Hacker News: CommonGuy

New comment by CommonGuy in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

CommonGuy — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:43:49 +0000

Why would they be out of date? The ecosystems themselves (for example .NET) receives regular updates.

Yes, they cannot include everything, but enough that you do not _need_ third party packages.

gRPC in the browser: gRPC-Web under the hood

CommonGuy — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:30:27 +0000

Article URL: https://kreya.app/blog/grpc-web-deep-dive/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47489300

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Virtual Scrolling: Rendering messages without lag

CommonGuy — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 09:40:34 +0000

Article URL: https://kreya.app/blog/using-virtual-scrolling/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47362321

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by CommonGuy in "Cloudflare outage on February 20, 2026"

CommonGuy — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 19:28:59 +0000

Insufficient mock data in the staging environment? Like no BYOIP prefixes at all? Since even one prefix should have shown that it would be deleted by that subtask...

From all the recent outages, it sounds like Cloudflare is barely tested at all. Maybe they have lots of unit tests etc, but they do not seem to test their whole system... I get that their whole setup is vast, but even testing that subtask manually would have surfaced the bug

Crypto firm accidentally sends $40B in Bitcoin to users

CommonGuy — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 15:42:49 +0000

Article URL: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/crypto-firm-accidentally-sends-40-055054321.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46924726

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Transfering Files with gRPC

CommonGuy — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 13:17:19 +0000

Article URL: https://kreya.app/blog/transfering-files-with-grpc/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46765273

Points: 52

# Comments: 21

New comment by CommonGuy in "The Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button"

CommonGuy — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 11:17:50 +0000

I recently tried out https://daisyui.com/ (CSS only components, depends on tailwind) and so far I really like it.

It also highlights how far browser have come with new features such as dialogs, which I always implemented with (a lot of) JavaScript in the past

Catching API regressions with snapshot testing

CommonGuy — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 09:06:54 +0000

Article URL: https://kreya.app/blog/api-snapshot-testing/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46644543

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Catching API regressions with snapshot testing

CommonGuy — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 13:56:42 +0000

Article URL: https://kreya.app/blog/api-snapshot-testing/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46632593

Points: 14

# Comments: 0

New comment by CommonGuy in "We might have been slower to abandon StackOverflow if it wasn't a toxic hellhole"

CommonGuy — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 15:45:00 +0000

StackOverflow always wanted less low-quality questions, which is now the case. Whether they still receive some high-quality ones...

But I'm sure the website still receives a lot of views, as it still is highly ranked in Google.

Advent of Svelte 2025

CommonGuy — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 13:16:55 +0000

Article URL: https://advent.sveltesociety.dev/2025

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46107035

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by CommonGuy in "Windows GUI – Good, Bad and Pretty Ugly (2023)"

CommonGuy — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 17:31:11 +0000

Yes the start menu is now very slow with the web stuff enabled.

If you disable it, it becomes snappy again. Pretty crazy to me that Microsoft allows the default option to be that slow

New comment by CommonGuy in "What the hell have you built"

CommonGuy — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 12:57:22 +0000

Or do not use caching at all until you need it

New comment by CommonGuy in "Recommend Postman Alternative"

CommonGuy — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 07:22:11 +0000

Creator of Kreya here, thanks for mentioning us! If you have any questions, I'm happy to answer them

New comment by CommonGuy in "Palantir Thinks College Might Be a Waste. So It's Hiring High-School Grads"

CommonGuy — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 16:49:54 +0000

Switzerland has this and for basically every other job as well. Apprenticeships are very common here, I did mine as a "programmer"

New comment by CommonGuy in "Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down"

CommonGuy — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 05:09:44 +0000

I'm one of the creators of Kreya [1]. We were one (or the) first to support a fully-offline, git-centric local data storage in this space.

Kreya is privacy-first since its first commit five years ago, since we were fed up with Postman and Insomnia. Happy to answer any questions

[1] https://kreya.app

New comment by CommonGuy in "Using Deno as my game engine"

CommonGuy — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 04:52:23 +0000

This shouldn't be a problem with Windows 11 anymore? AFAIK, the "evergreen" version of WebView2 is installed by default.

New comment by CommonGuy in "Desktop Linux Keeps Winning the Wrong Battles"

CommonGuy — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 18:12:33 +0000

Developing GUI applications for Linux is also a huge pain. Developers not familiar with Linux need to learn so many things...

What is X11, Wayland, GNOME, KDE, d-bus, application ids, portals, etc.

Then once you have a working application, users request having it distributed as .tar.gz, snap, flatpak, you name it. Then dependencies are missing on some Linux distribution or there are random bugs with Nvidia graphics cards.

Compare that to developing for Windows, where most things "just work"

New comment by CommonGuy in "Different Clocks"

CommonGuy — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 10:09:06 +0000

The train station in St. Gallen (Switzerland) has one too: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Binary_clock_Swiss_rail...

Comparing the privacy of popular API clients

CommonGuy — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 08:39:12 +0000

Article URL: https://kreya.app/blog/comparing-privacy-of-popular-api-clients/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44681015

Points: 1

# Comments: 0