Hacker News: vlaaad

New comment by vlaaad in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

vlaaad — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:42:37 +0000

I work on 2 things that are the same thing: 1. ghosttyfx — libghostty terminal for JavaFX (https://github.com/vlaaad/ghosttyfx/) 2. trying to integrate ghosttyfx into the Defold editor (https://defold.com/)

Turns out integrating into a bigger IDE is much harder than just implementing a JavaFX view using libghostty...

New comment by vlaaad in "JEP 540: Simple JSON API (Now in Incubator)"

vlaaad — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:38:38 +0000

Yes, what's the point of JsonObject at all? Why JsonString when there is String? Why JsonArray when there is List? JDK only needs a function to convert from JSON format to the normal data structures it already has and back.

New comment by vlaaad in "Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke"

vlaaad — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 08:56:11 +0000

Did we read the same Anthropic and Andrew Kelly's posts? Anthropic is not in the programming language market; their post about rewriting Bun in Rust is full of technical details that led to improving the end product for their users. Zig's response is a sour opinion piece full of personal attacks.

For context, I'm using Codex and have no interest in either Zig or Rust, so just observing this drama from the sidelines.

GhosttyFX – JavaFX terminal powered by libghostty

vlaaad — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:54:38 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/vlaaad/ghosttyfx/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48880806

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by vlaaad in "two strangers. one call. no names"

vlaaad — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 11:37:33 +0000

LMAO I'm not using it. No, I don't allow microphone access.

Show HN: I mage GhosttyFX, a JavaFX terminal view that uses libghostty

vlaaad — Wed, 13 May 2026 10:34:00 +0000

The implementation uses jextract-generated bindings, so it can be considered a light-weight wrapper around libghostty and a rendering layer that uses JavaFX. Works on Windows too (unlike Ghostty :P)

And for Clojurists that use Cljfx, I also made https://github.com/cljfx/ghosttyfx — a wrapper that exposes GhosttyFX as a reactive view.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48120136

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by vlaaad in "Show HN: I mage GhosttyFX, a JavaFX terminal view that uses libghostty"

vlaaad — Tue, 12 May 2026 11:41:08 +0000

The implementation uses jextract-generated bindings, so it can be considered a light-weight wrapper around libghostty and a rendering layer that uses JavaFX. Works on Windows too (unlike Ghostty :P)

Show HN: I mage GhosttyFX, a JavaFX terminal view that uses libghostty

vlaaad — Tue, 12 May 2026 11:22:54 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/vlaaad/ghosttyfx/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48106694

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by vlaaad in "Want to Write a Compiler? Just Read These Two Papers (2008)"

vlaaad — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:19:14 +0000

Yeah, I really enjoyed Crafting Interpreters, wholeheartedly recommend!

New comment by vlaaad in "r/programming bans all discussion of LLM programming"

vlaaad — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 06:51:38 +0000

More like /r/cars bans all discussion of electric cars.

New comment by vlaaad in "OpenAI demand sinks on secondary market as Anthropic runs hot"

vlaaad — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:08:05 +0000

So a buy order for $122000M, and a sell order for $600M is presented as bad news for OpenAI?

New comment by vlaaad in "Good CTE, Bad CTE"

vlaaad — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 07:43:18 +0000

Use the term, never define the term, classic.

CTE stands for Common Table Expressions in SQL. They are temporary result sets defined within a single query using the WITH clause, acting like named subqueries to improve readability and structure.

New comment by vlaaad in "Universal Claude.md – cut Claude output tokens"

vlaaad — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 07:36:17 +0000

My AGENTS.md is usually `be concise` — it saves on the input tokens as well, and leads by example.

Codex in Clojure REPL

vlaaad — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 20:54:32 +0000

Article URL: https://vlaaad.github.io/codex-in-the-repl

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47238827

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

State of Clojure Surveys

vlaaad — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 21:24:08 +0000

Article URL: https://vlaaad.github.io/clojure-survey-trends

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47143284

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by vlaaad in "Backing up Spotify"

vlaaad — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 20:46:22 +0000

Unrelated, but I just can't stop myself from saying that I absolutely hate Spotify even though I'm a paying customer. Fuck you Spotify. You were supposed to be a convenient way to discover and listen to music. Now you are only convenient for listening to music, and absolutely terrible for any recommendations. This is sad really. Spotify had good recommendations. It's absolutely in a position where it can provide good recommendations — it has both a vast music library and a vast amount of data on user preferences. And it chooses to push procedural/ai-generated slop instead to earn more money. I thought that maybe buying $SPOT stock will make me more at peace with its greed, but it didn't work. Spotify fucking deserves to crash and burn because it sees paying customers as idiots who might not notice they are fed garbage. Fuck you Spotify, fuck you.

New comment by vlaaad in "Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem"

vlaaad — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 11:36:20 +0000

Saying "other single points of failure" makes no sense whatsoever.

Defold makes a big step towards first-class Teal support

vlaaad — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 09:43:11 +0000

Article URL: https://defold.com/2025/09/11/Towards-First-Class-Teal-Support/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45209608

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by vlaaad in "Look Out for Bugs"

vlaaad — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 11:16:32 +0000

Does this person also identify performance issues by reading the code? This is completely impractical.

New comment by vlaaad in "Rasterizer: A GPU-accelerated 2D vector graphics engine in ~4k LOC"

vlaaad — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 05:14:33 +0000

Have you compared performance of your solution to rive?