ggaughan
Re:Getting Off the Modernization Treadmill
on Monday August 10, 2026 @06:06AM (#49241659)
Why are so many government websites unusable for the constituents who need them most?
Notice of Obsolescence
Re:Writing a "clear room" Z80 and Spectrum emulator with Claude Code
on Friday February 27, 2026 @06:35AM (#47179335)
Wow
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?
on Thursday January 15, 2026 @05:45AM (#46630724)
Re:Old Computer Challenge – Modern Web for the ZX Spectrum
on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @05:09AM (#45653892)
Maybe this could help show 64 chars per line: https://chuntey.wordpress.com/2010/01/08/64-column-print/
Re:GNU Midnight Commander
on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @06:14AM (#45273928)
It uses F10 to quit so if you're in GNOME Terminal (e.g. Ubuntu) go to Terminal Preferences|General and uncheck "Enable the menu accelerator key (F10 by default)", or use Alt-0 to quit instead.
Re:Asciinema: Record and share your terminal sessions
on Friday July 25, 2025 @04:25AM (#44680939)
vhs can also create video files: https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs#output
Re:Secret Hand Gestures in Paintings
on Friday June 07, 2024 @11:44AM (#40609747)
Re:Ask HN: Have you coded any productivity software just for yourself?
on Monday May 06, 2024 @02:31PM (#40277917)
I gave up fighting Trello's new editor which kept fetching and auto-linking http addresses and I made my own Trello using SQLPage + htmx. It's even better than I expected because it's not shunting megabytes of json around and polling Atlassian's servers every second.
Re:Polish Embassy interviews Marian Rejewski, first person to crack En...
on Sunday May 05, 2024 @03:28PM (#40267455)
Re:The First Magic Door
on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @12:24PM (#35977599)
Interview with Brian Moriarty about his life leading up to, and including, the creation of the Infocom classic Trinity
The First Magic Door
Re:Ask HN: What is your fav “I can't believe in 2022 this still doesn'...
on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @11:09AM (#33331610)
Two brand new Bosch ovens side by side, both showing different times on their digital clocks. Why don't they auto-adjust with daylight saving or at least synchronise with each other. I'd rather have no clock than two wrong ones.
Re:The Sweden Solar System
on Thursday March 11, 2021 @10:44AM (#26425199)
I think there's an under-appreciated pattern to the distances: https://wordloosed.com/the-planets
Re:What does it take to keep a conspiracy secret?
on Sunday May 10, 2020 @09:36AM (#23132462)
Re:LearnDB: Learn how to build a database
on Thursday November 29, 2018 @03:36AM (#18558877)
I found this one very good and easy to read:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Database-Management-Systems-Raghu-R...
Re:Ask HN: Older textbooks/papers you consider classics still worth st...
on Saturday November 17, 2018 @06:06AM (#18474976)
A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks (1970)
E. F. CODD
Show HN: FuseOrder – Hack your company dining
Re:Ask HN: Did you implement a lunch picking app at your startup?
on Thursday May 28, 2015 @02:55AM (#9616452)
I found it painful to watch people collect everyone's orders and then phone them in and then try to work out what was in the delivery bags and who owed what. So I built https://fuseorder.com/
(just add an event for each meal. You can add your own places and menus as needed)