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pigcat commented on Steam Machine   store.steampowered.com/sa... · Posted by u/davikr
wnevets · a month ago
Can I use it as a jellyfin server?
pigcat · a month ago
Can I use it as a jellyfin client? Does that... make sense?

I bought a new tv (samsung s90d) and I haven't found have a great way to watch my jellyfin media. This tv doesn't have a jellyfin client in the samsung app store.

I feel like I'm being stupid here, would love some suggestions :P I've got a local jellyfin server running on a home server in the basement.

pigcat commented on From VS Code to Helix   ergaster.org/posts/2025/1... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
wuhhh · 2 months ago
I have a similar story but with neovim (and for the same reason as the author; growing unease with big tech). Tried and failed to make the switch a few times but made a concerted effort to stick with it throughout a specific project and now it’s second nature. I found it useful to research idiomatic (n)vim ways of doing things whenever I’d get frustrated or feel I’d be doing something more quickly in VSCode and commit them to memory by using new commands a few times over. Right now I’d say search/replace is the only thing that’s still not as ergonomic for me in vim as it is in Code. What I do is visually highlight my search phrase, hit asterisk then :%s//replaced - I learned that you can omit the search pattern using this technique.

Anyway nvim and helix are both amazing and terminal editors are both cool and sexy, so why wouldn’t you? ;)

pigcat · 2 months ago
Woah, how did I not know about that tip about omitting the search pattern? Love it and will be using that lots!

As a thank you, I'll leave you with the way I learned to search/replace, just to give you a slightly different flavour: asterisk, cgn ([c]hange [g]o [n]ext), type replaced, then . (period, to repeat) until I'm done.

pigcat commented on Why is everything so scalable?   stavros.io/posts/why-is-e... · Posted by u/kunley
pigcat · 2 months ago
My friend is the first dev hire at a startup where they prematurely overengineered for scalability. The technical founders had recently exited a previous startup and their rationale was that it makes a future acquisition easier, since a potential acquirer will weigh scalability in their evaluation of the code (and maybe even conflate it with quality). In fact it was a regret from their first startup that they hadn't baked in scalability earlier. I remain skeptical of the decision, but curious if there's any truth to the fact that acquirers weigh scalability in their scorecard?
pigcat commented on Show HN: Tinder but it's only pictures of my wife and I can only swipe right   trytender.app/... · Posted by u/risquer
K0balt · 5 months ago
This is great.

I set it up and was conspicuously swiping in bed. My wife is all hey, what are you doing? I’m all nothing.. put the phone down on the dresser.

No, let me see your phone etc. I relent, she opens the app with sulphur smoldering in her nostrils lol, then she starts poking around, and we have been having a really great night since.

pigcat · 5 months ago
I did the same thing! We had a good laugh.
pigcat commented on Ask HN: What cool skill or project interests you, but feels out of reach?    · Posted by u/akktor
pigcat · 6 months ago
Making electronic music. Any recommendations for where to start?
pigcat commented on I struggled with Git, so I'm making a game to spare others the pain   initialcommit.com/blog/im... · Posted by u/initialcommit
graypegg · 10 months ago
Not to be annoying, but maybe one of the most useful things git does for me outside of the usual SCM stuff, is git-bisect. Its saved me many hours of debugging.

If you ever run into a case where something is broken (that you can measure, like a test or broken build) but it’s not obvious what change caused the fault, first go to a commit where you know the fault is present.

    $ git bisect start
    $ git bisect bad
Then go to a commit where you know the fault is NOT present. Go back far if you can! This can be in another branch as long as your start and end spots are connected somehow.

    $ git checkout abc123
    $ git bisect good
And after that bisect command, your HEAD will get moved to the mid point between the good and bad commits. Check if the fault is still there, and run either "git bisect good" or "git bisect bad" depending on if it’s resolved or not.

It will keep jumping you to the mid point between the nearest bad commit and good commit till you end up at 1 precise commit that caused your fault.

This works extremely well for configuration changes specifically, where maybe it doesn’t break in CI, but on your local dev machine it does. You can also use this for non-text files like images to find out when 1 part of an image was changed for example.

Also if you just want to make normal SCM stuff easier,

    $ git commit -Am "…"
For a combo add-everything+commit

pigcat · 10 months ago
Thanks for explaining this so clearly! I'm going to try this next time :)
pigcat commented on Lessons in creating family photos that people want to keep (2018)   estherschindler.medium.co... · Posted by u/mooreds
suddenclarity · a year ago
Not a dig at you but I laughed a bit when reading it.

"it's not hard, just pay someone to do it for you"

I get the sentiment though. I've spent countless of hours trying to read up on digitizing our VHS collection while the proper thing would've been to just have a company do it for me. The main concern for me though is that they might just run the most basic settings and I'm telling myself that doing it myself will allow me to future proof the format a bit better.

pigcat · a year ago
Haha, yeah fair point. My comment does seem trite when you put it that way ;)

The point I was trying to make (which I think you understood) was that it was _surprisingly cheap_ to outsource. In the range of ~$100 for our entire collection.

I should mention that this project was undertaken because a relative's house burned down and, with it, all their family photos. So my comment is meant as encouragement for anyone sitting on a treasure trove of family photos who is thinking to digitize: do it! And to inform that this process that I thought would be very painful/tedious is something that can be outsourced for relatively cheap.

pigcat commented on Lessons in creating family photos that people want to keep (2018)   estherschindler.medium.co... · Posted by u/mooreds
pigcat · a year ago
Just to share my experience: My brother and I recently digitized all our family photos. The process doesn't have to be so daunting. We found someone on facebook marketplace with a high quality scanner, and paid them to scan every photo and put it on a USB stick. I don't remember how much it cost but it was pennies per photo.
pigcat commented on Celebrating the timeless allure of Tintin's aesthetics   collegetowns.substack.com... · Posted by u/thunderbong
ChrisMarshallNY · a year ago
I grew up on Tintin. I learned French, reading him (and Asterix).

I have since, almost entirely forgotten the language :(

My favorite Tintin fan art: https://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3270528/random-cool-tinti...

pigcat · a year ago
That fan art is incredible. I would love to read those!
pigcat commented on Ask HN: Does anyone use sound effects in their dev environment?    · Posted by u/jack_riminton
pigcat · a year ago
Here's my very simple solution

Add this to your ~/.zshrc or ~/.bashrc

alias alertme='printf \\a; sleep 0.1; printf \\a; sleep 0.1; printf \\a; sleep 0.1; printf \\a; sleep 0.1; printf \\a'

I add this after longish tasks - eg:

python longtest.py; alertme

seeddb; alertme

u/pigcat

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