<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: abeyer</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=abeyer</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 07:36:03 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=abeyer" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by abeyer in "Anti-patterns in software blogging"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And this is exactly what the article fails to account for... they make several blanket assertions that may well make sense for certain types of posts but may not for others.<p>My 2c is that rule #0 of writing advice should be to take all writing advice with a grain of salt and an eye towards context and audience.</p>
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<p>1. Luma is quite popular with some communities, and has been for a while.
2. Disoverability still kind of sucks on luma, both the platform itself and between events even on the platform, so not really surprising.
3. Online rsvp's almost always exceed actual attendees by a lot if you aren't charging money or otherwise penalizing people for no-showing... it's typical to see 30-50% attendance.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 23:40:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49781304</link><dc:creator>abeyer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49781304</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49781304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by abeyer in "Replacing Pull Requests with Delta"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't think any of my interactive use machines (server/remote are another story) are less than 3 years old.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 20:10:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49759572</link><dc:creator>abeyer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49759572</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49759572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by abeyer in "Replacing Pull Requests with Delta"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Including non-tracked files that land in your local directory even if they're never committed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 20:05:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49759506</link><dc:creator>abeyer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49759506</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49759506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by abeyer in "AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A datacenter not owned/run by a major US or Israeli company seems like it might be  a good first step.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 22:19:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49733835</link><dc:creator>abeyer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49733835</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49733835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by abeyer in "Salesforce Global Outage"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It sounds like you've worked places that have made a staffing decision and paid the price. It happens, but it's far from universal.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 21:07:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49733031</link><dc:creator>abeyer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49733031</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49733031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by abeyer in "Salesforce Global Outage"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Doing data engineering work with Salesforce data is an exercise on archeology, psychology and organizational politics.<p>What business focused systems is this _not_ true for? Doubly so for such systems that encourage non-developer users to customize the database schema?<p>Not saying that's always a great choice, but they're far from the only ones to have made it, enterprise customers love to buy it, and Salesforce is actually one of the better ones I've seen to deal with from a technical perspective. There is _far, far_ worse out there. Most of this comes down to a business and design problem... your entire first paragraph reads as a broken process that no system is going to fix.</p>
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<p>There is a published sticker price, but I don't think anyone outside of tiny installs with just a few users pays that... it's very much the enterprise sales model of "let's schedule a call and talk about it." They also for many years would let previously negotiated prices stand during renewals even when sticker price went up, so older orgs often have the "same" license being charged at many different prices based on when it was first purchased and how the negotiations went at the time.</p>
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<p>To be fair, they came in with some requirements that I don't think anyone else had at the time, and even today aren't in any mainstream ones afaik.<p>I think the biggest difference was around providing security and stability barriers between front-end components on the same page, with the intent of allowing you to compose a page that contains your own components and those of other third party applications you've installed with guarantees about how they can (and can't) interact. Not sure they couldn't have tacked that onto another framework, but it comes with enough trade-offs and compromises that I'm not sure anyone else would have wanted to upstream it, so they would have been forking something anyway.<p>Aura wasn't much fun to work with, was never really feature complete, and not advocating for it... but it actually kind of made sense if you thought about front end with the context of how salesforce did security and multitenancy in mind.</p>
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<p>> So far nobody has started shipping TVs with a mobile connection to exfiltrate data, as far as we know<p>Yeah, I suspect that it either isn't a big enough segment of the market to make the costs worth it, or they just haven't been caught. Given that it's pretty easy to add amazon sidewalk connectivity to devices with bluetooth radios (which most of these TVs have to support external wireless speakers), I'd be shocked if they hadn't at least experimented and estimated payoff on doing that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 01:24:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49678980</link><dc:creator>abeyer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49678980</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49678980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by abeyer in "LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://forum.level1techs.com/t/lg-tv-block-mini-how-to/255178" rel="nofollow">https://forum.level1techs.com/t/lg-tv-block-mini-how-to/2551...</a></p>
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<p>"Keep running" is interesting phrasing, given that wayback has been serving me nothing but some mix of timeouts, 429 errors, and "Temporarily Offline" messages for weeks.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 05:41:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49594299</link><dc:creator>abeyer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49594299</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49594299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by abeyer in "Ask HN: Resources to get good at soldering?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Mostly a good complete list...<p>One thing I'd take issue with though is no clean flux for hand soldering. "No clean" formulations are almost universally designed for reflow oven temperature profiles and may  not actually meet their specifications for electrical/chemical safety to leave on the board without cleaning when hand soldered. They are also commonly _more_ difficult to clean if you want/need to. Given that non-no clean formulations are likely both easier to clean and more reliable over time when hand soldered, they're my preference for rework.</p>
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<p>That probably means the board was being designed a year or two before that... so quite possibly they had put it in the design when it still seemed relevant and the cost/hassle/delay of a new revision of the board design and manufacturing changes made it easier to just leave it there and ignore.</p>
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<p>I really don't get the curved monitors for working. They're fine if you're playing a video game or watching a movie in the dark at home, I guess, but wouldn't want one for other uses.<p>They are wider than is comfortable to view at once from the short distance many office desks offer, especially if they're on a flex arm that eats up more space. They seem optimally designed to ensure that you'll have glare on your screen no matter how you position it in any kind of well lit environment. They don't offer the window management affordances that having separate screens do, or they have some weird software kludges to do similar.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 18:23:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49224424</link><dc:creator>abeyer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49224424</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49224424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by abeyer in "The Art of 64-bit Assembly"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah, I'd second a recommendation of at least the first two volumes of Write Great Code. I've long suggested those to juniors who have come out of bootcamps, self-taught, or other backgrounds outside a typical CS degree and didn't have much exposure to lower level machine concepts. I was a bit let down by the third volume... not that it was bad per se, but I feel like the sw engineering process stuff it covered both strayed outside his core strengths and had been done better elsewhere already.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 23:36:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49139658</link><dc:creator>abeyer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49139658</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49139658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by abeyer in "Agent Skill to Force Docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>STE Misapplication issues and limited adoption<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Technical_English#Misapplication_issues_and_limited_adoption" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Technical_English#M...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 22:50:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49116855</link><dc:creator>abeyer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49116855</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49116855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by abeyer in "Una GPS smart watch – Repairable, USB-C charging, developer-friendly"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Doesn't this also use its own app and services? The only "open" part of it I saw in the docs was that there's an sdk to write your own app that runs on the watch. Better than nothing, i guess, but not quite what I was hoping for.</p>
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<p>I don't think they were saying that there aren't reasons to not use github, in or out of the USA, but rather that codeberg was already not a contender for many use cases due to their existing rules restricting private/non-OSS repos.</p>
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<p>The unihertz titan series is decent for a more modern option. It's a blackberry style keyboard instead of the slide out type, which is a bit of a shift, but still pretty usable.</p>
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