Hacker News: VanTodi

New comment by VanTodi in "What is jj and why should I care?"

VanTodi — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:45:31 +0000

Guess he was talking about the presentation, not what the tool can achieve. It has no hard proof on the first page, which could easily just be a LinkedIn pitch, but not on hackernews

New comment by VanTodi in "An AI Vibe Coding Horror Story"

VanTodi — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:16:28 +0000

since its a .ch domain, i believe its in swiss. In germany we have our DSGVO (GDPR), and you can report it too. If a breach happen, you have to inform all your customers. if its a first time and you tried to your own best, the punishment is not that hard, but since these are medical infos they should have known better.

Lets really hope they learned from their mistakes

New comment by VanTodi in "Show HN: Apfel – The free AI already on your Mac"

VanTodi — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:01:28 +0000

Just a small thing about the website: your examples shift all the elements below it on mobile when changing, making it jump randomly when trying to read.

New comment by VanTodi in "Verification debt: the hidden cost of AI-generated code"

VanTodi — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 18:00:55 +0000

I've come to the point where I think generated code is nothing better than a random package I install. Did I read it all and just accepted what was promised? Yes Can it bite me in the butt somewhere down the road? Probably, but I currently at least have more doubt about the generated code than a random package I picked up somewhere on git which readme I just partly skipped over.

New comment by VanTodi in "Why your website should be under 14kB in size"

VanTodi — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 10:57:45 +0000

Another idea maybe would be to load the heavy library after the initial page is done. But it's loaded and heavy nonetheless. Or you could create svgs for the formulas and load them when they are in the viewport. Just my 2 cents

New comment by VanTodi in "IMG_0001"

VanTodi — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 10:17:28 +0000

The very first video was of a toddler doing their first steps. I don't know any of them and had no clue where they are from. Someone just wanted to share their magic moment and after 15 years, I was involved.

The internet truly can be a marvelous place.

New comment by VanTodi in "Show HN: YCombinato – A domain-hacked "Hacker News" client"

VanTodi — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 17:36:18 +0000

Just uping the Font size for the interactive stuff shouldn't eat to much bandwidth. The rest can stay smol.

New comment by VanTodi in "Impacts of lack of sleep"

VanTodi — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 06:46:11 +0000

in 2 months she has no excuse anymore. as a father of a 1 1/2 year old, i can relate to you. i wish you all the best.

New comment by VanTodi in "I digitalized Berlin's registration form"

VanTodi — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:01:26 +0000

to be fair, it's way easier now to do your taxes (as a private person). We can do it completely online with no paperwork involved and its actually quite alright. so some innovation is happening, even in the public sector.

what happens in the company is another thing. it really depends on the people working there.

New comment by VanTodi in "Bitsummit 2023: Steam Decks everywhere, no VR, and impressive indie games"

VanTodi — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 08:48:56 +0000

Most Games have comfort settings Like Teleportation, Fading etc. My wife gets motion sick pretty fast with VR, but reading a book while driving is no issue. It's rather strange to me

New comment by VanTodi in "Bitsummit 2023: Steam Decks everywhere, no VR, and impressive indie games"

VanTodi — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 08:42:16 +0000

IMHO the entry to VR is for most people to cumbersome.

- you should try it first to check how bad your motion sickness gets when playing. If you have it bad, all your bought VR equipment is unusable.

- you need specific hardware for it which (mostly) only works for gaming (and maybe porn). Putting 400+ bucks into the hardware for that sole purpose is to much for most people.

- you need a dedicated place for it. You can play it sitting down, but that's not even half the fun of VR.

I have a VR headset myself and really like it, but even for me it's a hustle to free up the space and set everything up for a session. I rather pick up my steamdeck and play wherever I might be.

New comment by VanTodi in "More than 75% of Steam games tested are playable or verified on the Steam Deck"

VanTodi — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 17:01:26 +0000

Maybe you were one of the unlucky ones and got the loud fan. They switched to a much quieter fan in the newer machines.

You can try to replace it with some parts from ifixit or somewhere else.

I refunded my first too because it was just too loud and I didn't had the right situation for it.

Now one kid later and a newer deck with a silent fan, I'm very happy with the deck again.

New comment by VanTodi in "Show HN: Automating daily reports, because fuck it"

VanTodi — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 21:32:42 +0000

Had to do something similar in my company. We had to write how long we worked on a projects and what the task was. This was due every month and of course I only did it at the end of the month. It was all already planned and everybody knew what was being done, it was just an annoying layer on top that took hours. So I made a script that listed my git commits, searched the Jira ticket associated with it and gave me the tags in those tickets. The art of being lazy amirite

New comment by VanTodi in "Former Dolphin team member addresses Steam/Valve’s takedown of Dolphin emulator"

VanTodi — Sun, 28 May 2023 06:55:59 +0000

"it's easier to provide the software to steamdeck user this way instead of 'sideloading' it"

New comment by VanTodi in "This blog is hosted on my Android phone"

VanTodi — Mon, 15 May 2023 07:19:47 +0000

Ubuntu touch supports some old phones you can buy used. It's technically not a android phone anymore, but it's possible. I tried it on my oneplus 6 and I worked, I'm just not ready for the ecosystem yet

New comment by VanTodi in "Now offering 2TB SSDs for Steam Deck in the Framework Marketplace"

VanTodi — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 08:00:07 +0000

I used ThinkPads before too and swapped to tuxedo books now. They make laptops specifically for Linux and even provide software updates etc. For Linux. I'm quite happy, but it's more expensive.

New comment by VanTodi in "Announcing Masonry 0.1, and my vision for Rust UI"

VanTodi — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 11:35:37 +0000

I really hope you succeed. Sounds like it's a missing part of the eco system and your plan and thought sounds great to me.

New comment by VanTodi in "Announcing Masonry 0.1, and my vision for Rust UI"

VanTodi — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 06:50:38 +0000

So it's the vision of a single person and another UI library is being born. I'm being sceptical at this, cause it looks like the same problem with JS and all the frameworks: I can't find anything that has all the features I want, so I start a new one, which potentially never becomes stable. I'm not a Rust developer (yet) and have a background in PHP and JS, so I'm glad if some vets can elaborate on the GUI problem with other programming languages.

New comment by VanTodi in "CarSized: A way to visualise car dimensions"

VanTodi — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 07:53:15 +0000

Sadly no marauder in the selection. Would love to see the comparison

New comment by VanTodi in "Documenting software architecture with arc42"

VanTodi — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 10:41:33 +0000

Can confirm that it's a great framework. We use it in all our Team and just having the same structure is a great start. It's a bit tedious the find the right place for the information in the beginning, but overall we are were happy with it