Hacker News: MentallyRetired

New comment by MentallyRetired in "It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA"

MentallyRetired — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 23:05:33 +0000

I agree. SSR that hydrates to an SPA is a pain in the butt and not necessary most of the time. This is why I favor something like Astro for websites... I can drop in a react embed when I need to. It's just a right-tool-for-the-right-job situation imo.

New comment by MentallyRetired in "It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA"

MentallyRetired — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 23:03:44 +0000

The problem is he's confidently wrong in believing Single Page Applications are about page transitions. Not at all. It's more about keeping state and an application-like experience. Like playing a song on spotify and changing to the search page and the song keeps playing... that type of thing.

New comment by MentallyRetired in "You can now disable all AI features in Zed"

MentallyRetired — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 20:34:07 +0000

I've been using Zed for half a year. Love the simple interface. I wanted a glorified notepad. Zed does well for me.

New comment by MentallyRetired in "Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor"

MentallyRetired — Wed, 07 May 2025 23:19:54 +0000

I love Zed so this is awesome news.

New comment by MentallyRetired in "Using an 8K TV as a Monitor"

MentallyRetired — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 21:20:17 +0000

Recently tried it. Couldn't find one with a high enough PPI for my liking.

Ended up with two vertical 4k monitors. Side bonus: I can put my web cam dead center in front of me.

New comment by MentallyRetired in "Show HN: A fair Product Hunt alternative"

MentallyRetired — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 18:44:15 +0000

I thought that was the lulu lemon logo at first glance.

New comment by MentallyRetired in "Small asteroid to hit Earth's atmosphere today"

MentallyRetired — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 14:31:04 +0000

The article contains a map with where they think it will scrape the atmosphere

New comment by MentallyRetired in "POV-Ray – The Persistence of Vision Raytracer (2021)"

MentallyRetired — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 14:53:09 +0000

Right? seeing the name brought back a rush of memories. I had no idea it was still around.

New comment by MentallyRetired in "Carmakers Will Give Your Location to Police Without a Warrant, Senators Say"

MentallyRetired — Wed, 22 May 2024 21:10:24 +0000

Ethics among programmers is for sale, sadly.

New comment by MentallyRetired in "Neon Serverless Postgres is generally available"

MentallyRetired — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 15:12:58 +0000

I've had nothing but good experiences with them.

New comment by MentallyRetired in "Mozilla names new CEO as it pivots to data privacy"

MentallyRetired — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 17:16:10 +0000

I feel like data privacy is always the last throe of a company before hanging it up. I hope that's not the case with Mozilla. Not a big enough market cares about data privacy to make it a primary marketing message, unfortunately.

New comment by MentallyRetired in "Enthusiasts struggle to keep model railway industry on track"

MentallyRetired — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 17:14:19 +0000

I dabble, but much like RC cars, video games have choked out another physical hobby.

New comment by MentallyRetired in "Building ColdFusion for the Web"

MentallyRetired — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 03:30:19 +0000

Blast from the past. I was a lead ColdFusion developer for almost a decade. Good times. When I rearchitected the booking engine for all of the Disney Parks, I based the design on Fusebox, a popular ColdFusion framework at the time. It's still in use today.

New comment by MentallyRetired in "The Small Website Discoverability Crisis (2021)"

MentallyRetired — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 22:39:03 +0000

Real question: Could machine learning be used to identify these sites to a high degree of accuracy, with crowd sourced human moderation denying the false positives to help further train it?

Disclaimer: I know very little about machine learning.

New comment by MentallyRetired in "React Sees a dip in NPM downloads this week"

MentallyRetired — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 18:33:25 +0000

Hooky is also down. It may just be a bug in npm's reporting or a system down somewhere.

New comment by MentallyRetired in "Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck job hunting?"

MentallyRetired — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 14:22:25 +0000

I think this tech downturn is all a collusion amongst tech leaders to bring down software developer salaries. How are so many places hiring yet so many are laying off thousands, and most of them in tech/development? Even the places laying people off are still hiring those positions.

New comment by MentallyRetired in "Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck job hunting?"

MentallyRetired — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 14:19:52 +0000

Proof you need to keep your resume current. lol

New comment by MentallyRetired in "Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck job hunting?"

MentallyRetired — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 14:15:41 +0000

I can relate. I have 25 years of experience as a senior and lead frontend developer, with some management experience.

I've applied at over 80 roles. I've received 35ish rejections and about 18 interviews. 4 put me through to final interviews and chose someone else despite liking me more, I was told. (one person had a smidge of java experience, one was a female and they needed a diversity hire, etc)

New comment by MentallyRetired in "Google to explore alternatives to robots.txt"

MentallyRetired — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 15:47:01 +0000

Because something annoys you, it's destined to fail? I'm not following the logic.

New comment by MentallyRetired in "Men who helped run Megaupload sentenced to prison in New Zealand"

MentallyRetired — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 15:33:21 +0000

Calculated risk. Sometimes destroying the evidence is less of a crime than being caught with it.