Hacker News: brandonkalhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=brandonkalHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Tue, 07 Apr 2026 05:59:46 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by brandonkal in "The 49MB web page"]]>GDPR cookie banners, GTM Bloat, Z-index warfare, and bloated SPAs etc created the perfect storm where ChatGPT is a better interface for most internet users. If I hit a web page I shouldn’t have to click through a labyrinth of junk to read the content. Even with the LLM hallucinating it is a better experience. Text in and text out. Like the internet was originally.

We put up with the nonsense because we had to. But the irony is content creators are actively driving their audience away.

]]>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 05:36:03 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47409042brandonkalhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47409042https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47409042<![CDATA[New comment by brandonkal in "I spent a week without IPv4 (2023)"]]>It does make it easier. IPv6 pinholes are simpler than port forwarding. My IPv4 is not static but my IPv6 prefix is. So I don’t need dynamic DNS. I have no IPv4 port forwards, instead I run snid on a VPS to support legacy internet clients and call it a day.

]]>Sat, 20 Dec 2025 19:23:59 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46338797brandonkalhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46338797https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46338797<![CDATA[New comment by brandonkal in "Makefile.md – Possibly Use(Ful|Less) Polyglot Synthesis of Makefile and Markdown"]]>I built something like this. A quick markdown file = custom CLI for each project. https://github.com/brandonkal/inkjet

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