Hacker News: timlyo

New comment by timlyo in "Fish 4"

timlyo — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 10:50:05 +0000

I use Fish as a user shell everywhere I can and end up using Bash daily for scripting and on servers/VMs/containers at work, I've also been using Nushell a lot recently for personal scripts.

Biggest drawbacks for me is mixing up a few bits of syntax and some software doesn't ship Fish completion scripts, although I never write scripts in Fish which reduces the syntax I actually use.

In my opinion Fish is worth it just for the auto complete suggestions alone, but I also really like the way it handles editing config, it's sane default config, understandable error messages, and plug-ins.

Nushell is very nice, but I find it doesn't match the usability of Fish for interactive shells. Love it for scripts though.

New comment by timlyo in "Show HN: Live-updating version of the 'What a week, huh?' meme"

timlyo — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 09:47:32 +0000

Sadly that almost makes things worse, if it's off then it's a data point that helps to id privacy conscious people.

New comment by timlyo in "The Nix NGI Team: Advancing Open Source with Nix"

timlyo — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 14:10:24 +0000

There's Lix, although I'm not clear on if it's about changes to the language or if it's entirely focused on improving the tooling.

https://lix.systems/

New comment by timlyo in "For police PR flacks, quack lives matter"

timlyo — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 10:08:41 +0000

In my experience the view of the police is pretty positive here in the UK.

New comment by timlyo in "Show HN: 1,900 remote company profiles with tech stacks and employee benefits"

timlyo — Wed, 11 May 2022 10:20:57 +0000

The company that I work for makes a b2b wholesale platform. We use Rust on the backend for its reliability. The performance is a nice bonus too.

New comment by timlyo in "A partially-automated medium-throughput homemade cider press with lasers"

timlyo — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 09:28:35 +0000

That's correct in the most of the English speaking world, apple juice is what it sounds like, cider is fermented apple juice (as far as I'm aware, it is in the UK). In American English cider is apple juice, and hard cider is fermented, alcoholic apple juice.

New comment by timlyo in "PayPal shuts down long-time Tor supporter"

timlyo — Thu, 03 Jun 2021 09:25:37 +0000

> Been smooth sailing ever since

Did you stay with Paypal after that? I'd have run for the hills.

New comment by timlyo in "Firefox 72.0"

timlyo — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 08:27:58 +0000

Maybe even one that can randomise some settings to throw off fingerprinting.

New comment by timlyo in "Fast Software, the Best Software"

timlyo — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 10:11:18 +0000

Do you know a good alternative?

New comment by timlyo in "Tell HN: GitHub deleted anti-censorship activist repositories"

timlyo — Sat, 13 Apr 2019 07:30:58 +0000

> Moreover, for some reason people tend to read only that first tweet while what I wanted to say is in next 5 tweets too.

I find it concerning that Twitter has become such a common way to share news. The short message format can make it impossible to get a full point across reliably.

New comment by timlyo in "Microsoft proves the critics right: We’re heading toward a Chrome-only Web"

timlyo — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 12:54:42 +0000

Discord is pretty good, although it's gaming focused so not ideal if you're looking for something professional.

New comment by timlyo in "Improbable and Epic Games establish $25M fund for ‘more open engines’"

timlyo — Fri, 11 Jan 2019 08:23:19 +0000

Have you ever looked at Lutris?

https://lutris.net/

New comment by timlyo in "Ask HN: Which self-hosted solutions are you using?"

timlyo — Thu, 26 Jul 2018 07:25:26 +0000

Syncthing instead of dropbox. Works great for synching music (and only music as I can just sync a single folder) and for replicating important files across multiple computers.

I've got it on a linode and across all my computers.

https://syncthing.net/

New comment by timlyo in "List of common misconceptions"

timlyo — Fri, 15 Jun 2018 10:34:26 +0000

That and water is very good at storing heat meaning that it stays skin blisteringly hot even after the rest of the food has cooled down to edible levels.

New comment by timlyo in "WebRTC Chat on IPFS"

timlyo — Fri, 08 Jun 2018 10:08:06 +0000

It's serverless in that there is no specific server running it. The website is distributed across Ipfs and the chat is peer-to-peer.

New comment by timlyo in "Ask HN: What's your favorite way of getting a web app up quickly in 2018?"

timlyo — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 08:51:18 +0000

I've enjoyed using Elm for client side development.

New comment by timlyo in "Actix: a small, pragmatic, and fast Rust web framework"

timlyo — Thu, 31 May 2018 07:36:32 +0000

There's a lot that can be done to shrink a Rust binary[0]. A copy of the summary:

- Compile with --release.

- Before distribution, enable LTO and strip the binary.

- If your program is not memory-intensive, use the system allocator (assuming nightly).

- You may be able to use the optimization level s/z in the future as well.

- I didn’t mention this because it doesn’t improve such a small program, but you can also try UPX and other executable compressors if you are working with a much larger application.

[0]https://lifthrasiir.github.io/rustlog/why-is-a-rust-executab...

New comment by timlyo in "Google One is coming soon"

timlyo — Wed, 16 May 2018 07:18:14 +0000

Syncthing handles this pretty well. Only downside (upside in some cases) is that it's self hosted rather than a service.

https://syncthing.net/

New comment by timlyo in "Fast website link checker in Go"

timlyo — Tue, 24 Apr 2018 07:38:08 +0000

Just [0] is a pretty great generic task runner incase anyone is looking for one. It's written in Rust so it doesn't introduce any new languages (single binary install) and it uses a make inspired syntax but aims to avoid some of Make's issues.

[0] https://github.com/casey/just

New comment by timlyo in "Relibc: C Library in Rust for Redox and Linux"

timlyo — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 08:20:46 +0000

Nixos can automatically upgrade.

https://nixos.org/nixos/manual/#idm140737316798064