Hacker News: chrysoprace

New comment by chrysoprace in "Not everyone is using AI for everything"

chrysoprace — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 22:44:30 +0000

The two job interviews I had recently - the interviewers were clearly AI maximalists. My answer each time had been to the effect of "yeah I use it but I make sure to check it over thoroughly since it can make mistakes" and I'm guessing that wasn't the answer they were looking for.

It's a gamble of the dice as to whether the engineering manager is equally realistic about LLMs or has unrealistic expectations about what LLMs can or can't do.

New comment by chrysoprace in "Show HN: I Derived a Pancake"

chrysoprace — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 08:08:56 +0000

The Sourdough Framework[0] is a really good book that specifically deals with sourdough, but has some good maths and theory. It actually doesn't have many recipes, but it's a good read. The author has a pizza calculator[1] too, which only has two variables (dough weight and hydration).

[0] https://github.com/hendricius/the-sourdough-framework

[1] https://pizza-calculator.the-bread-code.io/

New comment by chrysoprace in "Show HN: I Derived a Pancake"

chrysoprace — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 23:46:52 +0000

Awesome work. I'm really interested in the parametric-driven recipe card. I wanted to do something like this for bread recipes where you can tweak the hydration / salt levels to alter the recipe but still get a traditional recipe card. I would be really curious to hear about the approach in more detail.

New comment by chrysoprace in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)"

chrysoprace — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 01:36:04 +0000

  Location: Brisbane, Australia
  Remote: Yes, or hybrid locally
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Node, TypeScript, MySQL, AWS, Express, NestJS, React/Next.js, Jest/Vitest, React testing, Kafka, C#/.NET, Docker, Playwright, Linux, Git, Claude Code/OpenCode
  Résumé/CV: Available via email
  Email: hn [at] kirkeby.io

Full-stack Engineer with 3+ years as Software Engineer in distributed software engineering teams. 6+ years of experience as a Test Analyst / Test Manager working in software teams. With over 10 years of experience working in retail pharmacy, I have developed digital marketing, reporting, and customer engagement solutions for pharmacy clients and worked with large legacy applications with integrations across POS systems and data integrations.

I'm seeking a full-time permanent role to further my career, and I'm open to pure front-end or pure back-end roles in addition to full-stack roles.

New comment by chrysoprace in "Ask HN: When did computers stop being fun?"

chrysoprace — Sun, 17 May 2026 01:25:25 +0000

For me the price of components rising increases the barrier to entry into enthusiast computer hobbies. If they stabilise at the current price long-term then I'll be pretty sad.

As for coding in particular, I think it's natural to move on from certain hobbies. I don't have the same hobbies I did 5 years ago, and recreational coding has come and gone for me in waves.

At the moment I've got a fun project where I'm learning something new (local-first apps, podcasts), so the excitement is there, but I wasn't coding recreationally at the same rate a few months ago when I didn't have a goal.

Find a hobby that's fun for you, even if it's not coding.

New comment by chrysoprace in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"

chrysoprace — Thu, 14 May 2026 11:05:48 +0000

Not sure there is much of a point in reviewing a port of this size. It has >1000 instances of `unsafe` and uses the same patterns as the zig code according to Jarred. It feels like a vibe-ported version of what the TypeScript team are doing porting from TypeScript > Go with codemods.

New comment by chrysoprace in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)"

chrysoprace — Wed, 06 May 2026 06:20:47 +0000

  Location: Brisbane, Australia
  Remote: Yes, or hybrid locally
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Node, TypeScript, MySQL, AWS, Express, React/Next.js, Jest/Vitest, React testing, Kafka, C#/.NET, Docker, Playwright, Linux, Git, Claude Code/OpenCode
  Résumé/CV: Available via email
  Email: hn@kirkeby.io

Full-stack Engineer with over 3 years of experience in software development, and an additional 6 years of experience across manager and individual contributor software testing roles.

Most of my experience has been working with distributed teams on B2B SaaS applications in the retail pharmacy industry, including digital marketing, reporting, and customer engagement.

I'm seeking a full-time permanent role to further my career, and I'm open to pure front-end or pure back-end roles in addition to full-stack roles.

New comment by chrysoprace in "VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage"

chrysoprace — Sat, 02 May 2026 21:41:31 +0000

Is this when you add a commit through VSC or does the editor add some git hook?

New comment by chrysoprace in "Zed 1.0"

chrysoprace — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 08:33:24 +0000

Sure but that turns my IDE into a text editor, where as Zed is a great backup IDE.

New comment by chrysoprace in "Zed 1.0"

chrysoprace — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 21:28:34 +0000

I've always thought of Zed as a good Sublime Text alternative. I can tinker with and potentially break my Neovim config, but I'll have Zed as a backup for when I need to do a quick edit. Their Vim mode is the best I've used outside of JetBrains (or Vim itself).

New comment by chrysoprace in "I quit drinking for a year"

chrysoprace — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 04:20:02 +0000

Probably just a legacy thing. Might as well have a vanilla cake trigger an age check for all the good it'll do.

New comment by chrysoprace in "I quit drinking for a year"

chrysoprace — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 02:11:45 +0000

I've found that nowadays I largely like it for the taste (which often surprises non-beer drinkers) and so I'm quite pleased that non-alcoholic options are becoming more widespread.

My main wish is for non-alcoholic craft beer to become much more widespread and cheaper. In Australia alcohol is taxed at a ludicrous rate, but non-alcoholic drinks are not, however they often attract the same price - which is disappointing.

New comment by chrysoprace in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

chrysoprace — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:49:16 +0000

I'll be excited to buy one of these (or the newer iteration) if component prices ever return to pre-2025 levels. AUD$800 for 32GB RAM is insanity (which is of course not within their control, but my purchasing impulses are - at least for now).

New comment by chrysoprace in "Cal.diy: open-source community edition of cal.com"

chrysoprace — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:51:26 +0000

Bonus: if you pick cal.zone you can have fun with pizza puns.

New comment by chrysoprace in "Cloudflare Email Service"

chrysoprace — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:26:27 +0000

Unless I've misunderstood something, the Cloudflare price is like 3x of AWS SES. It probably won't matter for small scale products, but it definitely makes a difference at a large scale.

New comment by chrysoprace in "TanStack Start Now Support React Server Components"

chrysoprace — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 06:24:37 +0000

Excited to try it out. I'm perhaps less excited about having to wrap RSC's in special functions, but given the Query example I suppose it makes sense. I'll reserve judgement until I've properly tried it out.

How does this work with Suspense (without Query) and the 'use' hook from React?

New comment by chrysoprace in "In Denmark, the spread of solar panels has become a divisive issue"

chrysoprace — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:49:24 +0000

Zoom out a bit though, and you quickly realise it's not the norm. There is vastly more farm land throughout the country and Hjolderup is the exception, not the rule.

New comment by chrysoprace in "In Denmark, the spread of solar panels has become a divisive issue"

chrysoprace — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:29:14 +0000

For decades I've been pointing to Denmark (partly out of national pride) as a successful model for renewables as Australia dragged its feet on the issue due to fossil fuel industry lobbying.

The positive I take from the article is that Denmark is successfully diversifying its renewable energy sources, something that's needed while battery infrastructure is built to scale, and I sincerely hope it doesn't become a serious political issue like it's been here in Australia for decades (and continues to be today).

New comment by chrysoprace in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

chrysoprace — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:35:35 +0000

Not quite - it totally takes over your branching strategy and locks you into GitButler.

New comment by chrysoprace in "Instant 1.0, a backend for AI-coded apps"

chrysoprace — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:21:22 +0000

Is InstantDB no longer about local-first or is the AI angle just a marketing thing?