I've been working on my own hobby OS for half a decade. It does a lot less, but it has helped me realize that we can remove much of the complexity of a generic mainstream OS while still meeting our personal computing needs. I know I'm just poorly reinventing something between DOS and Unix/Plan 9 in an extremely limited fashion, but it's absolutely perfect for experimentation!

Repetitive issues are fixed by updating the memory or the prompt file, they can learn this way.

Also lately I noticed that Claude forget too much when compacting, so I just start a new session and it's easy when you spend a lot of time in plan mode to produce a written spec before implementation.

- Victron Monocrystalline Panel 90W 12V

- Victron Gel Battery 12V 60Ah

- Victron MPPT Charge Controller 75V 15A

- Raspberry Pi Zero W

- Witty Pi 5

- Sixfab 4G/LTE Base HAT

- Quectel EC25 Mini PCle 4G/LTE Module

Almost 100% uptime except for a few days after a bad winter storm, pretty neat!

I assembled a PC last year from used parts specifically to try gaming on Linux after two decades with only the occasional FreeCiv or MineTest, and the experience with Steam is mostly painless. Impressive!

For someone like me living in a country with the metric system there's no issues with negative values for the temperature. It just mean it's below freezing, which is cold, the more below freezing it is, the colder it is. And inversely the more above freezing it is, the hotter it is. For me 20C feels good, 30C is too hot, 40C is at the point where I can't work anymore, and anything above that doesn't exist around here. 100C is where water is boiling at sea level. Easy.

Another thing that's interesting to me is that going from 300m to 0.3km is automatic, it maps to exactly the same concept to me in my mind, I don't feel like I'm doing any conversion at all and one is not harder to use than the other.

They were all very inexpensive due to their age (when RAM was still cheap) and I'm really happy about them, I work from a console and a browser, they are perfect for my usage. I wouldn't use any other kind of laptop.

I discovered the world around Ruby on Rails, then the modern JavaScript ecosystem (and CoffeeScript followed later by TypeScript), burned out, focused on Ruby, added Rust to my toolbox, wrote a small hobby operating system that had to have its own Lisp dialect of course. I was inspired to create so many side projects over the years, most of them open source, thanks to the influence of this community.

I also tried my hands at starting a startup obviously, multiple times, but I'm a solo dev and didn't succeed at finding a profitable niche for myself, instead I applied my knowledge to better understand the business and product sides of the startups I've been working for which made me a better engineer for sure.

This community almost made me move to the Silicon Valley, but instead I traveled the world as a digital nomad when everyone was doing it, and came back home to settle down in a forest close to my roots.

Reading you all daily I can imagine what could have been my life at the heart of the tech world, and at the same time I'm happy to read its pulse from afar.

I hope HN will still be here in 15 more years, thanks everyone!

You can click on a road segment and get some info about it so the first step would be to add a way to contact its author to suggest improvements.

For example I know of some hidden ruins of a very ancient bridge where my local roman road crossed the river with two paths that show where the road on both sides would have been instead of where the road cross the river on the segment.

I was thinking that maybe I cough something during my travels so I went to see a few specialists but they found nothing.

What I understand now is that the cause is probably all the vipassana meditation I did and some psychedelics I experimented with during my travel which opened some filters I had in my mind blocking sensor noise. It's the most plausible explanation for me.

The noise was probably always there, or maybe it got louder when I become older, but I never noticed it until it became disturbing.

A decade later the noise is still there, all the time, but it's not an issue at all anymore. It's not louder than before, and I have no negative feelings associated with it. I made peace with it and I can now easily ignore it, or to be more accurate, I can live with it and it'll disappear on its own after a short time until I put my attention back to it (voluntary or not).

As I'm writing this in a quiet room it's very loud, but that's fine, it just sensor noise. Soon enough I'll stop hearing it if I don't focus on it.

I hope reading this can help. I wish I had someone back then telling me that it would turn out okay to just accept it after doing some medical checks.

First there's the tokenization issue, the same old "how many R in STRAWBERRY" where they are often confidently wrong, but I also asked not to mix tense (-ing and -ed for example) and that was very hard for them.

Between late 2010 and 2012 I was playing with OI in a VM, and I can read a lot of excitement about it in my old emails :)

Thanks for the PDF suggestion, I didn't think about looking for a book to get more context!

I learned a lot about Plan 9 by following a boot camp ran by SDF, I wish there was something like that to promote Illumos distributions

My only issue with my FP3 is that I have to tighten all the screws from time to time otherwise whenever the screen displays too many green pixels the touchscreen will start to trigger at random.

https://pi.ctu.re

I also needed to build another app to fetch and resize the images, and found it neat to use the following:

https://infra.stru.ctu.re

In term of users the service never went anywhere and it's quite dated now but it doesn't cost much to keep it online and it's open source.