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New comment by casperb in "Appearing productive in the workplace"

casperb — Thu, 07 May 2026 10:03:50 +0000

Can confirm. I saw some fresh out of college colleagues do this in text docs. Al nice markup, but the text content was very drafty. I always sent them back to keep the format concept-y if you are tuning the text first.

New comment by casperb in "Appearing productive in the workplace"

casperb — Thu, 07 May 2026 09:58:54 +0000

This is happening at my place as well. I am a senior leader, but I find it hard to push back on this. I something looks plausible and everyone has reacted with a thumbs up (but probably only skimmed the document), when is the first one saying “what is this shit?”

The length itself is not an indicator per se, but you can sense when it is not honest. If others do not have a sense for it, it seems like complaining about something new.

A calmer interface for a product in motion

casperb — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 19:12:45 +0000

Article URL: https://linear.app/now/behind-the-latest-design-refresh

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47355686

Points: 2

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New comment by casperb in "Architecture for Disposable Systems"

casperb — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 12:07:46 +0000

I think we have enough anecdata that users don’t like a changing interface. They like keeping things the same, mostly.

So how can you keep generating disposable software on this layer?

And what you mostly want to change in software, is new features or handle more usage. If you do that, it needs in most cases changes to the data store and the “hand crafted core”.

So what part in practice will be disposable and how often will it be “generated again”?

Maybe for simple small stuff, like how fast Excel sheets are being made, changed and discarded? Maybe for embedded software?

New comment by casperb in "Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor"

casperb — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 08:38:17 +0000

The scroll hijacking on this page is horrendous. I could almost not close the page anymore on iOS because of everything going on.

New comment by casperb in "Temporary suspension of acceptance of mail to the United States"

casperb — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 18:44:36 +0000

Same in the Netherlands. PostNL halted all box shipments to the US last Friday. Only allowing envelopes to go through.

They planned to support the new regulations before, but pulled the plug last Friday.

New comment by casperb in "ChatGPT agent: bridging research and action"

casperb — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 11:30:21 +0000

This reminds me of the story where Barclays had to buy bad assets from the Lehman bankruptcy because they only hid the rows of assets they did not want, but the receiver saw all the rows due to a mistake somewhere. The kind of 2% fault rate in Excel that could tank a big bank.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/1561181/excel-error-le...

Ask HN: How does Stripe work on the inside?

casperb — Wed, 21 May 2025 09:46:25 +0000

I am very intrigued by how Stripe works on the inside. They ship such good quality, are very thoughtful, all while feeling like a calm vibe. Things like: what is their management philosophy, how are there teams structured, how do they communicate internally about big initiatives?

I have heard a few podcasts with Stripe engineers that paint a picture. Jeff Weinstein’s interviews give a little glimpse. Claire’s book gives some info. But I am hungry for more. Would love it if the Collison brothers would write their own book.

But in the meantime: has anyone pointers to books, blogs or interviews about their inner workings? Or anecdotes in this thread are also welcome.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44049806

Points: 2

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New comment by casperb in "Hotwire Native"

casperb — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 16:54:56 +0000

We use it with PHP/Laravel on the server side. It just needs HTML pages and the JavaScript of Hotwire Turbo in that page.

For the fancy streams and frames you need some extra headers being sent from the server, but also that is doable from PHP.

New comment by casperb in "FCC votes to limit prison telecom charges"

casperb — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 11:59:22 +0000

It is not “companies” but individuals. But yes, there are a lot of people that are only driven by greed and power. But not all by a long shot. I believe most of society would fail if everyone was doing the maximum they could get away with. So, there should be a lot of people that don’t seek the maximum they can get away with.

But I agree that a lot of companies are so big and so faceless, that they do too much bad stuff and lots of people in the company would just shrug it off with “it is not my job to say something”.

New comment by casperb in "FCC votes to limit prison telecom charges"

casperb — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 18:55:00 +0000

I don’t think this is universally true. At least not here in the Netherlands, but even in visiting the US it does not feel like that everywhere.

I think it is very sad the moral standards are so low. I find that even harder when mixed with “why does the government get involved in everything?” attitude.

I also don’t lead my company of 27 people that way.

New comment by casperb in "Ask HN: Why do message queue-based architectures seem less popular now?"

casperb — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 04:47:45 +0000

These blanked statements about monoliths are what made every junior dev think that microservices are the only solution.

If you cannot make a clean monolith, I have never seen any evidence that the same team can make good microservices. It is just the same crap, but distributed.

The last 2 years I see more and more seasoned devs who think the opposite: monoliths are better for most projects.

New comment by casperb in "Nginx Unit: open-source, lightweight and versatile application runtime"

casperb — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 17:30:32 +0000

That sounds much better, thanks for the effort.

New comment by casperb in "Nginx Unit: open-source, lightweight and versatile application runtime"

casperb — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 12:29:37 +0000

I did that, but sometimes it takes a short moment before Unit is started, so you need a loop to check if Unit is responding before you can send the config. In total it was around 20 lines just to load the config. It feels like doing something wrong. Or using the wrong tool.

New comment by casperb in "Nginx Unit: open-source, lightweight and versatile application runtime"

casperb — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 12:24:12 +0000

I saw that, but I do like to make my own container. So I did roughly the same steps as they do. But it feels complicated.

New comment by casperb in "Nginx Unit: open-source, lightweight and versatile application runtime"

casperb — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 09:03:06 +0000

I tried a setup with Nginx Unit and php-fpm inside a Docker container, but the way to load the config is so combersome I never was confident to use it in production. It feels like I am doing something wrong. Is there a way to just load a config file from the filesystem?

New comment by casperb in "After 6 years, I'm over GraphQL"

casperb — Thu, 30 May 2024 14:14:30 +0000

I like restful API’s the most. Graphql is cool if you need data combined that is not nicely available in the restful endpoints. But I think that could mostly be solved with good endpoints that help with the actual use cases. When restful endpoints are hard to use, in a lot of cases it is because they are to much focused on how it is easy to write server side, then it is to consume them.

New comment by casperb in "Tinygrad 0.9.0"

casperb — Wed, 29 May 2024 05:49:24 +0000

Yes he has. I have seen multiple episodes on his YouTube[1] where he absolutely grills the whole company. He also gave them a deadline to opensource the drivers or he would stop trying to make AMD stuff work.

Sorry for no direct link, but he has so many and very long videos that it is hard to find the exact spot.

https://www.youtube.com/@geohotarchive

New comment by casperb in "Act on Press"

casperb — Thu, 23 May 2024 20:40:09 +0000

I use this quite a lot as well. Holding the merge button on GitHub, while thinking it through one more time.

I could get used to act on press, but this is my current muscle memory after 30 years of computers.

New comment by casperb in "Tesla conducting more layoffs, including entire Supercharger team"

casperb — Wed, 01 May 2024 13:50:40 +0000

The speculation that I heard was that Tesla saw a potential government enforcement of 1 type of connector. So they made the deals with other car makers and opened their connector so that their connector would be the open standard instead of something else. So yes they gave up their advantage, but there was a possibility that is was ending either way.