Hacker News: zonovar

Show HN: Tmux-bar – One-tap switching between windows in current tmux session

zonovar — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:54:39 +0000

I revived an old idea I had, a small native macOS menu bar app that shows your tmux windows as Touch Bar buttons, so switching windows is one tap away.

It runs quietly in the menu bar, watches which terminal is focused (Terminal, iTerm2, Ghostty), and refreshes the Touch Bar with your current tmux windows.

This was a fun “vibe coding” side project, but also a practical tool I wanted for my own workflow. Hope it can be useful to someone else.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47836112

Points: 3

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New comment by zonovar in "Terminal Latency on Windows (2024)"

zonovar — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 19:20:40 +0000

Not really on 'latency' per se as discussed in the articole but an interesting take on slow terminals is Casey Muratori's famous rant on the topic [0] that led him to write his own terminal [1], a reference renderer for monospace terminal displays that is several orders of magnitude faster than Windows Terminal despite being largely unoptimized.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxM8QmyZXtg

[1] https://github.com/cmuratori/refterm

Evidence of 'Negative Time' Found in Quantum Physics Experiment

zonovar — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 15:26:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/evidence-of-negative-time-found-in-quantum-physics-experiment/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41709667

Points: 18

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New comment by zonovar in "Steve Albini has died"

zonovar — Wed, 08 May 2024 17:16:44 +0000

I feel very sad! Everything I loved about music had always ties with him, his style and his type of production. I was so excited about the upcoming Shellac album and tour. This hits so heavy... :(

New comment by zonovar in "Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years"

zonovar — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 07:10:27 +0000

I also remember by videogame magazines I was reading back in early 90s that another C++ compiler that was a favourite among devs was Watcom C++ that was released in 88.

DPReview Is Shutting Down

zonovar — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 08:28:50 +0000

Article URL: https://fstoppers.com/news/dpreview-shutting-down-628719

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35258299

Points: 1

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Scientists discover how to make electricity ‘out of thin air’

zonovar — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 22:55:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/clean-energy-air-enzyme-electricity-huc-b2296599.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35075929

Points: 3

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New comment by zonovar in "Ask HN: Advice that changed your life?"

zonovar — Sat, 29 Oct 2022 10:06:09 +0000

Time is the only thing you can't buy.

New comment by zonovar in "Cppfront, Herb Sutter's proposal for a new C++ syntax"

zonovar — Sat, 17 Sep 2022 23:16:58 +0000

I've been engineering videogames in C++ for almost 20years working on AAA games and I can tell you that modern C++ is not very appealing to the vast majority of our industry. Modern C++ it's overcomplicated and from what I can see all the best software engineers I met in my careen write very simple C++98 code, maybe a bit of C++11 but that's it. They keep it simple. They don't need a move constructor because they've been already clever enough to solve a prolbem from a different angle. Modern C++ is for experienced C++ developers and it's solving problems that experienced developers know already how to solve without all this extra complexity. And because of that it's keeping away young developers... This new C++ syntax is just a gimmick that we don't need. The C++ community seems it's feeding itself to create a new standard every couple of years. It's just disappointing...

DeepMind researcher: Existential catastrophe caused by AI is likely unavoidable

zonovar — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 21:47:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/artificial-intelligence-deepmind-ai-catastrophe-b2166954.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32843854

Points: 17

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New comment by zonovar in "Embed is in C23"

zonovar — Sat, 23 Jul 2022 17:29:05 +0000

5 years ago I wrote a small python script [1] to help me solve "the same problem". It reads files in a folder and generates an header file containing the files' data and filenames. Is very simple and was to helping me on a job. It has limitations, don't be too hard on me :)

[1] https://github.com/daxliar/pyker

New comment by zonovar in "Pleasant debugging with GDB and DDD"

zonovar — Sun, 17 Jul 2022 15:25:38 +0000

What's wrong with people still using DDD in 2022?

New comment by zonovar in "Things you notice when you quit the news (2016)"

zonovar — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 18:31:54 +0000

As someone living in Europe right now all the news are about the Russian-Ukraine crisis and it's very unsettling and makes you over anxious and distracted from your daily job. Problem is that working from home makes it so easy to access the news... Anyway I really needed to read these five points right now. Thank you.

What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory (2007) [pdf]

zonovar — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 23:20:08 +0000

Article URL: https://people.freebsd.org/~lstewart/articles/cpumemory.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30354290

Points: 82

# Comments: 18

Major nuclear fusion breakthrough could bring us closer to carbon-free energy

zonovar — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 16:53:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.euronews.com/green/2022/02/09/major-nuclear-fusion-breakthrough-could-bring-us-closer-to-carbon-free-energy

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30274893

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by zonovar in "Ask HN: Best books on managing software complexity?"

zonovar — Sun, 06 Feb 2022 09:41:21 +0000

The Pragmatic Programmer

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pragmatic-Programmer-Andrew-Hunt/dp...

New comment by zonovar in "Ask HN: Software you hate but can't replace?"

zonovar — Sat, 05 Feb 2022 18:47:31 +0000

Microsoft Visual Studio

A listening experiment comparing the timbre of two Stradivari with other violins

zonovar — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 15:23:05 +0000

Article URL: https://asa.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1121/10.0009320

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30101590

Points: 1

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New comment by zonovar in "Ask HN: How do you get out of a rut?"

zonovar — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 08:25:48 +0000

Try making this change incrementally. Set a very small goal for the first week. For example you could start forcing to sit at your desk for 5/10 minutes with no distractions and start small just making a list of what you should do. Give you a small goal after you managed to sit down. Slowly increase the time and start doing some exercise. Walk everyday of you can't do anything else. Walk a lot with no distractions, no phone/music, just the environment and your mind. Try to stick to a routine every day if possible. And then slowly increase those minutes at your desk every day.

Physicists working with Microsoft think the universe is a self-learning computer

zonovar — Sun, 02 Jan 2022 10:32:54 +0000

Article URL: https://thenextweb.com/news/physicists-working-with-microsoft-think-the-universe-is-a-self-learning-computer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29767533

Points: 10

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