Hacker News: astrospective

New comment by astrospective in "LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs"

astrospective — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:35:11 +0000

I keep my profile updated as a consultant because it lets clients and others in my company get a fuller gauge than my one pager. I’ve also got my most recent and prior job from having a price and responding to the right recruiter, I’ve also had a handful of interviews as well, which is honestly more than I’ve gotten from trying to apply to random job board postings.

New comment by astrospective in "Europe wants to end its dangerous reliance on US internet technology"

astrospective — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 00:52:00 +0000

Porting involved Excel sheets into web apps has been a decent chunk of my dev career.

New comment by astrospective in "Apple M5 chip"

astrospective — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 22:19:58 +0000

The butterfly switches break easily and replacing the entire keyboard because of it is a pain. I held on to my 2015 intel MBP for ages waiting for them to address that.

New comment by astrospective in "Fartscroll-Lid: An app that plays fart sounds when opening or closing a MacBook"

astrospective — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 02:02:33 +0000

Swapping lid for trunk?

New comment by astrospective in "Fartscroll-Lid: An app that plays fart sounds when opening or closing a MacBook"

astrospective — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 02:00:01 +0000

We had a classmate would would wander off with his laptop unlocked so one day we set all his system sounds to fart noises and cranked up the volume. He came back to class minimized a window and the whole class heard the noise and cracked up. We also got good mileage out of adding a wireless mouse on another occasion and zipping his cursor around the screen for probably a good ten minutes.

New comment by astrospective in "Researchers develop ‘transparent paper’ as alternative to plastics"

astrospective — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 01:29:12 +0000

Too much lead.

New comment by astrospective in "I tried Windows gaming on a Mac"

astrospective — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 01:40:16 +0000

There’s a bunch that are available, Slay the Spire runs on Mac without any work, install straight from Steam.

New comment by astrospective in "Rust Is Eating JavaScript"

astrospective — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 15:01:26 +0000

That would track, one of the few things I miss when writing c#. Instead you break out into interfaces as much as you can.

New comment by astrospective in "Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]"

astrospective — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 00:46:56 +0000

Part of the issue is Xbox segmented the market with the less powerful Series S and put constraints on releases needing to have feature parity between the two, quite a few devs have had issues with. It delayed Baldur’s Gate 3 for months until MS waived off the split screen co-op. Seems bizarre to chase power at hard and then make it harder for your devs to develop to it.

https://www.techradar.com/gaming/is-the-xbox-series-s-holdin...

New comment by astrospective in "Tesla Sales Are Tanking in Europe"

astrospective — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 16:20:49 +0000

I love my iPad, but I’d still rather have knobs and buttons in my car, if I need to adjust it while driving I need to be able to find it without looking.

New comment by astrospective in "The death of Glitch, the birth of Slack"

astrospective — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 21:32:41 +0000

For me it’s not even just the pivot, but the internal tool they built incidentally that’s the product they pivot too.

New comment by astrospective in "Getting to 2M users as a one woman dev team [video]"

astrospective — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 20:45:19 +0000

I bring this up in PRs, as I know with my own experience I don’t always mean to commit it commented out, sometimes it was just for testing, or it should have been deleted after I was done refactoring.

New comment by astrospective in "Unicomp's "New" Model M Keyboard"

astrospective — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 00:45:44 +0000

I’ve been using an Ergodox-EZ for 7 years, it’s been so good for my wrists.

New comment by astrospective in "World surpasses key warming threshold across an entire year"

astrospective — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 13:19:05 +0000

There’s going to be more moisture in the air, wet bulb temperature is gets deadly at much lower temperatures than dry, https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/jul/31/why-you-need...

New comment by astrospective in "The invention of a new pasta shape (2021)"

astrospective — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 21:17:30 +0000

By odd coincidence, I bought my first box of this today, looking forward to trying it out.

New comment by astrospective in "A Guide for Prospective Tea Monks"

astrospective — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 18:24:55 +0000

I adore these, I’d agree there’s something of a similar vibe going on between them. Lots of optimism, but not in a saccharine way.

New comment by astrospective in "We’re all just temporarily abled"

astrospective — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 19:41:40 +0000

Also every year I get a little more resentful of spinner wheels for year of birth that start at the current year.

New comment by astrospective in "A few things to know before stealing my 914 (2022)"

astrospective — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 04:34:08 +0000

Same, few more labels and a more stock mapping but I’ve seen people give up after seconds of attempting it.

New comment by astrospective in "Type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier inspired by Stripe IDs"

astrospective — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 02:31:07 +0000

Like telling people asking for game cheats to use Alt-F4.

New comment by astrospective in "Rules for developers to design beautiful UIs without a designer"

astrospective — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 20:16:30 +0000

When I was a tester first thing I’d do was fill every text box with Ws just to see what ran over. Good to remember as a dev now.