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New comment by weitzj in "Solod – A subset of Go that translates to C"

weitzj — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 06:20:29 +0000

Love it. And from my experience the need for Go Routines is not that urgent.

Sure when I started Go there were Go routines plastered everywhere. And now I think harder: “do I really need a go routine here?”

New comment by weitzj in "Show HN: Home Maker: Declare Your Dev Tools in a Makefile"

weitzj — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:39:43 +0000

I tried Nix. Worked. Then I forgot the syntax.

Therefore my middle ground is devbox.

It is like python vietualenv but backed by Nix. So I have a devbox.json file to define packages and devbox will do the Nix part for me.

I am getting a MacOS and Linux setup from this for aarch64 and x86

New comment by weitzj in "Hammerspoon"

weitzj — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:49:16 +0000

I love hammerspoon. That's it :D

It's lua, so you can get creative with https://fennel-lang.org/

New comment by weitzj in "EQT eyes potential $6B sale of Linux pioneer SUSE, sources say"

weitzj — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 06:22:06 +0000

Maybe for your personal workstation this might be the experience you have. But from my experience for enterprise there is RHEL, Suse and maybe Ubuntu Pro. If you are an AWS Enterprise customer you might justify Amazon Linux

New comment by weitzj in "RFC 9849. TLS Encrypted Client Hello"

weitzj — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 08:16:29 +0000

Will this have an impact on Loadbalancers? Like does one have to do client side load balancing like in gRPC?

New comment by weitzj in "Ask HN: How much PTO do you get?"

weitzj — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 23:48:21 +0000

30 days in Germany + Public Holidays

New comment by weitzj in "My AI skeptic friends are all nuts"

weitzj — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 05:57:47 +0000

I was quite happy and entlohntes when I dropped an HTML table Formates with Emojies into my prompt and told to turn it into a terraform module.

But how do you quality check this part? I am proofreading all these transformations and I am not sure if this is really faster than actually recording a VIM macro, which will do the steps I need.

New comment by weitzj in "Development on Apple Silicon with UTM"

weitzj — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 12:23:33 +0000

Love it. Also using UTM with Amazon Linux 2023 x64 on an M1 works, so you can create a local HashiCorp Packer Pipeline using the Packer UTM plugin (similar to the QEMU Packer plugin)

source "utm-cloud" "this" { iso_url = "${path.root}/dev_images/al2023-kvm-2023.6.20250303.0-kernel-6.1-x86_64.xfs.gpt.qcow2" iso_checksum = "sha256:0dc2797fe19847f6c75878dd344ab478ac0657077d9a15f2907bb2df41d8c3de" vm_arch = "x86_64" cpus = 2 memory = 4096 display_nopause = true boot_nopause = true export_nopause = true skip_nat_mapping = true communicator = "ssh" ssh_clear_authorized_keys = true ssh_private_key_file = data.sshkey.this.private_key_path ssh_host = "192.168.64.100" ssh_port = 22 ssh_username = "ec2-user" shutdown_command = "echo 'packer' | sudo -S /sbin/halt -h -p" use_cd = true cd_label = "cidata" cd_content = { "meta-data" = <

New comment by weitzj in "Some notes on Grafana Loki's new "structured metadata""

weitzj — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 06:45:40 +0000

From the Enterprise Perspektive at least for my use cases(fine grained permissions using extra id) , elasticsearch with kibana always had a solution available.

For grafana cloud and Loki you can close to a good usability with LBAC (label based access control) but you still need have many data sources to map onto each “team view” to make it user friendly.

What is missing for me is like in elastic a single datasource for all logs which every team member across all teams can see and you scope out the visibility level with LBAC

New comment by weitzj in "Ask for no, don't ask for yes (2022)"

weitzj — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 14:56:04 +0000

Another interesting one https://youtube.com/shorts/tWthV06ZIDo?si=JdKPvykIuv5q7RGY

New comment by weitzj in "Ask for no, don't ask for yes (2022)"

weitzj — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 08:12:41 +0000

I think this person has also interesting content regarding No and Yes

https://youtube.com/shorts/DjuC8xauWWk?si=VkGFbgbqyzKqPjLD

New comment by weitzj in "Improved evaluation times with pre-resolved Nix store paths"

weitzj — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 09:36:08 +0000

Love what they are doing. At least you get the chance to introduce Nix in the enterprise with the MacOS installer, having figured out private CAs and the MacOS keychain for example. Then MDM.

New comment by weitzj in "Kanata: Cross-platform multi-layer keyboard remapper with advanced customization"

weitzj — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 16:29:11 +0000

Thank You. Nice. Fennel lang

New comment by weitzj in "Kanata: Cross-platform multi-layer keyboard remapper with advanced customization"

weitzj — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 16:27:59 +0000

I am finally settled on aerospace.app which is close enough to i3 for me. Now hammerspoon for some Automation :)

New comment by weitzj in "Kanata: Cross-platform multi-layer keyboard remapper with advanced customization"

weitzj — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 18:36:19 +0000

Would you mind Sharing your hammerspoon Config? Are you tiling your windows similar to i3 or sway?

New comment by weitzj in "Webtop – Alpine,Ubuntu,Fedora,and Arch containers containing full desktop envs"

weitzj — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 07:46:17 +0000

Yes. From the documentation there are some Screenshots and this is possible. Like starting a standalone Firefox browser inside docker desktop and accessing it via a browser vnc session.

But you get to control the keyboard/clipboard and it can add apparently watermarks to the vnc session for DLP functionality and you have a web http to take screenshots of your vnc sessions.

Webtop – Alpine,Ubuntu,Fedora,and Arch containers containing full desktop envs

weitzj — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 23:25:08 +0000

Article URL: https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-webtop/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42690983

Points: 352

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New comment by weitzj in "Zb: An Early-Stage Build System"

weitzj — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 12:50:50 +0000

Great idea. Just a tip. You can wrap your lua part into cosmopolitan C. This way you get lua on many architectures and os. Also cosmopolitan can be bootstrapped with tiny cc I guess. And personally wrapping your lua code in https://fennel-lang.org/ would be nice.

This way with libcosmopolitan, you could just checkin a copy of your build tool in a project, to be self sufficient. Think of it like gradlew( the gradle bash/bat wrapper) but completely self contained and air gapped

https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan

New comment by weitzj in "Google Closure Library has been archived"

weitzj — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 18:22:18 +0000

This helped me great in an earlier job. Steve Jobs did not want Flash on the iPad. HTML5 was just getting started. And here I was checking how to provide a lean JavaScript Magazine App for the iPad.

Closure library and the advanced closure compiler to the rescue

New comment by weitzj in "Alive and Well, as a Matter of Fax"

weitzj — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 07:08:42 +0000

From my understanding fax was safe to use since you had a leased line for fax, but now if you do fax over IP it is actually worse to use, but the regulatory had not kept up with it, yet?