Hacker News: tomovo

New comment by tomovo in "I put my whole life into a single database"

tomovo — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 21:49:31 +0000

You mean removing sense of humour? No thanks. But I can see they work.

New comment by tomovo in "I put my whole life into a single database"

tomovo — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 12:17:02 +0000

Stop bragging, mine fits into a csv file.

New comment by tomovo in "macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses"

tomovo — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 10:21:18 +0000

The justification by Apple is that it keeps the concentricity between window corner and the red/green/yellow window controls. Which, as you may notice, it does.

It's wrong though, because the window is the higher element in the hierarchy (container) and should not be affected by what is inside. It creates a larger inconsistency than the "consistency" it supposedly brings.

New comment by tomovo in "Layoffs at Block"

tomovo — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 08:09:33 +0000

Owning stock?

New comment by tomovo in "Closing this as we are no longer pursuing Swift adoption"

tomovo — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 23:58:26 +0000

Sunk cost fallacy. It didn't work out, the decision was made, they move on. I like that.

New comment by tomovo in "How virtual textures work"

tomovo — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 23:49:32 +0000

Now at least parts of it are paged out...

New comment by tomovo in "Netflix Animation Studios Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron"

tomovo — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 11:45:40 +0000

I loved Coffee Run and the BCON24 Identity. Brilliant stuff. When it comes to Blender itself the only regret I have is that they ended support for Intel Macs but I understand it's a burden to support older platforms.

New comment by tomovo in "Apple Creator Studio"

tomovo — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 15:15:12 +0000

Sadly mac-assedness doesn't automatically mean feature richness or overall robustness. Those are actually quite hard to achieve when you spend half of each year updating the UI widgets to the latest SDK and fixing new performance problems you didn't cause. That should be clear when you compare Affinity Photo and Pixelmator Pro.

New comment by tomovo in "We rolled our own documentation site"

tomovo — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:46:01 +0000

Regarding the "searchability" point: I tried using the Google search field on the left to search for "openbao", which is listed right below as one of the topics. Got 0 results. Second time I tried, I got a reCaptcha from Google itself: a first in years. That's not very reassuring.

New comment by tomovo in "Apple Creator Studio"

tomovo — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 19:56:25 +0000

I guess it depends a lot on the use cases. I've used both the original Pixelmator app and the "Pro" may have been a rewrite internally but it didn't feel like a significant step up for me at the time, more like a rebrand and a way to charge for it again. And so many bugs. The development team did respond to a few of my bug reports, which was nice.

New comment by tomovo in "Apple Creator Studio"

tomovo — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 19:49:01 +0000

Maybe. Form over function, not a surprise.

New comment by tomovo in "Apple Creator Studio"

tomovo — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 16:07:21 +0000

It's a pity Apple didn't choose to acquire Affinity when there was a chance. Pixelmator Pro looks like a toy app compared to Logic or Final Cut. I don't see how it could ever catch up to Photoshop. Even at such small scale it's always been very buggy in my experience and development seems to have stalled (apart from some obligatory AI features).

I am glad the standalone purchases are still available and I assume they will stay updated in sync with the subscription-based ones. I would hate my copy of Logic getting slowly obsolete..

New comment by tomovo in "Mozilla's new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox"

tomovo — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 17:24:14 +0000

I don't see any connection between catching up and being a dead end.

New comment by tomovo in "Mozilla's new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox"

tomovo — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 15:35:05 +0000

I think Ladybird is becoming more than that. It's actually helping set the web standard specifications straight in many cases and a from-scratch implementation will have its own advantages once it catches up. Which it will. There's no permanent winner as long as the standards are open.

New comment by tomovo in "Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux"

tomovo — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 00:14:49 +0000

I'm guessing the DisplayPort is there to support the original Valve Index directly.

New comment by tomovo in "After 40 years of adventure games, Ron Gilbert pivots to outrunning Death"

tomovo — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 11:16:33 +0000

Yes and the podcast was fun to listen to. Great chance to follow work in progress of an experienced game developer, week by week.

New comment by tomovo in "Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm"

tomovo — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 12:18:55 +0000

I don't think that's the end of the discussion. Let's try to talk separately about developers and publishers. I'm sure game developers would love to spend time making the game run on everything. But publishers work with a budget and schedule and have to consider the returns. If the potential new customers bring more support load and bad reviews, it's not worth it. That, I think, is the end of the discussion for the publisher.

New comment by tomovo in "The lazy Git UI you didn't know you need"

tomovo — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 23:13:42 +0000

Now I've got to mention Sublime Merge as my personal favorite: super fast, nice clean UI on all platforms, still maintained, single purchase license.

New comment by tomovo in "The Swift SDK for Android"

tomovo — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 10:01:46 +0000

Are they putting work into the SDK or is there some integration going on? The way I understand it the SDK is compiled straight into Android binaries, whereas Skip transpiles? How does that work together?

New comment by tomovo in "The Swift SDK for Android"

tomovo — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 21:37:06 +0000

If you mean Kotlin Multiplatform, it works pretty well. Not easy to debug, the GC is a bit weaker than the Android implementation and optimized builds can get crazy slow as the app grows. The interface uses auto-generated ObjC headers which are very verbose. Native Swift API is in beta. Overall still worth it for a commercial app, I think.