Hacker News: JonoBB

New comment by JonoBB in "Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android"

JonoBB — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 21:59:52 +0000

Totally agree. I swapped about 2 years ago (work requirements), and I battle against the Apple keyboard every single day. I prefer the Android keyboard in every single way - it’s more intuitive, works better, more logical, significantly better auto-correct, significantly better text selection, much better prediction, and so on.

Everything seems so much more intuitive and just easier in Android.

For how good the Apple hardware is compared to the rest (especially MacBooks), the software really lets it down.

New comment by JonoBB in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

JonoBB — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 14:53:57 +0000

Putin and Xi must be ecstatic at the leverage this gives them.

New comment by JonoBB in "Golfing Is Not Rowing"

JonoBB — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 21:15:15 +0000

It’s lower impact than most other sports (excluding sports like darts or bowls, of course).

There’s a reason that (i) professional golfers have a longer career than most other professional sports and (ii) many sports people transition to golf later in their career and (iii) there is a high preponderance of older players in golf.

New comment by JonoBB in "A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator"

JonoBB — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 06:38:04 +0000

So why the sneaky shitposting and stalking over such a long period of time? Just release the documents and let people decide.

I call bullshit on the "treasure trove".

New comment by JonoBB in "A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator"

JonoBB — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 05:27:54 +0000

You’re trying to defend yourself, but you still can’t stop yourself from casting shade on Codesmith multiple times in this very comment.

You have just proved that Lars is spot on with his analysis that you are an obsessive stalker.

New comment by JonoBB in "What 'Project Hail Mary' teaches us about the PlanetScale vs. Neon debate"

JonoBB — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 14:17:58 +0000

I typically prefer somewhat deeper and more thought-provoking material, but I enjoyed this book. It’s a light page-turner, written-to-be-turned-into-a-movie type book. Overall, I would recommend it.

New comment by JonoBB in "I Dropped the Production Database on a Friday Night"

JonoBB — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 05:55:54 +0000

> The point of cascading foreign keys is referential integrity.

Not quite. Databases can enforce referential integrity through foreign keys, without cascading deletes being enabled.

“On delete restrict” vs “on delete cascade” still enforces referential integrity, and is typically a better way to avoid the OP’s issue.

New comment by JonoBB in "Less Htmx Is More"

JonoBB — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 10:44:09 +0000

This is exactly how I use htmx. Is there an expectation that you use htmx differently?

New comment by JonoBB in "Reliably replicating data between Postgres and ClickHouse"

JonoBB — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 08:41:35 +0000

> On the clickhouse query side, we end up wanting denormalized data for query performance and to avoid JOINs. It's frequently not a great idea to query in clickhouse using the same table structure as you're using in your transactional db.

> In our experience we sync a few tables with PeerDB but mostly end up using app-level custom code to sync denormalized data into Clickhouse for our core use-cases.

Have you explored dbt? You may find that using custom code is not scalable, and that dbt solves this exact problem.

New comment by JonoBB in "Why is Cloudflare Pages' bandwidth unlimited?"

JonoBB — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 19:55:25 +0000

What about hosting video on R2 and using the CDN?

New comment by JonoBB in "Take the pedals off the bike"

JonoBB — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 08:37:00 +0000

Yes, a balance bike or no pedals is a great way to start.

When they are ready the progress to a pedal bike, and they need some assistance, do not hold the bike (either by the handlebars or seat or anywhere else).

Instead, gently place your hands on their shoulders to stop them falling - this forces them to be in control of the bike’s balance without you interfering directly. They will learn to balance and pedal much faster this way.

New comment by JonoBB in "Updates to H-1B"

JonoBB — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 19:10:19 +0000

According to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42451726, this is much less of a thing than before.

New comment by JonoBB in "The case against static typing in PHP (2023)"

JonoBB — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 10:40:12 +0000

@type phpdocs are no longer required in almost all cases.

New comment by JonoBB in "Amazon S3 now supports the ability to append data to an object"

JonoBB — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 07:26:01 +0000

For the most part I agree, but we have found that R2 does not handle large files (hundreds of GB or larger) very well. It will often silently fail with nothing being returned, so it’s not possible to handle it gracefully.

A recent security incident involving Dropbox Sign

JonoBB — Thu, 02 May 2024 07:52:14 +0000

Article URL: https://sign.dropbox.com/blog/a-recent-security-incident-involving-dropbox-sign

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40233746

Points: 213

# Comments: 69

WeWork Warns of Possible Bankruptcy

JonoBB — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 10:51:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/08/wework-warns-of-remaining-going-concern-and-says-bankruptcy-possible.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37060871

Points: 124

# Comments: 145

Sentry Development Philosophy

JonoBB — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 08:50:34 +0000

Article URL: https://develop.sentry.dev/philosophy/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35258459

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by JonoBB in "MySQL for Developers"

JonoBB — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 17:39:02 +0000

I've just got started with Clickhouse, and their docs are excellent. Quick Start guide and tutorials are very well written.

Also, be prepared to be blown away with Clickhouse. I've not seen many (any?) technologies that impressed me this much right out the box.

New comment by JonoBB in "Ask HN: Has anyone successfully started their career over in their 30s?"

JonoBB — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 18:41:29 +0000

Yes, you can change your career if you have the passion and you work hard. More than a little bit of luck also helps.

I studied corporate finance at university (including to Masters level part time while working). Did well in the investment banking arena over a 10 year period (including being a Director of a subsidiary of a listed company).

Went travelling for a few months, came back and whilst contracting decided to build a SaaS. I had almost zero programming experience outside of VBA. This was at the age of 38.

I ended up with 5 SaaS companies (some more successful than others), plus started my own software consulting business (grew to 8 employees). Also had 2 kids in the meantime.

I'm now head of Engineering at a ~100 person company.

AWS Security Scanner

JonoBB — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 12:06:44 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/prowler-cloud/prowler

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34092528

Points: 2

# Comments: 0