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New comment by zer in "Helix: A post-modern text editor"

zer — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 14:36:34 +0000

These are great. I really have come to love this little plugin that extends and creates a/i textobjects:

https://github.com/nvim-mini/mini.ai

New comment by zer in "Portmaster – Open-source network monitor and firewall"

zer — Sun, 02 Jan 2022 10:58:05 +0000

Nowadays I use TinyWall[1] on Windows. A simple firewall with a whitelist and some convenience functions.

[1] https://tinywall.pados.hu/

New comment by zer in "s/bash/zsh/g"

zer — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 11:28:31 +0000

Fish is really great for an interactive shell, I love using it. Not so great when it comes to scripting though. For example I think there's still no way to easily exit a script on error except to manually check exit codes.

However I haven't tried writing scripts in zsh yet, just sh/bash.

New comment by zer in "Safari 15 on Mac OS, a user interface mess"

zer — Sat, 19 Jun 2021 12:50:25 +0000

I wouldn't attribute it to malice. The author has got that probably right: the people in charge think in iOS terms.

New comment by zer in "Rust explained using easy English"

zer — Thu, 23 Jul 2020 06:41:08 +0000

I like the general idea. I haven’t got the time to do more than skimming right now but I already feel that a single markdown file (especially without a table of contents) isn’t the right medium for this.

New comment by zer in "Megadesk"

zer — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 18:15:55 +0000

The Idasen does look a lot better. Do you think it would handle a move (or two) well?

New comment by zer in "Oracle vs. PostgreSQL – A Comment"

zer — Sat, 30 May 2020 16:41:36 +0000

My clients — oncological institutions — license Oracle and so they prefer my solutions to use it as well. Really simple, and sad.

As for why they use it... as far as I know it‘s the old tale: historical reasons. Classical lock-in.

New comment by zer in "Eloquent JavaScript 3rd Edition (2018)"

zer — Mon, 27 Apr 2020 03:41:23 +0000

Regarding your second point: This sounds similar to .NET‘s CancellationToken. It works very well there.

What are those nuances in JavaScript which aren’t handled by it?

New comment by zer in "Configs suck? Try a real programming language"

zer — Sun, 05 Apr 2020 19:01:31 +0000

I use schemy [0] for non trivial config tasks in .NET projects. LISPs in general are well suited for this. Very small implementations are easily done and data is code, it’s pretty great.

Of course, if one has already access to a Python runtime that is probably fine as well.

[0] https://github.com/microsoft/schemy

Programming Language Fragility

zer — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 11:29:33 +0000

Article URL: https://cancel.fm/blog/2019-11/language-fragility/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21544025

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by zer in "New ‘past’ link on HN front page"

zer — Sat, 23 Feb 2019 08:19:35 +0000

I use http://hn.premii.com/

I believed it to be more popular but it seems no one has mentioned that site so far...

New comment by zer in "Microsoft’s problem isn’t how often it updates Windows, it’s how it develops it"

zer — Sat, 20 Oct 2018 18:38:18 +0000

Yeah I did the same.

It's infuriating to put the machine to sleep only to see in the morning (or days later...) that Windows woke it up at 3am.

Is it supposed to go back to sleep or is this honestly how someone at Microsoft wants it to work?

New comment by zer in "Rust 1.26 released"

zer — Thu, 10 May 2018 17:38:59 +0000

You're right, I totally missed that link. Thank you!

It shows off Chapter 3, and yes, it really looks great.

New comment by zer in "Rust 1.26 released"

zer — Thu, 10 May 2018 17:31:44 +0000

impl Trait and the second edition of the book; very nice! Congrats on the release!

Question: Is there any way to preview what the book's typesetting looks like, since there's praise in the release note?

New comment by zer in "Google is about to launch a Gmail Web Redesign"

zer — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 17:33:03 +0000

In that case you can still use custom CSS / user styles.

New comment by zer in "Advanced SQL window function quiz"

zer — Fri, 09 Feb 2018 08:46:59 +0000

Q6: Ranking has an error, or I misunderstood. It says "Order by: ranking, name" but in truth one should not order by name!

Anyway, overall very nice!

New comment by zer in "Setting Up .NET Core on RHEL"

zer — Fri, 03 Jun 2016 16:39:21 +0000

I'm curious, what exactly is it that makes you recommend Ubuntu Studio for the desktop?

New comment by zer in "Ask HN: Blacklist Forbes?"

zer — Sat, 09 Jan 2016 16:40:15 +0000

You could also disable JavaScript for socketloop. Works fine for me.

New comment by zer in "How much is time wrong around the world?"

zer — Fri, 21 Feb 2014 21:56:46 +0000

Interesting fact just for fun: Afghanistan shares a 76 km long border with China; this is where the biggest time zone jump occurs, an impressive 3.5 hours.

New comment by zer in "Domain-Specific VPN Router"

zer — Thu, 07 Nov 2013 16:01:02 +0000

Is there anything equivalent for Windows? I heard of ProxyCap and Tunnelier, but I don't know the technical details of how those work - i.e. if they avoid TCP over TCP tunneling.