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BrittonR··on Exploring Different Keyboard Sensing Technologies
Thanks for sharing, I’ll print this out to try. What’s the license in the pcb and switches?
BrittonR··on AI is forcing us to write good code
This is how I’m also developing most of my code these days as well. My opinions are pretty similar to the pig book author https://martin.kleppmann.com/2025/12/08/ai-formal-verificati....
BrittonR··on Ask HN: Which tools are you using for Virtual Machines?
Microvm.nix with cloud-hypervisor
BrittonR··on Forgejo makes a full break from Gitea
https://forgejo.org/docs/v1.20/user/actions/

https://docs.gitea.com/usage/actions/overview

Both have “Actions” that are act based and very similar to GitHub Actions and offers some compatibility.

BrittonR··on Ask HN: What are some good documentation OSS offerings
https://js.wiki/ is what we’ve decided to go with at my company.
BrittonR··on Weaveworks is shutting down
I feel like this is how a lot of the Nix community and Elixir community already functions.
BrittonR··on Quadratic – Figma-for-Spreadsheets – Is Multiplayer
Congrats on the launch! I was just looking at the Multiplayer PR earlier this week and was hoping it would be released soon. I’ve always been frustrated with Excel and you’ve built a product that I’ve legit dreamed of for years.

Thanks for building in CO!

BrittonR··on The bane of my existence: Supporting both async and sync code in Rust
There is this:

https://lunatic.solutions/

BrittonR··on Ask HN: What software do you pay for monthly?
Fastmail and Tailscale with Mullvad VPN
BrittonR··on Mirage – A programming framework for building type-safe, modular systems
Isn’t that the aim of webassembly?
BrittonR··on Ask HN: Robot vacuum but without the privacy invasion?
Many models can be hacked to run https://valetudo.cloud which is completely local. I’m using it with a Roborock S5.
BrittonR··on Goldman is looking for a way out of its partnership with Apple
Copilot also lets you import Apple Card transactions as CSV
BrittonR··on Ask HN: How to become a Site Reliability Engineer?
I would start with the roadmap:

https://roadmap.sh/devops

BrittonR··on Ask HN: What are your must-have apps/software?
On MacOS:

Helix Yabai Nix

BrittonR··on Ask HN: What have you been getting obsessed about lately?
Nix and NixOS
BrittonR··on Ask HN: What newsletter are you receiving that you are reading?
https://www.youngmoney.co

https://tldr.tech

https://tldr.tech/crypto

https://doomberg.substack.com/

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/authors/ARbTQlRLRjE/matthe...

BrittonR··on Microsoft gaming chief calls for industry-wide game preservation
> Georgia Tech University

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Tech

BrittonR··on Ask HN: Non-WiFi smart locks for residential use?
Schlage and Yale both have Zwave and Zigbee locks.
BrittonR··on Home Assistant iOS app adds local push notification support
I think the majority of people use a Raspberry Pi. Personally I use Pi4 with a SSD running Ubuntu. I run Home Assistant using Docker.