Hacker News: articsputnik

New comment by articsputnik in "HeidiSQL – Lightweight MariaDB, MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL and SQLite Manager"

articsputnik — Fri, 29 May 2026 09:44:40 +0000

I use neovim for querying my databases with DBUI and tpope dadbod :) https://www.ssp.sh/brain/query-databases-in-vim-vim-dadbod/

But HeidiSQL and DBeaver are great, and open source (DBeaver even has a vim integration too;)

New comment by articsputnik in "I hated writing until I learned there’s a science to it (2024)"

articsputnik — Fri, 29 May 2026 08:20:52 +0000

For me, it was like this until I discovered the language English. I hated writing when I had to do it in school, "high German", I’m a Swiss. We talk Swiss German, and this is not a written language. So I had to kind of write in a foreign language. But later in life, when I did a mini-retirement in Denmark to learn proper English, all of a sudden I loved reading more, started listening to podcasts, and started writing.

It was through the language of English that I got to love writing and reading (mostly Audible). It was Writing in a Foreign Language again, but this time, it fitted more to my style, also because it’s straight to the point and you have so many of the same words to explain a specific sentence so well. I wrote more at https://www.ssp.sh/brain/writing-in-a-foreign-language just in case of interest.

We got attacked via GitHub PRs

articsputnik — Fri, 29 May 2026 08:00:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.blef.fr/someone-tried-to-hack-us

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48320370

Points: 1

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New comment by articsputnik in "I moved my digital stack to Europe"

articsputnik — Wed, 13 May 2026 12:47:05 +0000

> This website has been temporarily rate limited

Did he move also the CDN stack? :)

New comment by articsputnik in "I hate soldering"

articsputnik — Tue, 12 May 2026 07:25:37 +0000

Nice poem.

New comment by articsputnik in "Writers are fleeing the Substack Tax"

articsputnik — Mon, 11 May 2026 11:26:25 +0000

This is what they want you to believe, sure, it will help in the short-term. But when switching, losing most of them, and losing your content (if not moved with you), but all the domain ranking, is much bigger. And the real discovery happens on social media or through writing high-quality content that will always be shared or discovered. But all of this applies to blogging, newsletters only, like sending your thoughts via email, is OK, but a real blog, I'd want on my own domain/website.

New comment by articsputnik in "Writers are fleeing the Substack Tax"

articsputnik — Mon, 11 May 2026 07:56:52 +0000

None paywal link: https://archive.ph/bmX1d

I loved the open web quote: "The more important thing is that we have a home on the open web that we control, and whatever anti-creator changes Substack is forced to make in the future to live up to its valuation we won't be affected by."

To me, I always said to have your own website and domain. Because platforms come and go. I have experienced it myself with Medium, WordPress, etc. I wrote a little more about "Why I think to Have Your Website" at https://www.ssp.sh/brain/why-have-your-website/ (in case of interest)

Writers are fleeing the Substack Tax

articsputnik — Mon, 11 May 2026 07:48:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/tech/927294/substack-tax-ghost-beehiiv

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48092181

Points: 30

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Use given/when/then Specs avoid Spaghetti Code

articsputnik — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:24:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.startdataengineering.com/post/using-llms-for-data-engineering/#step-1-define-requirements-with-gherkin

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47867343

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

DuckDB Kernel – analytical execution runtime for Jupyter

articsputnik — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:38:07 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/hugr-lab/duckdb-kernel

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47859862

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Notes Compound. Blogs Capture. My Ten Years of Learning in Public

articsputnik — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:47:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ssp.sh/blog/why-i-still-blog/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47708809

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by articsputnik in "CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font"

articsputnik — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 09:09:56 +0000

ohh thanks for sharing, I'll check that out.

New comment by articsputnik in "CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font"

articsputnik — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 09:07:30 +0000

the winner of mine was Inconsolata, tough my favorite font, Iosevka, was not even part of the sample :)

The Joy of Distraction-Free Writing on a Micro Journal Rev.2 (With Neovim)

articsputnik — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 12:50:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ssp.sh/brain/my-distraction-free-typewriter-micro-journal/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47542099

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Neomd – email TUI where you compose in Neovim and read in Markdown

articsputnik — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 10:23:27 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/ssp-data/neomd

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47515472

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by articsputnik in "Show HN: Email.md – Markdown to responsive, email-safe HTML"

articsputnik — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 23:07:06 +0000

I gave Claude a spin, given all my likings ;) https://github.com/ssp-data/neomd

New comment by articsputnik in "Show HN: Email.md – Markdown to responsive, email-safe HTML"

articsputnik — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:09:43 +0000

Love everything to Markdownify :) I was just wondering, is there a Neovim/Markdown email client? Potentially using something like this? I love Neomutt, or Newsboat, and other TUIs. It would be great to have something totally on Markdown. Update: I gave it a spin [1] with Go and some of my favorite CLI's.

[1] https://x.com/sspaeti/status/2036539855182627169

Being a Morning Person

articsputnik — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:06:55 +0000

Article URL: https://herman.bearblog.dev/becoming-a-day-person/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47487777

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by articsputnik in "OpenAI to Acquire Astral"

articsputnik — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:08:11 +0000

Duplicate: there's already a thread about this on HN, currently sitting at #1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47438723

New comment by articsputnik in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

articsputnik — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:06:37 +0000

to be expected at some point, but for the independence and best interest of the Python ecosystem, I don't think it's a plus.