Hacker News: TonyStr

New comment by TonyStr in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"

TonyStr — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:23:07 +0000

I remember doing this as a kid making my first website. I thought it looked more "professional"

New comment by TonyStr in "CSS: Unavoidable Bad Parts"

TonyStr — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:00:29 +0000

Would you prefer that CSS never evolve, and our frustrations remain the same? Writing CSS today has gotten significantly easier with flexbox, variables and now nesting. BEM is not part of the CSS spec, that's just a design methodology.

New comment by TonyStr in "CSS: Unavoidable Bad Parts"

TonyStr — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 10:52:22 +0000

This is true. I use increased font size on my phone, and so many websites are borderline unusable because of massive unnecessary padding. But I am also a culprit of using rem for everything. What is the alternative? Pixels?

New comment by TonyStr in "I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA"

TonyStr — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:25:07 +0000

I think what I liked the most about The Lean Startup was how he would reduce experiences into patterns, and then define them. You get a bunch of concrete ideas that look simple enough to add to a checklist. I do think the book dragged a bit toward the end, but I appreciated the humility of the writing.

Incorruptible sounds interesting - I've long thought about how much companies and their output are defined by their social structures. Microslop doesn't produce broken software because they hire stupid or evil people for example.

New comment by TonyStr in "Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers"

TonyStr — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 07:53:57 +0000

Well, how hard should you beat yourself up over a mistake like that? If I forgot my groceries in the car, I'd just laugh about it being a silly one-time mistake. But if it happened twice I'd take it more seriously, and maybe make a note or something to remind me. I'm sure everyone has made some silly mistake like forgetting a jacket at a party or leaving a phone at home sometime. I think we should be a little extra forgiving toward others, because we'd so easily forgive our own mistakes

New comment by TonyStr in "Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers"

TonyStr — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 07:47:50 +0000

>video on youtube, of someone absolutely struggling at a task that had a built-in checklist

This sounds like Bog who records himself setting up Linux distros or configuring software

New comment by TonyStr in "Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers"

TonyStr — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 07:45:05 +0000

Some people are very good at working with complex abstract ideas, but are terrible at signaling that intelligence to others. And some are fantastic at signaling intelligence and steering conversation toward domains of knowledge that they've studied (many political commentators come to mind), but don't seem to have processed those ideas very deeply.

New comment by TonyStr in "Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers"

TonyStr — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 07:37:46 +0000

You are right, but at the same time, if no UX designer is involved in the loop, what happens when they've prompted a prototype that looks good - and therefore eludes them to think it's designed good as well? How do we convince them that we need to involve a UX designer to fix the application flow?

New comment by TonyStr in "Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers"

TonyStr — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 07:27:53 +0000

This is such a great mental model.

New comment by TonyStr in "It's death"

TonyStr — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 07:11:30 +0000

The first three are the same, and the latter three are in no way related to the passage.

New comment by TonyStr in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

TonyStr — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 08:22:14 +0000

When people make statements like this, I always wonder if you're thinking of someone specific, or if you're conflating the group with the individual

New comment by TonyStr in "The Current Crisis: What's Happening to Science in America"

TonyStr — Fri, 29 May 2026 08:53:50 +0000

Yeah, this read more like a long twitter rant than anything I'd expect to find on science.org. With posts like these, I always wonder what the intent is? I'm an outsider, so to convince me of anything you'd have to give more context to your claims (linking to a few publications and using their titles as a priori fact isn't convincing). If you want to convince someone who has enough context to understand each claim, wouldn't their opinions already be too entrenched to sway from a post like this?

New comment by TonyStr in "DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode"

TonyStr — Thu, 28 May 2026 08:14:15 +0000

It certainly struggles a lot more with non-English queries. Been using it since 2019

New comment by TonyStr in "Cate v1.0 is out: The Infinite canvas workspace for developers"

TonyStr — Wed, 27 May 2026 06:53:08 +0000

Why use this instead of a native window manager? GNOME, KDE, Windows, MacOS, i3 all support virtual desktops where your window layouts are preserved

New comment by TonyStr in "Does anybody like React?"

TonyStr — Tue, 26 May 2026 08:14:10 +0000

Most decision-makers make decisions based on what they already know. Most of my colleagues only know React, because they've only been exposed to React. Why do you think Java dominates the market still? React solved a huge problem when it was new, and it still solves that problem fine (change detection - the reactivity model). There are better alternatives available now (Vue - signals), but the difference isn't big enough to create a new monoculture. Sure there are peripheral concerns like how mature the ecosystem is or the particular ergonomics of a framework, but these are mostly fluff.

New comment by TonyStr in "Does anybody like React?"

TonyStr — Tue, 26 May 2026 08:04:21 +0000

Maybe you would prefer React's class-based syntax. It's still there if you want to use it

New comment by TonyStr in "Does anybody like React?"

TonyStr — Tue, 26 May 2026 08:02:48 +0000

How long have you used Vue? I had a similar opinion on Vue a few years ago, coming from a background of React as well. But now I prefer it over React, and reach for it in both personal and professional projects. The ergonomics are a bit different; there are things that are easier to do in React, and things that are easier to do in Vue, but the fact that it uses signals is a huge plus for me.

New comment by TonyStr in "Does anybody like React?"

TonyStr — Tue, 26 May 2026 07:52:38 +0000

I skimmed through it, and I think the only thing that is out of date is the section on `zone` in Angular. In october 2025, they changed to `zoneless` by default, which uses signals just like Vue. This was a long time coming imo, as the major criticism of Angular was how poorly update management was handled. Also Svelte runes aren't mentioned, as that came out three months after this post. Runes are essentially also signals.

Basically every framework now has a concept of * State - change this and the framework automatically updates UI and triggers effects * Effects - functions that run when parts of state change (or triggered by signals)

And almost everyone solves this with signals except for React.

New comment by TonyStr in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

TonyStr — Sat, 16 May 2026 09:16:37 +0000

> "In psychopathology, psychosis is the inability to distinguish what is or is not real. Examples of psychotic symptoms are delusions, hallucinations, and disorganized or incoherent thoughts or speech."

I think the use of the word here is meant to invoke the vision of someone under heavy delusions or hallucinations, such as (what Hashimoto percieves as) the delusion that shipping more bugs is fine if AI can resolve them faster. To what extent this counts as delusion (and thereby psychosis) would depend on how deeply you believe that this and related opinions are wrong.

New comment by TonyStr in "Zed Editor Theme-Builder"

TonyStr — Sat, 09 May 2026 20:05:00 +0000

I don't use zed or svelte, but this looks like the zed picture is missing a treesitter parser for svelte. Many editors have basic regex-based highlighting for many languages, and optional, more advanced, highlighting available through extensions. You may also get some semantic highlights provided by a language server if your editor uses the Language Server Protocol as well.

I found one extension from a web search. Did you try this? https://zed.dev/extensions/svelte