<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: acallaghan</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=acallaghan</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:15:22 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=acallaghan" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by acallaghan in "Using Git's rerere feature to escape recurring conflict hell"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm also like this, rebasing feature branches onto main - I however have one suggestion when it comes to the push back up to origin<p>Instead of<p>`git push --force`<p>always use<p>`git push --force-with-lease`<p><a href="https://git-scm.com/docs/git-push" rel="nofollow">https://git-scm.com/docs/git-push</a><p>This <i>probably should be the default in git</i> (as in there should be a `git push --force-without-lease` instead) and asks git to make sure the commits locally on your branch are up-to-date with those on remote/origin. It then fails if you try to overwrite commits that you haven't seen, and has saved me a few times when working between computers on the same project when i could have lost history on the remote that i failed to fetch.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:39:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48358333</link><dc:creator>acallaghan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48358333</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48358333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by acallaghan in "Show HN: I built an open-source email builder, alternative to Beefree/Unlayer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is great, i've been wanting someone to do this for a while, and was tempted to myself</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 21:59:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48042443</link><dc:creator>acallaghan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48042443</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48042443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by acallaghan in "UK Fell into Recession in 2023"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If Corbyn has been PM and had been quoted as saying "Let the bodies pile high in streets" do you think you'd still think he had no impact on Covid?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2024 15:10:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39383559</link><dc:creator>acallaghan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39383559</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39383559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by acallaghan in "How does Sidekiq really work?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> We're using Rust/Actix<p>This looks like a web service framework, rather than a web application framework like Rails/Django. Like it's closer to Sinatra/Express than Rails -<p>The speed of Rails comes with rapid development & strong conventions leaving the important stuff (like business logic and building something) to you.<p>Once you get to a size where scale is an issue with Rails, you'll have a startup that's working - it's a better problem to have than a startup that has perfect fast code but no customers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2024 14:58:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39261843</link><dc:creator>acallaghan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39261843</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39261843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Growing scientific interest in vagus nerve stimulation]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/aug/23/the-key-to-depression-obesity-alcoholism-and-more-why-the-vagus-nerve-is-so-exciting-to-scientists">https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/aug/23/the-key-to-depression-obesity-alcoholism-and-more-why-the-vagus-nerve-is-so-exciting-to-scientists</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37233977">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37233977</a></p>
<p>Points: 274</p>
<p># Comments: 148</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Aug 2023 10:37:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/aug/23/the-key-to-depression-obesity-alcoholism-and-more-why-the-vagus-nerve-is-so-exciting-to-scientists</link><dc:creator>acallaghan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37233977</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37233977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by acallaghan in "DigitalOcean: Issue impacting networking in multiple regions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I had a blip about 40 minutes ago for around 4 minutes, where an internal IP for a redis server failed to connect, and didn't failover to the backup node... which is just <i>excellent</i>.<p>Hoping it's a small issue & resolved quickly</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Aug 2023 10:43:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37060817</link><dc:creator>acallaghan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37060817</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37060817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by acallaghan in "The Difference Between European and American Butter"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>British & Irish butter is also excellent, don't give the French all the credit!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Apr 2023 21:53:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35747551</link><dc:creator>acallaghan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35747551</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35747551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by acallaghan in "UK Blocks Microsoft’s $69B Activision Deal"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It would allow them to operate but issue heavy financial sanctions and penalties, rather than just disallow them at first -<p>These financial sanctions could swallow up any and all profit from the UK market</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2023 13:03:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35713011</link><dc:creator>acallaghan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35713011</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35713011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by acallaghan in "LSD: Not Even Once"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not scientific enough. Take it three times and average the results</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 23 Apr 2023 20:41:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35680385</link><dc:creator>acallaghan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35680385</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35680385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by acallaghan in "CSS System Colors (2021)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Alright but not sure what any of that has to do with CSS system colours</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Mar 2023 14:28:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35289497</link><dc:creator>acallaghan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35289497</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35289497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by acallaghan in "Unapproved books now a felony in Manatee County schools"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How is this fine, but banning sale of guns not fine in these people's minds?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2023 16:07:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34490561</link><dc:creator>acallaghan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34490561</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34490561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by acallaghan in "Show HN: I spent 2 years building Tablane as a 17-year-old"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>To get this far in two years is amazing - great work. Your marketing page is fab as well</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2023 12:03:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34287293</link><dc:creator>acallaghan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34287293</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34287293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by acallaghan in "European teams ditch pro-LGBTQ+ armbands at Qatar World Cup"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Like Qatar?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2022 17:18:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33695108</link><dc:creator>acallaghan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33695108</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33695108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by acallaghan in "GitHub Copilot Is actually Good"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I use it for Rails, and the most use I get out of it is with RSpec testing -  tests with already descriptive spec names, it guesses correctly like 95% of the time what I was going to write anyway.<p>It's less useful around view code, but controllers/models it can be somewhat useful too. But to be honest, I'm happy to pay the price to let it write some specs for me</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2022 21:47:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33413727</link><dc:creator>acallaghan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33413727</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33413727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by acallaghan in "EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of 2024"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> A bunch of politicians<p>*elected* politicians is the key. The member states voted them in, they have a democratic mandate. No one running these companies have anywhere near the same level of responsibility to people as someone that's actually elected.<p>This is just another regulation on that free market, decided for by democratically elected people and not by the companies choosing not to be regulated.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2022 15:35:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33081881</link><dc:creator>acallaghan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33081881</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33081881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by acallaghan in "Rapid Green Energy Transition Will Likely Result in Trillions of Net Savings"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The cargo-cult religion is unfortunately back by science and years of study and agreement amongst scientists - human activity is causing climate change and global warming. You sound like you haven't accepted this fact based reality that we live in and are a part of.<p>Climate change is our fault, and we <i>have</i> to stop it, there is no other alternative that also includes life continuing on earth as we know it. This change is already happening, it's not hypothetical. Global systems are already being affected, extreme weather and drought more common. Global temperature change <i>has</i> to be kept as low as possible, or we risk crop failure, famine and mass immigration at a scale that has never been seen.<p>I understand there are huge logistical issues with shifting off fossil fuels, but we as humans <i>have</i> to. We can get to the moon, we can stop burning old dinosaurs & plants to make stuff work. Even without climate change, these resources are finite. Are you just going to accept waiting for all the oil to run out before making plastic tubes from something else? The clue is in the name <i>fossil</i>, they take millions of years to produce and are non-renewable.<p>You can think of me as a green psychopath all you like, but it doesn't change the cold hard facts. I hope my reply isn't high-intensity BS.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2022 21:12:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32881619</link><dc:creator>acallaghan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32881619</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32881619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by acallaghan in "Should You Buy an EV? A calculator to figure it out"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I hear this view a lot - my main rebuttal is 'but can't top up your car with petrol/gas/diesel at home either'.<p>The infra around EV charging needs to be much much better, I totally agree with this, but the idea that everyone will be able to charge their cars at home just isn't going to happen</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2022 10:53:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32605689</link><dc:creator>acallaghan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32605689</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32605689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by acallaghan in "Silent crisis of soaring excess deaths in Britain is only tip of the iceberg"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I mean blaming the PM that was last in power over 15 years ago seems a stretch?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:37:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32539546</link><dc:creator>acallaghan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32539546</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32539546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by acallaghan in "West London faces new home ban as electric grid at capacity due to data centres"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The whole UK is on the grid, even if you have solar generation, you sell the surplus back to the grid</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2022 08:29:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32261726</link><dc:creator>acallaghan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32261726</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32261726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by acallaghan in "We are removing the option to create new subscriptions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I suspect a temporary ID that links the two that lives for just the time of the Payment Request and transmitted as metadata? Once the payment is successful, it removes the ID linking the payment to the account ID & severs the link - just the account has the credit</p>
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