Hacker News: cmwright

New comment by cmwright in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

cmwright — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:04:09 +0000

I've been working a combination recipe inspiration / meal planning application [1]. The idea is that you have:

- chef personalities generating interesting recipes every couple days

- the ability to save and edit these recipes to suit your needs/ingredients

- the ability to schedule weekly meal plan generations that take the inspiration content and give you a plan and shopping list for the week.

We had our first kid this year and I've been having more trouble getting things together for home cooked meals. This is my attempt to make it is frictionless as possible. I'm working on getting instacart API access so I can build out the cart for the meal plan automatically, at which point I'm hoping this is a one click confirmation a week to keep interesting food flowing. Works great for scheduling baby meals as well!

[1] https://inspochef.com

New comment by cmwright in "All text in Brooklyn"

cmwright — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 17:58:54 +0000

I had the same thought - got some results for "GAK" https://www.alltext.nyc/?search=gak&page=1

New comment by cmwright in "Not an iPad Pro Review: Why iPadOS Still Doesn't Get the Basics Right"

cmwright — Tue, 14 May 2024 12:17:52 +0000

Still not great, but do you know about the spacebar trick? Anywhere the keyboard is open in iOS or iPadOS, press and hold the spacebar. The keyboard is now a trackpad and you can easily move the cursor. Incredibly bad discoverability but has been a big qol improvement for me.

New comment by cmwright in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2021)"

cmwright — Mon, 02 Aug 2021 15:44:19 +0000

HyperComply | Senior Full Stack Software Engineer | New York, Toronto, REMOTE (US or Canada) | https://hypercomply.com

At HyperComply we're working to eliminate friction during the trust building phase of B2B sales cycles, primarily by helping software vendors automate their responses to security questionnaires.

We're building out our software engineering org with some key early-stage engineering hires to help build out new features as well support our existing product. We're looking for self-driven engineers that are excited to work on a small, high-impact team.

Please find a full job description here: https://angel.co/company/hypercomply-2/jobs/1360079-senior-f...

Tech Stack: Go, Python, React, TypeScript

If you're interested in learning more, feel free to apply on job posting above or send us an email at jobs@hypercomply.com. Looking forward to talking!

New comment by cmwright in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2021)"

cmwright — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 18:25:29 +0000

HyperComply | Senior Full Stack Software Engineer | New York, Toronto, REMOTE (US or Canada) | https://hypercomply.com

At HyperComply we're working to eliminate friction during the trust building phase of B2B sales cycles, primarily by helping software vendors automate their responses to security questionnaires.

Please find a full job description here: https://angel.co/company/hypercomply-2/jobs/1360079-senior-f...

Tech Stack: Go, Python, C#, React, TypeScript

If you're interested in learning more, feel free to apply on job posting above or send us an email at jobs@hypercomply.com. Looking forward to talking!

New comment by cmwright in "Working on iPad"

cmwright — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 12:17:51 +0000

The author didn't specify whether the donated iPads had LTE connectivity but did say that they very much enjoyed LTE on theirs. This is an edge for the iPad I think? Not sure how the cell plans would be worked out but having an always on, semi reliable connection could be a big positive here.

New comment by cmwright in "Ask HN: How to avoid over-engineering software design for future use cases?"

cmwright — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 14:27:47 +0000

This is an issue I've seen with programmers that hop around companies every year or two - they rarely get to see how their software choices play out in the long term and so never really internalize what works and what doesn't. Same issue to some extent with people who keep hopping around languages/frameworks - if you only have experience writing projects from scratch you'll never really understand what works and what doesn't from a long term maintenance perspective.

New comment by cmwright in "Off-Facebook activity"

cmwright — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 13:17:47 +0000

Once you've logged into facebook from the device, they likely created a device fingerprint for your device: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_fingerprint . This would allow them to identify you even without a cookie or ad id to correlate against.

New comment by cmwright in "Preventing Chaos with Legal Tech – How Bryter Helped Refugees in Lesvos"

cmwright — Fri, 03 Jan 2020 13:43:51 +0000

Has anyone here had experience with this type of "decision automation" platform? Bryter looks very well put together, I haven't worked anywhere that was using software like this before.

New comment by cmwright in "Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible"

cmwright — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 13:23:14 +0000

This you can actually fix - check out Settings -> Advanced -> Input Options for enter behaviour in code blocks.

New comment by cmwright in "Common mistakes in PostgreSQL"

cmwright — Fri, 03 May 2019 12:15:55 +0000

Agreed! The ORM I'm currently using has been setting text for all my `string` columns by default and I was feeling the need to go fix a few, so this is one of those magical times when procrastinating on an issue paid off in my favour.

On that note though, I wonder what impact (if any) this has on an index covering the column? I could be off here but from my mysql days I was under the impression the index would be more efficient if there was a length limit on the column.

New comment by cmwright in "Why Are Hearing Aids So Expensive?"

cmwright — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 12:48:08 +0000

A large portion of the cost of high performance hearing aids today is not not the hearing aids themselves, its the overheads of the local office which are amortized over very few local customers. Generally, the cost of a high performance device is around $300-500 to an audiologist. This is why online companies, like https://www.embracehearing.com (full disclosure, this is my father's company), are able to sell high end hearing aids for about 1/3 of the price of retail.

New comment by cmwright in "Ask HN: Hacker News users reading habits"

cmwright — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 12:33:45 +0000

I also do this, but I'm not sure that it's unique to hacker news. The immediate example that comes to mind is that while one might not watch something like a Presidential Address, or for that matter a White House news conference, one is more likely to watch the evening news or read a newspaper where people dissect the information and TLDR it for them as well as provide some contextual commentary.

New comment by cmwright in "Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration"

cmwright — Tue, 19 Apr 2016 17:13:41 +0000

We played with this a bit using both cloudfront and other cdns. While we did see some small improvements, it wasn't nearly as good as we were expecting on the upload side. It may be fixed now, but there were also many issues getting the proper headers to pass through cloudfront to s3 for chunked uploads.

New comment by cmwright in "Plotly.js Open-Source Announcement"

cmwright — Tue, 17 Nov 2015 19:19:26 +0000

Possibly referring to jQuery 2 dropping support for IE 8 and down?

New comment by cmwright in "Deep learning for NLP resources"

cmwright — Mon, 26 Oct 2015 23:39:35 +0000

Agreed! I've been trying to put a list like this together for Big Data use cases (hadoop, storm... ??) and have had trouble finding up to date resources as the space moves so quickly. Now what we need is a list of these lists.

New comment by cmwright in "Batteriser: a gadget that extends alkaline battery life"

cmwright — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 12:27:24 +0000

This may be naive, but would it be possible for the voltage booster to only start 'boosting' after the battery falls under a certain voltage threshold? That would be seem to solve both of your concerns.

New comment by cmwright in "Let's Encrypt: How It Works"

cmwright — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 19:06:11 +0000

Was surprised by this so just did a little research. It appears (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18578439/using-requests-... , http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/community/faq/#wha...) that this is fixable in python 2.7 so not a show stopper, more of just a good to know.

New comment by cmwright in "Let's Encrypt: How It Works"

cmwright — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 18:26:04 +0000

The SNI stuff (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication) helps with this if you can do without XP support.

New comment by cmwright in "Launching in 2015: A Certificate Authority to Encrypt the Entire Web"

cmwright — Tue, 18 Nov 2014 15:58:32 +0000

For my previous use cases, it's ideal for dynamically created subdomains of a web application. If I know ahead of time, it's easy to grab a cert for any subdomain. However if a user is creating subdomains for a custom site or something similar, it's much nicer/easier to have the wildcard cert.