Hacker News: LVB

New comment by LVB in "Delayed Gratification – Proud to Be 'Last to Breaking News'"

LVB — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:22:18 +0000

I've lapsed my subscription because it has, in my opinion, gotten a bit too clickbait-y and many of the articles are sort of thin rehashes of already covered material. It is still better than most, but also fairly pricy.

New comment by LVB in "Removing React.js from the codebase and adapting Htmx for UI interactivity (2023)"

LVB — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:31:00 +0000

Swag looks interesting and I'm definitely gonna give it a try!

New comment by LVB in "Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radix"

LVB — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 13:51:33 +0000

Tone/style bit aside, a real problem is length. Scroll waaay down and look at most older updates and see how brief and too-the-point they were. Often they look rushed, some essential links, and that’s it. Fine by me! That’s the real state of things… people usually don’t want to write bc it’s a lot of effort.

I see the same phenomenon at work. A year ago I’d read your two-sentence daily update in slack, all riddled with the quirks and oddities that made it yours. Today when I see the page of headings and emojis describing the couple things you did yesterday, I wince because now I’m the one who has to sift through the fluff to get to the point.

New comment by LVB in "Migrating from GNU Stow to Chezmoi"

LVB — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 20:05:44 +0000

I never did get used to the Chezmoi workflow. `chezmoi edit` never became muscle memory, and I was constant finding myself resolving diffs and what not.

New comment by LVB in "Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot"

LVB — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:06:06 +0000

40+ year glasses wearer here who learned this perhaps only 10 years ago, I think this is the correct way. The one annoying part is the difference that the glass coating makes. The water just falls off some of my glasses with barely as much as a light tap. Others length tend to hang onto the water in beads, so I have to actually wait for it to dry (or walk around with water spots, which I also do when impatient...)

New comment by LVB in "American Wealth, Sliced Up"

LVB — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:20:52 +0000

I want to see the breakdown of fascist vs. non-fascist VCs, too!

New comment by LVB in "AI Agent Guidelines for CS336 at Stanford"

LVB — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:18:00 +0000

Seeing my own kids (teens) go through some of this, I'm becoming slightly less pessimistic as it all shakes out. Among their peer groups there does seem to be an opinion forming that sure, anyone can just ask ChatGPT for quick answers on assignments, but actually knowing stuff is a bit of a "flex" that's respected.

New comment by LVB in "From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth"

LVB — Thu, 07 May 2026 06:04:13 +0000

And then the client asks for SAML & OIDC support, and codes via SMS, and god knows what else.

New comment by LVB in "Do I belong in tech anymore?"

LVB — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 05:34:34 +0000

Can definitely relate. It is no more complicated than I really enjoyed designing and writing code by hand, and get very little joy out of agentic processes. I use the tools and see the velocity increase, but it has just become… bland work. I completely get others’ excitement around the tools and the newfound “super powers”, but it hasn’t much resonated with me.

That’s ok! I was fascinated by coding when many others weren’t and found a great career as a result. A different cohort will love Development 2.0.

New comment by LVB in "Introduction to Obsidian"

LVB — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 05:54:37 +0000

Impossible to tell! Even when I have established patterns, I do take alternatives for a spin… usually a solid week to give them a chance. Most times I’m just reaffirming that I like what I’ve got, but I do occasionally discover features that are new/interesting.

New comment by LVB in "Show HN: PeriodicTableOfElements.org"

LVB — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 06:10:55 +0000

It’s funny… my initial reaction to your comment was that it’s a bit persnickety to expect that. However, I’m coming around to agreeing. I recently spent a non-trivial amount of time responding to a PR into one of my projects. I did have a sense it was mostly AI, but the changes were reasonable with a bit of adjustment. Wrote some feedback and guidance for the first time contributor and bam, they closed the PR, haven’t heard back.

New comment by LVB in "Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989)"

LVB — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:38:00 +0000

Here's my optimistic take: the fundamental things that spark joy about learning a novel algorithm, pattern, technique, etc. haven't gone anywhere, and there's no reason to think those things won't continue to be interesting. Furthermore, it seems like reading code isn't going anywhere too soon, and that definitely benefits from clean code. It follows that someone who can actually recognize clean from spaghetti, and tell the LLM to refactor it into XYZ style, is going to be relatively more valuable.

Random side note: my teen son has grown up with iPhone-level tech, yet likes and finds my old Casio F91 watch very interesting. I still have faith :)

New comment by LVB in "1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March"

LVB — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 21:21:57 +0000

I doubt it. But I keep my own encrypted backup anyway (as I did with 1P, too), so realistically only the most recently added/updated passwords are at risk.

New comment by LVB in "1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March"

LVB — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 19:49:47 +0000

You can export from their app very easily.

New comment by LVB in "D Programming Language"

LVB — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 06:51:44 +0000

It's a programming language that some people like, and or would like to see become more mainstream?

I think any presumption about what "we all know" will earn you downvotes.

New comment by LVB in "Carrier Landing in Top Gun for the NES"

LVB — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 21:32:14 +0000

I certainly read the manual when I was asked to enter the 15th word from page 47 in order to keep playing Chessmaster 2000...

New comment by LVB in "Stacked Diffs with git rebase —onto"

LVB — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 13:59:33 +0000

I think a core reason (besides not knowing jj exists), is the framing that there is a choice that has to be made, or a switch that has to occur. It is, instead, additive. I have Sublime Merge (GUI git client) and jj both looking at my git repo all day. Zed's git stuff is watching it too.

jj is sort of a bag of git tricks for me that I use when needed. It's no different than some things being easier with the git CLI vs others being easier in Sublime. I'll be at a stage where my committing/branching/rearranging wants are something that jj nails perfectly, and I do those there. As far at the other tools are concerned, I just did a bunch of sophisticated git operations.

The "colocated with git" capability of jj is probably it's most amazing feature tbh, and is key to any sort of adoption.

New comment by LVB in "Ghostty compiled to WASM with xterm.js API compatibility"

LVB — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 05:09:49 +0000

Could you explain what you mean by multi-tab support? I use Ghostty daily with multiple tabs.

New comment by LVB in "Event Sourcing in Go: From Zero to Production"

LVB — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 15:09:32 +0000

JSONB can have constraints. I think with an extension you can do full JSON Schema validation, too.

New comment by LVB in "S.A.R.C.A.S.M: Slightly Annoying Rubik's Cube Automatic Solving Machine"

LVB — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 04:18:21 +0000

I’m completely not in this space but your comment had me wondering: are there digital cube faces? That is, a real physical cube but with faces that can instantly be set to a given color?