulos in "Intelligent Search in Rails with Typesense"

tharropoulos — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 15:53:33 +0000

Member of the Typesense team here.

As I'm not super versed in the Rails ecosystem, could you share some specifics on Meilisearch integration's features so we could take some inspiration on improving ours? Would love some feedback.