Hacker News: chi_features

New comment by chi_features in "Railway Blocked by Google Cloud"

chi_features — Wed, 20 May 2026 06:20:19 +0000

Perhaps Railway does a bit more than what you think, they have some great functionality (I'm not affiliated with them). Check out [Features | Railway](https://railway.com/features) "PR Environments", they are incredible for the QA process

New comment by chi_features in "Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved]"

chi_features — Wed, 20 May 2026 02:03:01 +0000

https://blog.railway.com/p/series-b

Agreed. Railway are probably not far off a billion dollar company though!

New comment by chi_features in "No more JetBrains products for me"

chi_features — Mon, 18 May 2026 21:18:47 +0000

I wasn't going to pipe up because I wasn't sure that a Hackernews thread is a good substitute for an issue tracker... but it's related to new AI-driven workflows so I hope it chins the bar.

Now that I work on 3-8 concurrent projects, I want to have them most of them open so I can interact, sense-check, be engaged in the work. When I tear down one worktree, ALL projects open in RubyMine concurrently re-index. It kills my M3 Max and I have to force quit. Then when I restart RubyMine it does the same so I have to race to press the tiny pause button on just enough of the projects for it to not die. There's no way to tweak the re-indexing settings or determine when it will kick off. WHY it kicks off - i don't know.

This is the single thing that's led me to Zed/VSCode, or to not open more than 2 at a time.

New comment by chi_features in "Optimizing Ruby Path Methods"

chi_features — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 23:18:35 +0000

Thank you for sharing – with 1350 workers I can appreciate the reduction of setup time!

New comment by chi_features in "Optimizing Ruby Path Methods"

chi_features — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 04:53:30 +0000

> Given that the Intercom monolith CI runs with 1350 parallel workers by default

Wow! I'd love to hear more about how that's achieved

New comment by chi_features in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2023)"

chi_features — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 05:33:56 +0000

ChemCloud | Senior Full Stack Engineer | ONSITE or REMOTE (Melbourne +/- 2 hours) | Full-Time

https://www.chemcloud.com.au

ChemCloud is a digital procurement marketplace that makes it easy to discover, buy, and sell chemicals. Our mission; to accelerate the positive impact of the chemical industry by digitising its ways of working.

We're in our third year of operation and we're looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer to increase our tech bandwidth - we have so many impactful projects genuinely delighting users and we want to deliver more. We're a team of two people in engineering currently (including me as CTO) and we want a senior team member who'll work closely with everyone in the business to help shape the platform going forward.

We're part of Paloma Group's venture studio (https://www.palomagroup.com/paloma-ventures) with our HQ in Melbourne, Australia. And workspaces in Sydney, Wellington, Auckland, Christchurch as part of Paloma's studio.

Tech: Rails 7, Turbo, Stimulus, TailwindCSS, ViewComponent, Railway. With thousands of tests @ > 98% coverage.

Read more and apply at: https://careers-at-chemcloud.super.site/

New comment by chi_features in "Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max"

chi_features — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 01:19:37 +0000

I agree. And the longevity of them specifically for me. My M1 (MBP and MBA) keyboards shine after a few weeks' of activity whereas no shining on older MBPs with a decade of use – it reeks of a quality degradation.

New comment by chi_features in "Apple reports third quarter results"

chi_features — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 01:28:33 +0000

I believe multiple screens are possible, even on the M1 MBA, you just need a docking station. Officially some don't support multiple screens, but there are mainstream solutions to this in the form of docking stations, just not sure why Apple doesn't even so much as hint that it's possible. It's a really unclear process!

New comment by chi_features in "Is Dark Mode Good for Your Eyes? (2020)"

chi_features — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 00:03:09 +0000

This is why I use dark mode too – and it's made a huge difference for me. My floaters are particularly noticeable on white-backgrounded screens/webpages on my 43" external monitor where because, I assume, my eyes have to dart across greater distances than when I'm using my MBP 14".

New comment by chi_features in "Ask HN: Any piece of hardware that was more of game changer than you expected?"

chi_features — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 19:43:55 +0000

I definitely felt the same with the battery life, until I switched on "Low power mode" while on battery (System Preferences > Battery > Battery > Low Power Mode). I don't notice the drop in performance (even whilst intensively using it, such as compiling code) but what I experience is practically the doubling of its battery life. Enjoy!

New comment by chi_features in "AWS Region Coming to New Zealand"

chi_features — Thu, 23 Sep 2021 01:43:55 +0000

It is great news and I am surprised to be honest. From New Zealand, our closest AWS region is Sydney with a ping (over Wifi, as I write this from Auckland) of 44ms. Our population is ~5M.

This only spells great things for the tech prospects in NZ which are already very bright. I, for one, am excited to continue to base tech businesses in this country.

New comment by chi_features in "Rumbling meteor lights up Norway; part of it may have landed near Oslo"

chi_features — Mon, 26 Jul 2021 08:46:28 +0000

I was lucky enough to witness it too.

I was driving down my street and I saw the world in front of me light up from a fireball in the sky accompanied by a loud roar. I had no reference as to what this was – a missile? A plane going down? Surely it was travelling too fast for those though.

As it passed over to the East I waited with tensed shoulders for what was to come next, I assumed a large impact or explosion, but thankfully exhaled after a few seconds and simply silence was what came next.

Remarkable experience!

New comment by chi_features in "Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time"

chi_features — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 20:25:57 +0000

I'm not a church-goer and now in my late thirties have seen many, including myself, have significant crises ending up therapy of some kind. Thankfully, these crises have all had successful and revelationary outcomes. Crises such as financial, relationship, burn-out, questioning purpose, depression. In all cases it's been a revelation for the people involved because they were simply unequipped to deal with the situation; didn't have the tools in their toolkit.

It dawned on me that as a kid I did go to church as part of school, and there I would receive almost daily "counselling", or at least broaching life issues, challenges and philosophical concepts regularly.

When not a church-goer, where does one get this same level of regular counselling, self-improvement or self-analysis? I'm not advocating religion though I feel like the concept of meeting regularly and talking about big issues is very positive, and I feel overlooked.

New comment by chi_features in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2021)"

chi_features — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 05:56:01 +0000

FYI your website's certificate at firststep.co has expired (back in April 2020) so most website visitors will get warnings before they can proceed to your website

New comment by chi_features in "Ask HN: How was life for a regular dev during the dot com burst?"

chi_features — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 06:29:23 +0000

Not specific to devs, but I do highly recommend the documentary Startup.com – it's a rollercoaster ride of the highs and lows of that era.

Free to view on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibuiUXOTE4M