Hacker News: asalahli

New comment by asalahli in "Why most product tours get skipped"

asalahli — Wed, 06 May 2026 00:55:44 +0000

Even then, a new user account doesn't necessarily mean a new user.

Every time I start on a new job, I have to click through Slack's, Github's and many other dev tools' stupid guided tours for the hundredth time

New comment by asalahli in "Show HN: Hacker News archive (47M+ items, 11.6GB) as Parquet, updated every 5m"

asalahli — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:37:37 +0000

Where are you getting a ~$10/month VPS with 12GB RAM from?

New comment by asalahli in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

asalahli — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 21:20:20 +0000

Any way to follow the progress of the project?

New comment by asalahli in "Stopping bad guys from using my open source project (feedback wanted)"

asalahli — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 20:43:53 +0000

https://archive.is/J3n3q

New comment by asalahli in "Building a Durable Execution Engine with SQLite"

asalahli — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 20:46:22 +0000

Canvas, celery's orchestration system, leaves a lot to be desired

New comment by asalahli in "Ask HN: Good resources to learn financial systems engineering?"

asalahli — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 20:12:07 +0000

Check out The Payments Engineer Playbook[0]. I don't work on financial systems but I'm subscribed and like the occasional distributed systems insights.

One of the posts turned up on HN front page a year ago[1]. Thats how I discovered it

0. https://news.alvaroduran.com/

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42269227

New comment by asalahli in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"

asalahli — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 06:34:20 +0000

Recently I've been wanting to build a chat server that works over ssh. And by that I don't mean it uses the ssh protocol but that you ssh into the server and the shell you get is the chat client.

One day, maybe

New comment by asalahli in "Become unbannable from your email"

asalahli — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 06:34:20 +0000

AliExpress is one of them, as far as I know

New comment by asalahli in "Litestream v0.5.0"

asalahli — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 19:42:05 +0000

Avoiding N+1 doesn't have to mean limiting yourself to 1 query. You can still fetch the posts in one query and the comments of _all_ posts in a separate query, just don't issue a query for _each_ post.

More formally, the number of queries should be constant and not linearly scaling with the number of rows you're processing.

New comment by asalahli in "I regret building this $3000 Pi AI cluster"

asalahli — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 20:02:49 +0000

FWIW I like Level 2 Jeff more and I would watch the videos with or without the clickbait-y titles. As you've said I've never found your titles deceptive so if they bring you more money, then more power to you

New comment by asalahli in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

asalahli — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 05:32:37 +0000

I don't think dang was a moderator at that time

New comment by asalahli in "The key to getting MVC correct is understanding what models are"

asalahli — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 06:51:07 +0000

> the original/popular definitions were so incredibly abstract and disconnected from real life usage that they ended up being whatever the person implementing it wanted it to be.

This is what happened with REST too, and it frustrates me more than it probably should.

The original pattern is such a good idea and not even remotely abstract. It's a well defined architectural pattern for a well defined problem yet people still managed to bastardize it to the point that the term REST barely means anything today

New comment by asalahli in "Overengineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers"

asalahli — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 17:48:31 +0000

What kinds of workloads do you use this infra for, if you don't mind sharing?

New comment by asalahli in "Mini NASes marry NVMe to Intel's efficient chip"

asalahli — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 18:16:44 +0000

This sounds exactly like what I'm looking. Care to share the brand&model?

New comment by asalahli in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)"

asalahli — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 01:12:54 +0000

Is that not possible today with the self hosting option? https://atproto.com/guides/self-hosting

New comment by asalahli in "My home servers are not a homelab"

asalahli — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 04:27:42 +0000

As a Canadian who doesn't follow daily news, I'm very curious to know what you're referring to in your last paragraph. Care to elaborate?

New comment by asalahli in "Stability by Design"

asalahli — Fri, 09 May 2025 05:53:31 +0000

> I selected the following libraries off the top of my head with three criteria: all have more than 500 stars and are in active use.

This sentence bothered me way more that it should've, for some reason.

New comment by asalahli in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)"

asalahli — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 22:39:55 +0000

You might like this and or find it inspiring, in case you haven't seen it already:

Saving Voyager 1! - Bruce Waggoner at !!Con 2024 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF_9YcehCZo

Edit: Also, please do share when it's playable :)

New comment by asalahli in "Show HN: I made a site to tell the time in corporate"

asalahli — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 21:51:58 +0000

All that's missing is a "Happy [day-of-the-week]!" greeting

New comment by asalahli in "Why does Mill use Scala?"

asalahli — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 21:44:40 +0000

> There's boundless libraries to make Python more functional, use stricter typing, or reduce the amount of side effects it can cause.

What are some examples of a library that can limit or prevent side effects of a piece of python code? I could use one right now.