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peterhajas | 3 months ago | on: AI is Dunning-Kruger as a service

Couldn't agree more. Being a skilled operator with these tools helps you be very effective at creating new things in far less time than it would've taken you before. This is especially true if you know the architecture, but don't have the cycles to implement it yourself.

peterhajas | 4 months ago | on: Downloadable movie posters from the 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s

Ten Commandments: https://hrc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15878coll...

peterhajas | 2 years ago | on: Ledger

The other nice part of `hledger` is the web UI (`hledger-web`), which is handy for checking out your transactions.

peterhajas | 2 years ago | on: Show HN: FrameOS – operating system for single function smart frames

Looks really cool! Can I use it totally locally on a non-internet connected VLAN? Or do I need to use an app / cloud service?

peterhajas | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2022)

Apple | 3D UI Frameworks Engineer | Full-time | On-site

The Technology Development Group (TDG) is looking for an 3D UI Framework Engineer to help build frameworks that will drive the next generation of interactive experiences for our platform.

We work in the AR/VR space. Positions available in Santa Clara Valley and Boulder, CO.

https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200167625/3d-ui-framewo...

peterhajas | 3 years ago | on: Home Assistant OS Release 8

I love HomeAssistant, and use it to power my whole house. I automate most lights, my whole house audio setup, my security system, and more. I highly recommend it.

I recently wrote about how to do a declarative model for automations, which I use throughout the house: http://peterhajas.com/blog/declarative_home_automation.html

peterhajas | 4 years ago | on: Dual 75“ 4K TV Floor Computing

I’ve used 4K 39”/40” televisions (originally 3, now 1) for the past 8 years. I find that the panels look great, and they give me a huge working area. They’re also really reasonable - $250 - $350 for a good TV. They last a while.

Smaller 4K/5K panels (with more pixels per inch) are nice, but I never understood the push for density. I’d rather have more workspace with lower density.

peterhajas | 4 years ago | on: Node-Red

I use it with HomeAssistant. I like HA automations for many things, but I really prefer NodeRed for gluing together systems or sketching things.

peterhajas | 4 years ago | on: Node-Red

I use NodeRed a lot for my smart home and local network as glue between different pieces. It works really well for “hit this API, apply this transformation, and then return it when I send you a GET at /something” or “listen for MQTT, get this key out of the message, and rebroadcast it”.

peterhajas | 4 years ago | on: Node-RED 2.0

I’m curious - how do you split items up and process them in parallel?

peterhajas | 4 years ago | on: Node-RED 2.0

I use Node-RED to do home automation with Home Assistant, and I like it. As others have mentioned, it's easier to do than YAML automations - especially because you can throw in a JS "function node" when you need to just write a few lines.

Something I wish they'd get to is looping support. It's unusual that you need a third party extension to do a for-loop. Fingers crossed this can make its way into NR proper in a future release.

peterhajas | 5 years ago | on: Children choose to save dogs over humans, adults chose 1 human over 100 dogs

Are we sure that this isn’t generational values changing? I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a moral change associated with generation / upbringing more than age.

peterhajas | 5 years ago | on: Dark Reader – enable Dark Mode on Wikipedia and many other websites

One thing I wish some of these browser plugins did is cleanly compose with the existing “is the browser in dark mode?” CSS selector. Every one I’ve tried will clobber colors on sites that have supported dark mode. I haven’t checked if Dark Reader works differently.

peterhajas | 7 years ago | on: Show HN: TabNine, an autocompleter for all languages

How does licensing work? Does this give me a file I put on my machine? I have my dotfiles checked into git, so I'd rather not commit the license publicly.

peterhajas | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: Hyperfine – a command-line benchmarking tool

Looks cool!

Could it use dtrace to measure other metrics besides time?

peterhajas | 8 years ago | on: The Best Monitor for Programming: A Cheap 40" 4K TV

I have been using 3 inexpensive 4K 40” TVs for my home computer for a year now. I love the insane amount of real estate and the accessible price (<$1K is great).

I’d love it if someone made extremely large format displays (100”+ at 3:1 aspect ratio) for computer use. Not sure how large the market would be, but one giant display is nicer than 3 separate one so.

peterhajas | 8 years ago | on: Muesli – An alternative approach to Soylent

I usually bring the Soylent with me to lunch with my coworkers. It allows me to enjoy the social benefits while still having Soylent.

I do enjoy food (very much!), but find myself feeling tired or sluggish after a traditional breakfast or lunch. Soylent provides consistent energy throughout the day, and makes calorie tracking very easy (400 calories a bottle twice a day @ breakfast and lunch leaves me 1200 calories for dinner).

peterhajas | 8 years ago | on: Muesli – An alternative approach to Soylent

I've been eating Soylent twice a day for more than a year as my primary food source. I'm always interested in new variants (especially ones that cut down on cost) - this one seems interesting. Any chance that there's an Amazon shopping cart that someone can add to get all this stuff easily?

Also, I noticed that the Readme links to Rob Rhinehart's page (http://robrhinehart.com). Unfortunately, it looks like it's all been taken down. Anybody know why?

peterhajas | 9 years ago | on: JSMpeg – Decode It Like It's 1999

Video decoding in JS is very impressive - really highlights the speed of modern interpreters. I especially love that a Björk track from the 90's is featured.

I recently worked on a personal project which had to play back .webm files, and I used a similar utility:

https://github.com/brion/ogv.js/

It decodes .webm files and plays them in the web. I believe it's also used by Wikipedia to play bag Ogg files.

peterhajas | 10 years ago | on: Managing dotfiles with GNU Stow

I've been managing my dotfiles with `stow` for the past ~2 years. It's super easy, and keeps things clean. `stow` will also guard against non-symlinks getting stomped on.

My `update.sh` script does un-and-re-`stow`ing:

https://github.com/peterhajas/dotfiles