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johnhamlin··on Claude Code Remote Control
New speed record for time from LaunchHN to getting Sherlocked set by that company everyone was dunking on a couple of weeks ago
johnhamlin··on Half million 'Words with Spaces' missing from dictionaries
Fascinating! I’d add “word nerd” to the list to describe the authors.
johnhamlin··on Half million 'Words with Spaces' missing from dictionaries
I got into solving the NYT crossword during Covid. I couldn’t solve a Monday when I started; now I do Mondays downs-only and look forward to Saturdays. Along the way, I developed a sixth sense for when an answer will be more than one word. I’ve thought a lot about it and can’t really describe how I do it. (Some other puzzles clarify if an answer spans multiple words, but I find the ambiguity adds to the fun.)
johnhamlin··on A beginner's guide to split keyboards
What about when you’re on the go? Or can we presume split-keyboard users never leave the house
johnhamlin··on Sizing chaos
I never check pudding.cool for some reason, but I always smash the link when I see one
johnhamlin··on Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues
Makes my recent decision to ditch osx for Linux with a tiling wm seem all the more fitting
johnhamlin··on TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe
Imagine having a government that demands a company like TikTok stop abusing its users instead of checks notes forcing its sale to your cronies so you can silence your critics. Must be nice.
johnhamlin··on Show HN: Zsweep – Play Minesweeper using only Vim motions
Love games like this. I used Vim Snake to make the muscle memory for hjkl finally stick in my brain. (I wish you could disable the insert mode toggling -- it's cute but didn't help when I was trying to break the habit of moving my finger up to press W or Up Arrow and remember that everything is in a straight line.)

https://vimsnake.com

johnhamlin··on Dumbphone Owners Have Lost Their Minds
https://archive.is/2026.01.19-112840/https://www.wired.com/s...
johnhamlin··on Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids
My twin 2yo boys have a Tonie box and absolutely love it. I hear such good things about the Yoto, I plan to get them one once they’re old enough not to rip the cards to shreds
johnhamlin··on I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great
I’m getting closer with every update Apple pushes
johnhamlin··on TailwindSQL – Like TailwindCSS, but for SQL queries in React Server components
Reminds me of the query methods in Spring Data JPA: https://docs.spring.io/spring-data/jpa/reference/jpa/query-m...
johnhamlin··on Carolina Cloud – One third the cost of AWS for data science workloads
Love seeing NC on HN. Go Heels!
johnhamlin··on Show HN: AlgoDrill – Interactive drills to stop forgetting LeetCode patterns
Another +1 for TypeScript from a new lifetime subscriber. Great site!
johnhamlin··on Bikeshedding, or why I want to build a laptop
How’s the battery life?
johnhamlin··on Bikeshedding, or why I want to build a laptop
I’ve been feeling exact way for a while now. Tahoe brought it to a head. I just want a portable machine I truly own and control that doesn’t suck. Why is that so much to ask?
johnhamlin··on Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros
Paramount can’t be happy
johnhamlin··on IDEmacs: A Visual Studio Code clone for Emacs
Love to see this. I lost steam working my way through SICP a couple of years ago because I spent so much time trying to figure out Emacs instead of writing Scheme
johnhamlin··on Affinity Studio now free
Love to see this the day Adobe emailed to say it’s hiking my Photoshop/Lightroom subscription by 50% ($10/mo -> $15/mo)
johnhamlin··on Affinity by Canva
Love to see this the day Adobe emailed to say it’s hiking my Photoshop/Lightroom subscription by 50% ($10/mo -> $15/mo)
johnhamlin··on Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents
Did anyone here actually watch the video before commenting? I’m seeing all the same old opinions and no specific criticisms of anything Karpathy said here.
johnhamlin··on macOS Tahoe
Well great, now I can never unsee that
johnhamlin··on Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company
404
johnhamlin··on Agent Client Protocol (ACP)
I’m going to be hungry all day, everyday if this catches on and we call it ACP
johnhamlin··on VIM Master
I got the muscle memory for hjkl down by playing https://vimsnake.com/
johnhamlin··on VHS-C: When a lazy idea stumbles towards perfection [video]
Same!
johnhamlin··on The Enterprise Experience
Been at $ENTERPRISE for 18 months. This is true it hurts.
johnhamlin··on Orion Browser
But does it have vertical tabs?
johnhamlin··on Lessons from That 1834 Landscape Gardening Guidebook
We call it Neapolitan in America
johnhamlin··on Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College
Everyone always talks about becoming a plumber, but you know what sucks? Working under a sink. I'm assuming it sucks even harder when you're 60.
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