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Re: Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables

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post #157

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I have Claude working on a port to Intercal. Says it may take awhile, I'll post updates when they're available.

> Swift --(claude)--> Plasmoid --(claude)--> CLI --(claude)--> Rust-Port --(claude)--> Intercal Is this the human centipede of programming?

Yes, as long as there are humans reviewing and quality-gating the outputs at every stage.

Otherwise, it's just a very long exoprosthetic digestive tract.

Re: Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables

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Props to @sleepingNomad here, who has done 16 releases in the last 7 hours, incorporating feedback from HN on the fly! * Don't like menubar apps? you you can run it as a normal app * Don't like GUIs? Now you can run it on the command line Just look at that Changelog: https://github.com/darrylmorley/whatcable/releases?page=2

Software development will never be as it was 3 years ago :D and that is great :D

Re: Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables

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post #132

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May Day - like labour day in Canada/USA... but on the first of May

I would argue nothing about American Labor Day has anything to do with labor at all. Honestly we should just rename it “Summer’s End” because there is literally no theme. The ad flyers for the sales on that weekend have, if any perceivable theme at all, red, white and blue / Stars and Stripes for some reason. It’s traditional that school starts the day after it, but in many places that’s been dragged several weeks so…

> I would argue nothing about American Labor Day has anything to do with labor at all. Honestly we should just rename it “Summer’s End” because there is literally no theme.

Isn't that true of most holidays pretty much anywhere in the West these days? Sure, there's Christmas and Halloween and Easter that have specific themes, but excepting deeply-religious communities who practice associated traditions, they're as meaningful as cosmetic items in free-to-play games. But every country has a bunch of other holidays that most people don't know or care about much beyond knowing it's a day off.

Re: Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables

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Props to @sleepingNomad here, who has done 16 releases in the last 7 hours, incorporating feedback from HN on the fly! * Don't like menubar apps? you you can run it as a normal app * Don't like GUIs? Now you can run it on the command line Just look at that Changelog: https://github.com/darrylmorley/whatcable/releases?page=2

Username doesn’t check out, that guy is anything but not sleeping

Re: Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables

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It's May Day, which is a labour holiday everywhere except North America commemorating the Haymarket Affair when American police brutally repressed striking workers . In North America we have Labor Day in September to distance it from the historical associations with actual organizing and police brutality.

May Day has been around significantly longer than the Haymarket Affair.. a couple thousands years at least. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Day

That's actually a different holiday celebrated on the same day. Why the other holiday got the name May Day is beyond me.

Re: Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables

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post #132

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May Day - like labour day in Canada/USA... but on the first of May

I would argue nothing about American Labor Day has anything to do with labor at all. Honestly we should just rename it “Summer’s End” because there is literally no theme. The ad flyers for the sales on that weekend have, if any perceivable theme at all, red, white and blue / Stars and Stripes for some reason. It’s traditional that school starts the day after it, but in many places that’s been dragged several weeks so…

> in many places that’s been dragged several weeks sooner into August

Do you mean April?

Re: Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables

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It's 1st of May here, so probably not doing it today. Looking into it a bit more when I get back from the parties. but it's basically just three files: QML for the UI, some python code to parse /proc data and a metadata file.

> It's 1st of May here Is that date significant somewhere? It was an nice sunny Friday for me.

It's huge in Berlin. First sunny and warm day this year and techno parties everywhere.

Re: Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables

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Absolutely this is worth packaging for KDE. Although I imagine if you don't have the motivation to make it in the first place, you likely don't have the motivation to package it.

I've got Opus crunching on it now, will update when I have it finished and published Edit: https://github.com/Zetaphor/whatcable-linux Running on my Fedora KDE machine right now. Also includes a CLI so you could wrap your own widget I still need to figure out publishing, doing this in between work meetings.

Interesting. GPT-5.5 implementation was simpler with Python and a QML code.

Re: Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables

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post #24

I like the idea and thanks for sharing, but I do think folks who vibe code or use Claude should take their time using, testing, and improving app before rushing to share. This was pushed/deved like 2 hours ago

And it's been updated, with full releases, many times since. I like this tool, but I agree that it was rushed and it is still being rushed. I urge the developer to slow down and get it right.

It's so weird seeing comments praising that there's been so many releases in such a short time. That's not a good thing!
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