Hacker News: xswhiskey

New comment by xswhiskey in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

xswhiskey — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:56:23 +0000

Possibly in a few years from now we'll get actual data about how many outages we've seen or how much have x services degraded, overlapped with the push for "AI everywhere".

New comment by xswhiskey in "Windows 11's Patch Tuesday nightmare gets worse"

xswhiskey — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 15:24:01 +0000

How can a company this big fail so hard in what one would consider their main* product still baffles me.

*Yes, they probably make more revenue in Azure or Office365 licenses but at least when I think “Microsoft” I immediately think Windows.

New comment by xswhiskey in "Affinity Studio now free"

xswhiskey — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 16:09:17 +0000

Yes, this is it.

Affinity is a series of products by Serif Labs; which were acquired by Canva about a year ago.

New comment by xswhiskey in "A gentle introduction to anchor positioning"

xswhiskey — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 01:35:49 +0000

It being available on WebKit makes me hopeful for general adoption then.

New comment by xswhiskey in "A Mouse Becomes a Camera"

xswhiskey — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 02:49:08 +0000

This is amazing, but when I read the title I expected a small rodent creature being a camera via questionable biohacking.

Still an amazing and more ethical feat.

New comment by xswhiskey in "Tachyons – A CSS Toolkit"

xswhiskey — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 13:57:15 +0000

I’ve been using it for a couple years now, absolutely love it. I personally prefer it over Tailwind (and don’t feel like learning _another_ css framework) and, ngl, the “components” section of the page is a big reason for it.

When I started using it, if I needed a card or a list I could go to the components section and pick one, copy-paste it and then change it to my liking. When I tried the same in tailwind I was faced with a paywall and automatically lost all interest.

New comment by xswhiskey in "Ask HN: I’m falling out of love with coding"

xswhiskey — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 14:23:03 +0000

Been there, felt that. Have you tried learning a new technology just for fun? When I got tired of PHP, switched to Ruby and the love and feel of wonder was there. When I got tired of my corporate job tech stack, I looked for a freelance side gig where I now spent most of my time and weekends because the challenge is fun.

Maybe finding a side project you actually like and understand can help.