Hacker News: TehShrike

New comment by TehShrike in "Mythical Man Month"

TehShrike — Sat, 09 May 2026 13:28:37 +0000

There have been plenty of libraries/tools that got people from "I would like to do foo" to "oh, this tool makes foo possible in under 10 hours, I should start working on foo" in the past. LLMs have done this for many foos, which is great.

But I'm with hansvm - I haven't actually seen anyone plausibly maintain 10x. 10x is different from getting people past their activation cost.

New comment by TehShrike in "AI tools are making me lose interest in CS fundamentals"

TehShrike — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 03:26:23 +0000

There are two types of CS fundamentals: the ones that help in making useful software, and the rest of them.

AI tools still don't care about the former most of the time (e.g. maybe we shouldn't do a loop inside of loop every time we need to find a matching record, maybe we should just build a hashmap once).

And I don't care if they care about the latter.

New comment by TehShrike in "I beg you to follow Crocker's Rules, even if you will be rude to me"

TehShrike — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:53:22 +0000

I agree to a certain point, but I think about it in different terms – some people want to avoid any form of disagreement in order to maintain a kind of politeness, but I want to work on a team where people care enough to disagree with each other if something is wrong: https://joshduff.com/2024-07-18-communication-culture.html

New comment by TehShrike in "Cloudflare claimed they implemented Matrix on Cloudflare workers. They didn't"

TehShrike — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 16:37:25 +0000

I found the source code Jade was referring to, and it looks like the author just noticed this thread: https://github.com/nkuntz1934/matrix-workers/commit/0823b47c...

New comment by TehShrike in "Fighting Fire with Fire: Scalable Oral Exams"

TehShrike — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 23:09:33 +0000

My ability to recall and express things that I have learned is different when writing versus speaking. I suspect this is true for others as well.

I would prefer to write responses to textual questions rather than respond verbally to spoken questions in most cases.

New comment by TehShrike in "A super fast website using Cloudflare workers"

TehShrike — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 19:46:56 +0000

Correct, all the filtering is done locally in the browser, and the deploy is purely static.

If PSA had let me use affiliate links, I was planning to do the work to SSR in a Cloudflare Worker, but they declined and I decided to call the project where it was.

New comment by TehShrike in "A super fast website using Cloudflare workers"

TehShrike — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 17:12:05 +0000

I made a fast usable product page recently https://www.buyadagger.com/

New comment by TehShrike in "Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out"

TehShrike — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 22:10:15 +0000

hey, haven't seen that one in the wild for a little bit :-D https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/aaaah

New comment by TehShrike in "Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as worth the cost"

TehShrike — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 00:08:07 +0000

If the college would accept someone like that, they probably don't aim to take their students to a very high level.

New comment by TehShrike in "Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem"

TehShrike — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 02:21:45 +0000

I'm feeling generous tonight, I'm willing to consider 0.99986 to round to 99.99%

On making a product listing page that doesn't suck

TehShrike — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 13:55:59 +0000

Article URL: https://joshduff.com/2025-11-10-making-a-product-listing-page-that-doesnt-suck.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45887298

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by TehShrike in "React is winning by default and slowing innovation"

TehShrike — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 03:34:47 +0000

I worked on a business app made with lit web components and all properties being stringly typed was a real drag. It didn't compare to a realtime-first component library.

New comment by TehShrike in "The Mac app flea market"

TehShrike — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 14:23:02 +0000

One of the reasons I value SetApp so much for Mac apps is that it's curated and I don't have to worry about filtering a bunch of shady or low-quality apps.

New comment by TehShrike in "Myths About Floating-Point Numbers (2021)"

TehShrike — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 15:18:43 +0000

You can divide by zero, but you mayn't.

New comment by TehShrike in "How I Use Kagi"

TehShrike — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 20:35:42 +0000

I had the same reaction – his list includes washingtonpost.com, amazon.com, alternativeto.net, medium.com, twitter.com, msn.com, etc.

He dumped his entire blocklist, which must include a bunch of sites that he finds personally annoying.

Here is the list of domains owned by the 16 companies discussed in the post that he linked to: https://codeberg.org/bbbhltz/16CompaniesFilters/src/branch/m...

New comment by TehShrike in "Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College"

TehShrike — Wed, 07 May 2025 20:34:55 +0000

Here is a similar article primarily about middle-aged adults: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-spi...

New comment by TehShrike in "Pipelining might be my favorite programming language feature"

TehShrike — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 14:14:53 +0000

I was excited for that proposal, but it veered off course some years ago – some TC39 members have stuck to the position that without member property support or async/await support, they will not let the feature move forward.

It seems like most people are just asking for the simple function piping everyone expects from the |> syntax, but that doesn't look likely to happen.

New comment by TehShrike in "There are two types of dishwasher people"

TehShrike — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 19:00:37 +0000

My mental model for diswashers got a lot better after watching some Technology Connections: https://youtu.be/jHP942Livy0

The Joy of Inventory Software

TehShrike — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 14:43:54 +0000

Article URL: https://joshduff.com/2025-04-09-inventory-software.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43681864

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by TehShrike in "A deliberate practice app for guitar players who want to level up"

TehShrike — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 13:57:56 +0000

Any plans to add an option to render the tablature for bass guitar?