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New comment by bentinata in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

bentinata — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:29:09 +0000

Except the fact that opening up new pizza place have a huge upfront cost. Your pizza may need to be pricier too. You thought people are flocking to your new pizza place, but the reality is that most people just want to not get hungry, and will rather chomp down pineapple pizza while being surveiled, than spending more for non-pineapple pizza.

Look, I love making a analogies. Just that they have scale, and competing against it is hard.

New comment by bentinata in "There is an AI code review bubble"

bentinata — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 23:46:57 +0000

If you're interested: https://conventionalcomments.org/

It may feels to many. I mostly use suggestion, thought, and todo. When I type down "nit..." I realized it usually does not worth it. I'd rather make comment about higher level of the changes.

New comment by bentinata in "Pure and Impure Software Engineering"

bentinata — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 13:05:13 +0000

Do you use "emdash" because you love to use it but don't want to be mistaken as AI-generated?

New comment by bentinata in "The Enterprise Experience"

bentinata — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 23:15:25 +0000

It won't gonna change how people (mostly management) see the name. I've seen whole empire named after Pokemon, only for another round of restructure that will change teams name to another Pokemon.

While talking to friends at other empire:

> I've been digging around, who are the members of Ludicolo?

> Oh, we've renamed to Felbat.

New comment by bentinata in "The Enterprise Experience"

bentinata — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 23:02:34 +0000

Very fun and interesting article. I'm currently working in enterprise for around 3 years. I sure am growing technically, but I feel like I learn more about people, communications and bureaucracy here. That comment about budget and mouse is also on track, but with financial stability that working in $ENTERPRISE brings, I can just buy the mouse myself. Maybe some empire will question me regarding the unauthorized mouse, but I can just... ignore... um, talk myself out of the fake urgencies of mouse authorization.

New comment by bentinata in "PuTTY has a new website"

bentinata — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 03:14:17 +0000

It's because freedom and correctness is hard. Yeah, most people prefer convenience and would rather someone be the source of authority to do it for them, but people on fediverse are not those kind of people.

New comment by bentinata in "I deleted my second brain"

bentinata — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 07:15:30 +0000

Product focused (plans, documentation, snippets) notes for team, people focused (1-on-1, performance review, birthday) notes for personal.

New comment by bentinata in "How I configure my Git identities"

bentinata — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 07:39:46 +0000

I use `insteadOf` instead of ssh alias because my workplace use GitLab orgs. So instead of typing the full URL like:

  git clone gitlab.com/acme-corp/project-name

I could use:

  git clone work:project-name

But this kinda broke `includeIf` since it store the `insteadOf` remote url directly. I then had to convert existing repositories to use the `insteadOf` url.

I wrote a little bit about it here: https://bentinata.com/log/git-insteadof-includeif

New comment by bentinata in "Accountability sinks"

bentinata — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 04:27:35 +0000

I think it's a matter of hygiene and speed. Sure I could butcher a chicken, maybe have a shot at a bigger animal like a goat or cow. I've seen it multiple times since I live in a country that regularly do animal sacrifice. But I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be able to do it as clean or as fast as the usual butcher.

It does feel different from market-bought meat though, at least for me.

New comment by bentinata in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2024)"

bentinata — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 02:02:04 +0000

  Location: East Java, Indonesia
  Remote: Remote, Hybrid or On-Site
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Professionally, TypeScript, Kotlin, Flutter, Go, PHP
  Résumé/CV: gemini://bentinata.srht.site/resume or https://bentinata.com/resume
  Email: underscore at bentinata dot com

Hi. I'm Ben. Been looking to work on environment projects, and/or project that is using rust. Something that can either make a positive impact for a lot of people (too naive, I know), or something that hone my technical skill. But since I'm a parent now, my primary focus been stability. I have accepted the fact that dream job is called dream job for a reason.

New comment by bentinata in "I Created 175 Fonts Using Rust"

bentinata — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 02:03:03 +0000

Even though the methods is simple, the way the author visualizing it is really neat.

New comment by bentinata in "Summary of Major Changes Between Python Versions"

bentinata — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 12:19:58 +0000

As someone who haven't been using Python extensively since college, and mostly use TypeScript and Kotlin at work (and little bit of Rust for hobby projects), that's a lot of typing features. It feels like for the past few years typing been getting more attention. Good to see.

I used to hate TypeScript (circa 2016) because it kept bugging me with typing errors, and I used to sprinkle "any" to shut it up.

New comment by bentinata in "MIME, RSS, and Existential Torment"

bentinata — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 11:32:34 +0000

Haven't read xe article for a while. Why does xe move away from NixOS? I'm pretty sure I read blog about nix being best container builder a while ago.

New comment by bentinata in "Designing a website without 404s"

bentinata — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 11:52:39 +0000

What about using 302?

New comment by bentinata in "Companies with return-to-office mandates face losing their most valuable workers"

bentinata — Wed, 29 May 2024 12:23:23 +0000

This is also how it is for me. My son just turned 2, and I love that I am able to observe him napping between long meetings. I could also have a small chat with my teammates after 5 PM, and sometimes our kids hop into conversation and say hi to each other.

New comment by bentinata in "TypeScript: Branded Types"

bentinata — Wed, 08 May 2024 14:12:02 +0000

Would it help if the junction tables named something else? "Session" or "participations"?

New comment by bentinata in "Show HN: Dotenv, if it is a Unix utility"

bentinata — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 03:05:00 +0000

What about:

    env $(cat .env) [program]

New comment by bentinata in "Total data loss after botched GitOps and failed backups"

bentinata — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 05:31:12 +0000

It's not a website anymore. It's a web app.

Might be related: I recently joined a company using Flutter web and notices similar stuff. Yes, the software engineers are wondering: "Why do we reimplement browser stuff?" But the business ask for it and we don't hear complaints from the end user.

New comment by bentinata in "Architecture diagrams enable better conversations"

bentinata — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 02:39:15 +0000

There is also https://diagrams.mingrammer.com/ using python.

New comment by bentinata in "Why Tcl?"

bentinata — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 20:36:57 +0000

I used to think POSIX shell scripts are the best. But ever since deno support npm packages directly, running `deno run url-to-scripts` seems really good now. You get readability, types, and library ecosystem.