Hacker News: alexgandy

New comment by alexgandy in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

alexgandy — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 18:08:57 +0000

I've been hacking on gaffer (https://gaffer.sh) as a way to learn and explore agentic development. It's been fun and I've even picked up a couple customers.

New comment by alexgandy in "Profiling Hacker News users based on their comments"

alexgandy — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:59:08 +0000

You’re right about the speed; but it doesn’t change the outcome. If you don’t want it to be associated with you, you simply can’t put it out there.

New comment by alexgandy in "Profiling Hacker News users based on their comments"

alexgandy — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:41:58 +0000

This just in; posting ridiculous amounts of personal information on the internet can lead to you being profiled correctly. Wild stuff.

New comment by alexgandy in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

alexgandy — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:36:57 +0000

Building a tool to make test reports useful - https://gaffer.sh

New comment by alexgandy in "Ask HN: How do you manage flaky E2E tests at scale?"

alexgandy — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 14:31:24 +0000

As far as the "what to do with flaky tests", I error on the side of just outright killing the tests. Unless it's an absolutely crucial business case, I'd rather have no test than a test that slowly degrades trust.

For what it's worth, I've been working on a side-project to try to help with almost this exact situation and would be really interested if it could help you; https://gaffer.sh

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

alexgandy — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 14:05:08 +0000

Sounds really interesting. What are you using for the tests/reports?

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

alexgandy — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 13:54:56 +0000

I'm a solo dev working on Gaffer ( https://gaffer.sh ) - Centralized Test Reports for Teams and Agents. It's been a fun side-project test out vibe-coding and cloudflare infrastructure.

New comment by alexgandy in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

alexgandy — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:14:08 +0000

https://alexgandy.com

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

alexgandy — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 23:23:29 +0000

I've been building Gaffer.sh, a tool for hosting, analyzing and sharing test reports.

https://gaffer.sh

Originally it started as an excuse to test out vibe-coding on a previously over-engineered side-project, but has turned into a fun little obsession.

New comment by alexgandy in "Psilocybin for major depression granted Breakthrough Therapy by FDA"

alexgandy — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 17:54:18 +0000

Most people get LSD (and just about any other hallucinogens/empathogens) from the dark web.

New comment by alexgandy in "Ask HN: Would you pay for test coverage?"

alexgandy — Tue, 05 Jun 2018 18:37:13 +0000

Yea, I think that'll be one of the future steps if this thing goes anywhere.

New comment by alexgandy in "Ask HN: Would you pay for test coverage?"

alexgandy — Tue, 05 Jun 2018 18:36:35 +0000

Thanks for the detailed response.

I think a lot of companies have some portion of their code that's been avoided for a variety of reasons. I think adding unit tests, simple automated tests and quick CI processes can really alleviate that fear...so eventually that section can be refactored (or moved to a service, etc).

I appreciate what you're saying about needed to be more deeply connected with the code for truly valid tests. What I'm wondering is if there's a happy middle ground where code shops just want basic coverage around their code.

Ask HN: Would you pay for test coverage?

alexgandy — Tue, 05 Jun 2018 16:02:30 +0000

I've been toying with the idea of starting a consultancy that's sole goal is to improve testing infrastructure, speed and coverage.

It's something I've always enjoyed on my own projects, so I think I'd enjoy helping other development teams do the same.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17238965

Points: 3

# Comments: 5

New comment by alexgandy in "Facebook to Let Users Rank Credibility of News"

alexgandy — Mon, 22 Jan 2018 03:35:46 +0000

Bad or good, this is an admission of failure. Facebook just flat out said "screw it, you all decide what's real...because we sure as shit can't."

New comment by alexgandy in "Ask HN: Do you have a side project that you would like to sell?"

alexgandy — Sat, 29 Jul 2017 16:06:57 +0000

Just a note; you SSL cert is either expired or invalid. So when I visit the link you posted, and get redirected to the https version, I'm greated with a big chrome warning page.

New comment by alexgandy in "Ask HN: What podcasts are you listening to?"

alexgandy — Sun, 11 Jun 2017 00:17:15 +0000

True Crime - Last Podcast on the Left - Criminal - Crimetown

Random Info - Radiolab - 99% Invisible

Interviews - WTF w/ Marc Maron - Joe Rogan (depending on the guest) - The Nerdist (depending on the guest)

New comment by alexgandy in "Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?"

alexgandy — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 16:32:34 +0000

https://referhub.co

It's dramatically reduced the amount of annoying recruiter spam that I get. I'm proud that it was initially just a test-bed for new technologies, that actually became useful.

Show HN: ReferHub.co – Filter recruiter spam

alexgandy — Thu, 21 Jul 2016 14:57:24 +0000

Article URL: https://referhub.co/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12137260

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by alexgandy in "Ask HN: Best ultrabook for Linux?"

alexgandy — Thu, 24 Mar 2016 15:51:30 +0000

I'm in the same boat, and I have to use Vagrant + VirtualBox for just about anything docker related.

New comment by alexgandy in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2015)"

alexgandy — Thu, 01 Oct 2015 19:30:22 +0000

ReferHub (https://www.referhub.co), Cleveland, OH, US - Remote

Looking for Javascript Developers (Node/Angular) with front-end development experience. We're trying to help developers get real information from recruiters.

email: alex -at] referhub.co