axelthegerman (u/axelthegerman)

axelthegerman commented on Maru OS – Use your phone as your PC maruos.com/... · Posted by u/fsflover

p1necone · a month ago

> designed for this

This is kind of my point - I'm not saying you can't have applications that are usable across multiple UX paradigms, and I'm also not saying you can't write a UX library that automatically translates at least simple applications with little manual effort.

I'm just saying this requires active buy in from application developers into the ecosystem - you can't just run everything on all devices and have it magically work (with usability comparable to current state of the art in single device applications).

axelthegerman · a month ago

And to have buy in it needs to exist first :)

Like websites nowadays being usually designed for mobile and desktop devices

axelthegerman commented on Start your own Internet Resiliency Club bowshock.nl/irc/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

BLKNSLVR · 3 months ago

This is one of the reasons I'm looking at extending my solar system to add a battery and islanding, so I can have a regular resupply of some amount of power/electricity for the necessities in case of extended outages.

I'm not sure how far into "prepper" that makes me. I don't have a store of canned food or weapons or a generator. I started down this track to keep my home lab (on which I self-host a bunch of stuff) online / protected through outages.

Additionally, the city in which I live has an ad-hoc amateur WiFi setup which connects over several kilometres. I used to be a member a long time ago but, ironically (in this context) getting fiber internet meant I kinda lost interest. It's one of those things that had just never gotten back to the top of my priority list: https://air-stream.org/

Feels like they're ahead of game on this topic.

axelthegerman · 3 months ago

Solar and battery for refrigeration seems a waste.

If you own a house I'd look into very old school options like digging a deep hole to store your food in a dark&cool place - forgot the name for it but it'll work for weeks or months without a single milliwatt

axelthegerman commented on Ask HN: Startup getting spammed with PayPal disputes, what should we do? · Posted by u/june3739

asterix_pano · 3 months ago

I am also amazed by the resistance to change here as there is a system clearly more efficient and transparent. It's just a matter of time in my opinion. BTW you can remove the (nearly) in "(nearly) costless", some solutions provide 0 fees and no inflation.

axelthegerman · 3 months ago

By more efficient you mean taking hours to settle? And no inflation as in Bitcoin level volatility and up?

I'd love an efficient and cheap option to move funds online - especially for micro payments too. But so far I haven't heard of any crypto option that actually stayed around long enough to prove these things.

Happy to be pointed in the right direction here.

axelthegerman commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025) · Posted by u/david927

axelthegerman · 3 months ago

It's ridiculous that we live in 2025 and most people in North America have apartment buzzer systems that don't work with "long distance" calls or forward to multiple phone numbers.

[freshbuzzer.com](freshbuzzer.com) does that and much more!

axelthegerman commented on Virginia passes law to enforce maximum vehicle speeds for repeat speeders fastcompany.com/91323835/... · Posted by u/jmpfrog

swiftcoder · 4 months ago

I personally would be perfectly fine with a default software limiter that can be disabled when you get to the track (or a German autobahn). If you get in an accident on a public road with the car in track mode… they get to throw the book at you

axelthegerman · 4 months ago

This!!

Even modern cars have some trouble knowing the actual speed limit of the road you're currently on.

In Canada I don't think the speed limit is ever higher than 110 or 120km/h - limit to 130km/h and have an override, get full on in trouble (incl loosing all insurance) when disabled.

If track use only maybe even have some kind of device that isn't publicly sold to disable the speed limit there.

Also I doubt any north American car is randomly gonna show up at the German Autobahn - gonna get across the Atlantic first

axelthegerman commented on Herb: Powerful and seamless HTML-aware ERB parsing and tooling herb-tools.dev/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

notpushkin · 5 months ago

If it is what I think it is, it’s extremely neat. Parsing both HTML and templating syntax at the same time is way more robust than doing just the templating and hoping for the best.

I was thinking about something like this, but with some blend of Jinja2 / Twig / Nunjucks [1] syntax and Svelte/JSX-like use of variables in element attributes:

  {% for para in page.body %}
    <p class={{ para.class }} {{ **para.attrs }}>
      {{ para.text }}
    </p>
  {% endfor %}

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[1]: the irony is not lost on me that I’m mentioning Python, PHP and JS template engines in a Ruby discussion :-) Liquid is the closest equivalent I think, but there was some crucial piece missing last time I had to use it, though I can’t remember what exactly.

axelthegerman · 5 months ago

I'm not seeing any ERB here. Whatever blend you came up with could be done in ERB which just combines Ruby with HTML.

Template engines like liquid are good for simpler use cases where you'd want your end users to write templates (who aren't programmers)

axelthegerman commented on Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative coppolaemilio.com/entries... · Posted by u/coppolaemilio

Semaphor · 5 months ago

Symfonium [0] is pretty universally loved (I also use it), but doesn’t care if you point it at Navidrome, or Jellyfin, or anything else supported.

[0]: https://symfonium.app/

axelthegerman · 5 months ago

Haven't tried it yet but looks quality!

Any comparable options for iOS? Not everyone in my household is on Android unfortunately

Edit: seeing play:sub mentioned maybe I'll have to check that one out

axelthegerman commented on Ask HN: Do you still use search engines? · Posted by u/davidkuennen

axelthegerman · 5 months ago

I can only imagine how much slower using an LLM would be, especially when it only gives you a single answer which is not what you're looking for and you have to keep asking for "something else"

I echo what others say, Kagi is a joy to use and feels just like Google used to be - useful

axelthegerman commented on Phlex for Rails Emails: Action Mailer Without ERB camillovisini.com/coding/... · Posted by u/camillovisini

axelthegerman · 6 months ago

Nice write up, however personally I'd take ERB over Phlex a million times.

Sure ERB is another DSL and some things are not perfect. But for the mark-up you write actual HTML instead of having to learn and get used to writing blocks for each element.

I guess to each their own, you enjoy rails with Phlex and I will with ERB.

I think the bigger challenges with emails is that action mailer itself is a little dated and feels cluttered. Most email clients being a nightmare with the actual rendering and not being able to use stylesheets etc makes it even harder... So I'd love to see a general iteration on action mailer to bring it up to the level of Rails 8

axelthegerman commented on Microsoft is killing Skype windowscentral.com/micros... · Posted by u/thund

axelthegerman · 6 months ago

Just waiting for an OSS Skype clone built on alternative infrastructure such as Twilio or jitsi meet under the hood haha

Honestly though, I'll miss the 2ct/min calls to pretty much any landline in foreign countries