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eknkc commented on Show HN: Clyp – Clipboard Manager for Linux github.com/murat-cileli/c... · Posted by u/timeoperator

eknkc · 2 days ago

I thought wayland had some restrictions on global clipboard access and the last time I tried none of the well known clipboard managers worked as expected. (Also they all looked like shit).

This has been one of my pain points switching from macOS to linux or windows. Great job.

eknkc commented on Benchmarks for Golang SQLite Drivers github.com/cvilsmeier/go-... · Posted by u/cvilsmeier

dav43 · 2 days ago

Wouldn’t duckdb be a good fit for this?

eknkc · 2 days ago

I have done a lot of data migrations between sqlite -> postgres and such using duckdb. It works great but does not seem to perform well. I'd simply leave an instance churning data but a specialized small cli tool would probably work a lot faster.

eknkc commented on Orion Browser kagi.com/orion/... · Posted by u/gtirloni

autoexec · 24 days ago

That seems wild to me, but admittedly I don't search from the address bar at all. Is setting your preferred search engine as your homepage and opening a new tab to search really such a huge burden?

eknkc · 24 days ago

Yes. I do not tend to launch new tabs. I almost always use a single tab for browsing. Only when I need to keep something around then I launch a new tab to preserve the old one.

That means the address bar is my main interaction with the browser.

eknkc commented on Orion Browser kagi.com/orion/... · Posted by u/gtirloni

bryan0 · 24 days ago

One of the extremely stupid reasons kagi needs to develop a browser is because ios safari prevents setting kagi as the default search engine, so they have to do some terrible hacks to get it to kind of work.

eknkc · 24 days ago

Yeah. That’s one reason I stopped using Kagi. Its not their fault but it is what it is.

eknkc commented on Reading QR codes without a computer (2023) qr.blinry.org/... · Posted by u/taubek

eknkc · a month ago

I remember downloading stuff from usenet 20 years ago and the par files going with them. Basically, files were split into chunks and you’d merge the chunks. In case there was a missing or corrupt chunk, the par files would allow recovering the missing part. You did not need to download entire par chunks either. You lost 1mb? Download 1mb of par and recover it (or something like that, cant remember now).

That blew my mind and I went into a rabbit hole of error correction. I did not know about the reed-solomon or any other methods. Just took days to understand it. Implementing my own par like shitty thing in the process.

This brings that back as I’m more curious about the error correction than the actual bit encoding.

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eknkc commented on Bun adds pnpm-style isolated installation mode github.com/oven-sh/bun/pu... · Posted by u/nateb2022

dsabanin · a month ago

Really loving Bun these days. Was really pleasantly surprised using their shell scripting API in typescript - single file, shebang line, straightforward DSL, support for piping data here and there.

Really, really nice and ergonomic. Made a few utility scripts today and enjoyed it much better than bash.

https://bun.com/docs/runtime/shell

eknkc · a month ago

It is also my first choice now. Especially due to built in SQLite support. Also recently needed to write a simple script to dump some data to S3. Found out that bun has built in s3 client too...

eknkc commented on Measuring the impact of AI on experienced open-source developer productivity metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-... · Posted by u/dheerajvs

noisy_boy · a month ago

It is 80/20 again - it gets you 80% of the way in 20% of the time and then you spend 80% of the time to get the rest of the 20% done. And since it always feels like it is almost there, sunk-cost fallacy comes into play as well and you just don't want to give up.

I think an approach that I tried recently is to use it as a friction remover instead of a solution provider. I do the programming but use it to remove pebbles such as that small bit of syntax I forgot, basically to keep up the velocity. However, I don't look at the wholesale code it offers. I think keeping the active thinking cap on results in code I actually understand while avoiding skill atrophy.

eknkc · a month ago

It works great on adding stuff to an already established codebase. Things like “we have these search parameters, also add foo”. Remove anything related to x…

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eknkc commented on The Future of Nuxt github.com/nuxt/nuxt/disc... · Posted by u/screeny05

eknkc · 2 months ago

Congrats and thanks to the team and I wish the best for them. Nuxt is a fantastic framework.

I don't like the Vercel involvement a tiny bit though. Wish it was Cloudflare or something else. Hope I'm wrong.

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