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New comment by thenipper in "English professors double down on requiring printed copies of readings"

thenipper — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 16:31:40 +0000

How do you handle kids w/ a learning disability who can't effectively write well?

New comment by thenipper in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)"

thenipper — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 22:41:40 +0000

An open source campaign management app for TTRPGs. There are a ton out there, that are basically just fancy wikis. I'm working on one in Django for running my old school D&D game i'm starting back up this fall.

New comment by thenipper in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)"

thenipper — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 14:42:41 +0000

In my last week of funemployment before going back to work. I’m working on fun stuff like gardening, designing battle tech terrain in cad and building a web tool for solo roleplaying.

Nice to do something just for myself

New comment by thenipper in "Microsoft subtracts C/C++ extension from VS Code forks"

thenipper — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 01:35:15 +0000

The amount of Boston in this comment is amazing. And 100% true

New comment by thenipper in "Shallow Feedback Hollows You Out"

thenipper — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 05:26:15 +0000

Jordan Peterson too. Putting Chomsky in the same sentence as those two is just insulting

New comment by thenipper in "Ghostty 1.0"

thenipper — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 21:39:17 +0000

This is great. I’m middle aged and I’ve definitely noticed my eyesight needs more and more help in the contrast dept

New comment by thenipper in "Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread connectivity in brain"

thenipper — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 14:12:26 +0000

Interesting! Explains that even though I've used a laptop since 1992 to do school work because of my learning disabilities(Dysgraphia, mid-line problems, poor fine motor control) I still prefer to hand write my notes. Even if I never read them I noticed that just the act of doing them helps me remember things. I might not remember the source but I can remember the act of note taking. I've noticed the same thing with reading as well.

New comment by thenipper in "Bird flu in Canada may have mutated to become more transmissible to humans"

thenipper — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 09:18:12 +0000

I remember going in for a physical Jan 2020 and my doctor talking about lot about the flu. He gave me the pneumonia vaccine and then was like oh there is this other thing but probably nothing to worry about…

New comment by thenipper in "The C23 edition of Modern C"

thenipper — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 21:02:54 +0000

How many pluses until you should just say you have D experience?

New comment by thenipper in "Ask HN: Best AI Code Assistant?"

thenipper — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 14:34:05 +0000

I really like Sourecgraphs Cody. It’s got diffing like Cursor. You can choose models, chat etc. plus it’s only 8 bucks a month

New comment by thenipper in "Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?"

thenipper — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 11:15:10 +0000

Yeah I'm liking how 'simple' it is if you don't want to get super involved. Plus I've got a small woodshop so I can build myself some tools to help the process.

New comment by thenipper in "Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?"

thenipper — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 22:25:41 +0000

Bookbinding class. Its really fun to make things with my hands!

New comment by thenipper in "Show HN: Will I run Boston 2025?"

thenipper — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 01:09:24 +0000

I used to live on beacon st in Brookline. Every year the marathon was a nightmare. Drunk people on my stoop. Trash everywhere. It was wicked cool to see the old timers and charity runners running even after it got dark. Would always give them a big cheer as they came by.

New comment by thenipper in "Claude for Enterprise"

thenipper — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 18:17:24 +0000

I’d love to be able to use the GitHub integration with a personal account. Currently I use claudesync that works pretty well but I’m figuring it’ll stop working at some point

New comment by thenipper in "Uv 0.3 – Unified Python packaging"

thenipper — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 20:39:25 +0000

Aren't they the same team?

New comment by thenipper in "AI chip startup Groq lands $640M to challenge Nvidia"

thenipper — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 16:22:24 +0000

I'd guess that this means they'll get access to Groq's chips.

New comment by thenipper in "Mastering Ruby Code Navigation: Ruby LSP Enhancements in the First Half of 2024"

thenipper — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 12:03:33 +0000

Mypy/pyright aren’t interpreters. They’re basically just linters that you run against Python code to see any typing issues. I don’t mean that dismissively,they’re great tools.

New comment by thenipper in "Show HN: I made a game for learning the country flags of the world"

thenipper — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 22:55:09 +0000

This is great. My 11 year old thanks you!

New comment by thenipper in "EV Motors Without Rare Earth Permanent Magnets"

thenipper — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 20:24:50 +0000

I like the dark beer from Athletic. The 'All Out'. It's pretty tasty. N/A Guinness on the other hand is disgusting.

New comment by thenipper in "EV Motors Without Rare Earth Permanent Magnets"

thenipper — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 14:49:33 +0000

Anecdotally I'd say it actually has. Myself and a bunch of friends have moved to non-alcoholic craft beers.