Hacker News: werdl

New comment by werdl in "Late night pizzeria nearby The Pentagon has suddenly surged in traffic"

werdl — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 10:17:52 +0000

Venezuela?

New comment by werdl in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

werdl — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 09:50:35 +0000

https://github.com/werdl/qforj

Open-source theatre tech cueing software (I don't want to use MacOS to run QLabs)

New comment by werdl in "Quad9 DOH HTTP/1.1 Retirement, December 15, 2025"

werdl — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 08:07:44 +0000

probably not - it can be quite poorly defined in places and the edge cases can be very fiddly. by pushing for http/2 it encourages more users to pick it up imo

New comment by werdl in "Xlibre is a fork of the Xorg Xserver with lots of code cleanups"

werdl — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 12:22:36 +0000

Another day another right-wing FOSS attempted takeover

New comment by werdl in "A Repository with 44 Years of Unix Evolution"

werdl — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 10:46:01 +0000

Interesting to see the decisions they took regarding which flavours they chose to include.

New comment by werdl in "Why I'm teaching kids to hack computers"

werdl — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 17:11:28 +0000

"teach kids to hack" "available for iPhone, iPad and Mac"

You need to understand your market better!

New comment by werdl in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

werdl — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 08:57:27 +0000

Looks like a DNS issue - dynamodb.us-east-1.amazonaws.com is failing to resolve.

New comment by werdl in "Free software hasn't won"

werdl — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 08:40:46 +0000

Free software has been killed by all the companies offering 'open source' solutions...

New comment by werdl in "Canadian bill would strip internet access from 'specified persons', no warrant"

werdl — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 07:11:10 +0000

It is concerning how internet censorship seems to be increasing, even in socially liberal developed countries (UK, Australia, US and now Canada)...

New comment by werdl in "Qualcomm to acquire Arduino"

werdl — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 07:09:23 +0000

Interesting, but I do wonder if Arduino is close to the peak of its market share. Basically every hobbyist already knows about them - opportunities for growth would seem limited. Still exciting though!