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New comment by Existenceblinks in "Go ahead, write the “stupid” code"

Existenceblinks — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 01:35:48 +0000

To avoid writing stupid code since they will see qualified people put reason on why some codes are "garbage" (I'm not saying this).

New comment by Existenceblinks in "Go ahead, write the “stupid” code"

Existenceblinks — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 00:15:32 +0000

> Fast forward to today. I’ve been doing a dive on JavaScript/TypeScript and different runtimes like NodeJS and Deno,

That's why. If all codes in a project are stupid, there's no stupid code indeed relatively.

Go read Linux kernel mailing list.

New comment by Existenceblinks in "WASM 3.0 Completed"

Existenceblinks — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 20:48:15 +0000

i found assembly is easier to assemble from scratch (it's apple and orange but.). Most materials should exclude these tooling, mostly rust based tools. We should be able to write them by hands just like when assembly was taught. Compiler and assembly are separate classes. I think it's bad assumption that only compiler devs only care about wasm. It's compiling target, sure, but framing it this way will not broaden its knowledge.

New comment by Existenceblinks in "Offline-First Landscape – 2025"

Existenceblinks — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 03:51:04 +0000

These topic and mentioned tools always fail to demonstrate how sync engine works in multiple players modes. And mostly only for backend written in TS/JS, worse it's only for using with 3rd service (which you couldn't put your business logic in here). The first thing i scan in these tools' docs are how they handle write conflict whose conflict is semantic level, not data exchange format level.

New comment by Existenceblinks in "Local-first software (2019)"

Existenceblinks — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 19:07:34 +0000

Tried to adopt this last month at work, it failed. E.g. the mentioned Automerge, it has poor docs https://automerge.org/docs/reference/library_initialization/... and that left out a lot of question, it seems backend agnostic but have to figure out how to store, how to broadcast ourselves.

New comment by Existenceblinks in "Getting Past Procrastination"

Existenceblinks — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 16:01:54 +0000

many such as cases, it's clear why. People hate doing task x, because it's not fun nor valuable to them, but need to do because of duty.

New comment by Existenceblinks in "My AI skeptic friends are all nuts"

Existenceblinks — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 13:53:11 +0000

Ironically all nuts friends seem to be talking less, less defensive than other nuts friends who keep talking about other people not buying what they believe nuts.

New comment by Existenceblinks in "Progressive JSON"

Existenceblinks — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 13:07:18 +0000

Thanks Dan. Yes, I agreed on the ui part, it seems to work in most cases. Some html tags have relation like `` or `[popover]` attribute, but if we make all kind of relations trivial then it's benefit for sure.

New comment by Existenceblinks in "Progressive JSON"

Existenceblinks — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 08:21:55 +0000

It's useless as data is not just some graphic semantic, they have relation, business rules on top, not ready to interact with if not all are ready, loaded.

New comment by Existenceblinks in "Show HN: PgDog – Shard Postgres without extensions"

Existenceblinks — Tue, 27 May 2025 00:55:38 +0000

Looks neat, the first thing I search for in the docs is:

    Unique indexes  Not currently supported. Requires query rewriting and separate execution engine to validate uniqueness across all shards.

But still looks promising.

New comment by Existenceblinks in "OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB"

Existenceblinks — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 08:58:36 +0000

Honestly, it doesn't need to be local, API is some 200ms away is ok-ish, make it 50ms it will be practically usable for every majority of interaction.

New comment by Existenceblinks in "My second year without a job"

Existenceblinks — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 12:19:29 +0000

Indie startup (or just simply call it "selling app online") is not bad if your "capital is lower than $1M" AND "desirable MRR at $10k". You can beat $1M capital, 10% return .. by making $10k MRR SaaS instead.

New comment by Existenceblinks in "My second year without a job"

Existenceblinks — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 10:00:38 +0000

Yep, 2024 market is considerably too good though. When he about to quit, I'd expect 8% yield (pessimistic) per year, so $6.4k/yr or $533/mo, that's "good" living quality in non major cities in Thailand. But to be fair, it's only good for locals, not for foreigners. And that $80k also needs to be invested 1 year before quitting.

It's doable for extending up to 3x of his runway.

New comment by Existenceblinks in "Two million checkboxes (written in Elixir)"

Existenceblinks — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 17:31:02 +0000

tbh, the 2m app is more clunky than the OG 1m. Virtual scroll is very poor. Jump doesn't seem to work (it works just sometimes).

New comment by Existenceblinks in "Show HN: Million 3 – Optimizing compiler for React"

Existenceblinks — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 04:28:33 +0000

I feel like this is all missing the points. The point is React is mid. Engineering metric is very strange these days. A guy has made your tool wicked fast, dismissed - fast enough .. wat?

New comment by Existenceblinks in "The web will be Vision Pro's killer app"

Existenceblinks — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 15:30:02 +0000

I wonder at what point Vision Pro is highly portable that we don't have to care about small screen ui/ux. Excited for a fancy excel app on this device..

New comment by Existenceblinks in "Ask HN: Why isn't Phoenix/Elixir more mainstream?"

Existenceblinks — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 02:15:26 +0000

Look at other languages, they all have their culture to make stuff. Elixir is my goto, but we haven't had the vibe of building/shipping things into the world.

New comment by Existenceblinks in "My solopreneur story"

Existenceblinks — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 09:19:50 +0000

I mute all of these guys who have posted 10 times+ a day. If everyone doing this, there will be lots of garbage.

New comment by Existenceblinks in "My solopreneur story"

Existenceblinks — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 08:50:12 +0000

I mute a lot of these accounts that try to farm me as their audience. I used to engage some, they just don't care to reply at all. And they are annoying real fast. Imaging you have 10 posts of garbage a day / influencer

New comment by Existenceblinks in "My solopreneur story"

Existenceblinks — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 08:47:28 +0000

Tbh, this is very repetitive story .. seen 100 times before.