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davidpfarrellon CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font

Because I'm lazy, and forgetful, I went back to my comment from a previous time this was posted:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42554715

Results: Roboto Mono !

davidpfarrellon Show HN: Yapi – FOSS terminal API client for power users

Anyone else getting 404 when clicking the title[0] ?

[0]: https://yapi.run/blog/what-is-yapi

davidpfarrellon History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts

Can't wait for all the syncopated "Thou dost well to question that" responses!

davidpfarrellon Show HN: Run – a CLI universal code runner I built while learning Rust

Not to be confused with Run: Task runner that helps you easily manage and invoke small scripts and wrappers (weitten in Go)

https://github.com/TekWizely/run

davidpfarrellon Pnpm has a new setting to stave off supply chain attacks

Wow so couldn't said security co's establish their own registry that we could point to instead and packages would only get updated after they reviewed and approved them?

I mean I'd prolly be okay paying yearly fee for access to such a registry.

davidpfarrellon Qwen3-Next

Hyped for the release, but bummed they fell for the ‘next’ naming convention.

What will the actual next advanced release be called:

* next-next

* next (2)

* actual-next-final

davidpfarrellon The Rubik's Cube Perfect Scramble (2024)

I loved reading this, but I can't help but think that a "perfect scramble" would be one that can ONLY be solved in 20 moves, i.e no shortcuts can be applied to solve in less moves. I wonder how many of those exist?

davidpfarrellon You Must Listen to RFC 2119

Having listened now, I see what you wanted was to have David Cross read it in (almost any) one of his characters.

We can probably arrange a Cameo to achieve this!

davidpfarrellon A glob of 99M-year-old amber trapped a zombie fungus erupting from a fly

When you realize the fungus' primary intent was to convince the fly to land in amber ...

davidpfarrellon Curved-Crease Sculpture

I don't know what I expected to see, but the site was full of ... Curved-Crease Sculptures ...

Beautiful just the same!

davidpfarrellon Show HN: Every problem and solution in Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview

How did your site know my first/last name when I gave my email address to create an account and clicked the confirmation link you sent?

davidpfarrellon Blue Prince is a roguelike puzzle masterpiece

OP: A single giveaway just popped up on SteamGifts today:

https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/bloms/blue-prince

Is this you?

davidpfarrellon Ethically sourced "spare" human bodies could revolutionize medicine

Ethically sourced "spare" human bodies could revolutionize the market for unethically sourced "spare" human bodies ...

davidpfarrellon I basically announced Minecraft 2

My god that post is a hot mess - I regret reading it

davidpfarrellon Coding Font Selection 'Tournament'

Roboto Mono for me - Off to see if its on NerdFonts ...

davidpfarrellon Warp terminal – no more login required

Can I (yet) just press tab and have it inspect my PATH variable for completable items?

That is literally the only reason I gave up on it.

davidpfarrellon Pi Chess Board

Love this!

Also for those interested in auto-moving chess boards, see the Go Chess project:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/gochess-most-powerful-che...

It takes a different approach: 1-4 "robots" under the board moving pieces around - with the goal of being able to reset the board or setup a position super-quick!

davidpfarrellon Coding Font by Typogram – Find Your True Love of Coding Fonts

Am I missing something or do you have to make a decision without being provided a single example of an upper-case character?

The idea is great, thanks for sharing! But att I don't feel it provides enough sample data to really make an informed decision.

davidpfarrellon Winamp Legacy player source code

The best thing we can do for the future of the project is to NOT engage with the project at this time ... Even just cloning the project into your private workspace to review / compile is giving more engagement than their current licensing stance warrants.

I'll check again when an HN post comes out stating they've changed their licensing stance - Until then, closing this tab and forgetting about it ...

davidpfarrellon Passive damping – Bathroom scales

So my morning routine is:

* Pee

* Weigh (naked)

* Perform morning routine

* Pee

* Weigh (naked)

My old scale had 0.2 lb granularity and certainly repeated the previous value if you stepped in it again within some certain time.

My new scale (Etekcity) is 0.1 granularity and often comes in at 0.1 or 0.2 lbs less on the 2nd weight in.

davidpfarrellon Docker Pro Subscription increases from $5 to $9

So I can run orbstack and then still use "docker run ..." etc commands like usual?

I'm pretty happy with docker desktop generally, but looks like it stopped updating for the version of osx I'm using on my 2019 intel mbpro, so I'll definitely consider alternatives for it there ...

Thanks for sharing !

davidpfarrellon Firedancer: Language for 2D shmups bullet-hell patterns

Awesome - I have designed similar things in my head dozens of times over the years. Often I end up drifting into thoughts away from these deterministic patterns and into a more adaptive approach based on how the user is performing - At least at the 'closer to the boss' parts of the levels ...

Just the same thanks for sharing and I'm enjoying playing around with this !

davidpfarrellon Captain Disillusion debunks David Beckham beach kicks [video]

/complete side note, but it came to me after watching this specific video the other day.

When seeing the ads for the new Crow on Reddit (showing up a lot in my feed), with the tagline: "Keep The Promise, Break Everything Else"

In my mind I hear this variation on the CD quote:

"Love With Your Heart: Use Violence For Everything Else"

davidpfarrellon Argdown, like Markdown for argument mapping

Ha I thought it was a tool for managing complex args for command-line tools

davidpfarrellon TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel

Came for TikTok - Stayed for TikInABox - I feel low-key rick-rolled :)

davidpfarrellon The Valjoux 7750 chronograph movement

That page is fricken fantastic thank you for sharing!

davidpfarrellon Package management on macOS with Nix-Darwin

(this prolly deserves its own blog post somewhere)

The most useful setup pattern I can share for both nix-darwin and home-manager is to configure them to store their rc files next to the system files, and not overwrite them ...

This keeps darwin/hm from fully replacing your mac /etc/zsh* ~/.zsh* files on each update and also keeps os system updates from destroying your nix files ...

You instead add sourcing statements in your system/home files to bring in your nix files.

These sourcing statements are nuked after every OS upgrade so first time you login, nothing looks right in your shell.

For this, I keep a copy of both the system file before the nix sources and a copy of the file after the nix sources ... If the post-updated version of the system file matches the backup then I can simply replace with the backup of the versions with sources included ... If they don't match, then I have to review the file, manually add the sources, and create new backups ...

I'll also say that the system files haven't changed in a long time (zsh) so I can just copy my etc/zsh*-nix-backup files into place then restart my shell and be back to good ...

davidpfarrellon Someone keeps trying to reset my Facebook password

When you have ${firstName}${middileInitial}${lastName}@${popularProvider}.com, you end up learning there are a LOT of people with your name who: 1) either themselves don't remember their ${hadToSettleFor} email address, i.e I get their billing reminders and medical statement emails, or 2) their loved ones/close friends don't, ie. I get party invites and group emails, etc.

Separately, but related, I remember getting a spam email back in the late 90's where the spammer CC'd instead BCC'd, and it was sent to over 100 addresses who were all clearly variations of my first and last name ... It was a fun when there were multiple reply-alls with "Are we ALL $firstName $lastNames's on this list?" --- Surreal

davidpfarrellon Bintracker: A chiptune audio workstation for the 21st century

With the simple-ish ui, I thought for a second it was terminal based.

With that idea in mind, I googled and found [0]

Its the only terminal base tracker explicitly labeled as such on [1]

Anyone know of others?

[0] https://github.com/danfrz/PLEBTracker

[1] https://linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?t=20883

davidpfarrellon Fudge: Reverse Tetris

If you wander into the DoP page and, like me, become immediately hooked by the music track when watching the trailer video:

* http://dawnofplay.com/DreamOfPixels/soundtrack.html

* https://soundcloud.com/yanooshmusicproductions/new-wave-siry...