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hdrzon OpenRadioss is not open anymore

I am very happy to see this, a continuation under the stewardship of rocky linux. I really hope it takes off and continues with force and velocity… I intend to help if I can.

hdrzon OpenRadioss is not open anymore

Probably, but not the last one, maybe from few months ago

hdrzon OpenRadioss is not open anymore

Until recently it was under AGPL. It was open sourced in 2022, and now siemens bought altair (the company who developed it for many years) and closed it again. Some of us cared and contributed, and now it’s gone… Maybe this can continue under another name using the last source release?

hdrzon Eating Fruit Skins

I always eat the whole thing, especially an apple, skin seeds and all. It’s natural to me. Also kiwi with it’s skin. I only peel mango, it’s skin is not tasty…

hdrzon Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)

There is also impress.js[1], a 3d infinite canvas for slides which I used in the past. You write your content as plain html in a single file, very easy.

[1]: https://impress.js.org

hdrzon Pint in England

Check out this fun book for history of ipa and burton.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0330511866/

hdrzon Paradise Revisited: What Darwin Saw in the Galápagos

Nice read. After you finish, go read this book [1] which tries to solve the 20 years to publication mystery.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Darwin-Conspiracy-John-Darnton/dp/140...

hdrzon Electric motors with no rare earths

It rusts just like iron, but the rust (AlOx, or alumina) stays bonded to the metal and actually protects it.

hdrzon Before GitHub

You can link the commit with the ticket by including its hash in the commit message, and then mark the ticket as fixed. See here:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5761669/how-to-fix-a-tic...

hdrzon Before GitHub

Yeah, museum sounds like dead and rot… However on my small site [1] that’s the name of the fossil repos page

[1]: https://hdrz.cc/museum

hdrzon Before GitHub

You should continue with a name which is related to fossils, fossillab.io, boneyard.dev and so on…

hdrzon Notes on Lagrange Interpolating Polynomials

The Lagrange polynomials form the normal basis of most Finite Elements Method (FEM) software. There are other polynomials which are used as well, but these are the workhorse of most solvers.

hdrzon Fossil versus Git

I actually use fossil all the time for my projects. It just makes more sense to me in the way it works and the ease of use. And you can self host your repos with ease, for example [1]

[1]: https://hdrz.cc/museum/bagatto-bearblog

hdrzon How SQLite is tested

I guess you are not the only one. Here is talk by Andrew Godwin about using aviation practices for software engineering:

https://youtu.be/d0eo3FxKQNc

hdrzon Ask HN: Is starting a personal blog still worth it in the age of AI?

Thanks for the fun and clever guides!

hdrzon QStudio SQL Analysis tool now open source

Congratulations! But I can’t find the source link, nor the license …

hdrzon Make the Web Human Again

I agree. Here is my little site, which I try to keep minimal, fun and fast: https://hdrz.cc

hdrzon Micro Men(2009) – movie about the creation of ARM

OK I watched the whole thing. Highly recommended! It is about the rivalry between Sinclair and acorn, where the head of acorn once worked for Clive sinclair. It is about the time before ARM.

Reminds me of the past, as my first computer was sinclair spectrum. Fun times!

hdrzon Micro Men(2009) – movie about the creation of ARM

Just watched the first minutes of the film. Looks like it’s about Sinclair, which is of-course pretty good as well. When I have time will watch the whole thing, maybe ARM will come up as well.

hdrzon GNU Midnight Commander

Try doublecmd[1], much better then tc, open source, updated frequently, works on all platforms. Oh and written in object pascal, which I like a lot!

[1]: https://doublecmd.sourceforge.io

hdrzon 9 Years of "Learning to Code" and I Still Couldn't Build a To-Do App

Oh man. 9 years… just pick something, one thing. Just one new (or old) technology that interests you, and code something with it. That’s all. After that, code the next thing. That’s all it takes. For reference, I still code with Object Pascal (because I like it), don’t care about newer languages. Recently got interested in lisp, picked janet[1], and coded something with it. Just do it (R) [1]: https://janet-lang.org

hdrzon The beauty of a text only webpage

But you can. There are bearblog lookalike SSG themes. For example: https://janraasch.github.io/hugo-bearblog/

hdrzon Learning Assembly for Fun, Performance and Profit

The first commenter on the article page states that his favorite is pdp-11 assembly. In the 90s at uni I learned to write assembly on pdp-11 emulator running on a pc. It truly was a nice experience.

hdrzon Ask HN: Any decent open-source CGM software?

Sure there is: https://xdrip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ This is for android, there other projects based on this code for iOS as well.

hdrzon I stopped everything and started writing C again

C with dynamic arrays and classes? Object pascal says hello…

hdrzon Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life

This. Just use the most immediate thing available. For me its: * Apple Notes * Apple Reminders That’s it. Gets the job done.