Hacker News: MarcelOlsz

New comment by MarcelOlsz in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)"

MarcelOlsz — Fri, 01 May 2026 20:33:27 +0000

I'm a full-stack designer/engineer with a focus on design and frontend working with early to mid-stage startups my entire career taking products from 0 to 1. I've recently been into AI and orchestration and have set up some pretty neat systems and side projects :)

  Location: Toronto
  Remote: yes
  Willing to relocate: yes
  Technologies: react,vue,svelte,node.js,python,go,firebase,gcp,figma,postgres,nosql,aws,docker,mysql,etc
  Résumé/CV: https://olsz.me/resume.pdf
  Email: in my resume above  marcel[dot]olszewski[/at/]gmail.com

New comment by MarcelOlsz in "I'm done making desktop applications (2009)"

MarcelOlsz — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 18:20:52 +0000

Of course, but presumably if you're launching something you want people to adopt it so spend some time on documentation.

New comment by MarcelOlsz in "Different language models learn similar number representations"

MarcelOlsz — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 18:20:02 +0000

That's incredible. Had do idea this existed. I'm listening to it right now and I can fully understand it as polack! I might actually want to learn this as it'll help me communicate to all my different slavic friends.

New comment by MarcelOlsz in "I'm done making desktop applications (2009)"

MarcelOlsz — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:53:11 +0000

It's the principle.

New comment by MarcelOlsz in "Different language models learn similar number representations"

MarcelOlsz — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:43:35 +0000

I refuse to learn esperanto, sorry.

New comment by MarcelOlsz in "I'm done making desktop applications (2009)"

MarcelOlsz — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:37:53 +0000

I'm a seasoned developer and I frequently come across OSS projects where I spend half an hour or more in "how the fuck do I actually use this"-land. A lot of developers need to take the mindset of writing the documentation for their non-tech grandma from the ground up.

New comment by MarcelOlsz in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

MarcelOlsz — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 07:01:54 +0000

>He's doing something right.

Yes, being rich.

New comment by MarcelOlsz in "Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent"

MarcelOlsz — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:07:59 +0000

I have no idea I didn't think too deeply about this comment.

New comment by MarcelOlsz in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?"

MarcelOlsz — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:38:54 +0000

Why? It's just the name of the game, everyone gets it. Especially if you're a generalist/frontend type.

New comment by MarcelOlsz in "Claude Opus 4.7"

MarcelOlsz — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:44:59 +0000

Why? Doesn't have jokey copy. Any thoughts on claude-mem[0] + context-mode[1]?

[0] https://github.com/thedotmack/claude-mem

[1] https://github.com/mksglu/context-mode

New comment by MarcelOlsz in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?"

MarcelOlsz — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:37:51 +0000

People have this misconception that first it was one way, and then , and they'll wake up and suddenly it is another. It's a slow creep. 10 years ago there were 5 of us on a team each responsible for something specific. Now I can do all of that. Teams and companies will downsize. How do you see AI creating more jobs? (I need some hope right now lol).

New comment by MarcelOlsz in "Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent"

MarcelOlsz — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:35:26 +0000

I only had to wait 8 years but I can finally text my old co-worker that Laravel is in fact, shit.

New comment by MarcelOlsz in "Accidentally created my first fork bomb with Claude Code"

MarcelOlsz — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:09:08 +0000

Hey! No email yet. I'm not going to sell you anything btw so reach out!

New comment by MarcelOlsz in "Critics say EU risks ceding control of its tech laws under U.S. pressure"

MarcelOlsz — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:03:21 +0000

I like how out of all examples to pit up against eroding privacy protections was consumer vacuum stuff from ages ago.

New comment by MarcelOlsz in "Accidentally created my first fork bomb with Claude Code"

MarcelOlsz — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 02:04:07 +0000

Emails on my profile, I'll run you through it all on a call. No I don't but I really should actually.

New comment by MarcelOlsz in "Accidentally created my first fork bomb with Claude Code"

MarcelOlsz — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:17:44 +0000

Just use Git worktrees and a lightweight VM environment (I like macOS native sandbox-exec) and you can spawn as many sessions as you want. I've run upwards of 30 at once on my M2 Pro with no noticeable resource impact.

New comment by MarcelOlsz in "New Apple Silicon M4 and M5 HiDPI Limitation on 4K External Displays"

MarcelOlsz — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 08:05:37 +0000

I hate spending any unnecessary clicks or keyboard shortcuts on getting whats out of my head into the computer. I used yabai before primarily, now using aerospace. Since the monitor is super ultra-wide (57 inches with a very high DPI) the native resolution makes everything ultra small to my eyes. It's the same height as my 34-inch Samsung G5s which are 1440 pixels tall natively, but since this one is 2160, it would have to be 1.5 times larger physically to look decent at native res especially on macOS. The only other option is to scale the UI 1.5x which is where all the problems begin.

I like the three-column separate monitor layout because I have hotkeys, primarily driven by my mouse but also usable keyboard-only where I can easily switch between monitors with `⌘+`` which moves my cursor between them. I can select whichever monitor I want and put my mouse to it, and I can switch to any workspace on any monitor quickly. I also have hotkeys that sync three workspace numbers across monitors, so switching between them switches all AeroSpace workspaces on all three monitors simultaneously. If I have five projects going, I'd have the terminal on the left, Linear and other communication tools on the right in accordion mode with AeroSpace, and I can use my mouse or keyboard exclusively to find exactly what I'm looking for almost as fast as I think of it. I spend zero time on window management or organization now so it makes it thoughtless to use.

If I'm just using the monitor's native resolution there's no real way to do portals — having two apps open as sticky and only switching a portion of the monitor space to a different app while keeping the other sticky. There are hacks you can do with AeroSpace, especially since AeroSpace doesn't use native macOS Spaces, but the three-monitor layout is a much more robust approach in my opinion just a bit of a nightmare to setup. Theres a million little mac annoyances you have to fix.

New comment by MarcelOlsz in "New Apple Silicon M4 and M5 HiDPI Limitation on 4K External Displays"

MarcelOlsz — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:57:10 +0000

...And then there is the near-infinite trickle down of apps that rely on apps that rely on arcane configs and so on. This is truly the OS from hell. At least with Windows you know it's going to be garbage so when anything works on any level you are maximally impressed. But I have to spend my weekends isolating window shadow disabling functionality from yabai into it's own binary because I switched to aerospace which requires 'displays have separate spaces' to off, which just so happens to be exactly what yabai requires to be on, to remove window shadows, which is the only use I have left for it.

Just like the excel world championship I would find a macos ricing/window tiling competition equally enthralling. You read articles like the OP and at some point all you can do is laugh because lord (Cook) knows you've cried.

New comment by MarcelOlsz in "New Apple Silicon M4 and M5 HiDPI Limitation on 4K External Displays"

MarcelOlsz — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 10:55:55 +0000

Ah but you see, the challenge is to get a 3-split PBP on an M2 pro on a monitor with a native res of 7680x2160, each one scaled down 33%, working at 120hz with HDR, all hidpi like so:

  ┌─┐┌────┐┌─┐
  │ ││    ││ │
  └─┘└────┘└─┘

It creates some wonky math and requires plenty of dock and cable shenanigans and unlocking resolutions above 8k via BD. It's the third "monitor" where it gets tricky with the M2 pro especially at these resolutions.

New comment by MarcelOlsz in "New Apple Silicon M4 and M5 HiDPI Limitation on 4K External Displays"

MarcelOlsz — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 03:04:03 +0000

I went to hell and back trying to get PIP/PBP monitors on my 57" g9 ultrawide to work with my M2 pro. ended up having to use a powered hdmi dongle, displaylink cable, and displayport, with 3 virtual monitors via betterdisplay. Allowing resolutions outside of macs limitations setting in BD is what did the trick. I don't envy OP. Having 5120x1440 @ lodpi was the worst, just ever so slightly too fuzzy but perfect UI size but eventually got a steady 10240x2880 @ 120hz with HDR. I literally laughed out loud when I read the title of the thread. Poor guy.