Hacker News: Kovah

New comment by Kovah in "Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian"

Kovah — Mon, 18 May 2026 15:15:11 +0000

> Only necessary features, restrictions foster creativity

Interesting. Productivity tools should not force me getting creative to do the simplest things. Ideally, I can make it adapt to my workflow, not the other way around.

The Internet is not dead

Kovah — Sun, 17 May 2026 21:47:41 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.woblick.dev/en/2026/the-internet-is-not-dead/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48173480

Points: 1

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The Internet is not dead

Kovah — Thu, 14 May 2026 12:06:54 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.woblick.dev/en/2026/the-internet-is-not-dead/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48134237

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by Kovah in "Rotten Dot Com"

Kovah — Sun, 10 May 2026 09:22:17 +0000

It's kind of a miracle that most of us people who got exposed to all that stuff are still sane.

New comment by Kovah in "PHP's Biggest Problem"

Kovah — Thu, 07 May 2026 12:27:48 +0000

The PHP website is indeed one of the worst parts of the whole ecosystem. Just look at the landingpage (https://php.net) and compare it with those of other languages. There's not a single piece of PHP code on the page. No "what is PHP", no "why should I use it", and no "that's why PHP is great". It's just a news page showing the latest releases, and a small section for downloading PHP.

And speaking of the website: the docs always have been a pain to use. Even the man pages of most decade old CLI tools have a better documentation. The docs basically only list the functions, explain what they do in cryptic one-sentence descriptions and list the parameters. There are no user-friendly explanations and no curated examples. There's indeed a lot of room for improvements.

New comment by Kovah in "Tailscale's new macOS home"

Kovah — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 22:35:23 +0000

The weird duality of Apple: their hardware becomes better with each devices, while their software gets worse with each version.

New comment by Kovah in "Tailscale's new macOS home"

Kovah — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 22:28:48 +0000

I would love to get a Windows-like overlay which collects all those damn menu icons. The least Apple should do is giving developers proper APIs to build that, but instead Tahoe broke so many menu bar managers it's not funny anymore. Ice, Sanebar, Bartender,... none of them work reliably.

PHPantom: A Fast PHP Language Server Built in Rust

Kovah — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:17:58 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/AJenbo/phpantom_lsp

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47605253

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by Kovah in "A Faster Alternative to Jq"

Kovah — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 07:54:45 +0000

I wonder so often about many new CLI tools whose primary selling point is their speed over other tools. Yet I personally have not encountered any case where a tool like jq feels incredibly slow, and I would feel the urge to find something else. What do people do all day that existing tools are no longer enough? Or is it that kind of "my new terminal opens 107ms faster now, and I don't notice it, but I simply feel better because I know"?

New comment by Kovah in "Kagi Small Web"

Kovah — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 11:01:27 +0000

Hi, creator of Cloudhiker here. Thanks for mentioning my site! Let me know if you have any questions, issues or ideas.

New comment by Kovah in "An interactive intro to Elliptic Curve Cryptography"

Kovah — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 07:48:33 +0000

I'm really not into math and got really lost in the second half of "Adding points on a curve". Just don't understand what the author wants to tell me with the grouping and the role of the identity element, which is called infinity but is zero?

However, after looking at the next section and playing with the chart I immediately got the idea where the whole article is heading. Interesting to see how this works.

New comment by Kovah in "Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok"

Kovah — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 07:38:45 +0000

Unfortunately, I can second this, both as a developer and a user. His IMHO childish behavior has ruined his image for me, and is not a good lighthouse for the Fediverse itself. Also, as a OSS veteran myself, I see it extremely critical that he is starting new projects all along, denies to get proper help and build up a maintainer team, and leaves older projects in the dust. Pixelfed is the one product he might should focus on, jet it feels like the platform is in maintenance only mode. Pixelfed is a wonderful addition to the Fediverse and deserves to be on good hands.

Maybe, and this is a very personal opinion, his product success and the Kickstarter campaign raising over 100k made him feel like he's better than everybody else. And one can see the effects.

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

Kovah — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 15:41:57 +0000

The sad part is, that Apple used to make somewhat stable, functional software. I started with the iPhone 3 and a bit later with Mac OS Snow Leopard. It all started when Mr Cook decided to serve the shareholders, instead of focusing on Apple's core values. The software went downhill in such a speed in just a few years. And moving out of the ecosystem is a painful, if not unbearable, task that barely anyone loves to do. At least I can't even think about moving back to Android.

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

Kovah — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 15:35:57 +0000

I recently tested Swiftkey after Typewise is sadly abandoned. It's sooooo much better than the stock keyboard. Not only is the auto-correct working incredibly well (garbage like witjoit is correctly transformed to without, which Apple Keyboard can't), Swiftkey also manages multi-language typing astonishingly well. Last but not least, I can customize it. I am also not signed in to my account, so no settings or whatever is stored on Microsoft servers.

New comment by Kovah in "Another GitHub outage in the same day"

Kovah — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 20:10:42 +0000

I consider moving away from Github, but I need a solid CI solution, and ideally a container registry as well. Would totally pay for a solution that just works. Any good recommendations?

New comment by Kovah in "Bugs Apple loves"

Kovah — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 10:24:11 +0000

I have searched for a proper keyboard replacement. But there is not a single one that 1) works properly without major bugs, 2) adheres to privacy standards (because no way I am sending all keystrokes to Microslop) and 3) does not cost a fortune. Typewise came close, but seems abandoned now.

If anyone has a recommendation, please reply.

New comment by Kovah in "Bugs Apple loves"

Kovah — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 08:58:45 +0000

I really wish Apple would allow us to swap out the Finder with something else, so files open in that other app instead of the Finder. This works reasonable well on Windows, where I "replaced" the Explorer with Directory Opus.

New comment by Kovah in "A website to destroy all websites"

Kovah — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 09:59:42 +0000

Sorry for the shameless plug, but I built [Cloudhiker](https://cloudhiker.net) exactly for this: exploring great websites.

New comment by Kovah in "GitHub Actions has a package manager, and it might be the worst"

Kovah — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 12:10:33 +0000

Yeah, only works if all used Actions would use SHAs too, which is not the case.

Positive example: https://github.com/codecov/codecov-action/blob/96b38e9e60ee6... Negative example: https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/54808ecff253fb71615161...

The Risk, Effort, Reward System

Kovah — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 23:19:49 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.woblick.dev/en/2025/risk-effort-reward/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45727492

Points: 3

# Comments: 0