Hacker News: ashrodan

New comment by ashrodan in "A playable DOOM MCP app"

ashrodan — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:22:06 +0000

Love it! MCP apps is still new and under-utilised and we need to understand it's boundaries and compatibility.

New comment by ashrodan in "Show HN: Shareful.ai – Stack Overflow for AI Coding Agents"

ashrodan — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 09:11:02 +0000

on the money here - your Agent will thank you later.

New comment by ashrodan in "The Code-Only Agent"

ashrodan — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 06:50:28 +0000

Nice I have a skill I should publish that uses uv scripts

Very powerful strategy.

I have also tinkered with a multi language sandbox but that's a but involved

New comment by ashrodan in "Show HN: I built a text-based business simulator to replace video courses"

ashrodan — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 13:48:01 +0000

Awesome content reads top notch

New comment by ashrodan in "We switched from Next.js to Astro (and why it might interest you)"

ashrodan — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 18:30:35 +0000

This is refreshing as I just built a website using astro with dato

New comment by ashrodan in "Select * from cloud"

ashrodan — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 15:06:27 +0000

I'd want to know how to have a hosted solution.

Ideally build reports and alerts

New comment by ashrodan in "Ask HN: Is there anything I can do with an Apple Watch without an iPhone?"

ashrodan — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 14:15:11 +0000

My Garmin forerunner music can load up Spotify music and connect to a Bluetooth headset. Will need a phone to setup and update

New comment by ashrodan in "An app-driven, dark kitchen-dominated future?"

ashrodan — Sun, 25 Apr 2021 17:11:11 +0000

It's a good observation.

What this is proving is that consumer behaviour is shifting rapidly with us wanting eye catching food with that ow so fuzzy feeling of something being delivered to you without the need to talk to anyone.

Consumers have a higher perceptual need to satisfy their food desires knowing that cooking for themselves might not make the mark.

And with the rise of evergrowing distractions cooking for yourself is a chore now easily avoidable.

Albeit I'll skip trying to rationalise our habits of overindulgence with something that's convenient and satisfying even if it's short-lived...

New comment by ashrodan in "Ask HN: What is the best enterprise software you use every day?"

ashrodan — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 11:08:07 +0000

It's god awful UI is laggy Chat has no threading Integrations are limited

New comment by ashrodan in "Testing Firefox more efficiently with machine learning"

ashrodan — Sat, 11 Jul 2020 15:43:46 +0000

I've used it for small projects and it's okay. Rq is quite simple and limited in a sense.

I guess what I'd recommend to Mozilla, although fantastic work, is that's it worth trying to compute certain features (data points) upfront to simplify the main model. These calculated features can be used as inputs to the main model possibly reducing the response time.

New comment by ashrodan in "Launch HN: Release (YC W20) – Staging environments made easy"

ashrodan — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 20:16:35 +0000

https://runnable.com/preview-environments/

Runnable has the same offering, now bought out by mulesoft.

They charged per user.

New comment by ashrodan in "Show HN: Egeria, a multidimensional spreadsheet for everybody"

ashrodan — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 03:51:51 +0000

Then how do you support it? What happens when you need to upgrade or fix a bug? It's nice to hear that you'll support different needs but be careful as this could cause unnecessary complexities and take you away from developing the core product and improvements. Makes me cringe thinking about supporting different versions of the same product.

I'd suggest stick to the cloud offering and get compliant with gdpr and soc etc

New comment by ashrodan in "Show HN: Egeria, a multidimensional spreadsheet for everybody"

ashrodan — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 03:39:28 +0000

Check out https://www.sigmacomputing.com As they have done just this.

Nice work though! Keen to test it out. Hopefully a mobile version is on the roadmap.

New comment by ashrodan in "Show HN: A mobile-friendly, web-based, countries of the world game"

ashrodan — Mon, 10 Dec 2018 05:21:59 +0000

It's the punishment for not getting the answer right! I thought the same initially, to show the explanation after every try but the explanation comes as reward once you get it right. You get unlimited chances to guess the wrong ones so might as well force the learning of the question and reward it with the info.

New comment by ashrodan in "WhatsApp Web"

ashrodan — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 00:18:19 +0000

I am very impressed with WA first cut at a web interface. The login is simply genius and the interface is clean and minimalist.

When revealing it to my friends in a Whatsapp group some where very curious and hesitant to know if the service is more vulnerable that it's now has a web service.

I initially assured them that is practically the same it being on any other platform, however I had some doubts myself.

Thought Id open it up to HN... IS whatsapp now more vulnerable with the new web interface?