Hacker News: tronicdude

New comment by tronicdude in "Having your insulin pump die while you're on vacation"

tronicdude — Sun, 31 May 2026 15:07:24 +0000

I’m also a type 1 and I force myself to use pens every few months so I don’t get jumped like this. We need implantable insulin pumps again so bad. Also fuck tandem, I’ve moved to Omnipod (which has its own issues, but better than tandem).

New comment by tronicdude in "Building a T1D smartwatch for my son from scratch"

tronicdude — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 11:04:14 +0000

You have no idea what you’re talking about.

For T1Ds, you pretty much constantly have to monitor your blood glucose level. I used to use a Pebble for this, now I use an Apple Watch. The Apple Watch backgrounds the monitoring all the damn time, so I have to click multiple buttons and wait to see my blood sugar, when the number is immediately available on my phone (the watch didn’t used to be this bad). The entire point of this hardware project is eliminating that latency.

New comment by tronicdude in "How to Bring PDF Logical Page Numbers into Correspondence with Document Page Num"

tronicdude — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 09:29:13 +0000

How to Bring PDF Logical Page Numbers into Correspondence with Document Page Numbers (full title was too many characters).

How to Bring PDF Logical Page Numbers into Correspondence with Document Page Num

tronicdude — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 09:29:13 +0000

Article URL: https://tucker.the-twomeys.com/blog/posts/pdf-page-number-correspondence/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42105661

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by tronicdude in "Looking into an apparently scammy looking zsh plugin manager called “zi”"

tronicdude — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 23:26:34 +0000

Also just discovered this issue was acknowledged by ss-o months ago; it's on his project board here https://github.com/orgs/z-shell/projects/4/views/10

Issue was from last september so he's pretty behind but--accusations of being malicious/scammy are not credible.

New comment by tronicdude in "Looking into an apparently scammy looking zsh plugin manager called “zi”"

tronicdude — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 23:14:03 +0000

It's entirely open source and pretty comprehensible. That being said, of course the dev could tear up years of work and go rogue at any moment, like any other solo open source project dev.

It's not my version of the script, it's what his auto-installer did to my zshrc, which I've retained.

And the purpose of a self-install in the zshrc is twofold: portability to new systems, ie when I moved from macOS to Arch, my zshrc could stay mostly the same, and package management stuff. You may not be familiar with zshell/zinit forks but one can also use them as general package managers (https://wiki.zshell.dev/ecosystem/packages/synopsis) and do pretty cool shim stuff as well (https://wiki.zshell.dev/ecosystem/annexes/bin-gem-node) (https://zdharma-continuum.github.io/zinit/wiki/Annexes/).

I don't think the genuine issues brought up (his new silly way of auto-installing zshell, etc) warrant the reaction this is getting (unixorn taking it off of awesome-zsh-plugins, etc).

New comment by tronicdude in "Looking into an apparently scammy looking zsh plugin manager called “zi”"

tronicdude — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 22:24:42 +0000

FWIW, I've used zshell for years now and had a great experience. When vetting it against the other zinit fork, it seemed better documented and more active (new features still being added) while the other fork was simply archival. The dev has been extremely responsive whenever I've had issues or questions.

This is all that is in my zshrc:

  # Install Zi if not already installed
  if [[ ! -f $HOME/.zi/bin/zi.zsh ]]; then
    print -P "%F{33} %F{160}Installing (%F{33}z-shell/zi%F{160})…%f"
    command mkdir -p "$HOME/.zi" && command chmod go-rwX "$HOME/.zi"
    command git clone -q --depth=1 --branch "main" https://github.com/z-shell/zi "$HOME/.zi/bin" && \
      print -P "%F{33} %F{34}Installation successful.%f%b" || \
      print -P "%F{160} The clone has failed.%f%b"
  fi

This seems like a bit of an overreaction to someone contributing open source software. Every component of zshell is open (including the website) under the github organization. If they fucked up the checksum version of the download (didn't exist when I started using zshell), submit a PR maybe? As far as the accusation that they're trying to look like official Zsh: the description for the website and repo is literally "A Swiss Army Knife for Zsh - Unix Shell." You cannot miss it.

I don't have a dog in this but this is clearly an overreaction. ss-o has put a lot of time into this and made the best zsh plugin manager imo. Calling it "scammy looking" and "boo hoo he works in marketing" is a cheap blow.

New comment by tronicdude in "Can Earthquakes Be Predicted? (2022)"

tronicdude — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 17:59:12 +0000

Fracking does this on a small scale. I had an excellent geology professor, Donald Prothero, who argued manually triggering earthquakes could be a much better idea in high tension areas than waiting for them to happen organically, as we could prepare, and the triggered earthquakes wouldn’t be as bad as waiting for them to happen. But the paperwork would be a nightmare(:

New comment by tronicdude in "Hysp – An independent package manager"

tronicdude — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 01:44:05 +0000

i..i've never seen a homebrew for linux user in the wild

New comment by tronicdude in "Microsoft's GitHub under fire for DDoSing crucial open source project website"

tronicdude — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 20:42:07 +0000

Clickbait

New comment by tronicdude in "I hired 5 people to sit behind me and make me productive for a month"

tronicdude — Sat, 04 Feb 2023 20:53:21 +0000

Based king

New comment by tronicdude in "A Swiss Army Knife for Zsh Unix Shell – Z-Shell"

tronicdude — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 23:52:46 +0000

I previously used ZPlug to manage zsh plugins, which added a noticeable latency for each terminal I opened.

z-shell/zi allows you to load plugins async very easily so my terminal feels snappy again. It is compatible with ohmyzsh, presto, zplug, etc; migration is a breeze.

Note: It is a fork of zinit, which was deleted by the author for unknown reasons. There is another repo, zdharma-continuum/zinit, which attempts to preserve/maintain zinit exactly how it was. z-shell/zi has less stars than that repo but much more activity.

A Swiss Army Knife for Zsh Unix Shell – Z-Shell

tronicdude — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 23:49:06 +0000

Article URL: https://wiki.zshell.dev/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34239831

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

Scientists exhumed Gregor Mendel to study his DNA

tronicdude — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 21:50:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/12/30/1142202365/gregor-mendel-genetics-dna-analyzed

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34190527

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by tronicdude in "Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staff’s code, workers said"

tronicdude — Sun, 30 Oct 2022 03:13:17 +0000

https://tinyurl.com/2p8yds6e

Automated insulin delivery app template for iOS

tronicdude — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 18:59:52 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/LoopKit/Loop

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33375909

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Expanding and Enhancing the Have I Been Pwned API

tronicdude — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 07:35:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.troyhunt.com/expanding-and-enhancing-the-have-i-been-pwned-api/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33368648

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by tronicdude in "New California law requires high schools to start later"

tronicdude — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 20:32:47 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31711020

Open-Source Alternative for Hook (macOS Deep Link App)?

tronicdude — Thu, 05 May 2022 19:21:33 +0000

Article URL: https://hookproductivity.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31277410

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by tronicdude in "Personal Knowledge Management Is Bullshit"

tronicdude — Mon, 02 May 2022 22:42:00 +0000

PKM is not bullshit; it is extremely helpful to a lot of people. This article seems a bit pointless. Yes, the graph is used to advertise a lot of these systems, but the point of the graph isn't the graph itself; it's just showing the power of backlinks. I use Obsidian and haven't looked at my graph since I started. But I use backlinks regularly. The graph is merely advertising the power of backlinks.