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dannyfreeman··on Ghostty is leaving GitHub
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dannyfreeman··on The Joy of Folding Bikes
I used to own a dahon that I got from a guy on craigslist back in like 2011/2012. Incredible bike. After moving further out of the city for cheaper rent I sold it to help pay rent. Really wish I could have kept it.
dannyfreeman··on Artemis II Launch Day Updates
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_I
dannyfreeman··on Artemis II is not safe to fly
Starship explodes
dannyfreeman··on OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network
Your work will be used to power an auto aim kill bot. I personally couldn't live with that.
dannyfreeman··on FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE
If these cowardly goons are afraid of American citizens exercising their second amendment rights they should find another job.
dannyfreeman··on FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE
It is famously against the law to own a gun, and carry it with a permit in the United States.
dannyfreeman··on U.S. Emissions Jumped in 2025 as Coal Power Rebounded
Try per capita
dannyfreeman··on X blames users for Grok-generated CSAM; no fixes announced
At what point will payment processors step in and stop processing blue check mark subscriptions?
dannyfreeman··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
A key difference is that we didn't act alone in World War II, and we were fighting very legitimate aggression (fascism).
dannyfreeman··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
> What about dictators? What about military coups and forcefully reversing them? Election fraud?

My country, USA, yearns for freedom. Please someone, anyone, liberate us!

dannyfreeman··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monkey%27s_Paw
dannyfreeman··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
> I'm interested to know what kind of democracy will emerge

If history teaches us anything, a democracy won't emerge. Nothing good comes from the US intervening in foreign affairs. This is being done to the benefit of the invaders, not those being invaded.

dannyfreeman··on Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?
I hope you find that your first and last goals "re-learn focus" and "prioritize body" feed into each other nicely. I worked a lot at my ability to focus on tasks (not just work, but in general) this year, and starting an exercise routine really helped me out a lot. Strength work is a time for me to not be on the phone or computer. Having that time to be in my own head and just think about stuff I find helps sharpen my mind for the rest of the day. Good look!
dannyfreeman··on Logging sucks
Do you really loose the ability to grep? You can still search for json fragments `grep '"uid": "user-123"' application.log`

If the json logged isn't pretty printed everything should still be on one line. You can also grep with the `--context` flag to get more surrounding lines.

dannyfreeman··on Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools
I believe one of the things that prompted stallman to give that talk was the inclusion of the lsp client "eglot" in emacs. Eglot i think is short for emacs polyglot.

The most idiomatic name, lsp-mode, was taken by another package. Stallman wanted to find another name but no one seemed to care as much as he did. I think one name he suggested in its place at one point was "code-parse" or something like that.

dannyfreeman··on OMSCS Open Courseware
That's one of the classes I would really like to take. If I end up doing it the kids might spend a lot of time with grandma that semester.
dannyfreeman··on OMSCS Open Courseware
Thanks for sharing that! I still have a lot of time to think about enrolling thankfully.
dannyfreeman··on OMSCS Open Courseware
I just enjoy school, nothing is holding me back.
dannyfreeman··on OMSCS Open Courseware
Yeah, thinking about waiting until both the kids themselves are in school and then 1 course a semester for me. Not sure if that will be easier or harder than doing it while they are young
dannyfreeman··on OMSCS Open Courseware
I would like to get my masters from georgia tech's omscs program but between work and 2 kids I dont see how I'll ever have the time
dannyfreeman··on Starship Was Doomed from the Beginning
Starship isn't rated for human spaceflight
dannyfreeman··on I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022)
Do these little phones work well in the US?
dannyfreeman··on DeepSeek could represent Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's worst nightmare
Source: trust me
dannyfreeman··on JEP 483: Ahead-of-Time Class Loading and Linking
Clojure and the JVM are so dynamic its hard to infer what namespaces/vars/classes might be needed during runtime. That makes static analysis like tree-shaking difficult. Whose to say some strings are concatenated together at runtime and used to load a namespace that might have been tree-shaken out? The only way to really know is to run the program.
dannyfreeman··on Antimatter production, storage, control, annihilation applications in propulsion
I read this book after seeing this comment. It was a fun book, thank you!
dannyfreeman··on The Surreal Magnificence of Fatherhood
What a beautiful post. I've always had a difficult time explaining how having a child has fundamentally changed who I am to people who don't have kids. This captures some of that well. Thank you for sharing!!
dannyfreeman··on Ask HN: If you were rewriting Emacs from scratch, what would you do differently?
Starting with some kind of namespacing solution for emacs lisp would be nice.
dannyfreeman··on Bad NEWS, Emacs
Sounds like Eli is not married to this as the default behavior (I'm not a fan of it either).

From https://yhetil.org/emacs/8334wawfvg.fsf@gnu.org/

Eli says:

> Now, that others chimed in with the opposite views, we are still discussing what should be the behavior, and once that is concluded, we can talk about the defaults.

dannyfreeman··on The dead children we must see
Yes! It's the Palestinians slaughtering their own children by the thousands! Definitely not the occupying army that is bombing all the schools and hospitals.