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Re:Zed is 1.0 on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @12:27PM (#47950658)
I use Sublime as a scratchpad and never save anything, so this is an important feature for me. It's worked flawlessly for years.

I've tried Zed several times like this and it continues to lose data.

Re:Anthropic acquires Bun on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @04:55PM (#46127448)
This matches some previous comments around LLMs driving adoption of programming languages or frameworks. If you ask Claude to write a web app, why not have it use your own framework, that it was trained on, by default?
Re:Kairos: Immutable Distro for K8s at the Edge on Friday October 03, 2025 @12:56PM (#45465046)
It's an opinionated vertical platform; if you run into an edge case, bug, or functionality you don't like, you are have to open a discussion Github and wait for a new release to fix or change things. The devs are very responsive, but the same as any open source tool, it's their project. It perhaps depends on how much customization you want to do - GPUs and drivers, custom CNI, very specific disk settings. I've had more trouble with bare metal systems with varied hardware vs their supported cloud platforms, which are approved and tested.

I'm pretty positive toward Talos but if you stray from the happy path, by choice or accident, it can become challenging technically. And then you have sunk costs around choosing this platform and how hard it would be to restart from scratch.

Re:Ask HN: Any good resources for finding software jobs abroad? on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @03:12AM (#12907599)
Yelp is hiring backend/fullstack engineers in Hamburg, Germany. https://www.yelp.com/careers/job-openings?location=Hamburg%2...

I moved here last year, as an internal transfer. It's been pretty good overall.

Re:Show HN: LogDNA – Easy logging in the cloud on Thursday February 11, 2016 @04:23AM (#11079139)
Looks promising! I was able to get it installed and delivering logs in 5 mins.

I really like the high volumes you offer; I really agree that volume should be cheaper. What Papertrail charges per GB seems really high IMO.

That said, I'm just a hobbyist doing under 1GB month of traffic. I will try to stick with the free plan for as long as possible. If you could offer some nice features for $5-10/month, I would upgrade for that.

Re:Running costs for running a web app on Sunday January 10, 2016 @01:33PM (#10876450)
Papertrail is pretty great. I've used them for years without a hiccup.
Re:Cmus – A Small Terminal Music Player on Thursday October 22, 2015 @05:04AM (#10431164)
Thanks for restarting development and having good releases, with easy to read changelogs! Cmus has been very useful to me.
I'm interested for managed email. Signed up!
Re:Write the Docs on Thursday December 04, 2014 @05:09PM (#8701998)
I went to the first Write the Docs conference in Portland and had a great time. It was a well organized conference with plenty of fun events and useful knowledge. Highly recommended! Thanks again.
ArsTechnica just did a great 4 part series doing most of that: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/02/how-to...
Re:Introducing StandDesk [video] on Thursday March 20, 2014 @05:56PM (#7439124)
http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-standing-desk-mat/

I have the $60 one from Amazon, a step down from what Wirecutter recommends, but I think I will upgrade. I can generally do 4-5 hours standing with this: http://www.amazon.com/Imprint-Comfort-Nantucket-20-Inch-Cinn...

Love the simple site and focus. I've been working on a similar project focusing more on visual diffing, but haven't been able to launch yet. Still building the server infrastructure, product focus, and working out the billing.

Thanks for sharing!

Re:Tesla Model E Reveal Slated For 2015 Detroit Auto Show on Sunday December 15, 2013 @10:02PM (#6912516)
Great word, I like that classification.
Digging this. Great organization, photo layouts, filters: great presentation overall.
Re:Why Vagrant? on Sunday December 01, 2013 @12:28AM (#6826259)
Should I upgrade to VirtualBox 4.3 yet or stick with 4.2? I remember you cautioning about new things not being as stable in 4.3.
Re:1Password 4 for Mac is here on Thursday October 03, 2013 @12:37PM (#6490096)
I have been using the beta since they started. This is good upgrade that brings a much more polished UI from 1password 3.

The auto-fill functionality seems greatly improved: there are many JS based lightbox or hidden-until-you-click logins that 1pass3 couldnt autofill. 1pass4 just works.

Re:Skip the Post Office, Use Shyp on Wednesday June 05, 2013 @05:16PM (#5828652)
I'm still waiting on my invite. I saw some ads on FB advertising it and decided to try, but have been waiting since. I hate the Post Office and would love to this us.
Re:Outbox – A beautiful inbox for postal mail on Tuesday June 04, 2013 @06:24PM (#5822465)
I've been using it for several months in SF and it's pretty great. iPhone app and pretty website let me see my mail from anywhere. They pickup my mail Tuesday, Thursday, Friday. Coolest thing to me being able to mark magazines or letters as spam and they will send unsubscribe messages for me.

Some flaws are how they handle anything more complex than just picking up mail addressed to you. Living in a rental apartment, I get plenty of previous residents that they ignore; I love would love to be able to get them to unsubscribe me from all mail that isn't addressed to me. But that gets more complex with my roommate, who doesn't use the service.

Otherwise, for $5/month, I like not having to check my mailbox and I haven't had any issues.

Re:What really happened at PyCon 2013 on Friday March 22, 2013 @12:42PM (#5424015)
Hear hear. I learned a great deal about the IPython Notebook and Python 3 this year. Pycon was a great time.
Re:Django 1.5 released on Tuesday February 26, 2013 @03:50PM (#5288498)
Howdy! I have a branch with all the tests working, just haven't made an official release yet. Hopefully very soon...
Re:Django 1.5 released on Tuesday February 26, 2013 @03:17PM (#5288265)
Anecdotal: I wrote a Google Reader API library in Python 2 that I'm working on porting to Python 3 and it really hasn't been that bad. I had some HTTP dependancies on urllib/urllib2 but requests (with a py3 compatibility class) made it easy.

The port was requested by someone looking to build an RSS feed reader or checker in Sublime Text 3, which using Python 3.3. Things are moving forward.

Re:Automattic Buys Simperium (YC S10), Maker of Simplenote on Thursday January 24, 2013 @01:58PM (#5111372)
Congrats! I've been using SimpleNote (iPhone) for years with Notational Velocity and quite happy with the sync.
Re:Causes Acquires Votizen To Democratize Democracy on Thursday January 10, 2013 @04:29PM (#5039861)
Congrats to the Votizen team! Great group of engineers who have contributed a great deal to Django and Python.
Re:Richard Hamming: You and Your Research (1986) on Monday October 08, 2012 @12:24PM (#4627561)
I do love this talk and this bit is a really good explanation for why I blog and contribute to open source:

You should do your job in such a fashion that others can build on top of it, so they will indeed say, "Yes, I've stood on so and so's shoulders and I saw further." The essence of science is cumulative.

Re:Slate: Tiling window management for OS X on Saturday September 29, 2012 @02:34PM (#4590417)
Divvy has seems pretty dead to me, I haven't seen any new features in months? maybe years? It works well, but after seeing the new crop of window managers, it's too simple. The configuration isn't the most flexible and not easy to sync configurations between computers.
I've used the beta for several months and it's been great. I just ordered lunch with it, minutes ago actually. You can track my order live https://postmat.es/97MJQ6Is

It makes great use of smartphone gps technology and the estimates have been pretty accurate. I like things that are organized and predictable, very much like Uber.

Re:How I Open Source on Thursday May 17, 2012 @12:36PM (#3987776)
I've definitely had this hesitation before and, like with programming, the more I publish and open source things, the easier it becomes. It might not be perfect, but good programmers can figure it out without help or novice ones can ask questions and show you where you need to explain things in more detail.

I've always wanted the organized README file, the detailed CHANGELOG file, the pretty bootstraped github page, and the polished docs, but it takes effort to get there. The little details along the way have tripped me up. After creating 3-4 active projects now on Github, I've worked through most minor details, cleaned up my older projects, and raised the overall quality of all my projects.

Fugitive is pretty great once figure out most of it.

Extradite is a wrapper around fugitive to provide a log view similar to tig's log view, but seemed a bit clunky to me last time I tried it.

https://github.com/int3/vim-extradite

Sweet! I use tig daily as my main git viewer.

Here are some bindings my in .tigrc, which I use in the log viewer window, to make it more vim like:

bind generic g move-first-line

bind generic G move-last-line

bind generic n next

bind generic p previous

I generally use n/p to flip between commits in log view, hit enter to view a specific commit, and then j/k to move lines on the commit view.

Re:How do you take breaks? Try singles Bughouse on Thursday April 05, 2012 @01:08PM (#3803495)
Our office has been on a big Banagrams kick, I get pretty similar mind recharging benefits.

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