Hacker News: virgoerns

New comment by virgoerns in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

virgoerns — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 04:33:05 +0000

1. Buy a domain and bind it to your email so this situation never happens again in the future. 2. Automatically forward all new emails to the new provider (gmail has an option for that somewhere). 3. Gradually change your email in all services and inform peopke about address change. 4. Use your old gmail as spam box.

New comment by virgoerns in "Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem"

virgoerns — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 07:34:48 +0000

Emacs?

New comment by virgoerns in "I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers"

virgoerns — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 09:23:41 +0000

It doesn't need root if you set MANPATH.

New comment by virgoerns in "Oh My Zsh adds bloat"

virgoerns — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 10:16:39 +0000

The problem with long startups is that they break the flow. I live in CLI. I open and close terminal windows all day long, sometimes just for quick 2-3 commands to check something. 100 new interactive shells a day is my guess. I already know commands to run, my fingers are ready to type, they already pressed the keys ti spawn a new shell and now they have to stop for 500 ms. Repeat these 100 interruptions every day and you get the death by 1000 spoons.

I don't use oh my zsh, but on one laptop zsh took 600ms to start. I narrowed it down to a strange "bug": adding even a single empty file to the custom fpath caused the slowdown. It bugged me so bad that I decided to try fish again, but this time for real. And this time it stuck with me. I like its architecture (defining functions to change its look-and-feel - great idea!) and of course its 32 ms startup time.

New comment by virgoerns in "Bring bathroom doors back to hotels"

virgoerns — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 07:40:23 +0000

We're buying mice and we want 2 or 3 females. So yesterday I was searching "how to check mouse gender". Imagine my confusion when search engine recommended me a bunch of "how to sex mice" youtube videos!

New comment by virgoerns in "Scripts I wrote that I use all the time"

virgoerns — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 17:45:44 +0000

FYI, ctrl-d isn't a shortcut to exit terminal. It sends EOF (end of file) character which, when reaches shell, closes stdinput file of shell. It generally closes any active interactive input, like all repls, interactive input to sed etc. When interactive shell loses possibility to get more input, it closes as soon as possible and then its parent, the terminal window, also closes. More-less :)

New comment by virgoerns in "Scripts I wrote that I use all the time"

virgoerns — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 17:29:33 +0000

How do you use it so it's more ergonimic than typing arguments manually reversed? `unmv !$` ?

New comment by virgoerns in "I ditched Docker for Podman"

virgoerns — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 07:21:36 +0000

Podman 4.7 supports both the ordinary compose (Go implementation) and older Python podman-compose. But personally I moved to quadlets and didn't look back.

New comment by virgoerns in "Local-first software (2019)"

virgoerns — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 18:47:15 +0000

I love that you include hledger! It's amazing piece of software, even if a little obscure for people unfamiliar with plaintext accounting!

New comment by virgoerns in "Introducing tmux-rs"

virgoerns — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 06:29:08 +0000

Zoxide isn't a replacement for cd, but it is a wrapper for cd. It's the alternative for OG "z" (written in Bash I believe) and autojump (python) that were here for 20 years or so.

Basically, when tou type "cd some/subdir", these tools remember the frequency/recency of durectories you cd into, so at some point you can type "z sub" and they teleport you to "some/subdir" no matter what's your current working dir.

I love it and use it daily. Zoxide just has some nicer features than the alternatives (and maybe it's faster).

New comment by virgoerns in "Apple violated antitrust ruling, judge finds"

virgoerns — Thu, 01 May 2025 09:50:38 +0000

WSJ probably updated the article. Here's the newer link: https://archive.is/20250501040217/https://www.wsj.com/tech/a...

New comment by virgoerns in "iTerm2 critical security release"

virgoerns — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 20:08:57 +0000

They can be configured globally with core.hooksPath or init.templatedir git config options.

New comment by virgoerns in "Started a guide to writing FUSE filesystems in Python"

virgoerns — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 08:11:10 +0000

Can you tell what's the usecase for creating FUSE for dokuwiki? Basically, dokuwiki is just a bunch of text files so wouldn't it be simpler and more efficient to e.g. mount them as NFS or share via Dropbox/Syncthing?

New comment by virgoerns in "Jake Seliger has died"

virgoerns — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 14:47:16 +0000

Your comment reminds me about Polish movie "Life as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease", which is a story of a doctor dying from cancer. Some variations of this title were semi-popular in Poland in early 2000s.

New comment by virgoerns in "4B If Statements"

virgoerns — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 11:30:41 +0000

Does Go default-initialize booleans by any chance? In C, which author had used, this program would be undefined behavior due to reading non-static, uninitialized bool.

New comment by virgoerns in "Ask HN: What purchase under $1000 has changed your life the most?"

virgoerns — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 23:45:47 +0000

A guitar.

My first classical guitar, which I bought 20 years ago, cost 50 PLN (~$12) and it kickstarted my love for playing a music. Not only that. I spent thousands of hours practising and now music accompanies me all the time. There's always a song stuck in my head these days, or I'm whistling or humming or singing or tapping my fingers or stamping my feet. It's exhausting sometimes.

New comment by virgoerns in "Death by a Thousand Microservices"

virgoerns — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 06:33:06 +0000

We broke our monolith ~2015. 8 years later we still have the original monolith plus the original mircoservices are now monoliths too which need splitting. Upgrades were a nightmare for first 5 years, but we solved it with nitpicking code reviews where non-trival changes are blocked forever until everyone's ready.

At least we solved the problem of decreasing performance the old fashioned way: by throwing more RAM and CPU power at the problem.

New comment by virgoerns in "Ripgrep 13.0"

virgoerns — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 11:11:10 +0000

I like cheat.sh as the alternative for tldr which doesn't need to be installed as all, because it can be used with curl:

  $ curl cheat.sh/tar

New comment by virgoerns in "Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?"

virgoerns — Mon, 31 May 2021 12:24:46 +0000

> Services have operating costs

So does ordinary, non-service software (like mentioned, Linux, gcc or vim). Hosting of their websites, mailing lists, CI, time of developers... they all cost very real money. And yet, somehow these programs don't track you and sell your data.

I don't mind paid services, but I don't think they should get a free pass for being unethical just because they run on someone else computer, under a different label.

New comment by virgoerns in "The “Granny Knot”"

virgoerns — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 08:32:11 +0000

> It doesn’t help that I’m relatively new to guitar.

I've played for 16 years and I still have these moments. But thankfully it's so satisfying when the music finally kicks in.