Hacker News: aslakhellesoy

New comment by aslakhellesoy in "Pele – Mermaid diagrams as themeable SVG"

aslakhellesoy — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 20:15:28 +0000

Spade in French

New comment by aslakhellesoy in "Markdown in /src"

aslakhellesoy — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 22:43:59 +0000

This aligns 100% with the philospohy of Varar (https://varar.dev).

In-between all those ephemeral agent sessions, spec, plan and design files, there is something that survives. The src/*.md files.

With Varar you can link small parts (cells) of those Markdown files to your code, so they stay in sync. So you (and agents) can find out what your system does without reading 300 million lines of code.

Full disclaimer: I am the guy who wrote Cucumber - that most people here hate. I eventually lost my love for that tool myself, but I did miss the ability to keep docs and code in sync. Hence Varar - a tool like that with fewer (different?) warts, for the agentic area.

New comment by aslakhellesoy in "Sloc Cloc and Code 4.0 (scc) – Finding the files that need the most attention"

aslakhellesoy — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 05:50:18 +0000

Very interesting. This reminds me a lot of the CRAP metric - a combination of cyclomatic complexity and code coverage.

It would be intersting to combine your «attention» metric with CRAP.

New comment by aslakhellesoy in "Late.sh – a command-line Clubhouse for computer people"

aslakhellesoy — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 07:24:19 +0000

Even 15 years ago this was such a big problem that someone tried to start a rebellion: https://contrastrebellion.com/

New comment by aslakhellesoy in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

aslakhellesoy — Thu, 28 May 2026 07:16:01 +0000

They forgot to AI-label that Bender-sounding voiceover in the article…

New comment by aslakhellesoy in "Google changes its search box"

aslakhellesoy — Tue, 19 May 2026 22:59:57 +0000

Dude it's Depeche Mode

New comment by aslakhellesoy in "Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work"

aslakhellesoy — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 17:28:46 +0000

Shhh don’t let them know!

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

aslakhellesoy — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 08:26:40 +0000

FYI: DocuSign’s moat/USP is trust, not software.

DocuSign customers buy trust.

New comment by aslakhellesoy in "Sqawk: A fusion of SQL and Awk: Applying SQL to text-based data files"

aslakhellesoy — Tue, 27 May 2025 07:53:24 +0000

I wonder how this compares to csvkit [1].

[1]: https://csvkit.readthedocs.io/

New comment by aslakhellesoy in "Found a simple tool for database modeling: dbdiagram.io"

aslakhellesoy — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 20:41:24 +0000

I’ve been using Mermerd [1] for years and never looked back. Simple, does one thing well.

It gets even better with elk layout - just prepend this frontmatter snippet to mermerd’s output:

    ---
    config:
      layout: elk
    ---

[1]: https://github.com/KarnerTh/mermerd

SpecFlow (Cucumber for .NET) has been forked

aslakhellesoy — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 22:10:38 +0000

Article URL: https://reqnroll.net/news/2024/02/from-specflow-to-reqnroll-why-and-how/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39308487

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by aslakhellesoy in "Show HN: Stacktape – Full power of AWS with Heroku-like experience"

aslakhellesoy — Sat, 16 Apr 2022 20:49:42 +0000

This sounds very similar to AWS CDK. How does it compare?

New comment by aslakhellesoy in "GraphQL is now available on Supabase"

aslakhellesoy — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 12:25:15 +0000

Excellent - thanks!

New comment by aslakhellesoy in "GraphQL is now available on Supabase"

aslakhellesoy — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 07:00:01 +0000

Excellent work!

Postgraphile uses a naming convention for postgres functions to extend the GraphQL schema [1].

Do you have any plans to support a similar mechanism in pg_graphql?

[1]: https://www.graphile.org/postgraphile/functions/

New comment by aslakhellesoy in "Launch HN: Hydra (YC W22) – Query any database via Postgres"

aslakhellesoy — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 17:48:45 +0000

Congratulations on the launch - this sounds interesting.

I'm currently using Postgraphile[0], which uses Postgres' introspection API to discover the schema structure.

Would this still work with Hydra?

[0] https://www.graphile.org/postgraphile/

New comment by aslakhellesoy in "The Stack Fallacy (2016)"

aslakhellesoy — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 18:22:36 +0000

This is exactly why I love Example Mapping.

https://cucumber.io/blog/bdd/example-mapping-introduction/

New comment by aslakhellesoy in "Launch HN: MindsDB (YC W20) – Machine Learning Inside Your Database"

aslakhellesoy — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 18:17:26 +0000

Looks very interesting! Any plans to support DynamoDB/Scylla?

New comment by aslakhellesoy in "Beyond the Code: Mining Self-Admitted Technical Debt in Issue Tracker Systems"

aslakhellesoy — Sun, 19 Apr 2020 19:13:39 +0000

I created a tool (bumbailiff) that allows a team to accrue a limited amount of debt, for a limited period of time. Then it fails the build.

Read more about it here: https://cucumber.io/blog/bdd/todo-or-not-todo/

Cucumber Ltd Acquired by SmartBear

aslakhellesoy — Tue, 25 Jun 2019 12:02:19 +0000

Article URL: https://cucumber.io/blog/cucumber-acquired-by-smartbear/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20273335

Points: 3

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New comment by aslakhellesoy in "Subsecond full-stack acceptance tests with Node.js"

aslakhellesoy — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 12:53:39 +0000

Browser-monkey is awesome, and for a real project I'd consider using it. I'd also use a virtual dom UI library like Vue, React, Hyperdom or similar.

For a teaching example I think it's essential to reduce the number of external libraries, or else it's too much to take in.