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New comment by DTrejo in "Didgeridoo playing as alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea (2006)"

DTrejo — Mon, 25 May 2026 07:06:46 +0000

30% of Americans have reflux, which is associated with obstructive sleep apnea.

Check out the papers on Inspiratory Muscle Training (IMT) and bridge swallowing.

New comment by DTrejo in "Show HN: Tilth – I spent tokens so my agents would stop wasting them (~4k Rust)"

DTrejo — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 19:59:31 +0000

Nice!

New comment by DTrejo in "Show HN: Gitcasso – Syntax Highlighting and Draft Recovery for GitHub Comments"

DTrejo — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 23:15:18 +0000

Nice extension!

1. It'd save a lot of time if one could just click a Markdown PR description and start editing it, without entering edit mode first.

2. Thanks to the following prompt, I barely write PR descriptions these days.

> Run `gh pr view` then `gh pr edit` to fill out the PR description. Use my words verbatim as much as possible. Be brief. Use tasteful markdown formatting.

New comment by DTrejo in "Show HN: Haystack – Review pull requests like you wrote them yourself"

DTrejo — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 14:28:16 +0000

Sure - imagine my PR adds one new test which test one new function.

Starting from the test, allow me to step through the program execution, just like a debugger, to observe variables, surrounding code, and the complete file.

If you read only the covered lines of code in a linear way, you'd miss the refactoring opportunities because you aren't looking at the rest of the file.

New comment by DTrejo in "Show HN: Haystack – Review pull requests like you wrote them yourself"

DTrejo — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 11:55:11 +0000

Very glad you're working on this! Here is my wish list as a code reviewer:

1. Allow me to step through the code execution paths that have been modified in the pull request, based on the tests that have been modified.

2. Allow me to see the data being handled in variables as I look through the code.

3. Allow me to see code coverage of each part of the code.

4. Show me the full file as I am navigating through the program execution so that I can feel the level of abstraction and notice nearby repetition or code that would benefit from being cleaned up.

Full article: https://dtrejo.com/code-reviews-sad

New comment by DTrejo in "Companies excluding Coloradans from remote jobs to avoid sharing salary ranges"

DTrejo — Fri, 21 May 2021 17:12:06 +0000

If you'd like some talking points to help you start this conversation with your HR team, here's an article I wrote:

https://dtrejo.com/why-share-salary

New comment by DTrejo in "Wildfires in Big Basin Redwoods State Park"

DTrejo — Fri, 21 Aug 2020 04:07:52 +0000

We need some goats to eat all the fuel while it's still growing. Herbivores will also trample dead plants to the ground so grass can grow. Apparently there's too much work for the herders, based on articles published after the last round of fires.

New comment by DTrejo in "Vitamin D looks powerful, underutilized for Covid-19"

DTrejo — Sat, 09 May 2020 00:10:15 +0000

I hope your K formulation also has K2, which seems like the more important and bioavailable one.

New comment by DTrejo in "Ask HN: Do other people have days in which they're dumber than usual?"

DTrejo — Mon, 06 Apr 2020 18:35:27 +0000

Surgical tape for sensitive skin works pretty well for this as long as you get a good seal over your mouth.

New comment by DTrejo in "Show HN: Avoid editing while writing your first draft"

DTrejo — Mon, 11 Nov 2019 17:33:02 +0000

Cool! Another easy way to do this is to close your eyes while you write.

Feature idea: prevent you from leaving the page or doing anything else on your laptop for the time period, that way you can’t research anything.

More tips: https://dtrejo.com/how-to-write-consistently-painlessly-and-...

New comment by DTrejo in "More Than 90% of Americans Have Pesticides or Their Byproducts in Their Bodies"

DTrejo — Mon, 25 Mar 2019 20:46:59 +0000

Stillbourne, you seem to have a lot of trust in science funded by chemical companies. Remember how tobacco companies lied about the health impact of cigarettes?

New comment by DTrejo in "Carbon Removal Technologies"

DTrejo — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 01:45:12 +0000

Salatin’s mob grazing creates soil.

It is cheaper to raise them this way because you don’t need to buy corn feed.

The cows digest grass well. They do not digest corn well, which means corn fed cows produce methane and get sick, and don’t build the soil (sequestering carbon).

Definitely worth watching some YouTube videos and reading about it, it’s pretty fun and interesting.

New comment by DTrejo in "Apple scientists disclose self-driving car research"

DTrejo — Wed, 22 Nov 2017 17:19:03 +0000

Stop it already. How much do you want to kill someone?

New comment by DTrejo in "Show HN: Server.js – A modern Express alternative"

DTrejo — Sat, 04 Nov 2017 23:14:56 +0000

it's very interesting watching php composer developers reimplement the npm ecosystem ;)

New comment by DTrejo in "Ask HN: How do I switch from being a passive consumer to an active producer?"

DTrejo — Mon, 22 May 2017 05:52:42 +0000

You're having trouble creating/contributing back because you're not sure what other people need from you (when you find them, it'll be like someone opened your faucet for creativity). Try doing a sales safari※ for an audience you want to help and see what happens.

Find people with expensive problems† and help them solve those problems with your words, a software product, or consulting.

※ https://stackingthebricks.com

† https://expensiveproblem.com

New comment by DTrejo in "How Etsy Ships Apps"

DTrejo — Sat, 20 May 2017 00:50:49 +0000

Super interesting article. With a system like this you can also get great metrics for product health / tech debt. If you were also looking at key growth metrics for the apps, you'd be able to see which releases improved them, and give credit (in the cases where it makes sense).

Metrics related, here's a book review of Moneyball I just wrote: https://dtrejo.com/moneyball-book-review-and-measuring-reven...

New comment by DTrejo in "Launchpad: JSFiddle for GraphQL servers"

DTrejo — Thu, 18 May 2017 18:25:11 +0000

Awesome–it's fast and I like the autocomplete and the auto-npm package download.

I might be hooking graphql/apollo up to some strange data sources like CSVs to help import my data in the right shape, so this and the examples are going to be very handy. Thanks for making this!

New comment by DTrejo in "The tragedy of 100% code coverage (2016)"

DTrejo — Tue, 09 May 2017 03:35:25 +0000

Has anyone seen a fuzzer that creates variants based on a test suite with 100% coverage? Hmm... the fuzzer still wouldn't necessarily know how to create the correct invariants. #lazyweb

New comment by DTrejo in "Tech companies should create ‘farm teams’ to close the talent deficit"

DTrejo — Wed, 19 Apr 2017 18:44:11 +0000

I can imagine they're also investigating this because they're bad at hiring hidden/under-valued people for normal positions.

Maybe they're also discovering they get the best signal from actually working together on real projects.

New comment by DTrejo in "New York City bans employers from asking potential workers about past salary"

DTrejo — Fri, 07 Apr 2017 20:36:26 +0000

Finance people regularly get paid $400k+ as new grads. Well done dharma1/showmethemoney – next time ask for 500k!