Hacker News: vladxyz

New comment by vladxyz in "Google ends its 30 percent app store fee and welcomes third-party app stores"

vladxyz — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 21:08:49 +0000

Fex is already running on android, within things like https://github.com/utkarshdalal/GameNative

New comment by vladxyz in "How I use my terminal"

vladxyz — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 00:21:01 +0000

It's this. I make the analogy to playing a game with a controller. At some point you stop thinking what combination of physical button presses and holds you need to have your character go from a running start to a crouch-jump, you just think in terms of goals for you want your character to accomplish. vim motions put you in the same sort of connection with the text you're editing.

New comment by vladxyz in "OCR4all"

vladxyz — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 05:41:02 +0000

Maybe relevant, mozilla is working on building AI alt text generation into firefox:

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/ai/help-us-improve-our-a...

New comment by vladxyz in "Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads"

vladxyz — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 02:10:21 +0000

I've had limited luck feigning ignorance with a bank recently. "I don't know why I'm not getting a code" "No, I don't have another phone number" "I still can't log in to the web portal". They dropped the phone number requirement in favor to sending the OTP to email in the end, but it took way more effort than is reasonable. I tend to include a request to the CS person to pass along a request for TOTP/authenticator apps but given the request for a phone number is likely intentional I doubt the feedback is getting too far. In my naive mind, if enough people do the same, maybe they'll get the message.

New comment by vladxyz in "It's time to make computing personal again"

vladxyz — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 20:43:27 +0000

> When I win-left/right a window and then resize it, then close it, now win-left/right always resizes it as previous one. There’s no way to reset it to 50:50 (unless logout).

When you've win-left-ed a window, you've put it into a "zone", so what you're resizing is that zone not just the window. This is helpful when you've both win-left-ed and win-right-ed something so resizing via the split between them resizes both windows. (There's actually four of these zones with an up/down split too). You can reset it to 50:50 by resizing a zone-ed window again and your ratio with stay that way.

New comment by vladxyz in "Hackberry-Pi_Zero – A handheld Linux terminal using Raspberry Pi Zero 2W"

vladxyz — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 23:27:59 +0000

take a look at the gpd pocket 3, with kvm module. sounds exactly like what you're looking for

New comment by vladxyz in "My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website"

vladxyz — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 22:12:42 +0000

As soon as I realized I could have emoji in bash function names I did a thing[0] with it. It breaks shellcheck, annoys people who I try to convince to use it, but it makes me very happy.

[0] https://code.ofvlad.xyz/v/lightning-runner

New comment by vladxyz in "Show HN: I made a Note-Taking app for people who keep texting themselves"

vladxyz — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 18:01:18 +0000

Just as a counter-example, my workflow works very quickly for me:

On mobile, my launcher has four pinned favorites on the homepage - one of which is a shortcut to go straight to the new note activity in my notes app. From typing up this comment I can swipe up to home and touch that button in (probably?) under 500ms and type in a new note.

(launcher = KISS Launcher, notes app = Joplin. though I'm sure similar things work with other launchers and note apps.)

It is unfortunately an electron app on desktop, but I'm invested enough that I never close it, and can start a new note just as quickly (super + 1 to launch it from my task bar, ctrl+n to start a new nearly plaintext note). This is the same on my windows and Linux computers. MacOS (as it is with most things) is somewhat more annoying: I keep a Space dedicated to Joplin and never collapse to the icon, which allows me to similarly go two chords - ctrl+9, cmd+n - to a new note.

Joplin doesn't need sync to complete before opening a new note.

New comment by vladxyz in "Abusing url handling in iTerm2 and Hyper for code execution"

vladxyz — Wed, 22 May 2024 16:06:41 +0000

You can also throw in a `-x` at the end there.

New comment by vladxyz in "Fragmented thinking is a bigger threat to flow state than interruptions"

vladxyz — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 17:04:21 +0000

That's pretty much how I use git. My text editor auto saves, I work on a task, doing refactors, or throw away wishful code along the way. When I feel like I'm at a good point for a commit, I repeatedly use `git status`, `git diff`, and `git add -p` to split the sum of changes into a reasonable set of commits. A commit does not need to be all-or-nothing.

New comment by vladxyz in "Bun 1.1"

vladxyz — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 02:03:49 +0000

Me! Discord does not consider me a real person if I don't have a phone number it approves of.

New comment by vladxyz in "Why is the LinkedIn app almost half a gig?"

vladxyz — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 08:15:38 +0000

I mean, does it matter for an app like Uber? It's not a document editor, you'd never use it without an internet connection.

New comment by vladxyz in "Serving my blog posts as Linux manual pages"

vladxyz — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 20:46:26 +0000

Aren't they? Are you sure piping to 'man' can't result in arbitrary code execution?

The two things you need to be able to say you trust are your CA store, and the source of your curl -> shell.

New comment by vladxyz in "Macs can now inform Apple if any liquids have been detected in the USB-C ports"

vladxyz — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 22:01:18 +0000

Take a look at the current gen flippy phones (Galaxy Flip 5, Moto Razr+). I've had the latter for a few months, purchased basically because the outer screen is actually usable. With the phone folded shut, it's pretty much a small phone. I can easily reach every corner of that outer screen with my thumb.

New comment by vladxyz in "The Invisible Screen – An E-Paper Smart Display"

vladxyz — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 22:22:12 +0000

I have a 3D printer to supplement my thumbs for things like this. Let me know if you want some help upgrading that cardboard to plastic!

New comment by vladxyz in "Report: YouTube adding user-traceable ID tag to links shared off-platform"

vladxyz — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 03:01:09 +0000

Reddit has started to as well. Their app generates /s/ links which annoyingly require you to be logged in to resolve.

New comment by vladxyz in "Bitwarden adds support for passkeys"

vladxyz — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 19:32:11 +0000

I share my vault with my partner. You can specify multiple gpg IDs in the `.gpg-id` file at the root of the store and passwords will be encrypted for both. You can do this on a per-directory basis too.

New comment by vladxyz in "Bitwarden adds support for passkeys"

vladxyz — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 00:47:20 +0000

I've been incredibly happy with https://www.passwordstore.org/ for years. The data store is a file hierarchy, with the files themselves encrypted with GPG. Sync is via git. TOTP support with a plugin.

New comment by vladxyz in "Localsend: Open-Source Airdrop Alternative"

vladxyz — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 17:12:14 +0000

Pushbullet did it nearly a decade ago[0]. KDE Connect now does it better, and seems to be available on pretty much anything you'd want it on[1].

[0] https://blog.pushbullet.com/2014/08/20/introducing-universal... [1] https://kdeconnect.kde.org/download.html

New comment by vladxyz in "Yet another E-Ink weather display – but with Rust"

vladxyz — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 17:17:02 +0000

Are you willing to share the stl/general geographic area? I might be willing to print & ship. There's also https://old.reddit.com/r/3Dprintmything/ if all else fails.