Hacker News: tiltowait

New comment by tiltowait in "jj – the CLI for Jujutsu"

tiltowait — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:39:37 +0000

I tend to approach jj commits as local PRs. Decide what it is I'm working on, make a new, empty commit on top of that :

    jj new -m 'do thing'
    jj new

As I work on the "local PR", I `jj squash` my working changes into the named commit. By keeping my working commit description-free, I avoid accidentally pushing it (and potentially broken code) to origin.

New comment by tiltowait in "Dark Castle"

tiltowait — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:58:11 +0000

If you've never played it before, Dark Castle really is worth looking at. Its artwork is incredible even before considering the constraints, and its gameplay holds up remarkably well for something from 1986.

New comment by tiltowait in "The worst volume control UI in the world (2017)"

tiltowait — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 16:20:37 +0000

As I scrolled down, one of the animations started and brought up a subscription modal. "Okay, that one would be enraging," I thought, delighted, as I waited for the animation to loop.

It didn't. It was the site's real subscription modal.

I feel like there's a lesson in there.

New comment by tiltowait in "Claude Sonnet 4.6"

tiltowait — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 05:11:06 +0000

Claude's willingness to poke outside of its present directory can definitely be a little worrying. Just the other day, it started trying to access my jails after I specifically told it not to.

New comment by tiltowait in "Gentoo on Codeberg"

tiltowait — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 04:59:24 +0000

The raft of outages lately (my company was disrupted by I think four last week?) have certainly (and deservedly) created some pent-up frustration. I'm personally frustrated with its poor performance on Safari.

Overall, though, it's ... fine. That's all. A little worse than it used to be, which is frustrating, but certainly nowhere near unusable. I stood up my own forge and mirror some repos to it. The performance is almost comically better. I know it's not a fair comparison: I have only one user. On the other hand, I'm on a 9-year-old Xeon located geographically farther from me than GitHub's servers.

New comment by tiltowait in "CLI's completion should know what options you've typed"

tiltowait — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 00:01:55 +0000

fish is a bit insonsistent on it. For instance, `git add ` will only autocomplete for modified files. It will also fill in wildcards, e.g. `cat *.txt ` will expand to show all .txt files. On the failure side, `rm foo ` will still show `foo` as an option.

IME, zsh has better autocompletion (which, at the time at least, was a separate install).

New comment by tiltowait in "FediMeteo: A €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service"

tiltowait — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 01:04:19 +0000

ZFS will happilly (and intentionally) gobble up available RAM for ARC. On my 64GB system, ARC is using 42.4GB, but this memory is quickly reclaimable if it's needed. That said, I had very bad experiences trying to run ZFS on an underprovisioned system.

New comment by tiltowait in "Over 40% of deceased drivers in vehicle crashes test positive for THC: Study"

tiltowait — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 18:04:53 +0000

Traffic fatalities increased during the pandemic[1]. AAA released a study examining the effects in 2024[2].

[1]: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10149345/ [2]: https://newsroom.aaa.com/2024/08/the-pandemics-tenacious-gri...

New comment by tiltowait in "Schizophrenia sufferer mistakes smart fridge ad for psychotic episode"

tiltowait — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 17:28:42 +0000

> The vast majority of humans are not benefiting from it and are therefore motivated against it.

The vast majority of humans do not benefit from you, personally, owning a car, but that doesn't mean we're all motivated to call a towing company to your house.

New comment by tiltowait in "Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig"

tiltowait — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 22:37:45 +0000

> Rust has a standard library that looks an awful lot like Python or Ruby, with similarly named methods.

Can you elaborate? While they obviously have overlap, Rust's stdlib is deliberately minimal (you don't even get RNG without hitting crates.io), whereas Python's is gigantic. And in actual use, they tend to feel extremely different.

New comment by tiltowait in "Orion 1.0"

tiltowait — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 19:21:20 +0000

If it gets abandoned—so what? Switching browsers is trivial.

New comment by tiltowait in "Are consumers just tech debt to Microsoft?"

tiltowait — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 19:48:43 +0000

> Of the top of my head, I can't think of a single feature that MacOS has shipped since 2020 that I care about.

They all kind of blend together, so I asked Claude to give me a list of major features since 2020. Here are those that I've enjoyed:

* Universal control * iPhone mirroring * Stage Manager * Container CLI

Granted it's not a giant list, but each release does have little refinements here and there, and Claude may have missed some (it didn't mention container CLI, for instance; that was from my memory). I also omitted some features I don't care about (like Safari profiles and some other window management stuff).

What features are you hoping for? Aside from a tiling WM, which won't happen, I'd be happy just with refinements and bug fixes.

New comment by tiltowait in "Native Secure Enclave backed SSH keys on macOS"

tiltowait — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 19:42:34 +0000

I've used password-encrypted keys on a Mac plenty of times. It was easy to add them to the SSH agent to not require a password after initial authorization, if that's what I wanted. What is the issue I'm not seeing?

New comment by tiltowait in "Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?"

tiltowait — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 17:13:06 +0000

I recently started a blog to document some service migrations and other random musings as I adopt FreeBSD (after a decade-long hiatus). It's fun to write and think about this stuff in a shareable way, even though I expect no one[0] to ever read it. It's also been fun using a new-to-me SSG (Hugo).

[0] Correction: I have had three visitors, not including myself.

New comment by tiltowait in "Go's Sweet 16"

tiltowait — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 18:22:42 +0000

You can test for existence:

    val, ok := my_map[123]
    if ok {
        ...
    }

https://go.dev/blog/maps#working-with-maps

New comment by tiltowait in "Rust in Android: move fast and fix things"

tiltowait — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 02:48:11 +0000

People are worried about half-assed[0] rewrites that break functionality and introduce exciting, new vulnerabilities due to improper implementation. And they aren't wrong to fear that, given the multiple issues we've seen in just the past week with Ubuntu's Rust overhaul.

[0]: Or even whole-assed. Memory (un)safety is only one form of vulnerability.

New comment by tiltowait in "A brief look at FreeBSD"

tiltowait — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 02:30:10 +0000

I've found Claude 4.5 Sonnet to be great with FreeBSD stuff. Very occasionally it'll hallucinate a sysctl argument, but that's been about the extent of my issues.

New comment by tiltowait in "A brief look at FreeBSD"

tiltowait — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 02:27:46 +0000

I've noticed the same. At first, I thought it was Baader-Meinhof, since I recently decided to set up a FreeBSD server after over a decade since I last used it, but it's definitely hitting the news more (15.0-RELEASE comes soon, and a Swift build was just announced), which I guess naturally leads to more discussion.

Would love to see it surge in popularity. Underrated OS.

New comment by tiltowait in "A brief look at FreeBSD"

tiltowait — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 02:23:55 +0000

I'm glad I'm not the only person with similar feelings. I'm perfectly comfortable in Linux, but there's a certain ... uncanniness to it that's hard to pin down. FreeBSD (and, I suspect, the other BSDs as well) just feels more coherent.

New comment by tiltowait in "LLMs are steroids for your Dunning-Kruger"

tiltowait — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 23:01:35 +0000

I work in DevSecOps, and devs sometimes come to us with AI-slop summaries and writeups about our own tooling. Any time I see emojis in a message, I know I'm about to have a laugh.