sgbeal

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by sgbeal 4d ago
> What happens if you make a mistake while committing - maybe forget the file, or commit wrong one? Then you have proven that you are human. > Fossil has no way to fix it, by design, As an 18-year-long contributor to fossil i can assu
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by sgbeal 4d ago
> IMHO the best and most relevant part of fossil these days is the ticket system, which is in every single way almost completely ideal for coding agents. Funnily enough, that's collectively fossil's developers' least-favor
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by sgbeal 7d ago
> Not using an IDE in 2026? Emacs. Uninterrupted since the 1990s.
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by sgbeal 7d ago
> Always use the “refactor” tool in your IDE instead of trying to change every instance of a variable name by hand. That _is_ the refactoring tool in my IDE (emacs). i demonstrated replacing _all_of them at once, not replacing them each
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by sgbeal 7d ago
> Any half decent IDE will change them automatically for you, no need to chase them down It's long been my experience that that only works with high-level languages (specifically, those with bytecode), not C (especially once symbols
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by sgbeal 7d ago
> It hasn't been 10+ years :-? My "10+ years" was not referring to any specific milestone. It was referring to the general flow of time. It's been 10 years since 2016, twenty since 2006, and more than 40 since writin
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by sgbeal 7d ago
> In my experience CDs and DVDs I burned myself have a lifespan even shorter than floppies. Most of the CDs I burned in the late 90s/early 2000s are already unreadable. Similar here: CDs and DVDs burned from 2000-2006 or so were, wi
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by sgbeal 7d ago
> These days I feel I am the only one that hasn’t changed their way of writing software at all. If you mean using a text editor, a shell, and a makefile, then you're not alone by any stretch of the imagination. If you mean your skil
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by sgbeal 7d ago
> I changed some variable names and I had to chase down all the places they were referenced, $ find . -name '*.c' -exec perl -i -pe 's/\btheOldName\b/theNewName/g' \{} \;
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by sgbeal 7d ago
> My first attempt at restoring 1991 Learning Company Spellbound for DOS for my children is dubious. Despite being stored nowhere near magnetic sources, there are read errors on the 3.5 inch floppies and Linux could not mount them. FWIW,
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by sgbeal 27d ago
> only interact with people using an official email address. And then google whether the domain is associated with phishing attempts. i've been targeted several times recently by folks with "official" email addresses but w
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Show HN: Word-finder/anagram solver web app for mobile browsers(wanderinghorse.net)
2 points by sgbeal 1mo ago|0 comments
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Show HN: JavaScript/JSON and CSS minifier lib in minimal C89(fossil.wanderinghorse.net)
3 points by sgbeal 2mo ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Rules-free solo-only client for the Paperback tabletop game(wanderinghorse.net)
1 points by sgbeal 2mo ago|0 comments
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by sgbeal 4mo ago
"Pedestrian" generally implies some random person out walking around, but: > "Late last night, a trespasser breached airport security at Denver Int’l Airport, deliberately scaled a perimeter fence, and ran out onto a runwa
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by sgbeal 4mo ago
> How does it affect your mental health? That it should in some way affect my mental health has never once occurred to me. If anything, i assume that living on one's body's own natural schedule would be optimal in terms of rela
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by sgbeal 4mo ago
> Surely you can infer when you work and sleep from your experience living your life as you. Not everybody has a schedule. Mine is essentially "eat when hungry, sleep when tired", and my sleep patterns more closely follow a 26-
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by sgbeal 4mo ago
Two days ago: < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48024401 >
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by sgbeal 4mo ago
The Fossil SCM (< https://fossil-scm.org >) meets most of your requirements, noting that: - "mobile app" means "its web interface" - "backed up" means to wherever you upload/sync your backu
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by sgbeal 4mo ago
> Compare that to SQLite's 1.2mb of wasm and glue code The current trunk is actually 1.7mb in its canonical unminified form (which includes very nearly as much docs as JS code), split almost evenly between the WASM and JS pieces :&#
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by sgbeal 4mo ago
FWIW, i'll disagree. i was a _huge_ PHP fan from around 1999 until 2010, but two things finally killed it for me: 1) It's apparently impossible to cleanly structure large projects with PHP. i've been a part of many such proje
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by sgbeal 4mo ago
> Nothing told me why I was changing it That arguably belongs in the commit messages or, in some cases, in code comments. > or what I was planning next. That arguably belongs in ./TODO or, in some cases, code comments. Edit: TODO
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by sgbeal 4mo ago
> Might be a good addition for https://superuser.com/questions/1937372/ Done! Edit: nevermind - i've deleted it. The community guidelines request/require that responses actually attempt to answer the
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by sgbeal 4mo ago
The following seems to keep Chrome from re-downloading this beast: # From one's $HOME dir: rm -fr ./.config/google-chrome/OptGuideOnDeviceModel mkdir -p ./.config/google-chrome/OptGuideOnDevi
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by sgbeal 4mo ago
> will result in the police kicking in your door the next morning But not before 8am.
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by sgbeal 4mo ago
> You only download it when some JS requests it for the first time, most people will never have it. i certainly never activated it willfully. i use Chrome only as a fallback testing platform for web dev - a handful of times per month - y
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by sgbeal 5mo ago
> ... there's a clear prompt in the bottom right corner. Indeed, it does. > (Didn't try mobile.) And my eyes didn't make it that far down the screen. If i can't read the first paragraph, there's no point in sc
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by sgbeal 5mo ago
Web design tip: don't have animations within a short distance of text, as human eyes evolved to follow the flashiest/fastest-moving thing around, which makes such text literally illegible to many of us. This particular site takes
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by sgbeal 5mo ago
> iText — commercial with aggressive licensing It seems somewhat ironic to call that out as a negative when your own tool is both commercial and (insofar as i can tell) closed source.
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by sgbeal 5mo ago
> I have no idea why this idea is around, To the best of my fallible knowledge, the notion was first popularized via < http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8764 >.

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