Hacker News: alexghr

MEPs want to tackle inconsistent rules for airline carry-on luggage

alexghr — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 12:48:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20230929IPR06131/meps-want-to-tackle-inconsistent-rules-for-airline-carry-on-luggage

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37764322

Points: 1

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New comment by alexghr in "Nobody ever paid me for code"

alexghr — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 13:26:39 +0000

> So keep the technical talk to your peers, unless the client explicitly asks for it.

This! Adapt the message to the target audience. The code we write is an abstraction, it takes some input and produces an output. For many it's a black box or can be thought of as a black box. Start high and go lower and lower until you reach the right level of detail for the person you're communicating with.

New comment by alexghr in "Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer"

alexghr — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 13:21:23 +0000

This is great to hear and I hope it will mean more people give Firefox a decent try! We need more people on alternative browsers in order to keep healthy competition between rendering engines.

Firefox also handles lots of tabs really well and its Tab Containers plugin enables perfect separation of work tabs and personal tabs (I've got 1.4k tabs split across personal/work containers. I've got a problem, I know)

New comment by alexghr in "The effects of the HN 'personal blogs' thread on my RSS feed"

alexghr — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 11:31:39 +0000

I was curious if the various projects that used data from the HN 'personal blogs' thread had a noticeable effect on my website. I looked through my nginx logs and saw that it's now getting a tonne of requests to the RSS feed (atm about 1.5k req/day compared to... 0/day prior)

The effects of the HN 'personal blogs' thread on my RSS feed

alexghr — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 11:29:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.alexghr.me/blog/effects-of-hn-personal-blogs-thread/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36707572

Points: 5

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How does a Mouse know when you move it? [video]

alexghr — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 07:11:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAaESb4wTCM

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36628277

Points: 2

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New comment by alexghr in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

alexghr — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 06:29:21 +0000

Sure, here's mine: https://www.alexghr.me/.

I've been running this site since ~2015 (same CSS for at least 8 years now) but there's not a lot of content on it. I've been trying to get more into it recently though and I'm posting TIL-style content :)

It started out as a site built out of Mustache templates with plain CSS for styling. A few months ago I migrated it to Astro so that I don't have to maintain a build script written in bash but the CSS and site layout stayed the same.

Summary of the Successful Interstellar Expedition

alexghr — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 11:11:41 +0000

Article URL: https://avi-loeb.medium.com/summary-of-the-successful-interstellar-expedition-61ff4467070d

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36585084

Points: 1

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New comment by alexghr in "Google Sidewiki"

alexghr — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 13:33:47 +0000

Just raising this since people might not know about it, but this is a Web standard now https://www.w3.org/annotation/. There are a couple of companies which have created browser plugins for this.

New comment by alexghr in "I made a smooth shadows generator"

alexghr — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 10:57:35 +0000

This is super cool and I'm definitely bookmarking it for later use :)

I'd suggest moving the "copy css/figma/link" buttons to the right panel or at least making them more obvious (maybe by increasing contrast?) as I had trouble figuring out how to export the shadow I made.

NASA's Curiosity Captures Martian Morning, Afternoon in New 'Postcard'

alexghr — Sat, 17 Jun 2023 07:28:48 +0000

Article URL: https://mars.nasa.gov/news/9415/nasas-curiosity-captures-martian-morning-afternoon-in-new-postcard/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36368109

Points: 1

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New comment by alexghr in "Reddit is OpenAI’s moat"

alexghr — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 14:17:37 +0000

I think what the article tries to say is that OpenAI have already scraped Reddit for training data and with the recent API changes and subreddits going dark, new competitors in the AI space won't have it as easy to get the same training set.

New comment by alexghr in "ES Modules Are Terrible"

alexghr — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 13:08:20 +0000

My bad, my past experience/bias got the better of me here. I only got exposed to CommonJS as a part of Nodejs but it does look like CommonJS was started independently of Node.

New comment by alexghr in "ES Modules Are Terrible"

alexghr — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 12:52:33 +0000

I agree, bundling isn't going anywhere for sure, but the web isn't all single-page-apps built with perfect engineering and top-notch frameworks.

Plenty of websites are just server-side rendered and just need to sprinkle some client side JS. For them it's perfect to be able to drop in a script and not have to worry about bundling or polluting the `window` object while loading external scripts.

New comment by alexghr in "ES Modules Are Terrible"

alexghr — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 12:22:31 +0000

I disagree.

What we gained is a native module system that works the same everywhere (Nodejs, browsers, deno, Bun) vs CommonJS which was really only built for Nodejs (with compatibility layers for others).

We have a specification for this system and any changes done to it have to follow the same process as any other change done to the language (for better or worse).

We have top-level async support that works across import boundaries. This is less useful on the server, but in the browser? With just a `import thing from "https://example.com/foo.js"` I get a fully intialised library even if does async requests as part of its initialisation.

What we lost is just this

``` const someInitializedModule = require("module-name")(someOptions); ```

The `app.use()` example can be replicated with an async `import()`. Maybe it's not as elegant as before.

There's going to be a lot pain of transitioning a big ecosystem like Javascript's to ESM but is that really a reason to not evolve the language?

New comment by alexghr in "Gandi.net – Pricing Update"

alexghr — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 09:57:43 +0000

I've been using PurelyMail[1] (it's been on hacker news a couple of times already) for about a year now and haven't had any issues with it. It uses consumption-based pricing so for my use (with two domains set up) it comes out to about $0.5/month. I think it's a small team (maybe just one person?) that maintains it.

[1]: https://purelymail.com/

TIL: A Use Case for UUIDv5

alexghr — Fri, 12 May 2023 07:55:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.alexghr.me/blog/til-generating-stable-uuids/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35913281

Points: 1

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New comment by alexghr in "Vercel Service Markup"

alexghr — Wed, 03 May 2023 04:54:45 +0000

Well, if nothing else, at least Vercel's new integrations have put new things on my map of free things to use in side-projects (I had never heard of Upstash before now) :))

New comment by alexghr in "Guess the Game"

alexghr — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 09:40:41 +0000

Really fun concept. I'd suggest changing the color of the "Submit" button because (at least on Firefox) to my eyes it looks like it's disabled.

It took me 4 tries to get today's game. I remember playing it a lot as a kid on a clone of NES that was really popular in Eastern Europe at the time :)

Aside: why are .game domains sooo expensive? I'd love to get one for a game I'm working on but I can't stomach paying £300/year to register the domain :/

New comment by alexghr in "On Adobe acquiring Figma"

alexghr — Fri, 23 Sep 2022 08:01:55 +0000

Maybe the author should've opened David Wadhwani LinkedIn profile instead of just linking to it. He worked for Adobe for 13 years until 2015 and rejoined in 2021.

PS: not defending the purchase or Adobe but this statement in the article is factually wrong ¯\_(ツ)_/¯