Hacker News: avdwrks

New comment by avdwrks in "New Apple TV 4K"

avdwrks — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:29:54 +0000

I bought one earlier this year right before they announced the $70 price increase. Going from $130 to $200 to $300 in the same year is crazy.

New comment by avdwrks in "Warren Buffett Steps Down as Berkshire Chairman, Names Son to Replace Him"

avdwrks — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 15:48:28 +0000

The guy is 71 years old and has built a life long career of his own, people are acting like he just elected a 21 year old nepo baby to run the company.

New comment by avdwrks in "Every Fucking Website (2020)"

avdwrks — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 20:11:54 +0000

To be fair, this website was from 2020... To your point, the web has gotten significantly more annoying to use since then.

New comment by avdwrks in "Spotify just hit 300M Premium subscribers"

avdwrks — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:38:52 +0000

Haven't had anything like that happen but can see the frustration... I think my biggest complaint is their CarPlay app. It's wicked buggy.

New comment by avdwrks in "All of Winona Police Department's Flock cameras cut down and stolen"

avdwrks — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:37:36 +0000

I just watched Benn Jordan's video about Flock's (numerous) vulnerabilities last night. Pretty crazy to think what people can do with these if they can get their hands on them.

New comment by avdwrks in "Spotify just hit 300M Premium subscribers"

avdwrks — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 17:24:23 +0000

I switched to Apple Music and haven't looked back. The UX isn't great, but the audio quality alone was worth the switch for me. It also actually shuffles your music instead of cycling through the same small subset of songs.

New comment by avdwrks in "The U.S. lead over China in AI is all but gone"

avdwrks — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 20:24:30 +0000

To be fair, does the US have a lead over China on anything anymore? Certainly not manufacturing, renewable energy, AI, or technology...

New comment by avdwrks in "GTA 6 will cost $80"

avdwrks — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:57:59 +0000

I can't believe GTA 5 came out 13 years ago...

New comment by avdwrks in "VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare"

avdwrks — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:37:56 +0000

This one is particularly interesting given that Vercel products (Nuxt) now rely on a competitor's tooling (Vite).

New comment by avdwrks in "The ways we contain Claude across products"

avdwrks — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:44:13 +0000

"It's possible Son of Anton thought the most efficient way to get rid of all the bugs was to get rid of all the software, which is technically and statistically correct"

New comment by avdwrks in "Zed is now available on Windows"

avdwrks — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 12:32:07 +0000

Fair point. Maybe I should have said something about modern fonts not being properly hinted for windows instead of placing all the blame on the OS.

New comment by avdwrks in "Zed is now available on Windows"

avdwrks — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 03:21:09 +0000

I installed Zed and tested out a bunch of fonts on my 1440p monitor. It looks decent, but not great. I think that's more a byproduct of Windows' awful font rendering in general though moreso than a Zed specific problem. VSCode is no better.

Seems like the only way to get high quality font rendering these days is a 4k+ display.

New comment by avdwrks in "Getting syntax highlighting wrong"

avdwrks — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 20:06:57 +0000

I agree that certain schemes overdo it with highlighting, but I disagree with his statements that things like function calls and keywords shouldn't be highlighted. Basically, if everything is important then nothing is; but I still want my code to be easily scannable. Right now I'm using using a version of Solarized that uses the default VSCode syntax highlighting and it's been pretty great.

New comment by avdwrks in "Next.js is infuriating"

avdwrks — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 15:07:31 +0000

Their documentation was also abysmal the last time I used their product.

New comment by avdwrks in "Next.js is infuriating"

avdwrks — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 15:04:58 +0000

My biggest problem with it now is the official React team pushes it as their framework of choice. Back when it used the Pages Router and wasn't trying to push everything into server components, etc., it wasn't terrible but I can't help but feel bad for any newcomers trying to learn web development.

I switched to Astro from Next for most projects and haven't looked back. It's such a breath of fresh air to use.