Hacker News: wingerlang

New comment by wingerlang in "Yoghurt delivery women combatting loneliness in Japan"

wingerlang — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 16:17:45 +0000

So does Thailand but we also have Yakult ladies here, they just sell the drinks though.

New comment by wingerlang in "Designing a 36-key custom keyboard layout (2021)"

wingerlang — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 10:45:40 +0000

I’m going the opposite way. I had a smaller keyboard (60% maybe) but I got one with the F-keys recently. Because I can assign one or more macros to each dedicated button.

I am considering a second keyboard exclusively to be a macro pad, but my KVM setup is already at its limits.

New comment by wingerlang in "The lazy Git UI you didn't know you need"

wingerlang — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 00:46:25 +0000

Thank you!

New comment by wingerlang in "The lazy Git UI you didn't know you need"

wingerlang — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 22:33:41 +0000

I’ve used SourceTree for a decade, Fork is the only one I’ve switched to partially (at work).

I probably will switch back to ST even at work because I dislike:

- I want the split view of ST where I can simply see the changes and not lose the commit log.

- “see only current branch” is super useful in ST to see only the current branch’s commit log.

(Partially writing this in hopes of someone pointing out ways to do this in Fork)

New comment by wingerlang in "Auraphone: A simple app to collect people's info at events"

wingerlang — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 22:11:21 +0000

I don't think the business events is realistic. It would have to be huge, generic, and have a huge amount of people be very specific with their wants-and-needs, on top of the technical issues I brought up earlier.

Speed dating is called speed dating for a reason, you're supposed to be forced to meet everyone. Probably takes more time to setup yet another dating profile than it takes to simply go through the process.

From what I read on 222, their entire purpose is to get away from algorithms, apps, and whatnot.

Timeleft has, according to their landing page, six people per activity.

I don't mean to discourage, by the way. It's neat tech, I personally just don't see where it could best be used.

EDIT: I could see speed dating have some sort of "prompt" build on top of this. Say the app is rebranded to "SpeedDater" and the organizers said to download it. Then while in the event itself, the apps could give prompts or fun stuff to talk about in realtime, and then later you could eg. say yes/no after the fact, at which point the matches are unlocked. Not sure this requires the local-thing though.

New comment by wingerlang in "Auraphone: A simple app to collect people's info at events"

wingerlang — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 21:41:45 +0000

To properly make this work you need to download the app, enter a bunch of information, go to settings to disable sleep mode, not touch your phone and also not have it accidentally swipe away from the app.

Seems like the (only?) target audience for this would hardcode networkers going to network events. And honestly, I think people who go to a event like this don't have this problem of missing a connection they wanted.

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

wingerlang — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 17:52:26 +0000

Why would people who want to hack not have iPhones?

New comment by wingerlang in "Movie posters from Ghana in the 1980s and 90s"

wingerlang — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 16:51:33 +0000

I grew up with VHS tapes on CRT screens. It was totally fine, I watched more movies back then than I do today.

New comment by wingerlang in "Show HN: I spent 4 months building Duolingo but for your life"

wingerlang — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 09:36:46 +0000

Does filling the entire landing page with only "punchy" sentences actually work? It feels like I am reading a trailer.

New comment by wingerlang in "Monodraw"

wingerlang — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 13:20:35 +0000

I have had a handful of people request additional licenses (at a discount) for the purpose of running my software on multiple.

New comment by wingerlang in "I've launched 37 products in 5 years and not doing that again"

wingerlang — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 08:34:48 +0000

> might be the only ones actually turning a profit on all of this

I don't think this is true at all. How many such influencers are there, really, a dozen? I'd guess there are a million people making everything from absolute bank, down to pocket money. Most of them are probably not even aware that these influencers exists.

New comment by wingerlang in "Ask HN: What is your window management solution?"

wingerlang — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 15:59:48 +0000

I use the mouse a lot. I am using a home made [0] app that gives me dropzones when I move a window. The dropzones show up AT the mouse, I can more or less flick the window to where I want it without moving it anywhere or using the keyboard. Although I have not set it up on my newest macbook yet, and I find the default behavior OK.

I do use hot corners extensively to switch between apps and app windows. Can NOT live without them.

[0] It's actually a modified version of an old Rectangle version

New comment by wingerlang in "Show HN: Smart Silence – Remind your iPhone to stay quiet in quiet places"

wingerlang — Sat, 31 May 2025 08:11:33 +0000

Yes, and Dropbox could have been a handful of unix commands.

I don't think I would use an app for this, but as far as I can tell, it aims to crowdsource silent locations, something a shortcut couldn't realistically achieve.

New comment by wingerlang in "Ask HN: Did anyone else see an avalanche of old email appear in Gmail?"

wingerlang — Sat, 17 May 2025 09:39:05 +0000

POP mails stopped being imported from my hotmail since some time. I noticed it recently but could not make it work again. Switching to the new (to me, anyway) "gamilify" option from within Gmail settings - I experienced a similar avalanche. Probably two-three weeks ago, but these emails were from decades ago until recent. They did not go to junk, but they were labelled as "email/x/x/junk".

New comment by wingerlang in "Replicube: A puzzle game about writing code to create shapes"

wingerlang — Wed, 14 May 2025 11:02:58 +0000

He is quite active on YouTube, sharing progress and behind-the-scenes of his games.

New comment by wingerlang in "Just use HTML"

wingerlang — Wed, 14 May 2025 02:05:56 +0000

I’m not a native speaker either..

And no, I don’t think the content is good and meaningful in 99% of the cases.

New comment by wingerlang in "Just use HTML"

wingerlang — Tue, 13 May 2025 14:06:06 +0000

I’m sure it’s possible, ChatGPT is trained on people after all.

New comment by wingerlang in "Just use HTML"

wingerlang — Tue, 13 May 2025 13:53:32 +0000

There’s more But it’s clear to me from the first word “Look — …“. No one starts a comment like that, except ChatGPT who does it all the time.

I frequent subreddits where AI use is super common and the vibe is always the same.

New comment by wingerlang in "Just use HTML"

wingerlang — Tue, 13 May 2025 10:23:28 +0000

Clearly an AI generated comment, should this be banned?

New comment by wingerlang in "What’s new in Swift 6.2"

wingerlang — Sat, 10 May 2025 03:51:32 +0000

Why do you need both an identifier and a text? I have this test name 'testAddingNewCardDataResultsInProperlyCombinedCardDataButNoNewCardsUnlocksBecauseWeStillHaveUnlearnedCards', and even though it is much longer than my other ones, it is still perfectly readable, and even if it wasn't, the only time I actually have to read it, is if it fails.