Hacker News: bowersbros

New comment by bowersbros in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

bowersbros — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:03:48 +0000

Any chance you could share those sections of your claude file? I've been using Claude a bit lately but mostly with manual changes, not got much in the way of the claude file yet and interested in how to improve it

New comment by bowersbros in "PHP – The Right Way"

bowersbros — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 11:58:45 +0000

That first article is a decade old.

New comment by bowersbros in "5 annoying things in VS Code you can fix right now"

bowersbros — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 13:34:10 +0000

Only a few of these i found annoying, but its good to get a fix for the Previews and GitHub-Style Inline Diffs

New comment by bowersbros in "Uber discusses plan to lay off about 20% of employees"

bowersbros — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 16:47:08 +0000

But _most_ of the time you'd be using the one in your city.

If you are from Manchester, UK and you live there, how often do you need a taxi app that works in Bangkok, or NY, or Oslo?

New comment by bowersbros in "Some Blizzard employees are dreading BlizzCon"

bowersbros — Thu, 31 Oct 2019 15:44:48 +0000

Old School Runescape is where you want to be

New comment by bowersbros in "Firefox 64 Released"

bowersbros — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 19:23:50 +0000

Things like large documents don't make that any easier though. Scrolling through a large document can take a while, but a scrollbar allows you to get to somewhere else often quite a lot faster.

Imagine you cmd + F a phrase and there are 200 responses separated into like 4 chunks of a document. It can be useful to scroll to the start of each chunk to get the context of them.

New comment by bowersbros in "“The 's' is sad”: 4-year-old submits Linux kernel doc patch (2014)"

bowersbros — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 12:08:30 +0000

To be fair, he works for Microsoft, its entirely possible he maintains one of their OS repos.

Discovering history in the unlikeliest of places

bowersbros — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 22:47:36 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/bowersbros/status/906670427564642304

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17502871

Points: 1

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New comment by bowersbros in "AT&T updates firmware to block access to 1.1.1.1"

bowersbros — Thu, 03 May 2018 00:51:59 +0000

I can't see anything about the 33.0.0.0/8 range being reserved

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserved_IP_addresses

New comment by bowersbros in "EBay to Ditch PayPal for Dutch Payment Processor Adyen"

bowersbros — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 00:08:36 +0000

Note that EU customers of Stripe get a drastically nicer 1.4% + 20p charge.

New comment by bowersbros in "Dear Apple, please fix notifications"

bowersbros — Wed, 31 Jan 2018 17:29:30 +0000

A better solution would be to use the status bar at the top, similar to how it changes when "In call".

Have it change colour, and say "1 new Mail notification" etc, and if you tap that, you get the proper context notification show up.

New comment by bowersbros in "Cloudflare Stream – Combines video encoding, global delivery, and player"

bowersbros — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 14:46:37 +0000

This is commonly solved using Amazon S3 and single-access tokens I think?

Pretty hefty work involved in getting it reliable, would be nice for a "drop in" solution.

New comment by bowersbros in "HAProxy vs. Nginx for load balancing (2016)"

bowersbros — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 10:00:17 +0000

Haproxy supporting `.map` functionality is the biggest selling point to me.

It allows for SSL protected custom domains for a user of a SaaS app in a really easy to do way.

We use it at Shopblocks extensively, and I've written a (brief) outline of roughly how we do it.

https://zando.io/post/haproxy-saas-custom-domains/

New comment by bowersbros in "Tesla Model S Hits 300k Miles with less than $11k maintenance costs"

bowersbros — Fri, 01 Sep 2017 15:48:54 +0000

The problem being solved there is being able to see further in the dark.

New comment by bowersbros in "Ask HN: How to sell your app/side project while working full-time?"

bowersbros — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 00:41:51 +0000

Those 25 countries are where to _seller_ can be based. Stripe allows purchases from over 135 countries.

https://stripe.com/docs/currencies#charge-currencies

New comment by bowersbros in "Redis 4.0"

bowersbros — Sat, 15 Jul 2017 01:47:46 +0000

A huge backwards incompatible change

New comment by bowersbros in "Tesla Model 3 Hits Production"

bowersbros — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 12:52:39 +0000

As I understand it, repairs are expensive, but general maintenance is less, because there isn't as much to maintain.

New comment by bowersbros in "Firefox 56 supports headless mode on Windows"

bowersbros — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 14:17:59 +0000

One of the issues we had with wkhtmltopdf was that we use Angular for our views, and we have a view for an invoice, and the ability to print it.

We wanted the same view to be passed into wkhtmltopdf to download it as PDF (with a couple of things omitted).

Unfortunately, the JS didn't execute properly, so you get a borked output.

End result was we render it, capture the HTML after render, and pipe that through to wkhtmltopdf.

Using chrome _should_ resolve that issue and let us just pass the page through.

New comment by bowersbros in "Teller – API for your bank account"

bowersbros — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 18:27:01 +0000

Do you have a mailing list where I can say my bank is with "Halifax let me know when you support them securely?"

I'd like something like this, but I wouldn't want to give the bank details away.

New comment by bowersbros in "Cloud Firewalls"

bowersbros — Wed, 07 Jun 2017 00:12:11 +0000

Any chance I can get in on the beta for this? I've done the Load balancer and block storage beta? @gmail.com