chkhd's comments

On: A retro terminal music player inspired by Winamp

[chkhd]

XMMS1 source code is also still around https://github.com/csepulveda/xmms1

..and XMMS2 apparently had a few recent releases https://github.com/xmms2/xmms2-devel

On: Hide macOS Tahoe's Menu Icons

[chkhd]

After a good decade of Mac Tahoe made me go back to Linux + tiling WM for my main machine. I just could not stand the awful mess anymore.

Result? inner peace. It is so calm here, and everything is so familiar and fast.

And the MBP hardware seems to be getting shittier too :/ have trackpad issues on both my latest personal and work M4 MBPs.

[jayrot → chkhd]

I strongly disagree. Tahoe is horrible but Mac hardware is terrific. Have you seen a Neo?

I think Apple is hitting it out of the park (falling behind in many other areas)

[gib444 → jayrot]

They're referring to reliability btw

[thenthenthen → chkhd]

Window management on OSX/macOS cost me so much time of my life, still the hardware and overall experience is pretty nice.

On: 1976 Soviet edition of 'The Hobbit' (2015)

[chkhd]

I still have this book! my mom reading this to me and my brother was my introduction to Tolkien.. very nostalgic.

On: Show HN: Nue – Apps lighter than a React button

[chkhd]

Interesting, on that page using Safari, clicking on the home/nue logo or most other links/buttons results in a null error :)

I would hope React buttons work when people click on them though.

On: Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator

[chkhd]

HN is one of very few places where I feel "at home".

Thank you @dang, and everyone else!

On: I spent five years building a webapp and got my first $1 (2022)

[chkhd]

Exactly why I have zero regrets going native on macOS. Yes, Xcode isn't the best to put it mildly and SwiftUI is still maturing.. but I am so glad I don't have to deal with the modern web stack. Daily smiles instead of facepalms, most of the time!

[mvdtnz → chkhd]

No one "has to" rewrite just because they're building on the web. Coffeescript was a bad bet but other than that all of the technologies listed there would have been fine for many years to come without a rewrite.

On: Rewriting Rust

[chkhd]

I wonder how soon they will arrive at 80%/20%.

On: UTM – Virtual Machines for iOS and macOS

[chkhd]

UTM is great, and once snapshot capability is added [1] it will become my default recommendation for sure. Until then sticking with Parallels. NOTE: An unofficial snapshot manager exists [2].

1: https://github.com/utmapp/UTM/issues/5484

2: https://github.com/Metamogul/UTM-Snapshot-Manager

[princevegeta89 → chkhd]

As someone who would always practice the habit of doing development within VMs as opposed to my actual system for a number of reasons, I tried UTM and played with it for a long time to host ARM64 Linux VMs on my M1 Macbook Pro, however the file sharing issues plagued me - with the most common problem being, having my shared folders disappear suddenly from the guest VMs, and having to do workarounds to get them back, quite often. Next, I tried VMWare Fusion, but it has the same problem. After that I tried Parallels, which seemed too expensive, so I jumped to Lima.

I am glad to have found Lima - it also is based on QEMU and made bringing up linux VMs very easy and provided network sharing out of the box. Now all my development lies within these Lima VMs and I am happy to report I never had a problem. I know I could do display forwarding if needed but I am good with these headless instances for now (thanks to VSCode).

[dingi → princevegeta89]

I've been using a similar setup for a while now. I just use SFTP for file sharing. Never bothered to try UTM's file sharing feature.

[princevegeta89 → dingi]

While this is a good alternative, some tools like git clients and other things that I run on the host system can't be worked out via SFTP

[learn_more → princevegeta89]

Use sshfs.

[naikrovek → princevegeta89]

this seems like a perfect use case for NFS. zero network problems to mess with anything (because it's a virtual network between host and VM), it's very easy to set up, and it should be quite fast indeed. 9p would be another option, I suppose, though I don't know of any 9p servers for MacOS.

[naikrovek → chkhd]

APFS supports copy on write snapshots today, for any filetype. I would think that snapshot features in UTM would simply wrap that functionality.

as simple as `cp -c`

though if that were true, I guess it would be implemented already.

[plorkyeran → chkhd]

Hah, I was going to say that I've successfully faked a limited form of snapshots using clonefile, and then turns out that's what the implementation-in-progress is doing.

[greggsy → chkhd]

Does it support TPM emulation, and ansible/vagrabt?

[galleywest200 → greggsy]

Looks like they added TPM just last month: https://github.com/utmapp/UTM/issues/3082

On: Alexandria: A minimalistic cross-platform eBook reader

[chkhd]

On Windows https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumatra_PDF is amazing!

[boredhedgehog → chkhd]

Kind of, but the recent switch to the mupdf engine sacrificed what little layout customization it had for epubs. Now you can't even change the font anymore.

On: “Copycat” layoffs won’t help tech companies or their employees

[chkhd]

All these layoffs to me personally seem just an accelerated and highly opportunistic cull of people in the bottom of stack ranking.

Of course they still do it, of course they will use this golden opportunity to improve what they think of as "health" of the organization.

Yes, they probably overhired during the pandemic, but people laid off will not necessarily be the same ones.