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maniacalrobot··on Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
- A few Tmux plugins to automate workflow tasks (jump to pane, resize panes) - lots of TUIs for displaying relevant information from services (github, jira, obsidian), that are tiled on a "home" tmux window, gives me a live dashboard of work that I can refer to over the day. - TUI games, started with a simple dope wars clone … for when I need a quick break.
maniacalrobot··on Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart
Yep, quick trip in your panther clipper to ross 154, park up and buy everything on the planet.
maniacalrobot··on Make tmux pretty and usable (2024)
Here’s a simple session switcher: `bind C-a display-popup -E "tmux list-sessions -F '#{session_name}' | fzf --reverse | xargs tmux switch-client -t"`. No plugins, nothing fancy, just works.
maniacalrobot··on Ask HN: What is your dev set up like?
Tmux … lots of tmux with lots of Claude code sessions
maniacalrobot··on Ask HN: Share your personal website
https://maniacalrobot.co.uk/
maniacalrobot··on Tmux-devcontainers: Tmux Pluging to manage project devcontainers
After a few months in development and local testing, it's now time to go live with a Tmux plugin that I have been building in my spare time. tmux-devcontainers is a Tmux plugin to:

- Show the status of the devcontainers for the current workspace - A menu that provides quick access to common commands like starting/restarting/removing devcontainers - A key binding to open a new window and execute a new login shell inside the primary devcontainer.

tmux-devcontainers was built to support my personal development environment. It works for my style of development, and my personal projects which are mostly based around docker-compose configuration. I'm sure there are other Docker configurations that may not fully work, but it is also very early days, and there are plenty of bugs, and new features that I plan to implement. Of cause being open source, I'll always appreciate new issues and Pull Requests.

Github: https://github.com/phil/tmux-devcontainers

maniacalrobot··on The 90s Gamer Experience: Handwritten Notes and Maps
Two games I vividly remember taking notes on: Elite, on the BBC Micro, very handy for tracking prices and ship upgrade availability across systems; and Myst, because … well, Myst
maniacalrobot··on RealDOOM: Doom Ported to 16-bit Real Mode
It’s all on the spreadsheet. Use the link text to the spreadsheet, not the href (which is broken). FPS on the 8088 is sub 0.2
maniacalrobot··on WebContainers: Run Node.js natively in the browser
Just wait till you try vscode devcontainers with GitHubs new code spaces.
maniacalrobot··on Angela Merkel blasts Twitter's decision to permanently suspend Trump's account
Shouldn’t it be “content that they deemed illegal”
maniacalrobot··on Busiest hour ever in the history of Gov.uk 17M page requests just 21 5xx errors
gov.uk is a fantastic resource, the team behind it, GDS, should be proud of what they’ve accomplished with it
maniacalrobot··on Ask HN: What are some of the best life hacks you use?
Not sure why the need to freeze it, just keep it at boiling temp until you need it
maniacalrobot··on Cheesemaking tips from the ancients
it’s not meant to be taken literally; it refers to any manufacturers of dairy products.
maniacalrobot··on The London Beer Flood (2014)
The principle beer in the article is a London porter, yet there’s a picture of, what appears to be, a bavaiern style larger. This upsets me
maniacalrobot··on Apache OpenWhisk – A serverless, open-source cloud platform
People hear server-less, and go straight to thinking about hardware … in my mind, server-less apps are missing the "application server" software, or it's extracted away so far as to appear to be the operating system from the server-less functions point of view.
maniacalrobot··on What If GPS Stood for “Galactic Positioning System”?
... And here I was thinking all you needed was six points of reference, and seventh point for the origin
maniacalrobot··on Ecuador says it has granted nationality to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
Not really, embassy’s are not the sovereign territory of the foreign country, the land still belongs to the host county, so officially he’s still in Britain, but is protected under the Vienna treaty
maniacalrobot··on Why the Shipping Forecast Is So Beloved in the UK
This is one of the reasons I still enjoy listening to test march special on radio 4, even if it meant missing an over from the pavilion end
maniacalrobot··on Command-line tool that reads a file and injects them as env vars
See also https://github.com/bkeepers/dotenv
maniacalrobot··on Why I started Essential (by Andy Rubin)
possibly, but there's a reason that why companies such as Apple and Samsung can drive innovation and hardware, and that's by selling you a new phone every 2 years. Where's the repeat market if you only sell one device per customer? Ideologically this is noble, but i don't see a successful business case
maniacalrobot··on DO Not USE: Chrome, Firefox and Edge
Best viewed at 800x600
maniacalrobot··on Launched: Multi-Sig Ethereum Web Wallet with 2FA
Isn't it obvious? … oh wait, I think it's a digital currency wallet
maniacalrobot··on Brussels Rocked by Terrorist Attacks
The enemy of my enemy is my friend?
maniacalrobot··on Apple adopts CommonMark for Swift
This is going to create some kind of meta crisis over at the daringfireball household
maniacalrobot··on BBC Down: The internet responds
Exactly, I was miffed that I couldn't watch the Royal Institute Christmas lectures on iplayer
maniacalrobot··on Black or White Lenses – Canon Professional Network
… and I always thought it was just the canon marketing department, but thinking about it, that actually makes a lot of sense!
maniacalrobot··on ‘Run, Hide, Fight’ Is Not How Our Brains Work
In the uk, the police have been using a similar message but with a very different outcome. Run, hide, tell is the procedure that the police want the public react in. The idea being is that a coordinated response from the police is much better than having members of the public attempting to deal with the situation themselves. Obviously the circumstances are different to the USA as the vast majority of the public don't have access to weapons, and would not have the means to fight back. But I do believe this approach is far less terrorising than asking members of the public to always be prepared to fight

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35140754

maniacalrobot··on The best icon is a text label
I'd agree that many Icons are context sensitive and many require the user to learn their use, but they do, mostly, provide a language agnostic approach to navigation. An icon is the same size in any language, whereas the title could be very different.
maniacalrobot··on WP moves to React, new cashcow rears its head
Seems to me like automatic have been working on a new Client/frontend written in JS with React components, the Server/Backend will still be powered by Wordpress written in PHP+MySQL.
maniacalrobot··on Goodbye Google plus photos
In 232 words, "Google" is mentioned 14 times (6%), and "Photos" gets 21 mentions (9%). One in 7 words is either "Google" or "Photos". They should have got bingo cards made up before this announcement so we could have all played along at home!
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