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Too bad about the reWind Mac app, which they've kneecapped with the latest update starting on Dec 19th even though it could probably have continued to function as a local-only thin…

Very cool!

This is how I learned Erlang and the BEAM back in the day, and I'd still recommend it.

I've used both heavily and I'd have to say no. You are in general better off with Elixir, with easy access to all Erlang and Elixir libraries, all BEAM functionality, a better pack…

Hi Sam! It will get better. Merry Xmas from Iceland :)

This is such a cool project!! The best kind of Hacker News candy!

Some part of the reason for this is that pretty much anybody who is owns a single-family home in Iceland outright and is otherwise mostly debt-free would count as a millionaire (in…

Neat! Driving HA through API is a clever alternative so you can build exactly the UX you want.

OP here, the switches we used are push-button Berker switches. I can't say I'm 100% happy with them, they look nice and are tactile but they are the "toggle" type - push and hold t…

Happy New Year from an Icelander in Garðabær (10 minutes by car south of Reykjavík... our definition of a suburb )

Me too, initially in a chat with GPT-4 [0] and then in a (private for now) wrapper that sends me a text message when analysis is complete, sums up the day's meals, and compares to …

Yes, the BEAM VM allows you to write native code in a few different ways and call it from BEAM-native languages. For Rust there is a library called Rustler that simplifies the proc…

I'm a very long-time Beeminder user and would recommend it to anybody looking for another motivational mechanism. It's not always the best approach to motivation, but for certain t…

It's the total amount of money he'd be paying to Beeminder if he failed all his goals (money at risk).

The "vertical" example looks contrived in JavaScript, but if that's your thing, I think it's OK. But please don't promote antipatterns from languages that actually have a pipe oper…

Elixir/Phoenix is a great option. Oban for batch processing. Everything runs either in the Elixir VM (BEAM) or on PostgreSQL, no other servers to set up or manage. Same for persona…

funet.fi and sunet.se - quite a bit of nostalgia and gratitude attached to those domains for me, first used them in '91

https://joisig.com

Similar in Icelandic. Most Icelanders when speaking English will use the Icelandic "v" sound for both v and w, it is somewhere in between.

I wrote a CMS / personal website hosting system that lets me publish straight from the Bear App note taking app that I use every single day. Write or edit any post as a note in Bea…

MV2 background pages were already by default in a mode where they are suspended when not in use. MV3 doesn't improve on that except to make it impossible to have persistent backgro…

Same here, been lifting since 1989 and online since the year after, and this is the first I hear of this website.

I'm seeing a pretty big ad at the top of every page. Is my experience unique?