Hacker News: tksb

New comment by tksb in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

tksb — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 23:29:08 +0000

These are the fun anecdotes that make perusing comments here so worth it. Thanks for sharing!

New comment by tksb in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

tksb — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 23:27:15 +0000

Genuinely surprised to be just over 10k too! Felt late!

No idea how my two character handle made it through… Probably the wrong thread to ask anyone at GH to allow me to block notifications anytime anyone mentions "@ts" but I've come to accept it at this point, lol.

New comment by tksb in "Tips for analyzing logs"

tksb — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 23:29:39 +0000

I don't often (err, ever…) reply without reading further but this time I must, because: I've never heard this turn of phrase "useless use of cat" and it turned my brain upside-down for a moment, because: "interactive" is precisely how I learn and do and I suppose it was a nice reminder that sometimes really big (read: useless) things are actually kinda small (useful) and vice versa.

New comment by tksb in "Telemetry is now optional in Warp"

tksb — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 18:53:45 +0000

Honestly been a Mac user since I could be defined as a user and I'm still yet to install iTerm over Terminal.app, so I'm curious: who is this for, really?

New comment by tksb in "Tailscale Funnel"

tksb — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 15:26:34 +0000

I've had the same thought re: iOS/macOS clients. Oh how I would love to dive into those small codebases and add some simple QOL stuff. I've been watching but they don't seem to be adding any Apple-platforms focused roles/people, which is fine, but I wanna work at Tailscale…

New comment by tksb in "Google cracks down on VPN based adblockers"

tksb — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 15:01:31 +0000

For what it's worth, the "sometimes forget I have it running and then I browse on mobile away from home and get bombarded with ads" bothered me enough personally to attempt to smooth it over. Ended up using Tailscale DNS so that every device on my tailnet/VPN benefits. It was painless and has been solid for ~4mo now.

New comment by tksb in "Clarus returns home in macOS Ventura"

tksb — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 19:59:41 +0000

gravite was delightful!

> I too miss that sort of whimsy and playfulness–I don’t think it’s inherently incompatible with modern expectations of professionalism/accessibility/security but it definitely seems to have been lost from most software these days.

Agreed completely but every now and then it still pops up. Recently, Notchmeister [0]

[0]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/notchmeister/id1599169747

New comment by tksb in "Show HN: Paperd.ink – an open-source e-paper development board"

tksb — Thu, 12 May 2022 14:32:14 +0000

Being ESP32-based should make it trivially easy to use with ESPHome[0] in Home Assistant. I use ESPHome + HA with countless M5Stack ESP32 units.

[0] https://esphome.io

New comment by tksb in "I didn't return my Apple Studio Display"

tksb — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 16:02:25 +0000

Couldn't agree more if I wanted to. I've long used the 30" Cinema displays as they were trivial to find used for pennies. I spent a week mulling over the Studio display as it's nearly what I'd been hoping for. Found a Thunderbolt display (+ 2018 Mac mini) for a couple hundred dollars locally. My only annoyance is that I can't use the MagSafe connector built into the display cable…

New comment by tksb in "My macOS keyboard shortcuts"

tksb — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 15:20:33 +0000

I'm sure this is possible with yabai, but I still haven't yet migrated from slate [1]. I have multiple custom layouts similar to what you've mentioned and can trigger them with hotkeys or when specific display combinations are detected.

[1]: https://github.com/jigish/slate

New comment by tksb in "Show HN: Bionic Reading – Formats text to make it faster to read"

tksb — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 14:36:57 +0000

Interesting! I've been using this casually on iOS (via Reeder [1]) for at least a year. One thing that absolutely flips the effect on it's head (for me, personally) is the switch to "dark" mode, or simply light text on dark backgrounds vs. dark text on light backgrounds.

I suspect this is likely a typographic side-effect, similar to traditional print where dark pages "swallow" light text where as the opposite happens when inverted.

[1] https://www.reederapp.com

New comment by tksb in "Pocket-sized cloud with a Raspberry Pi"

tksb — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 20:06:12 +0000

You ticked so many of my proverbial boxes with this and now I'm crossing my fingers you've written about any of it somewhere for public consumption!

New comment by tksb in "Apple acquires UK open banking startup Credit Kudos"

tksb — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 14:23:53 +0000

You're totally right, thanks! I read right past the UK in the headline.

New comment by tksb in "Apple acquires UK open banking startup Credit Kudos"

tksb — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 14:13:15 +0000

As far as I know the Barclays partnership ended at least a few years ago. Apple Card was launched with Goldman Sachs.

New comment by tksb in "OpenBSD/arm64 on Apple M1 systems"

tksb — Sat, 19 Mar 2022 21:57:34 +0000

Scrivener is a gem for sure, but I'm always curious if anyone actively using it has tried Highland? I guess I'm biased as it feels extremely "at home" on macOS.

New comment by tksb in "Inspecting Web Views in macOS"

tksb — Sat, 12 Mar 2022 16:38:23 +0000

Still, they could've probably made some strides with React Native on macOS and the win-win that entails. UX improves in these instances + arguably RN benefits from the Apple buy-in.

New comment by tksb in "1Password for SSH and Git (Beta)"

tksb — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 18:15:22 +0000

While I agree about the specific ask for multiline support (and the decade plus hourly usage of 1p), it's abundantly clear that things are slipping with regards to the core product. For awhile there were no public links to any downloadable desktop apps for macOS while they pushed web + subs + and the MAS version.

These days I'm just delighted when 1password doesn't open a totally different browser when invoked from the active one.

New comment by tksb in "AirPods don't “just work”"

tksb — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 14:36:12 +0000

> …Airpods have a ton of extra UX settings in iOS that are not available to other bluetooth headsets.

To be fair, AirPods have "a ton" of hardware capabilities built in that are also not technically available, but that's kind of exactly the point, right?

New comment by tksb in "Customizing Web Search"

tksb — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 15:15:33 +0000

Re: iOS Safari default search conundrum: You could use something like Launch Center Pro[1] to pass queries to your search URL in Safari. Minor convention change (eg. initiate search from LC vs. directly in Safari) but it's still at least one less step.

[1: https://contrast.co/launch-center-pro/]

New comment by tksb in "My self-hosting infrastructure, fully automated"

tksb — Sat, 22 Jan 2022 14:57:41 +0000

I was just looking into doing something similar after realizing how little my RPi3B+ running only HomeAssistant was actually doing. I'd love to have PiHole and Shelly among others so maybe this route on a RPi4B is the way to go. Thanks for this!