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New comment by cednore in "Zed 1.0"

cednore — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:50:22 +0000

Just downloaded, installed, turns out it doesn't have pdf preview capability

Laravel 11

cednore — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 14:37:52 +0000

Article URL: https://laravel-news.com/laravel-11

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39680083

Points: 16

# Comments: 1

New comment by cednore in "Marak (author of color.js) is back online"

cednore — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 00:47:44 +0000

It was not even yesterday...

Marak (author of color.js) is back online

cednore — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 00:47:44 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/Marak/buddypond/commit/479fb68dbae6d2d7d64d6aadc01e9306604fd8eb

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33198401

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by cednore in "Ask HN: Inherited the worst code and tech team I have ever seen. How to fix it?"

cednore — Fri, 23 Sep 2022 15:47:54 +0000

I have experience in similar situation, not sure we are talking about the same project.

I suggested full rewrite and got fired in 3 weeks (actually it was a subcontractor role). I have been considering myself as be really good at presentations and persuading executive people to understand what I am doing and what I will be doing, but the situation was too much for me to take on. They didn't like this unrealistic 3-months roadmap to rewrite the whole thing, which does nothing on their point of view but still needs paying the whole team (even though I was the only one). So I told them we are gradually improving it, and did this full-rewrite underground on my own. It consumed me ~13 hours every day, but I was happy myself and was enjoying the birth of the product. Finally after 10 weeks, I gave up to myself and their frustration.

Regarding your problem, I totally suggest dumping your codebase into a git repo first of all, add some cypress/playwright testing to carefully probe the major functionalities, build ci for these, and start gradually removing old version files. After then, just forget how messy it was, what you thought in the first place, consider this beast as a perfect engineering gift (like linux kernel), then start making small changes then adapt yourself into it. Guide the team to follow your methodologies to treat the code, and tell the executive team that the legacy codebase looks great but complex enough to move quickly as it was a brand new startup project.

New comment by cednore in "Ask HN: What's the best source code you've read?"

cednore — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 15:33:33 +0000

+1 upvote for Laravel source code

New comment by cednore in "To update your Mattermost status when locking the screen"

cednore — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 16:12:10 +0000

For many Mattermost (or Slack) users, it's a painful exercise to update the profile status, especially when you are leaving your computer. What if screen lock/unlock automatically updates your status?

I've created a simple tool to automate this process. (Works only on focal)

To update your Mattermost status when locking the screen

cednore — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 16:12:09 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/cednore/pendulum

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32826246

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by cednore in "Ask HN: What book have you re-read 3x or more?"

cednore — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 14:34:01 +0000

Alice in Wonderlands, read 10x times when I was still a kid.

New comment by cednore in "Ask HN: Is there a developer laptop that does not suck and is not a Mac in 2022?"

cednore — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 15:15:17 +0000

I love System76 laptops. They are definitely crafted for developers. And I love their keyboard as well.

New comment by cednore in "Ask HN: Can I see your scripts?"

cednore — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 14:30:19 +0000

I use these aliases to deal with QR codes.

https://github.com/cednore/dotfiles/blob/master/.functions#L... https://github.com/cednore/dotfiles/blob/master/.aliases#L46...