airlocksoftware

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Hi, my name is Matt Bishop. I’m a developer & designer from Salt Lake City, Utah. I primarily develop native Android applications, although I also write hobby apps and solve puzzles with Clojure/Clojurescript.

Developer of Hacker News 2 -- an open-source Android client for Hacker News.

Get it on Google Play https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.airlocksoftware.hackernews

Contribute on Github: https://github.com/bishopmatthew/HackerNews

Reach me by email: [email protected]

www.airlocksoftware.com https://github.com/bishopmatthew/

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Comment · 2 months ago
Yeah, I've got a lot of tooling in Go and have been building some workflows on top of herdr, so a Go version of the same concept is a bit nicer to work with for me. I'll have to play with it a bit more later. Which PTY are you using?
Comment · 2 months ago
This looks nice. But I'm curious -- you're clearly inspired by https://herdr.dev (me too) but you must have had some reason to build your own version. So what's unique or what did you want to change?
Comment · 5 months ago
Just use https://tinfoil.sh

They solved all this stuff, I'm surprised more people aren't aware of it.

Comment · 8 months ago
Are you still working on this? Because I like the words I see on your GitHub -- vim-style bindings, keyboard driven, sounds like you write a definition language for your designs, basically?

Lik Matry is to Figma as openscad is to traditional CAD (Fusion 360, etc)?

Though that does sound like a huge project to take on!

Comment · 2 years ago
Sorry for the unsolicited advice, but I wanted to share something that was counterintuitive and made a big difference for me.

Not sure what types of exercise you are doing or your background (I could be more specific if you shared, feel free to email me) but in general I find most untrained to moderately trained people exercise at too high an intensity most of the time. Feeling like exercise is torture, and having lower cognitive function afterwards are also strong indicators of this.

Most exercise should actually feel quite easy — perhaps an 80/20 split of easy exercise days to hard exercise days is ideal. For example, if you were running you might switch between running and walking to keep your heart rate at a pretty low level (zone 1 or 2) in some sort of structured program that ramps up intensity over time but keeps you in these lower heart rate zones 80% of your exercise time.

For me personally I started enjoying exercise and getting a lot more out of it after making most of it feel "too easy"!

Comment · 2 years ago
I'm not sure why you'd want to include AirBnBs and second houses in your measurement vacancy measurement — they aren't available for rent.
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Comment · 12 years ago
In the same genre, I watch this when I need a touch of inspiration. They're quotations from The Pale Blue Dot, again with the Sagan voiceover.

http://vimeo.com/2822787

Often we forget how far we've come, and how far we have to go. It's easy to get bogged down in the minutiae of regular life. When I listen to Carl Sagan sometimes I feel like I've glimpsed a bigger perspective.

Comment · 12 years ago
Ha! A) Because I love Double-Doubles. B) Because it's more than 2 year old (before there really was a hamburger icon on Android). It's completely redesigned in the next version, though.
Comment · 12 years ago
Oh, thanks for the reminder. I fixed it a few days ago and did a staged rollout but forgot to push it to everyone. I've done that so it should update for you soon.
Comment · 12 years ago
Because it can be better designed, use common design / navigation patterns of your mobile OS, notify you when you get a reply, change the text size, change the theme, have richer animations, and allow you to automatically share content from other applications directly to HN?
Comment · 12 years ago
I'm not blaming you. It just feels bad, you know? I'll definitely email you in the future about stuff like this. And don't get me wrong, it will be great to be able to throw out the cruft that comes along with parsing the current layout. The app is engineered to be able to drop in a new API pretty quick since I thought something like this would happen eventually.

It would help me out a lot if the current front end would live on under oldnews.ycombinator.com like that until the new API has write access, though. I think it's pretty cool to be able to be reading an article somewhere else, click "Share" in Android and have "Submit to HN" pop up in the results.

Comment · 12 years ago
Oh, I'm well aware. I've had to push many quick fixes when some field gets renamed, etc. It's really not the API change that bothers me, more the lack of features. But hopefully they can add those things soon and I can re-enable them down the road.
Comment · 12 years ago
Thanks! I think you'll like the new version whenever it gets finished :)

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