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When I saw the post the Newton Virus was the first thing I thought of. Thanks for making it. I remember showing my family the video and remarking about how cool it was.
Re:Zen-C: Write like a high-level language, run like C on Monday January 12, 2026 @09:36AM (#46589099)
Definitely could be, but the dev has been posting updates on Twitter for a while now. It could be just some amount of hype they have built.
Re:Tell HN: HN Was Down on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @01:32PM (#46303515)
I'm glad I'm not the only one. If I type 'n' into any browser it autocompletes to HN.
Re:JetKVM – Control any computer remotely on Monday October 27, 2025 @01:49PM (#45724135)
As others have said, a full size HDMI port would be nice. However, I've been very satisfied with my JetKVM. I was about to order the GL.iNet KVM they just launched, but I ended up picking up another JetKVM now that sales are open.

My use-case is that I have it connected to an Raspberry Pi which I use to test the RPi builds of my application. I just ordered a second to connect to a mini-PC which is the minimum spec supported by my application. It has made my testing experience very smooth.

My rule of thumb is: Whatever I am doing when the meds start working is what I'm going to be doing.
Re:Omarchy Is Out on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @11:31AM (#45027968)
They were definitely my fault, to be clear. There was a crash at launch (I don't remember the cause exactly) and being unable to copy to clipboard when using the wlr-layer-shell extension. Those likely affected other compositors, but I did not catch them on Gnome when I was doing the majority of development and testing.
Re:Omarchy Is Out on Monday August 25, 2025 @01:16PM (#45016215)
I can absolutely echo your sentiment. I recently released some software which has Wayland support. Immediately, I got some bug reports from Hyprland users so I setup a partition with EndeavourOS + Hyprland to work out the issues. I was pleasantly surprised to find that, as you said, the defaults are nice. Configuring it was a breeze as well. Now about 2 weeks later I am daily driving the system I setup for testing and am working to switch fully to it from macOS.
Re:Tailwind Is the Worst of All Worlds on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @12:44PM (#44649703)
Say what you want about Tailwind's usefulness, but the author's claim in the section titled "Rule sets" is objectively false. In the Tailwind documentation they mention the @apply directive which allows you to use Tailwind's styles in your primary stylesheet.

Here is the portion of the documentation which talks about this: https://tailwindcss.com/docs/functions-and-directives#apply-...

In my own project, I moved to Tailwind recently and found @apply to be very useful. I experiment with the inline styles and move them to a CSS class when (and if) needed. Additionally, the Tailwind CLI translates the states like hover: and active: as well. I personally have found it super convenient.

Re:Student discovers fungus predicted by Albert Hoffman on Saturday June 14, 2025 @02:10PM (#44277799)
They did not do that.
Re:Hotspot: Linux `perf` GUI for performance analysis on Thursday May 22, 2025 @07:51AM (#44061119)
I primarily do macOS development work and use Instruments for profiling, but have been working on Linux a lot lately and Hotspot has been pulled out a lot over the last few weeks. Highly recommended.
Re:BlackHole: macOS Audio Loopback Driver on Monday May 06, 2024 @06:02PM (#40280022)
macOS 14.2 implemented something like this in Core Audio, but it is not user facing (and also documented extremely poorly). You can create a "Tap" that can capture audio from a particular application, or subset of applications, or an output device. This can then be added to a private or public Aggregate Device (depending on the Tap being private or public).

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/coreaudio/4160724-...

Re:Cosmic Desktop: Hammering Out New Cosmic Features on Thursday April 18, 2024 @08:51AM (#40075675)
You can do this on macOS. However, you need to hold Cmd+Ctrl.

defaults write -g NSWindowShouldDragOnGesture -bool true

IMO cdm is a great resource for musicians. I have been reading it for close to a decade and have found many cool tools and learned a lot from it. I particularly like the DAW update summaries.
Re:Is Tetr.io Legal? on Saturday December 23, 2023 @09:50AM (#38744601)
Have you tried changing the graphics settings? I usually turn them down and have great performance.
I first learned about this tool after writing a simple server in C for the first time. I logged the incoming requesrs and shortly a packet whose content was something along the lines of “Scanned with masscan” popped up. Clever.