Hacker News: NikhilVerma

Show HN: Migrate away from Vue SFC's to native TSX

NikhilVerma — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 07:15:02 +0000

I've been actively using Vue for my official and personal projects for over 6 years now. While SFC was great it's quickly becoming a pain. It requires custom Volar plugins. It doesn't work with native typescript. The vue-tsc overrides "fs" imports just to be able to detect and run vue files.

I am not sure why Vue doesn't talk more about native TSX support because it eliminates this whole class of issues. In my work project, this has been a major pain because vue-tsc almost always crashes and I can't use the new tsgo (Typescript written in Go) because it doesn't work with SFCs

So I've made a new tool that migrates SFC to TSX. It's not a trivial migration so I've added an "LLM fallback" which takes care of the tricky things.

It made the migration of our internal codebase quite trivial. I hope you folks try it out and let me know.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46971877

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by NikhilVerma in "Webvm: Virtual Machine for the Web"

NikhilVerma — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 03:20:12 +0000

I was thinking of a Chrome plugin to enable this, I think plugins can make arbitrary API calls.

New comment by NikhilVerma in "Webvm: Virtual Machine for the Web"

NikhilVerma — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 10:31:02 +0000

Being able to run docker containers on the web will immediately unlock so many usecases for my work! Right now I've been trying to get a Python sentence parser to run in the browser but it requires a lot of the ecosystem (Pytorch and such). Which is not trivial to compile to WASM.

New comment by NikhilVerma in "Flaw has Microsoft Authenticator overwriting MFA accounts, locking users out"

NikhilVerma — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 04:17:59 +0000

A similar thing has happened with Twitter. After the Musk takeover and the removal of SMS for auth something has changed they keys of the 2FA authenticator. My old keys don't work and my "ticket" has been waiting on Twitter support (which were probably all fired) for resolution.

New comment by NikhilVerma in "The sun's magnetic field is about to flip"

NikhilVerma — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 06:28:54 +0000

I wonder what the astrologers have to say about this

New comment by NikhilVerma in "Show HN: I built a free in-browser Llama 3 chatbot powered by WebGPU"

NikhilVerma — Sat, 04 May 2024 12:32:07 +0000

This is absolutely wonderful, I am a HUGE fan of local first apps. Running models locally is such a powerful thing I wish more companies could leverage it to build smarter apps which can run offline.

I tried this on my M1 and ran LLama3, I think it's the quantized 7B version. It ran with around 4-5 tokens per second which was way faster than I expected on my browser.

New comment by NikhilVerma in "New models and developer products"

NikhilVerma — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 06:26:35 +0000

How do you manage token limits when sending large amounts of code structure to OpenAI?

New comment by NikhilVerma in "The sudden demise of Indian vultures killed thousands of people"

NikhilVerma — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 12:09:16 +0000

I remember vividly when going out with my family in the year 2000. There used to be a stretch of road filled with vultures. Then a few years later they just stopped existing. I haven’t seen a real vulture since then.

New comment by NikhilVerma in "Using XPath in 2023"

NikhilVerma — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 11:38:40 +0000

I wrote about my frustrations with modern day XPaths here - https://dev.to/nikhilverma/xpaths-in-the-modern-age-1gah

New comment by NikhilVerma in "My 20 year career is technical debt or deprecated"

NikhilVerma — Tue, 16 May 2023 06:14:29 +0000

I've been programming professionally close to 16 years. Here is what I can remember of my code:

# Job 1 (3 yrs)

  - Worked on around three products, all shut down, code probably lives in some SVN archive.
  - Learnt advanced JS, PHP, MySQL, Photoshop, jQuery etc (skills mostly relevant)

# Job 2 (1.6 years)

  - Project never launched, code never saw the light of the day. Probably lives in some Git archive.
  - Learnt a few in-house frameworks (irrelevant) but also leant Git (relevant)

# Job 3 (8.5 years)

  - Worked on several products, the biggest one is still active and seeing millions of users weekly. Rest got shut down and live in a Git repo.
  - Learnt about some inhouse frameworks (irrelevant). React, React Native (skills still relevant)

# Job 4 (2 years)

  - Actively working
  - Learnt Vue (skills still relevant)

Ask HN: Does your org disallow sudo on your dev machines?

NikhilVerma — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 05:06:35 +0000

Recently my org decided to disallow sudo/admin access to all employees on their laptops. So basic things like updating the OS, updating VSCode need to go through an approval process.

I've never experienced a policy like this in any of my previous companies and it's incredibly frustrating.

Do you experience the same with your org? Do you have any success stories of getting through the red-tape and get permanent admin privileges? I am genuinely confused, perhaps it's a common occurrence across other IT companies and I am just oblivious to the fact.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34673587

Points: 1

# Comments: 5

New comment by NikhilVerma in "Using a framework will harm the maintenance of your software"

NikhilVerma — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 09:49:53 +0000

I see Frameworks as another layer of abstraction, just like programming languages. And they have the same pros/cons that comes with abstractions.

New comment by NikhilVerma in "Show HN: I may have created a new type of puzzle"

NikhilVerma — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 05:48:57 +0000

So much fun! It'll be nicer to highlight the paths which are "available" given the criteria. It could be only enabled when you start dragging an entity

New comment by NikhilVerma in "Serving Netflix Video Traffic at 800Gb/s and Beyond [pdf]"

NikhilVerma — Sat, 20 Aug 2022 01:42:54 +0000

I am curious why they manually split the video to compress individual clips with different bit rates. Encoders usually have a variable-bit-rate option that does the same?

New comment by NikhilVerma in "Thank You, Firebug (2017)"

NikhilVerma — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 13:51:20 +0000

My first PR ever was in Firebug :) https://firstpr.me/#NikhilVerma

Loved that software and it truly kindled the frontend developer inside me.

New comment by NikhilVerma in "Spam domains that plague my email"

NikhilVerma — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 04:40:14 +0000

I am seeing Google constantly fail to catch obvious spam emails. At this point I suspect there is some institutional error on their part, where bad actors inside the org are allowing certain domains to simply not be spam filtered.

Spam domains that plague my email

NikhilVerma — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 04:40:14 +0000

Article URL: https://gist.github.com/brandedoutcast/d21ac9ce216f90f77513c76c25b1cd68

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32134734

Points: 64

# Comments: 67

New comment by NikhilVerma in "DRY is an over-rated programming principle?"

NikhilVerma — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 08:38:30 +0000

I had a general guidelines in my previous company which I follow to this day to great results.

If a piece of code is duplicated thrice, it's ok. If a piece code is duplicated four times, then you must extract it.

New comment by NikhilVerma in "The balance has shifted away from SPAs"

NikhilVerma — Sun, 22 May 2022 04:29:07 +0000

I understand that SPAs were being overused in many places. But the pendulum seems to be swinging back way too hard, and people are bashing SPAs as if it's the worst thing in the world.

SPAs are cheap to host, as you just need a reverse proxy and with increasing internet speeds, bundle splitting can be almost imperceptible from MPAs

New comment by NikhilVerma in "Underwater power cables make lobsters larvae bad swimmers"

NikhilVerma — Mon, 02 May 2022 14:21:46 +0000

Issues like this and micro-plastics in our bloodstreams will be causing so many issues in our lifetimes. Future generations (if there are any) will be appalled that we used to be so unaware of the impact of our own existence.

It's akin to people relieving themselves in their own water supply.