Hacker News: Tknl

New comment by Tknl in "Why frozen test fixtures are a problem on large projects and how to avoid them"

Tknl — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 13:31:09 +0000

This makes me think of https://github.com/AutoFixture/AutoFixture

New comment by Tknl in "The Tsunami of Burnout Few See"

Tknl — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 10:19:33 +0000

It's not only common you can in many instances force your employer to lower your hours and keep you on.

New comment by Tknl in "Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases"

Tknl — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 04:51:50 +0000

I've successfully pulled off most of such a majority re-write but a key driver - but not the only was that the legacy language the existing system was implemented in had lost virtually all traction in the local and global market. Mostly only expensive contractors coming out of pension availabile and on top of that the custom libraries required us to recruit the 10 percent of that segment. Any new hires straight up refused to pick it up as they accurately deemed it career suicide.

New comment by Tknl in "Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases"

Tknl — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 03:59:20 +0000

I second this approach. I've utilized it successfully in an ongoing migration. I also second the need to have engineering knowledge from the previous system available. I was lead for 5 years on a previous system before being tasked as solution architect of new total rewrite to cloud native. The hardest part of such a migration is maintaining sponsor buy-in while you build the parallel run evaluation strangler fig integration with the old system and get some existing flow polished enough to take live. If you happen to have a rule or scripting system in place piggy pack off of it so you can do an incremental migration.

New comment by Tknl in "ESET recommends Linux if your unsupported Windows 11 PC can't update from 10"

Tknl — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 23:54:31 +0000

I installed MX Linux years ago and have not looked back. It has been incredibly stable and easy to upgrade. While I had ubuntu and mint regularly get trashes on system updates in the past.

New comment by Tknl in "Why is it so hard to buy things that work well? (2022)"

Tknl — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 18:19:31 +0000

I've found the best way to evaluate the quality of npm libraries is to use Snyk analyzer https://snyk.io/advisor/check/npm

New comment by Tknl in "OnlyFans models are using AI impersonators to keep up with their DMs"

Tknl — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 07:56:54 +0000

I'd argue that what Match Group did with OKC was bordering on criminal. Everything on it worked and it worked for small, often marginalized groups. It was turned into a worse version of tender.

New comment by Tknl in "Humans have caused 1.5 °C of long-term global warming according to new estimates"

Tknl — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 20:47:37 +0000

I would argue that numerous initiative to ban highly dangerous substances such as the Montreal Protocol banning ozone layer damaging refrigerant gasses have been successful in this period. Instead it appears to me that global collaboration actually stalled after the fall the Soviet Union and the end of great power competition.

New comment by Tknl in "Are We PEP740 Yet?"

Tknl — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 08:43:44 +0000

https://slsa.dev/ gives much clearer explanations about the why of this work. Github recently started offering a SaaS sigstore implementation including support for private reps. https://docs.github.com/en/actions/security-for-github-actio... Anyone working on OT should be quickly moving towards this.

New comment by Tknl in "Ask HN: Looking for Good Articles on CICD/Release-Engineering"

Tknl — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 16:33:11 +0000

https://minimumcd.org/journey/

New comment by Tknl in "We need a real GNU/Linux (not Android) smartphone ecosystem"

Tknl — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 02:31:27 +0000

N900 was my first smartphone and still miss the feeling of having a proper Linux box in my pocket. Unfortunately didn't buy the n9 as it was clear it was dead in the water by the time it came out.

Based on my contacts at Nokia it was simply underfunding, believing that symbian would remain dominant in developing countries and seeing the meamo/meego line as a distracting and expensive side project as well as internal competition which people sought to sabotage internally. Some ex-Nokia people blogged quite extensively on it.

New comment by Tknl in "What I tell people new to on-call"

Tknl — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 20:21:10 +0000

Yes, this is abusive as your compensation doesn't grow with your time working. Your salary is based on an x hour work week. This system incentives poor software quality at the cost of your and your colleagues' time. My role and those of my direct colleagues is also salaried similarly with expectation of some overtime without additional comp, but that should be a rare hour or two. I do know of/work with other companies that have similar terms around on-call as yours. My employer does only 1 day at a time per engineer with a repeating 4 week schedule but we also have a support call center taking care of the majority of calls and only escalating to on call when necessary.

New comment by Tknl in "Ask HN: Why is Pave legal?"

Tknl — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 17:26:14 +0000

In the EU there are definitely companies providing aggregated salary band norms, in fact utilizing them is nearly required by upcoming EU directives as salaries must be justified by HR. In the Netherlands I know Bureau Baarda is gathering and selling data.

New comment by Tknl in "Libations: Tailscale on the Rocks"

Tknl — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 20:15:16 +0000

Interesting use of tsnet. For new cocktail recipes I regularly check https://cocktailvirgin.blogspot.com

New comment by Tknl in "The "uncanny" is the experience of a loss of control"

Tknl — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 15:11:52 +0000

I can confirm it does. Although I moved to a country with more direct auti friendly communication (USA to NL) and only recently realized I'm likely on the spectrum and this heavily motivated my desire to move here where communication is much more direct.

New comment by Tknl in "There's not enough power for America's high-tech ambitions"

Tknl — Sun, 12 May 2024 13:16:26 +0000

The Netherlands is struggling with a lack of grid capacity due to political decisions to ignore the power network management companies that pleaded for at least a decade for expansion.

New comment by Tknl in "For young people, the job search has never been so miserable"

Tknl — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 06:56:40 +0000

As a hiring manager I can understand this view. I'm also in SaaS dev. But in the Netherlands at least most of the raising IT salary demands aligned with inflation, particularly if one includes housing market inflation. People are not going to accept a salary which still won't get them towards homeownrship with dual incomes if they can avoid it.

New comment by Tknl in "The Montreal problem: Why programming languages need a style czar"

Tknl — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 10:18:52 +0000

I usually see this style from people with a mathematics or physics background instead of CS. Their coding style doesn't take maintainability or collaboration with others into account. And these programmers therefore produce code which no one else is able to change when they inevitably leave the company after some technical strategic direction change happens which they disagree with. Allowing them to dictate your coding standards is putting your company at risk. If getting them to confirm to (tooling automated linter) coding standards is impossible I'd personally isolate their code to specific packages with clearly defined interfaces so you have some hope of replacing it after their departure. Make a working agreement with them that coding standards apply to any PRs outside of their pet projects or they'll get rejected.

New comment by Tknl in "On the new Dutch intelligence and security law"

Tknl — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 00:48:22 +0000

Don't forget Dutch citizens voted previously in a national referendum against mass surveillance which was promptly ignored and the right to call a referendum repealed.

New comment by Tknl in "OpenGFW: an open source implementation of China's Great Firewall"

Tknl — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 06:57:13 +0000

Your company hires the audit. Interview the to find one that gets zero trust.