Hacker News: PetahNZ

New comment by PetahNZ in "We rewrote JSONata with AI in a day, saved $500k/year"

PetahNZ — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 07:22:19 +0000

If the original released a bunch more features that you wanted why wouldn't you just redo the conversion against the latest version?

New comment by PetahNZ in "LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop"

PetahNZ — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 18:40:14 +0000

We did have web browsers, I had Internet Explorer on Windows 3.1, 33mhz 8mb RAM.

New comment by PetahNZ in "Map To Poster – Create Art of your favourite city"

PetahNZ — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 04:07:48 +0000

It does support SVG, --format=svg

New comment by PetahNZ in "Every vibe-coded website is the same page with different words. So I made that"

PetahNZ — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 02:05:13 +0000

jQuery UI?

New comment by PetahNZ in "When I say “alphabetical order”, I mean “alphabetical order”"

PetahNZ — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 01:53:33 +0000

If I wanted to sort by date taken I would do just that using the EXIF data on them.

New comment by PetahNZ in "The Rise of Hybrid PHP: Blending PHP with Go and Rust"

PetahNZ — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 00:10:42 +0000

This is one of the best things about PHP IMO. It makes it very easy to scale out.

New comment by PetahNZ in "AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks"

PetahNZ — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 08:28:24 +0000

Why wouldn't I? It takes a few seconds and my thermometer just sits on fridge.

New comment by PetahNZ in "Progressive JSON"

PetahNZ — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 10:54:15 +0000

Reminds me of Oboe.js

https://oboejs.com/

New comment by PetahNZ in "Show HN: I reinvented PHP in TypeScript (demo)"

PetahNZ — Mon, 19 May 2025 08:56:12 +0000

I think this misses one of the main selling points of PHP, the shared nothing, single thread, fire and forget methodology that I can throw behind a load balancer and spin up 100 servers.

New comment by PetahNZ in "Notes on rolling out Cursor and Claude Code"

PetahNZ — Thu, 08 May 2025 20:58:05 +0000

And the waiting is somewhat frustrating, what am I supposed to do while I wait? I could just sit and watch, or context switch to another task then forget the details on what I was originally doing.

New comment by PetahNZ in "One Million Chessboards"

PetahNZ — Fri, 02 May 2025 05:27:52 +0000

Yea seems the rate limit should be stricter, I made a quick script to do 1 move (capture) every 150ms, doesn't seem to get throttled.

I like how generals.io did it where they explicitly made a bot only server/version.

New comment by PetahNZ in "Claude can now search the web"

PetahNZ — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 03:55:14 +0000

It would be nice if I could tell it what page to look at (maybe you can, I am not sure). Often if I am getting an LLM to write some code that I can see is obviously wrong, I would love to say here is the docs ... use that to formulate your response.

New comment by PetahNZ in "Why does man print "gimme gimme gimme" at 00:30? (2017)"

PetahNZ — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 09:19:30 +0000

Have you never worked for anyone before? The software I make is always expected to do more than what the requirements stated.

New comment by PetahNZ in "Why does man print "gimme gimme gimme" at 00:30? (2017)"

PetahNZ — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 09:01:23 +0000

I made a website for a goat breading society. It played screaming goat sounds if you typed the Konami code. I was sad the day that site was replaced.

New comment by PetahNZ in "Why does man print "gimme gimme gimme" at 00:30? (2017)"

PetahNZ — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 08:56:24 +0000

Yea, I have seen a very inappropriate debug statement being left in the led to the dev being promptly fired.

New comment by PetahNZ in "FrankenPHP: Modern PHP App Server"

PetahNZ — Thu, 30 May 2024 07:55:05 +0000

You can set PHP_CLI_SERVER_WORKERS to make it run multiple threads.

New comment by PetahNZ in "Static Chess"

PetahNZ — Tue, 14 May 2024 05:11:13 +0000

It doesn't even really need to be rendered by a backend. An SPA with pushState and it could literally be just a single file.

New comment by PetahNZ in "JPEG XL and the Pareto Front"

PetahNZ — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 10:43:25 +0000

My server will encode 1,000,000 images itself, but each client will only decode like 10.

New comment by PetahNZ in "Toolong: Terminal application to view, tail, merge, and search log files"

PetahNZ — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 23:36:56 +0000

Sed takes ages to remove a single line from huge files too.

New comment by PetahNZ in "Zero downtime Postgres upgrades"

PetahNZ — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 08:12:10 +0000

15 minutes to migrate a large DB? It takes days just to run an alter column on our DB.