TrueGeek's comments

On: Domain Sniped on Launch Day

[TrueGeek]

There is no evidence that the person who bought the domain name in bad faith. The blog post is suggesting that someone is literally scraping GitHub and buying the domain name of every single public repo.

The MUCH more likely scenario is that someone simply thought of the same name and bought it.

[quietbritishjim → TrueGeek]

> The blog post is suggesting that someone is literally scraping GitHub and buying the domain name of every single public repo.

I think you are severely underestimating how often this sort of behaviour happens.

On: Thank HN: The puzzle game I posted here 6 weeks ago got licensed by The Atlantic

[TrueGeek]

I sold an app once to a company in the same situation. Neither one of us had sold / bought an app before so they asked me how many hours it took to write and what my hourly rate was. Then they offered half the number I quoted, which I thought was fair.

They paid a lot less than it would have cost to rewrite and I made a lot more than if I had just kept it as a free hobby app.

On: Stay on schedule with Raspberry Pi Pico W and an e-ink dashboard

[TrueGeek]

The InkyFrame is nice but I prefer the eInk frame from HN user konschubert:

https://www.invisible-computers.com

[drcongo → TrueGeek]

Oooh thanks. That's my wife's birthday present sorted if the 10" version comes back into stock.

[piyuv → TrueGeek]

This is so cool. But I think they’re 2 different devices: aimed at end users vs hackers/tinkerers.

[omnimus → TrueGeek]

Shame they only have that wood version. Looks kinda cheap and not tasteful. I guess one can paint it.

[fragmede → omnimus]

beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

wood > tacky plastic crap

On: Show HN: Pets for Cursor

[TrueGeek]

These are great ideas. It'd be fun to make virtual pets that only lived / grew through GitHub actions and then were updated in the project readme

On: Travel Guide for Stateless People

[TrueGeek]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statelessness

On: Ask HN: Should I learn COBOL at 14yo in 2025?

[TrueGeek]

You must speak and write Fluent Swedish for the course, but here is the page:

https://sebgroup.com/career/who-are-you/graduates-and-studen...

On: Ask HN: Any jobs that don't force you to always be advancing career wise?

[TrueGeek]

I replaced my dentist with ChatGPT

On: Show HN: iOS app that corrects your form in real time using your phone's camera

[TrueGeek]

You're telling us here on HN to swipe down but you've deliberately designed the screen so that it appears you can't skip it.

[AC101101 → TrueGeek]

We're just referencing off of other apps for the design since we were new to this. We have the onboarding, paywall, and the main content which I think is the norm for most consumer apps.

Hope you got to see some of the stuff we made! If you got any tips on what helped you on your journey, I'd like to hear that too! Appreciate ya :-)

On: FDA meeting to pick next winter's flu shot is canceled, in ominous sign for US

[TrueGeek]

https://archive.ph/y0EFo

On: Ask HN: What country would you like to relocate to and why?

[TrueGeek]

My wife and I moved to the Netherlands last year on the DAFT visa. Nothing political or economic about it - we just want to live a healthier lifestyle in a walkable city.