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emilbratt

Re:Apple iPod Engraver (2019) on Sunday September 13, 2026 @07:48AM (#49682926)
> Still a work in progress

Wow, over 100k commits! It is definitively a work in progress, and an impressive one as well. :)

Edit: Ah, I now see that it is a fork of qemu-ios, but it is still cool. :)

Wait, you don't feel so?

I have maintained a Nextcloud server for a small business for the last 6 years. I agree when I started using it early 2020 that the ui felt less modern, but after some updates down the road up until now it looks completely like it is from this era. Am I missing something? However, I never complained about the UI neither then nor now.

Love reading these posts where a person implement their own solution to communicate with devices that have proprietary software that only support Windows. Thanks for sharing.
Re:DaVinci Resolve 21 on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @07:07PM (#48391325)
Unless you are on Apple silicon, then im not sure the ARM cpu and hardware is powerful enough for you to get a decent experience. It is heavy software, after all. Still, I would expect them to release Linux ARM builds when we inevitably move over to ARM as the common arch. :)
Looks neat! As someone who also did a barplot library with SVG output, I can tell you that this sort of program is really fun to write.

https://crates.io/crates/eb_bars

In 2012, that would be true! :)
Re:Bringing Chrome to ARM64 Linux Devices on Thursday March 12, 2026 @06:12PM (#47357982)
But as far as i know, there has never been working HW accelerated video in their build of Chromium. But yeah, I guess you have point.
Re:Bringing Chrome to ARM64 Linux Devices on Thursday March 12, 2026 @05:02PM (#47357051)
I have been waiting... so many years for this. Like, I figured it would never come. So happy to be wrong. Wonder if it will work well on Raspberry Pi and also if it will come with Hardware Video Acceleration out of the box.
Re:Good software knows when to stop on Thursday March 05, 2026 @01:10PM (#47265077)
App is slow. It plays music video content as default. Gui has many non interesting parts. I just want a list of albums and songs. I guess I just want it to be "boring but functional. :)
Still rocking M1 air, still a great machine and Im still happy. :-)
About to watch the film now. I know there are controversial aspects to this, but in my opinion this is something I myself need to allow happen. Alex know it himself, that there is a risk of ending it, but most people will not understand the feelings he get before, during and after a climb. So who am I to judge from my couch in my livingroom whether he should be allowed to pursue his lifestyle or not. He is not actively hurting anyone.
Re:Lights and Shadows on Thursday January 08, 2026 @08:40AM (#46540828)
I find it refreshing that a webpage can give such joy, to the point of having people talk about it in the same way you talk about books and movies. You know, being able to enjoy it for the first time and so and so.
Re:I switched from VSCode to Zed on Monday January 05, 2026 @11:53AM (#46501248)
Woah, slow down there. One of your requirements to a code editor is video preview? I didnt even know this existed. Gonna spin up VSCode at home and find out.
Re:CSS Grid Lanes on Saturday December 20, 2025 @05:35AM (#46335107)
I dont know what would be the best way, but I personally want each image to be represented correctly in relation to all other image. This means that the way images are laid out will looked jagged. However, as a consequence of that, it is easy to find back to a specific image. Its like when you are coding, you look at the "shape" of the code when scrolling to find that specific function definition etc..

Here is an example of the layout of a photostream that I was satisfied with.

https://frifoto.emilbratt.no/?view_mode=photo-stream&tag=All...

Re:CSS Grid Lanes on Friday December 19, 2025 @07:33PM (#46332629)
I always thought that the masonry layout looked good but made it harder to get a good overview of the images.
Re:You can now play Grand Theft Auto Vice City in the browser on Friday December 19, 2025 @03:19PM (#46330409)
Pushing the nostalgic effect aside, I agree. The gameplay is the important part and is why I can still play snes games to this day.
Re:30 Years of <Br> Tags on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @06:26PM (#46296156)
Im only half way through, but just wanted to share that I love this kind of write up
Re:Common Rust Lifetime Misconceptions on Monday December 15, 2025 @06:22AM (#46273036)
Yeah, even the official Rust book points it out and if my memory serves me right (not punintended) also gives an example in the form of creating a memory leak (not to be confused with memory unsafe).
In Trondheim, Norway we have the famous bycicle lift. :)

https://youtu.be/zipZ5kwhFfs?si=2kEsb-7wEpcS2Vkn

Re:XBMC 4.0 for the Original Xbox on Saturday November 22, 2025 @04:44AM (#46013490)
I remember modding my Xbox and putting XBMC on it. One of my fondest memories is actually playing games directly off the hard-drive. One of the great "side-effects" of that was basically cutting loading times almost in half.

I especially remember the loading animation in the game Crash Bandicoot - Wrath of Cortex. Crash Bandicoot himself would keep falling during the loading screen. (note: PS2 version had another looking version). The game loading screen for Xbox was designed so that the camera movement nicely panned throughout it during the time the loading took, but due to the loading time being shorter the "animation" was cut short.

..just a fun little thing that stuck with me. :)

EDIT: Oh! I found videos on youtube demonstrating the "difference".

Here is the original experience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1327&v=jLf9EZWLins

Here is the experience when cut short: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1157&v=Vk8AuLhnu58

Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025) on Monday November 10, 2025 @02:08AM (#45873246)
Yeah that was it for me, the rotation really threw me off.
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025) on Sunday November 09, 2025 @09:24PM (#45871644)
I love it. I struggle more than I want to admit, but super fun nonetheless.
Re:Writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python (2023) on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @04:01PM (#45119830)
That is not a compiler. That is called a wrapper script. But funny none the less.
Re:Ladybird Browser July Update on Saturday August 02, 2025 @07:36AM (#44766770)
I love Rust, but I do not like how people are rust evangelists and look down on everything else. That is not how we in the Rust community look at things.

Now, with that out of the way. Andreas has been very clear about the reasons why C++ is the chosen language. He has years of experience with it along with writing browsers.

Im paraphrasing here, but he has said that the web evolved around the era of OOP and C++ is the OOP language of that era. Including statements on how C++ fits nicely with the OOP styles of web specs.

Re:You Wouldn't Download a Hacker News on Wednesday April 30, 2025 @03:33AM (#43842219)
The chart is a stacked one, so we are looking at the height each category takes up and not the height each category reach.