<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: yardshop</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=yardshop</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 08:19:14 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=yardshop" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yardshop in "Show HN: Brickbrag – A multiplayer brick-building world in the browser"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm following the tutorial too. I bought a small piece of land in the tutorial area, but it won't let me build on it.<p>At first I wanted to skip the buying of land for the moment and continue the tutorial. But I see step 12 is building on the land I bought.<p>The only other option seems to be to skip the tutorial which I don't want to do. How is this supposed to work?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 01:37:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50065486</link><dc:creator>yardshop</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50065486</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50065486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yardshop in "Turbo Pascal on CP/M, MSX-DOS and MS-DOS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think I got that tutorial through either Compuserve, or Usenet via Delphi the information service (years before Borland Delphi). My early stepping stones to the internet!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:12:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49306173</link><dc:creator>yardshop</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49306173</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49306173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yardshop in "Turbo Pascal on CP/M, MSX-DOS and MS-DOS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thanks for the correction. I must have been on TP5 at that point and lost track of the distinction over the years.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:08:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49306144</link><dc:creator>yardshop</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49306144</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49306144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yardshop in "Turbo Pascal on CP/M, MSX-DOS and MS-DOS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Absolutely! Very powerful and fun when used to do some 320x200x256 mode graphics!<p><a href="https://marktheunissen.com/posts/tech/2006-06-03-denthor-of-asphyxia-s-graphics-tutorials/files/denthor-asphyxia-grant-smith-vga-trainers.txt" rel="nofollow">https://marktheunissen.com/posts/tech/2006-06-03-denthor-of-...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 20:28:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49304166</link><dc:creator>yardshop</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49304166</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49304166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yardshop in "Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I became more interested in Latin when learning to sing the Carmina Burana, after already knowing some German and Spanish. I haven't learned much beyond that, but still fascinated by it as with all languages.</p>
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<p>The pieces look like they retain the shapes I cut them in when stacked. I started cutting them as pie slices, but then tried a few as parallel chops, and they get stacked in those shapes.<p>Also interesting is the shadows of leaves that stay consistent on the scene as the pile grows, but they don't appear on the splitting area itself.<p>Lots of engine noise too, I guess that's the ambience in this person's back yard! Probably true for lots of us.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 13:53:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48527221</link><dc:creator>yardshop</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48527221</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48527221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yardshop in "Show HN: Turn your name into a tree in an infinite procedural shanshui landscape"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Very simple and beautiful! I planted a couple too.<p>I wish I could zoom in further to get closeups of trees and names and the mountains.<p>All the same it's very nice!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:48:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48512264</link><dc:creator>yardshop</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48512264</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48512264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yardshop in "Take better notes, by hand"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My favorite writing implement these days is a black Milwaukee Inkzall ultra fine pen, bought in 4 packs at Home Depot.<p>I have three primary things I write on, mostly todos for home yard or office, groceries and hardware or tools to buy, and bands and songs to listen to, and the occasional song lyric.<p>The first is a mini clipboard made from a 3" x 4" piece of cedar shingle and a mini binder clip holding a 4x6 craft paper card folded in half, giving me four sides to write on. On the back side I keep a one-year calendar printed on standard letter paper and folded down to fit where I keep track of my band gigs.<p>The next one is a standard wire-bound 4x6 note book, mostly for work todos using sort of a bullet-journaling type of progress system.<p>The third at this point is a regular letter sized clipboard holding scrap one-side-blank printer paper, mostly for meetings.<p>Then I frequently take pictures of any of these pages so I have a dated copy on my phone.<p>They also all get added to with typical 3x3 sticky notes in mostly neon colors.<p>Finally I also do lots of writing in Obsidian, notes in source files with Sublime Text, and sometimes even the StickyNotes Windows app.<p>My philosophy about this over the last few years is that its better to write something down anywhere on whatever system, even on multiple systems, rather than to try to adhere to one format all the time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:49:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47578173</link><dc:creator>yardshop</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47578173</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47578173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yardshop in "Desk for people who work at home with a cat"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Simone Giertz had a different approach, she built a bench for her and her dog with stairs so it could come and go as it wanted to.<p>I built a chair for dogs that always want to sit next to you
(<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYqz1F6eAVU" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYqz1F6eAVU</a>)</p>
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<p>According to the CSS of the page, the font is "IBM VGA 9x16".<p>No idea about the color scheme but it's nice.<p>Unrelated to any of this, this font reminds of an old Turbo Pascal program I wrote years ago (decades now) to extract a VGA font from the computer's ROM and use the character bitmaps in my own graphics programs. Nice memory I would not have had if not for your question, so thank you!</p>
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<p>Kovcheg is very nice if you like a cappella.<p>I clicked because it had an interesting design and thought it would be metal! XD<p>But its a Russian men's singing group and they're very good.</p>
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<p>A complementary resource for learning about tube amps is the YouTube channel Fazio Electric. Colleen Fazio does a nice job of repairing old amps and explaining various aspects of their construction, history, and significance. Plus she has a very calming voice and is probably one of the loveliest amp repair technicians out there.<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@FazioElectric" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/@FazioElectric</a></p>
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<p>It's the German version!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2025 04:34:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45523540</link><dc:creator>yardshop</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45523540</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45523540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yardshop in "Radio Garten"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I found a couple fun ones near the ones you posted:<p><a href="https://radio.garden/visit/ris-orangis/QP41kyYR" rel="nofollow">https://radio.garden/visit/ris-orangis/QP41kyYR</a>
Volubilis Radio, Ris-Orangis France<p>seems to play some later 60ish stuff<p>groovy theme, trombone solo<p>string section, horn section, rock instruments, sitar, harpsichord, quite a setup!<p>no vocals so far on the last couple of tracks, spy movie theme song stuff<p><a href="https://radio.garden/visit/yamoussoukro/2hK0VL6B" rel="nofollow">https://radio.garden/visit/yamoussoukro/2hK0VL6B</a>
Radio MEDIA+CI Yamoussoukro 90.2 FM
Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire<p>african rhythms, african and french lyrics, mellower than 
some of the dance beat stations<p>nice guitars and vocals<p>lots of fun bouncing around all of the neighboring stations!</p>
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<p>It was not obvious to me that I needed to click the New button first. I clicked around everywhere else and tried typing and no go. Then after clicking New and getting a text area, it made sense and I said "well of course".<p>So maybe not too many other people had this problem, but perhaps the top line could say "Click New, then just write." =)<p>And/or start the page off with a note that describes the basic process:<p>"click new, write, and click Publish to finish the note, then click Save to save it to index.html on your system"<p>When I went back to edit a note, Publish didn't work for me.<p>Trying this in Vivaldi, I didn't try on another browser yet.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2025 19:34:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45519754</link><dc:creator>yardshop</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45519754</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45519754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yardshop in "Show HN: I've build a platform for writing technical/scientific documents"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Third sentence needs some correction:<p>"MonsterWriter assists students write exceptional academic papers"<p>should be<p>"MonsterWriter assists students to write exceptional academic papers"<p>or "helps students write..."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 21:08:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45496348</link><dc:creator>yardshop</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45496348</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45496348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yardshop in "Mosquitos seem to like beer drinkers who recently had sex"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They also seem to like wine drinkers who haven't had sex well enough too! Sample size one.</p>
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<p>It would be helpful to have some examples that show the prompts needed to develop simple shapes, then how to iterate to add improvements. A video of you using it to create something specific would be great.<p>I first tried "a work table with a roof" which gave me a reasonable model but with a flat roof, then I tried "a work table with a pitched roof" which gave me a very unlikely and unworkable model with the halves of the roof disconnected and not contacting the vertical supports. Then I tried the "Adam Pro" option and it came out looking more like an Adirondack chair than a table, but not one you could sit in! =)<p>I would like to know what to write instead to get a more useful model. Very cool project though!</p>
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<p>I thought this might be about the saying I've heard a bunch recently, "Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast."<p>I've mostly heard it in the context of building and construction videos where they are approaching a new skill or technique and have to remind themselves to slow down.<p>Going slowly and being careful leads to fewer mistakes, which will be a "smoother" process and ends up taking less time, whereas going too fast and making mistakes means work has to be redone and ultimately takes longer.<p>On rereading it, I see some parallels: When one is trying to go too fast, and is possibly becoming impatient with their progress, their mental queue fills up and processing suffers. If one accepts a slower pace, one's natural single-tasking capability will work better, and they will make better progress as a result.<p>And maybe its just my selection bias working hard to confirm that he actually is talking about what I want him to say!</p>
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<p>You prefer doing the right thing over the wrong thing, unless the wrong thing is correct in this context!</p>
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