Hacker News: axelthegerman

New comment by axelthegerman in "Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead"

axelthegerman — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:59:32 +0000

Works so great on new devices like smartphones. Except not.

And so easy to set up on a home computer. Except it's not always on and doesn't come with backups.

I'm not saying S3 is where it's at but might need a bit more than just Samba. Or maybe you don't but people who need Dropbox do.

New comment by axelthegerman in "Returning to Rails in 2026"

axelthegerman — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 08:22:47 +0000

And most folks getting stuff done with Rails ain't be filling out surveys to boost their stack - or maybe that's just me.

So everyone just stop worrying what everyone else thinks or seems to think and just use the right tools for you and get on with it

New comment by axelthegerman in "Stripe valued at $159B, 2025 annual letter"

axelthegerman — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 13:33:17 +0000

I hope they'll execute this one well.

Have been waiting for a wallet product from Stripe for a while, but maybe less juicy margins than on top of credit card fees?

New comment by axelthegerman in "Pi – A minimal terminal coding harness"

axelthegerman — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 03:32:41 +0000

And how great it will be to troubleshoot any issues because everyone is basically running a distinct piece of software

New comment by axelthegerman in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"

axelthegerman — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 15:44:56 +0000

Gotta say this is pretty cool. Love some of the nostalgia on the homepage.

Personally not a nextjs fan but finding a modern alternative to WP will pay off for many businesses

New comment by axelthegerman in "Claude Opus 4.6"

axelthegerman — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 15:59:57 +0000

> Tell it what git commands to explicitly run and in what order

Why don't run the commands yourself then?

New comment by axelthegerman in "Apple testing new App Store design that blurs the line between ads and results"

axelthegerman — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:00:54 +0000

This! Sure you might need a Google account for your android but you don't HAVE to use all their services.

First just don't use Gmail, docs, search, chrome and co. But even better get a Pixel with Graphene and Google's invasive tactics are even more limited.

However it is sad that a company like Apple that used to produce superior hardware with superior UX is falling apart on all fronts - hardware (especially pricing), UX (hello glass design), software (macos just getting worse every release without adding ANYTHING of value)

And now introducing more and more ads while keep selling you "pro" laptops with 512GB SSD :-/

New comment by axelthegerman in "I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per year"

axelthegerman — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 19:42:44 +0000

E2EE is definitely nice, however if you communicate with many people using other email providers your emails still end up there unencrypted

New comment by axelthegerman in "Google is dead. Where do we go now?"

axelthegerman — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 02:01:54 +0000

It never really worked. Most businesses just paid for customers that were going to or already found them anyways.

Not saying ads don't work at all, they definitely increase awareness.

New comment by axelthegerman in "I'm returning my Framework 16"

axelthegerman — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 21:14:46 +0000

I don't see why upgrading a motherboard to one with a newer generation CPU is not valuable. Or why going 16 to 32 GB RAM a few years after buying it first isn't.

Yes full upgradability of each component would be pretty nice but now we have a desktop and factors like compactness and "premium feel" would be even worse

New comment by axelthegerman in "Be Careful with GIDs in Rails"

axelthegerman — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 19:56:02 +0000

Or more like "be careful with the power you give your LLMs"

New comment by axelthegerman in "Why Twilio Segment moved from microservices back to a monolith"

axelthegerman — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 10:30:32 +0000

> we had to spend time fixing the broken test even if the changes had nothing to do with the initial change. In response to this problem, it was decided to break out the code for each destination into their own repos.

One could also change the way tests are run or selected. Or allow manual overrides to still deploy. Separating repos doesn't sound like the only logical solution

New comment by axelthegerman in "Why frozen test fixtures are a problem on large projects and how to avoid them"

axelthegerman — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 14:20:16 +0000

Right let's add more layers that always solves everything.

No language or abstraction is perfect but if someone prefers pure functional coding, Rails and Django are just not it, don't try to make them. Others like em just as they are

New comment by axelthegerman in "GrapheneOS is the only Android OS providing full security patches"

axelthegerman — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 17:51:00 +0000

Oh that's one of the best news in the smartphone world in a long time.

It's impossible to escape the Apple/Google duopoly but at least GrapheneOS makes the most out of Android regarding privacy.

I still wish we could get some kind of low resource, stable and mature Android clone instead of Google needlessly increasing complexity but this will over time break app compatibility (Google will make sure of it)

Edit: I do think Pixel devices used to be one of the best but still I'd like to choose my hardware and software separately interoperating via standards

New comment by axelthegerman in "Do not put your site behind Cloudflare if you don't need to"

axelthegerman — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 02:15:11 +0000

CDN is not the same as DDoS protection.

Cloudflare does both but some providers do one or the other. You can use any CDN no matter if you use Cloudflare or not (shout-out to Bunny CDN btw, very happy with them - they do one thing and do it well)

New comment by axelthegerman in "Do not put your site behind Cloudflare if you don't need to"

axelthegerman — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 02:12:49 +0000

This!! Everyone seems to "really need" that unlimited scalability of AWS & Co - but they'll happily scale your compute and the bill for you.

Sure maybe you'll get lucky and they waive it.

But sometimes going down is a feature if you're not a multi m/billion dollar business

New comment by axelthegerman in "AI isn't replacing jobs. AI spending is"

axelthegerman — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 01:38:29 +0000

> [...] just want to get a “degree” /maximize scores to get a job, There is little interest to learn.

Seems to be more and more common these days in general :-/

New comment by axelthegerman in "Why I Chose Elixir Phoenix over Rails, Laravel, and Next.js"

axelthegerman — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 20:31:52 +0000

If the industry wouldn't have pushed React as the magic bullet that is always to be used it could have stayed an awesome interactive frontend library.

In some cases it's just not what you need and SSR etc are more important - then just use appropriate tools instead of forcing React to do that too

New comment by axelthegerman in "Why I Chose Elixir Phoenix over Rails, Laravel, and Next.js"

axelthegerman — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 20:29:52 +0000

While Rails indeed tries to support old versions for a while I found that many devs are eager to stay on top of upgrades (which also has been less painful the last few years and definitely when done incrementally)

Fair there will be some old never updated backend only services, but that seems like a stretch that those will need a FE library all of a sudden

New comment by axelthegerman in "Maru OS – Use your phone as your PC"

axelthegerman — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 01:38:24 +0000

And to have buy in it needs to exist first :)

Like websites nowadays being usually designed for mobile and desktop devices