Hacker News: TemptedMuse

New comment by TemptedMuse in "Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?"

TemptedMuse — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 19:02:00 +0000

Banking software is critical, but guess what, most software engineers are not writing banking software. I never said no software engineers write critical code. Heck I'd argue most at some point in their career will write something that needs to be as bug free as possible... at some point in their careers.

My point is that for most software engineering getting a product out is more important that a super high quality bar that slows everything down.

If you are writing banking software or flight control systems please do it with care, if you are making some React based recipe website or something I don't really care (99% of software engineering falls into this latter category in my opinion).

Software engineers need to get over themselves a bit, AI really exposed how many were just getting by making repetitive junk and thinking they were special.

New comment by TemptedMuse in "Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?"

TemptedMuse — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 17:51:49 +0000

Not to call you out but this is exactly what I meant when I said software engineers have egos that will not let them accept that they are not designing critical stuff.

Comparing your cloud based CRUD app to a missile is a perfect illustration. There is no dishonor in admitting that our stuff isn't going to kill anyone if there is a bug. Don't write bad code, but also sometimes just getting something out the door is much better than perfect quality (bird in the hand and all that).

New comment by TemptedMuse in "Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?"

TemptedMuse — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 17:44:55 +0000

That is just CRUD with buzzword soup around it.

New comment by TemptedMuse in "Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?"

TemptedMuse — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 16:09:32 +0000

Here is the thing, most software engineers are not designing rockets, they are making basic CRUD apps. If there is a minor defect it can be caught and corrected without much issue. Our jobs are a lot less "critical infrastructure" than a lot of software engineers will allow their egos to accept.

Sure if you are making some medical surgery robot do it right, but if you are making a website the recommends wine pairings who cares if one of the buttons has a weird animation bug that doesn't even get noticed for a couple of years.

New comment by TemptedMuse in "Litestream v0.5.0"

TemptedMuse — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 15:23:34 +0000

I'd argue that anything larger than a desktop app should not use SQLite. If you need Litestream for replication and backup it is probably better to just use Postgres. There are a ton of one-click deployment offerings for proper databases, Fly.io actually offers managed Postgres.

New comment by TemptedMuse in "Litestream v0.5.0"

TemptedMuse — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 15:17:51 +0000

Maybe I misunderstand what this is, but why would I use this and not MySQL, Postgres, or any other proper database? Seems like a hack to get SQLite to do what those do by design.

New comment by TemptedMuse in "Show HN: Kate's App"

TemptedMuse — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 19:24:28 +0000

> "I worked in health information privacy and security longer than all of them"

What a claim to make.

New comment by TemptedMuse in "Show HN: Kate's App"

TemptedMuse — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 17:58:17 +0000

Yeah; self-hosted and open source I would be more open to it. This is just kinda sketchy.

New comment by TemptedMuse in "Show HN: Kate's App"

TemptedMuse — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 17:51:55 +0000

Yeah... this is a lawsuit waiting to happen. Medical data is NOT something you handle with a hobby project.

No privacy policy, no real information about the owner behind it. Seems all "trust me, it's private, I pinky swear".