henry_flower's comments

On: Russian death camp: Three stories of Ukrainian pri...

[henry_flower]

it is

On: The History of CP/M (1980)

[henry_flower]

His autobiography in the epub format: https://gitlab.com/sigwait/computer_connections

On: Twenty years maintaining the WiX Toolset

[henry_flower]

heh, I recently "ported" a Linux app to Windows and wrote a simple installer using wix 5 (it was horrible)

to even obtain wix v5: first, using scoop, I installed "dotnet-sdk"; second, using the "dotnet" command, I got the wix.exe executable via

> dotnet tool install --prerelease --global wix

On: Show HN: Beta test Execute Program's interactive "...

[henry_flower]

> you have to start at the beginning for now

add this comment to the course's page, as it may not be obvious that it is not locked due to the beta status

[ApolloRising → henry_flower]

It definitely was not

On: Ask HN: Best tools for self-authoring books in 202...

[henry_flower]

You can always create an EPUB. If you enjoy tinkering with HTML, here is a short book on how to create a custom toolchain (disclaimer: I am the author):

https://sigwait.org/~alex/p/pg2e/

On: Tell HN: Please don't print –-help to stderr in yo...

[henry_flower]

what really drives me crazy is when invoked

    $ foo -h

I get "haha, you idiot, there is no such option -h, rerun with --help"

when I rerun with --help, it prints a worse than useless usage string and says "for more help, type --help-advanced"

[wruza → henry_flower]

Or when a man page is a stub that refers you to an info page.

On: Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?

[henry_flower]

late to the party, but

https://sigwait.org/~alex/blog/

topics: linux (usually in some sort of critique), javascript, emacs, & random quotes from books I'm reading

On: A Quick Guide to Mutt

[henry_flower]

Heh, I started using Mutt only because of "peer pressure" during my university years: all cool guys were using it! (Still with Mutt, > 10 years later.)

I think this is somewhat akin to Emacs: startup costs are enormous, but you reap the fruits for the rest of your life.

[BirAdam → henry_flower]

I am most certainly not an Emacs fan, but I have similar thoughts about WordStar, Vim, and of course Mutt.

On: Google has added ads on both its search page and C...

[henry_flower]

use this one: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/blank-new-tab-page...

it's just an .html file with an empty body, no tracking & 5 lines of JS:

    window.addEventListener("load", () => {
      if (chrome.extension.inIncognitoContext) {
        document.body.style.background = "#53718e";
      }
    });

On: Ask HN: How do you explain the sloppiness of moder...

[henry_flower]

no dogfooding

too few developers enjoy their job

managers are incompetent but multiply like flies