Hacker News: alexbezhan

New comment by alexbezhan in "After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell"

alexbezhan — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 10:32:41 +0000

I find the need for type systems is less important now. and thats me saying this after 15 years of coding in Java, Scala, Kotlin, Typescript.

Now I am using Elixir and incredibly surprised by how little I need static types. They are useful, but less needed now.

Never could believe I would say that. But I'm the most productive I ever been.

I get bugs of course, but they are related to queues lengths, retries, api errors, memory usage, performance, ... Bugs related to incompatible types are rare.

New comment by alexbezhan in "Sergey Brin told Google staff that working 60 hours a week is the 'sweet spot'"

alexbezhan — Sun, 31 May 2026 18:04:49 +0000

There is a book, called "The Price of Tomorrow". Talking about this specific problem. TLDR: Inflation

New comment by alexbezhan in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

alexbezhan — Thu, 28 May 2026 18:12:28 +0000

Its possible to appeal if you have a legit channel. My mom actually got demonetized accidentally. She managed to appeal and successfully got it fixed by Youtube.

New comment by alexbezhan in "Celebrating 20 Years of MDN"

alexbezhan — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 09:45:45 +0000

MDN is the best. I use only standard web features and it’s a blessing to have MDN. Thank you for your hard work.

New comment by alexbezhan in "Wikihouse: Open-Source Houses"

alexbezhan — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 09:16:17 +0000

People build much worse houses now, from aesthetic perspective. No matter where I go, I usually prefer to live in a city center because that's where the most pleasing houses are. We forgot how to build nice houses. Sad.

New comment by alexbezhan in "Mariposa – A programming language with time-travel"

alexbezhan — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 09:05:27 +0000

It's a toy language. A toy.

Escaping Complexity in the world of Clean Code and OOP

alexbezhan — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 13:21:24 +0000

Article URL: https://alexbezhan.substack.com/p/escaping-complexity-in-the-world

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38591358

Points: 1

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Escaping Complexity in the world of Clean Code and OOP

alexbezhan — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 21:24:41 +0000

Article URL: https://alexbezhan.substack.com/p/escaping-complexity-in-the-world

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38510911

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by alexbezhan in "Lapce Editor 0.3"

alexbezhan — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 16:06:21 +0000

Code folding is still not supported. It's a dealbreaker for me https://github.com/lapce/lapce/issues/749

New comment by alexbezhan in "Ask HN: PG's 'Do Things That Don't Scale' manual examples?"

alexbezhan — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 01:53:14 +0000

I manually signup users. They leave their email on the website, I then go and create user in Auth0 and send them invitation.

Planning to change this flow now before going public.

New comment by alexbezhan in "Ask HN: Is middle management the most vulnerable/disposable in a corporation?"

alexbezhan — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 19:22:17 +0000

I’m a founder of a company, and I hire managers. It depends on the person skill set, and not the title.

The business still needs middle management, but they are cutting the weakest people. It just turns out that a lot of middle managers are weak.

New comment by alexbezhan in "Show HN: I made a all-in-one web app to help me with my freelance admin tasks"

alexbezhan — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 19:05:35 +0000

Great web app, great UX. What did you use for user registration and confirmatino email? Auth0?

New comment by alexbezhan in "Choose Postgres queue technology"

alexbezhan — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 07:27:16 +0000

I'm using SQLite as my main database. Is it a bad idea to build queues on top of SQLite?

New comment by alexbezhan in "Show HN: Tome, aka Tom's Editor – a new command-line text editor"

alexbezhan — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 19:09:19 +0000

CRM from scratch - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4QjeBEkNLc (Shameless plug)

New comment by alexbezhan in "Linear code is more readable"

alexbezhan — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 12:59:40 +0000

I write top-to-bottom code almost always. And prefer not to have separate functions if I don't need them. Here is the real example I'm building CRM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4QjeBEkNLc

New comment by alexbezhan in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2023)"

alexbezhan — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 22:47:46 +0000

I’m hiring my first Full Stack Web programmer to the team. The app is called AMS Pilot. It’s a spreadsheet interface specifically designed for Amazon PPC (pay-per-click). PPC managers use it as their daily driver. It lets the users perform the work they need to do - optimise PPC campaigns.

I avoid bloated libraries if possible and try to retain as much control over user experience as possible. While also keeping the app simple.

There is no OOP bs in the code. The coding principles are very similar to the ones that Casey Muratori and Jonathan Blow use, since I came to similar conclusions after programming for 13+ years.

On the server-side I use Node with Typescript and SQLite.

In the browser I use Vanilla DOM API in Typescript and a little bit of HTMX. The app is using Amazon API a lot, to download the PPC data on a daily basis and show it to the user.

If you have web experience 3+ years, are from Eastern Europe or similar timezone and are interested, DM me please in Twitter @alexbezhan

I rewrote my spreadsheet from ReactTable to Vanilla JavaScript

alexbezhan — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 13:38:35 +0000

Article URL: https://alexbezhan.substack.com/p/how-i-rewrote-my-spreadsheet-from

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36931038

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by alexbezhan in "Going from React to Vanilla JavaScript"

alexbezhan — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 14:17:57 +0000

Author here. I've used React Table for this, which has like 20k+ stars on Github. It's slow. Imagine you want to edit a cell in a spreadsheet with 40k rows. You MUST create a new array, otherwise React won't update the DOM.

New comment by alexbezhan in "Going from React to Vanilla JavaScript"

alexbezhan — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 14:15:11 +0000

Author here. JSX makes it easy to do easy things.

Building DOM is not a hard problem at all. Yes, it's more tedius with Vanilla DOM. But that's not a hard problem.

Hard problem is making it fast, reliable and predictable.

Going from React to Vanilla JavaScript

alexbezhan — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 13:38:16 +0000

Article URL: https://alexbezhan.substack.com/p/going-from-react-to-vanilla-js

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36644274

Points: 43

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