Hacker News: timc3

New comment by timc3 in "Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers"

timc3 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 05:17:02 +0000

You are correct. (Had it verified years ago in Europe and the US).

New comment by timc3 in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

timc3 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 06:05:20 +0000

Same here. I love it, I have lots of “normal” equipment as well but it’s not quite as fulfilling as modular.

The only slight downside is I often do it on my own away from the family.

New comment by timc3 in "Building a Blog with Elixir and Phoenix"

timc3 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 09:09:02 +0000

Do you mean because you can’t use Elixir/Phoenix for work? Because I don’t quite understand, doing a big project and learning/using a particular tech stack should have many transferable skills.

New comment by timc3 in "The wonder of modern drywall"

timc3 — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 05:27:41 +0000

The drywall wall is stronger, heavier thicker stuff and sometimes doubled up. We also often use steel work as the studs (particularly good professionals) as it’s stronger and faster than wood to put up. Then all the wiring is in conduits, and it’s acceptable to put water feeds on the outside of walls in the room for servicing. Then it comes to our bathrooms which are proper wet rooms and usually built to a very high standard to meet insurance needs.

I watch a lot of building videos from the US, it’s eyeopening watching for someone used to better construction methods.

The construction of UK inner walls is even better, it”s often plaster applied on plasterboard/drywall usually by skilled trades. Very strong.

New comment by timc3 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"

timc3 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 06:02:13 +0000

Would love to see this. Though I wonder if Bambu will try and shut it down

New comment by timc3 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"

timc3 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 07:57:46 +0000

Looks great, going to download and try it. Thanks!

New comment by timc3 in "GitHub Actions is slowly killing engineering teams"

timc3 — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 07:59:23 +0000

I also like Jenkins. I think you can turn it into a mess, but in the right hands it’s a powerful tool.

New comment by timc3 in "Ardour 9.0"

timc3 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 20:41:50 +0000

Similar but not quite. One of the problems that you might face is a lot of tutorials are for Ableton, Logic, Cubase etc. It shouldn't actually matter, but you might find it confusing what you can and cant do if you are following what someone else is doing in another program. It’s like learning C# from a Java course. Once you understand the fundamentals it does not matter what you use within reason.

But I’ve used Ardour a long time ago and I don’t see why you couldn’t release music with it. Another alternative is Reaper.

New comment by timc3 in "Ode to the AA Battery"

timc3 — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 20:39:42 +0000

If it makes you feel any better I’ve had to buy back cables that I have thrown away because I hadn’t used them for 15 years - and then found a project where I need DB9, SCSI, FireWire 800, Component to VGA converter or some relic.

Another reason they call me the cable guy at home ( though mainly because I probably have at least 800 cables in my studio )

New comment by timc3 in "Show HN: Kolibri, a DIY music club in Sweden"

timc3 — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 23:01:24 +0000

Might travel down from Stockholm in a couple of months. Too few nights like this in Sweden (Hosoi can be quite good though).

New comment by timc3 in "Your app subscription is now my weekend project"

timc3 — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 11:56:39 +0000

I've been using Cursor with the Swift Extension. Works really nicely, but sometimes I switch to Xcode to do some tasks such as testing that it works to build.

New comment by timc3 in "A 26,000-year astronomical monument hidden in plain sight (2019)"

timc3 — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 11:16:36 +0000

As a European it took me a few seconds to parse.

Nonsense formatting.

New comment by timc3 in "CLI agents make self-hosting on a home server easier and fun"

timc3 — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 08:43:03 +0000

People are putting their whole infrastructure onto HA - cars, Apple/Google/other accounts, integrations to grid companies, managing ESP software etc..

I think that has more potential for problems than turning lights on and off and warrants strong security.

New comment by timc3 in "Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers"

timc3 — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 18:04:34 +0000

Yeah that was a very interesting thing to learn. When my room was being tuned (after being built to a specification for acoustics) the acoustician then actually tuned in several switchable curves because it was so flat in response he wanted to make it sound more natural to work in.

New comment by timc3 in "Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers"

timc3 — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 17:53:10 +0000

Speakers often use materials that degrade over time unfortunately. For example electronics in the crossover, foam, glue, and depending on the environment paper.

New comment by timc3 in "Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers"

timc3 — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 17:47:55 +0000

Except from what I remember Bose audio stuff is measurable bad by any standards (its been a while since I even took note). Their noise cancelling was good in the past though.

My personal experience of Bose PA and HiFi equipment is that is belongs in the trash.

New comment by timc3 in "FediMeteo: A €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service"

timc3 — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 15:25:41 +0000

Alpine used to leave performance on the table by default. Something to do with the compiler having a lot of safe options and not using some CPU extensions at the time.

Don’t know whether it is the case anymore, but it’s something I proved in the past and then engineering deployed minimal Debian instead because it ended up being cheaper.

New comment by timc3 in "How we lost communication to entertainment"

timc3 — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 09:34:47 +0000

In Stockholm there is one taxi company that has always been better called “Taxi Stockholm”, quality cars with great experienced drivers and good service. It was a premium though. They have a good app as well.

Getting in anything else is variable, from good to being completely ripped off paying three times more and being driven all over the city to rack up miles. There are even services that make the signs on the cars look like Taxi Stockholm - so you get in the wrong car.

Ride sharing means that I can get in anything and at least get home in one of the shortest routes or not pay over what I should. Still prefer Taxi Stockholm.

In other cities ridesharing equalizes the experience.

New comment by timc3 in "Netflix Open Content"

timc3 — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 19:24:57 +0000

Took down my Pioneer Kuro a couple of weeks ago. OLED is so good now.

Agree with the in store crap and all the processing that’s turned on for the TVs on display. But brightness is useful - can help combat ambient light, and HDR can look amazing.

New comment by timc3 in "Stranger Things creator says turn off “garbage” settings"

timc3 — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 09:16:43 +0000

There are a couple of models with good sound. I got a Philips OLED910 a short while ago and that sound system surprised me.

I turned it off though and use an external Atmos receiver and speakers.