Hacker News: cmwelsh

New comment by cmwelsh in "Show HN: Hallucinate – Massively Multiplayer Online Rave"

cmwelsh — Thu, 28 May 2026 13:58:21 +0000

Facebook these days. Be careful; it’s expected to accidentally do methamphetamine at these events.

New comment by cmwelsh in "What did you love about VB6?"

cmwelsh — Sat, 02 May 2026 01:43:41 +0000

IntelliJ IDEA team has “supported” this feature for a long time but it’s hidden behind an obscure plugin. It’s awesome when it works. YMMV.

https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/14877-jump-to-line

New comment by cmwelsh in "The Moat or the Commons"

cmwelsh — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 03:27:48 +0000

Can you contribute to our community when writing this stuff? Put it in a blog post, think about it, etc. You’ve been around long enough to know this is trash shit.

New comment by cmwelsh in "Traders placed over $1B in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war"

cmwelsh — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 19:45:49 +0000

I’ve never heard “intellectual property” phrased as “artificial scarcity” and it isn’t exactly wrong…

New comment by cmwelsh in "Core JavaScript and TypeScript Features Become Free in IntelliJ Idea"

cmwelsh — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:41:23 +0000

Community Edition is seemingly being phased out as a product/concept. There is now the free as in beer version (bringing back old school vibes of shareware) and the paid version, and you download them both in a single release binary.

New comment by cmwelsh in "Java 26 is here"

cmwelsh — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:53:55 +0000

As you’re familiar with the JBoss space, why would someone use an enterprise container over a simple HTTP server (Tomcat, Jetty, etc)?

Currently I’m trying to externalize as much as possible to the service mesh. I want teams to stand up a basic unencrypted HTTP server that accepts the company headers and just works with as minimal of a runtime as possible.

New comment by cmwelsh in "Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use"

cmwelsh — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 06:00:14 +0000

Is there a way to legally or even practically prevent this? `claude` CLI execution in a shell is certainly included in the subscription - it’s the product.

New comment by cmwelsh in "“Nothing” is the secret to structuring your work"

cmwelsh — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 02:15:21 +0000

Yes, I do believe you own the correct answers - however, can you make a long form blog post about this and share it on Hacker News? We need the rest of the information.

My room should be messy when I come back to it - how else would I find anything if it wasn’t where I left it?

New comment by cmwelsh in "Draig, a Welsh Programming Language"

cmwelsh — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 03:08:04 +0000

China disregards that and there is an absolutely massive ecosystem of Free and Open Source Software out there if you can read and write their code.

New comment by cmwelsh in "Web development is fun again"

cmwelsh — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 01:24:46 +0000

> Fewer things sound less interesting to me than that.

To each their own! I think the market for folks who understand their own problems is exploding! It’s free money.

New comment by cmwelsh in "Java: An ecosystem worth billions with IDEs in peril"

cmwelsh — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 20:53:13 +0000

Why absolutely no mention of VS Code?

New comment by cmwelsh in "Hunting for North Korean Fiber Optic Cables"

cmwelsh — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 02:16:10 +0000

Hire is not always the correct word. There is evidence they acquire international talent without consent.

New comment by cmwelsh in "Search all text in New York City"

cmwelsh — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 03:43:55 +0000

First lucky try, “calisthenics” scores a verified 1. It would be interesting if there was a Parquet file of the raw data.

https://www.alltext.nyc/search?q=Calisthenics

New comment by cmwelsh in "Ask HN: Does anyone else have anxiety during standup?"

cmwelsh — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 08:56:30 +0000

For the record, the 100% correct answer to your name being called in standup is, "I am working on the task which is In Development. It will be delivered to the QA team on time. No blockers."

New comment by cmwelsh in "Contract by Email"

cmwelsh — Fri, 13 Aug 2021 00:37:05 +0000

I’m curious to know your thoughts on the following counterpoints:

> I have developed my signature so that nobody can replicate it fluently.

Robots that hold and move a pen have been created to forge signatures.

> I also use special one off archival ink that nobody else in the world has.

I’m not sure if you’re being serious or not because this is absolutely hilarious, but in the event that you are, does this have any purpose? You could use this excuse to secretly “poison” a contract that you intend on breaking (by using a normal pen to sign it).

> Emails do not have any default mechanism like that, especially if they only rest on servers of the interested parties.

Gmail accounts are free and support DKIM. If both parties conduct business over Gmail, those messages have irrevocable sender authenticity. This inability to refute the contents of an email spelled disaster in the USA for the Democratic political party during their 2016 presidential campaign.

New comment by cmwelsh in "Default disappearing messages"

cmwelsh — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 06:38:18 +0000

The main thing that I dislike about disappearing messages is that there’s an obnoxious clock and username next to each and every message, even if you write two in quick succession. It really breaks up the flow of the chat when someone is having a stream of consciousness moment.

New comment by cmwelsh in "Vue 3.2"

cmwelsh — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 00:25:46 +0000

Flutter looks very exciting, iff your team is willing to switch away from JavaScript. I’ve always been excited about Dart as a better JavaScript.

New comment by cmwelsh in "Vue 3.2"

cmwelsh — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 08:47:35 +0000

That’s not necessarily a belief that holds true universally. Plenty of developers have found that React and JSX are two technologies that have beautifully matured outside of their initial home in the web browser ecosystem.

To use your phrasing, React and JSX are always going to be there regardless of what is fashionable for them to be wrapped around.

New comment by cmwelsh in "US population could shrink for first time on record"

cmwelsh — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 06:17:28 +0000

One might say we’re already there. Median wages aren’t keeping up with inflation. Housing prices are at an all time high, pushing rents higher and higher. Our service economy, upon which many stagnating nations thrive, was hit hard by COVID-19.

At the same time, REITs are poised to purchase the impeding foreclosure and eviction-driven dive in housing with all cash offers, bolstered by the same 0% interest rate that drove the prices in the retail sector to stave off the pandemic depression. Yet those low interest rates in the retail sector make this corporate takeover possible.

New comment by cmwelsh in "Run a webserver for a specific user *only"

cmwelsh — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 07:27:06 +0000

Compile your application with Electron.