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Re:Stringly Typed on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @02:41PM (#43919220)
xkcd has a relevant take on this: https://xkcd.com/1053/

TLDR, we should totally be celebrating learning in public

Show HN: Fretboard.el – guitar fretboard visualization tool for Emacs

Posted by gskye on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @08:51PM
from the show-hn dept.

Hi Hacker News!My name is Skye. Long time listener, first time caller.Have you ever sat down to get ready for a gig, looked at your guitar and thought to yourself: "Why am I not using the worlds most extensible text editor to work on my guitar fretboard fluency?"Well I have just the thing: fretboard.el, the guitar fretboard visualization tool for Emacs!fretboard.el lets you see the notes of the...

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Re:Warren Buffett amasses more cash and sells more stock on Saturday February 22, 2025 @02:18PM (#43142149)
The uncharacteristic lack of transparency around Buffett’s recent decision making points toward two things: an extremely overvalued market paired with a completely incompetent American political administration - one that has a high degree of probability of crashing the global economy.

But he doesn’t want to say the latter half to avoid the wrath of an administration that has immediately proven to be erratic, vindictive, untrustworthy and cruel.

Re:Monty Python and the Holy Grail 48 1/2 year anniversary in theaters... on Thursday October 19, 2023 @12:57PM (#37945388)
Wow. One of my favorite albums from my youth, I never got this until you just mentioned it!
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here? on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @03:24PM (#36605755)
https://skyefreeman.com

Mostly writing about software I'm working on or things I'm thinking about. Technical topics include: software startups, development with iOS, SwiftUI, Common Lisp (which the blog is built/served with!), Emacs Lisp, and soon Elixir/Phoenix/LiveView.

Re:More than half of YC startups don't have a dot com on Thursday February 23, 2023 @03:32PM (#34916077)
Brooklyn is overpriced, people are moving to Queens.
Re:It Just Works on Wednesday August 05, 2015 @11:58AM (#10010700)
I've been watching apple's software quality decrease over the past few years with increasing disappointment . It still astounds me that their test suites haven't caught the multitude of issues i've seen before shipping.

It makes me wonder if Apple actually uses their own products. Don't even get me started on the Remote app...

Re:Build your portfolio by working on interesting projects on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @03:26PM (#8993100)
https://zyring.com/#/tracks/ios/projects/messaging

Found a typo, UIBotton