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ZZüy: A Lesson in Perseverance

afisxisto — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 01:27:55 +0000

Article URL: https://martinrue.com/zzuy-a-lesson-in-perseverance/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48549410

Points: 3

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New comment by afisxisto in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

afisxisto — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 08:32:16 +0000

I'm working on a Chrome extension for X that adds language learning features: https://uselangbot.com. I think it's a bit too niche for it to become a viable business, but let's see... usage is growing the more I talk about it.

Fun fact: I coded it by hand (because I enjoy doing that), which I think in 2026, puts me into the psychopath group according to most.

New comment by afisxisto in "Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]"

afisxisto — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:09:41 +0000

I remember finding a comment in the first codebase I ever worked on professionally in my first ever job.

It read "This fixes a bug that hasn't happened yet".

It seemed really smart at first, but later I learned that the developer that added that code also had a pattern of appending spaces to the start and end of user input and comparing the length to 2 to determine whether the value was empty or not...

So I'm fairly sure "that hasn't happened yet" was probably more a case of "that I personally haven't introduced unnecessarily yet" :)

Nothing Matters

afisxisto — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 02:15:44 +0000

Article URL: https://martinrue.com/nothing-matters/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47871616

Points: 2

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New comment by afisxisto in "The “small web” is bigger than you might think"

afisxisto — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 18:49:11 +0000

Cool to see Gemini mentioned here. A few years back I created Station, Gemini's first "social network" of sorts, still running today: https://martinrue.com/station