cheesysam

131 karma · joined August 31, 2018

cheesysamon How Wes Anderson Turned The New Yorker Into “The French Dispatch”

I'm reading 'An Editor's Burial', which is a collection of essays which inspired the film. There's an interview with Wes as a foreword, and that's exactly what he describes as his intention for the feel of the film.

cheesysamon Ask HN: Why aren't devs making desktop apps any more?

Thanks for your work on beekeeper. I've been using it for about 12 months and in that time it's really improved.

cheesysamon Show HN: Record Your Accomplishments

There will be lots of users who don't have the same workflow as a developer opening vim all day. People who spend their lives in meetings probably need the reminders. I like the idea and it's a super simple execution.

PS. There's a typo in the html <title>.

cheesysamon Inventor harvests methane gas from ditches and ponds to power his moped

I'm not sure disrupting the ecosystem at the bottom of the pond is an ecologically sound move. Biodiversity is important!

Obviously I understand this is a proof of concept and not the solution to fossil fuels.

cheesysamon IKEA Frekvens LED box hack

Why is Ikea evil?

cheesysamon Vulcan Salute (Handshake Alternative, U+1F596)

Me too. I remember being told by a rather stuffy teacher that if you pointed your fingers to the sky, that the prayer would shoot up to heaven! If you interlaced your fingers it would 'bleughhh not go anywhere!'

cheesysamon Trunk Road Gritter Tracker

Surely if you're planning to drive on the road, you'd want the webcam to be behind the snow plow?

cheesysamon Why Continuous Integration and Delivery Is Important

What is 'request pinning, request tracing, request shifting'?

cheesysamon Pastel: A command-line tool to generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors

  brew install https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/4e60ba14762ad17eef498ce5719aa06bc639d2b1/Formula/pastel.rb

cheesysamon Lefthook: Knock your team’s code back into shape

The English in this sales page is terrible. There's even a misspelling of the product name in the opening paragraph.

cheesysamon Drawing Spirograph curves in Python

It's not a spirograph curve unless the cog teeth have slipped and your pen has scrawled across the page taking up a bit of paper with it and you have to start again.