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New comment by JeremyBarbosa in "Google AI Mode shows same products 21.6% more expensive than traditional search"

JeremyBarbosa — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 14:12:20 +0000

Yeah and I know one issue with this is that sites like Amazon tend to have greater protections against scraping from AIs, so there is not much AI providers could do if they wanted to find the true lowest price.

New comment by JeremyBarbosa in "Real-time map of Great Britain's rail network"

JeremyBarbosa — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 12:42:05 +0000

Wow! https://treinposities.nl/ even shows historical positions since 2019. Feels like something you'd only see in a cheesy murder mystery.

New comment by JeremyBarbosa in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2025)"

JeremyBarbosa — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 23:32:00 +0000

SEEKING WORK | Boston, MA USA | REMOTE | Technical Copywriter

Have a new product launching soon? Or some content you have been meaning to get to?

Hi, I'm Jeremy, an ex-software engineer who writes about tech. After helping build a cloud storage unicorn, I got into teaching developers and found out that I'm pretty good at making complicated stuff make sense. Now I write technical content mainly for SaaS companies. Happy to also chat about open-source, cloud architecture, or where tech content is heading.

If you want to learn more, reach out to me at mail@jeremybarbosa.com

My Main Services

- Blog Writing: I turn complex tech topics into articles people actually want to read. Whether it's deep dives for your engineering audience or guides that won't scare off beginners.

- Topic Planning: Not sure what to write about? I look deep into what your users care about and map out content that'll actually help them while helping you grow.

- SEO That Makes Sense: No keyword stuffing here - just strategic writing that helps you show up when people Google their problems.

Read more on my website: https://jeremybarbosa.com

New comment by JeremyBarbosa in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2025)"

JeremyBarbosa — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 18:31:58 +0000

SEEKING WORK | Boston, MA USA | REMOTE | Technical Copywriter

Have a new product launching soon? Or some content you have been meaning to get to?

If you want to learn more, reach out to me at mail@jeremybarbosa.com

My Main Services

- Blog Writing: I turn complex tech topics into articles people actually want to read. Whether it's deep dives for your engineering audience or guides that won't scare off beginners.

- Topic Planning: Not sure what to write about? I look deep into what your users care about and map out content that'll actually help them while helping you grow.

- SEO That Makes Sense: No keyword stuffing here - just strategic writing that helps you show up when people Google their problems.

Read more on my website: https://jeremybarbosa.com

New comment by JeremyBarbosa in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2025)"

JeremyBarbosa — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 20:40:04 +0000

SEEKING WORK | Boston, MA USA | REMOTE | Technical Copywriter

Have a new product launching soon? Or some content you have been meaning to get to?

If you want to learn more, reach out to me at mail@jeremybarbosa.com

My Main Services

- Blog Writing: I turn complex tech topics into articles people actually want to read. Whether it's deep dives for your engineering audience or guides that won't scare off beginners.

- Topic Planning: Not sure what to write about? I look deep into what your users care about and map out content that'll actually help them while helping you grow.

- SEO That Makes Sense: No keyword stuffing here - just strategic writing that helps you show up when people Google their problems.

Read more on my website: https://jeremybarbosa.com

New comment by JeremyBarbosa in "Migrating away from Rust"

JeremyBarbosa — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 21:14:39 +0000

As someone who has used Bevy in the past, that was my reading as well. It is an incredible tool, but some of the things mentioned in the article like the gnarly function signature and constant migrations are known issues that stop a lot of people from using it. That's not even to mention the strict ECS requirement if your game doesn't work well around it. Here is a good reddit thread I remember reading about some more difficulties other people had with Bevy:

https://old.reddit.com/r/rust_gamedev/comments/13wteyb/is_be...

I wonder how something simpler in the rust world like macroquad[0] would have worked out for them (superpowers from Unity's maturity aside).

[0] https://macroquad.rs/

New comment by JeremyBarbosa in "Experimental release of GrapheneOS for Pixel 9a"

JeremyBarbosa — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 01:58:52 +0000

I was bit confused why this was notable, but the Pixel 9a just released Thursday. So this is an incredibly fast turnaround for a community OS.

New comment by JeremyBarbosa in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2025)"

JeremyBarbosa — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 04:47:29 +0000

SEEKING WORK | Boston, MA USA | REMOTE | Technical Copywriter

Have a new product launching soon? Or some content you have been meaning to get to?

If you want to learn more, reach out to me at mail@jeremybarbosa.com

My Main Services

- Blog Writing: I turn complex tech topics into articles people actually want to read. Whether it's deep dives for your engineering audience or guides that won't scare off beginners.

- Topic Planning: Not sure what to write about? I look deep into what your users care about and map out content that'll actually help them while helping you grow.

- SEO That Makes Sense: No keyword stuffing here - just strategic writing that helps you show up when people Google their problems.

Read more on my website: https://jeremybarbosa.com

New comment by JeremyBarbosa in "Show HN: Bayleaf – Building a low-profile wireless split keyboard"

JeremyBarbosa — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 17:43:15 +0000

So happy to read this because I don't see it mentioned often enough.

I have a ErgoDox EZ, and I still prefer using my Framework 13 (with Kanata![0]) because having my thumbs navigate the trackpad is so convenient even with a keyboard-driven setup.

[0] https://github.com/jtroo/kanata

New comment by JeremyBarbosa in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2025)"

JeremyBarbosa — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 16:47:51 +0000

SEEKING WORK | Boston, MA USA | REMOTE | Technical Copywriter

Have a new product launching soon? Or some content you have been meaning to get to?

If you want to learn more, reach out to me at mail@jeremybarbosa.com

My Main Services

- Blog Writing: I turn complex tech topics into articles people actually want to read. Whether it's deep dives for your engineering audience or guides that won't scare off beginners.

- Topic Planning: Not sure what to write about? I look deep into what your users care about and map out content that'll actually help them while helping you grow.

- SEO That Makes Sense: No keyword stuffing here - just strategic writing that helps you show up when people Google their problems.

Read more on my website: https://jeremybarbosa.com

New comment by JeremyBarbosa in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (February 2025)"

JeremyBarbosa — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 19:22:18 +0000

SEEKING WORK | Boston, MA USA | REMOTE | Technical Copywriter

Have a new product launching soon? Or some content you have been meaning to get to?

Hi, I'm Jeremy, an ex-SWE who writes about tech. After helping build a cloud storage unicorn, I got into teaching developers and found out that I'm pretty good at making complicated stuff make sense. Now I write technical content mainly for SaaS companies. Happy to also chat about open-source, cloud architecture, or where tech content is heading.

If you want to learn more, reach out to me at mail@jeremybarbosa.com

My Main Services

- Blog Writing: I turn complex tech topics into articles people actually want to read. Whether it's deep dives for your engineering audience or guides that won't scare off beginners.

- Topic Planning: Not sure what to write about? I look deep into what your users care about and map out content that'll actually help them while helping you grow.

- SEO That Makes Sense: No keyword stuffing here - just strategic writing that helps you show up when people Google their problems.

Read more on my website: https://jeremybarbosa.com

New comment by JeremyBarbosa in "When a winter storm trapped a luxury passenger train near Donner Pass"

JeremyBarbosa — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 23:13:35 +0000

>The City was among America’s premier trains, a luxury streamliner that could hit 110 miles per hour while white-jacketed waiters balanced trays of cocktails

I wonder how passengers back then would have imagined rail travel today, 75 years later (aside from the life-threatening storms, of course). The Overland Route is now freight-only, and the closest equivalent, the California Zephyr, takes about 52 hours to make the journey this train did in just 40!

New comment by JeremyBarbosa in "New 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 on sale now at $120"

JeremyBarbosa — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 10:23:18 +0000

Good point, but I was more talking about distros designed for a smooth day-to-day experience. A user would probably want something like SquashFS (to save space on the SD card) and ZRAM (to conserve RAM) since all their files would be living there.

New comment by JeremyBarbosa in "New 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 on sale now at $120"

JeremyBarbosa — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 09:47:37 +0000

RAMFS is a genius idea. That solves most of the SD card health and speed issues without needing to get a whole hard drive. I know Puppy[0] and MX Linux[1] were made to run like that too.

[0] https://puppylinux-woof-ce.github.io/ [1] https://mxlinux.org/

New comment by JeremyBarbosa in "28h Days: year 1 update"

JeremyBarbosa — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 06:03:55 +0000

Interesting that there is some research (though only n=11!) on 28h days:

Neurobehavioral Performance in Young Adults Living on a 28-h Day for 6 Weeks

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2706904/

New comment by JeremyBarbosa in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2025)"

JeremyBarbosa — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 21:43:51 +0000

SEEKING WORK | Boston, MA USA | REMOTE | Technical Copywriter

Have a new product launching soon? Or some content you have been meaning to get to?

If you want to learn more, reach out to me at mail@jeremybarbosa.com

My Main Services

- Blog Writing: I turn complex tech topics into articles people actually want to read. Whether it's deep dives for your engineering audience or guides that won't scare off beginners.

- Topic Planning: Not sure what to write about? I look deep into what your users care about and map out content that'll actually help them while helping you grow.

- SEO That Makes Sense: No keyword stuffing here - just strategic writing that helps you show up when people Google their problems.

Read more on my website: https://jeremybarbosa.com

New comment by JeremyBarbosa in "Ask HN: How do you find part time work?"

JeremyBarbosa — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 22:01:05 +0000

My solution for this was switching careers. I found that anyone hiring engineers wanted someone doing 40 hours a week at least, which makes sense since you have to have such a large mental model to build a system. Content and copy writing on the other hand is much more flexible because the unit of work is so much smaller. Any content marketing manager would love a real engineer to write for their blog once a week and help sell their product. Then just stack up different clients until you reach whatever weekly load you are comfortable with.

New comment by JeremyBarbosa in "Web Origami, for making websites where you can understand how they’re made"

JeremyBarbosa — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 19:33:37 +0000

That's how I read it too? And while the documentation has lots of examples, I get a bit lost in that you start with some form of JSON file, which consumes either YAML or HTML files, who in turn can consume Markdown files. It doesn't seem (from my reading!) to have the level of abstraction I would expect from a SSG.

New comment by JeremyBarbosa in "One of our clients hasn't paid us $130k – or "Why Every Contract Clause Matters""

JeremyBarbosa — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 19:36:33 +0000

I am a bit confused by this for multiple reasons:

- $130k is a large amount, why would your contracts save such a huge payment until the end instead of spreading it out over the six months of the engagement?

- Is apsis really just doing nothing and waiting? I get the contract might not have a clause on late fees or whatever, but that doesn't stop them from paying a lawyer ~$200 to send a letter demanding payment. That should get any large company moving.

- How many contracts has apsis closed because this is a somewhat standard practice at large companies in the sense that they will take any float time they can get. I remember one company my dad worked with in construction would mail checks the slowest way possible just to get a week of float!

New comment by JeremyBarbosa in "Every board game rulebook is awful [pdf]"

JeremyBarbosa — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 18:09:21 +0000

There is really too much here to summarize. It's a 150 page guide to technical writing, as in the writing of technical manuals, using a variety of board game rulebooks the author wrote as examples. I am only 15 pages in, but so far I have to say the boardgame approach with all its images makes this a much more fun read then any other guide I have seen for writing manuals. It is just about writing though. I don't think you'd gain much if you are just a general boardgame fan looking for a behind-the-scenes look at rulebook creation (if that is even something people look for??)