Hacker News: JamesonNetworks

New comment by JamesonNetworks in "VitruvianOS – Desktop Linux Inspired by the BeOS"

JamesonNetworks — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 13:34:14 +0000

The true rite of passage for the child hacker I remember my dad and brother taking a floppy to copy a sys file to restore a win 3.1 install from the Sam’s display computer in the pre-internet days

New comment by JamesonNetworks in "Why, as a responsible adult, SimCity 2000 hits differently"

JamesonNetworks — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 14:59:47 +0000

Yeah, we live on the backside of a circle with no through traffic and today I watched a teenager race around the circle going faster than 20mph for several laps. My driveway is sloped and balls roll into the road that my small children go after all the time. Its been a point of focus for me to convince them to check the road, stop, look both ways, ALWAYS, and make sure there are no cars.

Even if they dont clock it car, its my hope the driver sees them on the side while they pause to check. Them getting hit by a car in my own neighborhood is my biggest fear and also the most likely disaster that can probably befall them.

I also love transporting them in our van, so its just a very complicated issue. I wish our populace was more into walkable solution and more attentive at driving.

New comment by JamesonNetworks in "A faster way to copy SQLite databases between computers"

JamesonNetworks — Thu, 01 May 2025 12:21:29 +0000

30 minutes seems long. Is there a lot of data? I’ve been working on bootstrapping sqlite dbs off of lots of json data and by holding a list of values and then inserting 10k at a time with inserts, Ive found a good perf sweet spot where I can insert plenty of rows (millions) in minutes. I had to use some tricks with bloom filters and LRU caching, but can build a 6 gig db in like 20ish minutes now

New comment by JamesonNetworks in "Apple needs a Snow Sequoia"

JamesonNetworks — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 00:47:00 +0000

In contrast to this point, as long as I use Xcode and do the same thing I've always done allowing it to manage provisioning and everything else, I don't have a problem. However, I want to use CI/CD. Have you seen what kind of access you have to give fastlane? It's pretty wild. And even after giving it the keys to the kingdom, it still didn't work. Integrating apple code signing with CI/CD is really hard, full of very strange error messages and incantations to make it "work".

New comment by JamesonNetworks in "The Frontend Treadmill"

JamesonNetworks — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 22:57:10 +0000

My experience with this at one company is the DB became a wild west of cowboyed sprocs that were in source control but a lot of times the sproc in the db didnt match the stored code. It became a way to skirt code reviews and push changes fast. Now, the environment was toxic to begin with, and maybe that wouldnt happen on a project with better technical leadership, but there is a lot of wiggle room for hanky panky at the db level

New comment by JamesonNetworks in "The Frontend Treadmill"

JamesonNetworks — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 22:52:28 +0000

You may not have to today, but you will one day. They will remove zone.js and there will be a whole host of deprecated libraries and outdated blog posts about how to do things the “angular” way. If the vite dev server didnt feel so much snappier, I would lament it, however, I think overall its a nice change. And sure, just change components while you are in there, but this is for my blog libraries I work on in my spare time. A lot of the standalone stuff just feels like change for change sake and the scripts did not run against a library project. I tried to dig into the @angular/cli repo to try and figure out what was going on, but after reading a few classes noped out and just converted by hand. Only takes a couple of hours or a day to test, but thats 0 productivity time. Change detection is different now and leveraging ngOnChanges is def broken now, zone js removal is experimental, and all of it so Angular becomes more like React as far as I can tell. My new projects are Django with templates and post backs. Its a breath of fresh air.

New comment by JamesonNetworks in "The Frontend Treadmill"

JamesonNetworks — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 20:58:29 +0000

Upgrading to standalone components and the new signal API right now, not sure I’d say this avoids the frontend treadmill

New comment by JamesonNetworks in "Apple starts pushing AirPods owners into Transparency mode, with no easy opt out"

JamesonNetworks — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 01:14:06 +0000

Off hand guess: reduce apparent battery life in order to nudge people to upgrading, thinking their batteries are going

New comment by JamesonNetworks in "Ask HN: Who's building on Python NoGIL?"

JamesonNetworks — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 11:41:30 +0000

This comment thread is a microcosm of the problems with python packaging :D I appreciate the work the ecosystem does on it and everyone is doing their best, but its still a hard problem that doesn't feel solved

New comment by JamesonNetworks in "Running an open source app: Usage, costs and community donations"

JamesonNetworks — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 21:30:47 +0000

Best I’ve been able to do is around $22 a month on DO, would love to hear alternatives that are cheaper

New comment by JamesonNetworks in "Running an open source app: Usage, costs and community donations"

JamesonNetworks — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 21:28:44 +0000

Where would you host this for $60 a year?

New comment by JamesonNetworks in "Does your startup need complex cloud infrastructure?"

JamesonNetworks — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 12:18:43 +0000

I’ve just recently gotten into ansible and find myself building the same thing. I wrote a script to interact with virsh and build vms locally so I can spin up my infra at home to test and deploy to the cloud if and when I want to spend actual money.

I’m still very much an ansible noob, but if you have a repo with playbooks I’d love to poke around and learn some things! If not, no worries, I appreciate your time reading this comment!

New comment by JamesonNetworks in "AI took their jobs. Now they get paid to make it sound human"

JamesonNetworks — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 12:52:57 +0000

They paved paradise and put up an AI bot

New comment by JamesonNetworks in "Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator"

JamesonNetworks — Sat, 31 Aug 2024 13:31:50 +0000

I have this same issue, and the same frustration every morning. It’s to the point where I will probably set up a shortcut and train myself not to use it haha. I really miss when it just worked!

New comment by JamesonNetworks in "Don't use booleans (2019)"

JamesonNetworks — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 17:45:06 +0000

Is there an example you have in mind as to why the params, if passed via keyword, would need to stay in their position? It sounds like external calls made to the internal api without the headers being present? Trying to understand why the position/order would matter to you once arguments are named?

New comment by JamesonNetworks in "Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers"

JamesonNetworks — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 13:20:24 +0000

Its an interesting observation for sure, but those developers for mobile and web sit at the tippy top of all other abstractions layers. At that position a certain amount of boiler plate is needed because not all controls and code behind are the same, and there is a mighty collection of hacks on hacks to get a lot of things done. I think this is more of “horses for courses” thing where developers higher in the abstraction stack will always benefit from LLMs more and developers lower down the stack have more agency for improvement. At the end of the day, I think everyone gets more productive which is a net positive. Its just that not all developers are after the same goal (Application dev vs library devs vs system devs)

New comment by JamesonNetworks in "You Can Thank Private Equity for That Enormous Doctor's Bill"

JamesonNetworks — Thu, 30 May 2024 12:42:39 +0000

The whole system is rife with widespread, unreportable fraud. I’m on hour 8 of trying to get a 46 dollar charge for my annual preventative bloodwork reversed since its literally the only benefit of my plan that should be covered, but because the mysterious incantation of CPT and diagnostic codes are wrong, my previous provider is still sending me a bill once a month.

New comment by JamesonNetworks in "Malleable software in the age of LLMs (2023)"

JamesonNetworks — Sat, 18 May 2024 19:27:12 +0000

Imagine a company trying to offer support to interfaces all tailored to a specific user. I can imagine a future where this is viable, but it will def be a longer time span than 5 years

New comment by JamesonNetworks in "Judge mulls sanctions over Google's destruction of internal chats"

JamesonNetworks — Sun, 05 May 2024 10:28:11 +0000

Google/Alphabet is a public company?….

New comment by JamesonNetworks in "Google: Angular and Wiz Are Merging"

JamesonNetworks — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 13:00:27 +0000

Ugh, this isn’t Angular anymore. This will be just like the v1 -> v2 transition. Presignal -> signal. The second they start deprecating the previous syntax, we will hit very difficult migrations