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New comment by codingclaws in "Ask HN: What book are you reading?"

codingclaws — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 20:36:56 +0000

Dungeon Crawler Carl, book 2

New comment by codingclaws in "Ask HN: What would you recommend a vibe coder learn about how all this works?"

codingclaws — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 20:27:30 +0000

The cornerstone of coding is the function. Study functions.

New comment by codingclaws in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"

codingclaws — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 22:48:55 +0000

Refactoring Comment Castles [0]. It uses Express, but I previously wasn't using any of my own middleware functions. Now, I'm starting to write some middleware, and it's a nice way to reuse code.

[0] https://www.commentcastles.org

New comment by codingclaws in "Ask HN: How do you reset an AppleID?"

codingclaws — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 17:59:30 +0000

apple auth is a clusterfuck

New comment by codingclaws in "Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?"

codingclaws — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 18:22:00 +0000

Neuromancer - 2nd time I read it. Such a good book.

To Your Scattered Bodies Go - 2nd time I read it. Cool book. It's about a world with a big river where humans are reborn after they die on earth.

Use of Weapons - 2nd time I read it. One of the more popular Iain Banks Culture novels.

Dungeon Crawler Carl #1 - Loved it.

Matter - 2nd time I read it. This is another Banks Culture novel. This book is actually very good. Most of it takes places on a megastructure planet with different levels.

Assassin's Apprentice - I don't get the hype.

Memories of Ice - 3rd Malazan book. I thought the first quarter was lit.

Cursed Cocktails - Cozy fantasy, good book.

I log all my read books here [0].

[0] https://www.commentcastles.org/r/ireadthisbook

Ask HN: What's your current stance on agentic coding?

codingclaws — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 17:02:59 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45607869

Points: 1

# Comments: 3

New comment by codingclaws in "The RSS feed reader landscape"

codingclaws — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 17:06:28 +0000

I built an RSS reader in 2005. I never figured out how to 100% reliably detect already downloaded articles.

New comment by codingclaws in "Qualcomm to acquire Arduino"

codingclaws — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 15:15:01 +0000

RIP Arduino

New comment by codingclaws in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2025)"

codingclaws — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 16:44:37 +0000

SEEKING WORK | Portugal | Remote

Remote freelance software developer for 22 years. Mostly web apps. Prefer async written communication. Part-time only. No LLM use. Email and portfolio in HN bio.

Ask HN: How many good developers do you personally know?

codingclaws — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 11:09:48 +0000

By good, I mean a developer that can successfully build an app from scratch that doesn't have any bugs.

I have a theory that there just aren't that many good developers due to the way the industry works (more pay to move into management, lots of developers just making small changes to large existing codebases, lots of people only in it for the money and don't care).

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45358737

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

Ask HN: Which JavaScript URL regex do you use?

codingclaws — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 13:48:28 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45275817

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by codingclaws in "Ask HN: When was the last time you visited Stack Overflow?"

codingclaws — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 20:11:31 +0000

10 minutes ago [0]. I needed to git diff two files that weren't in a repo.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16683121/git-diff-betwee...

New comment by codingclaws in "Where is the exponential growth part of AI?"

codingclaws — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 20:43:52 +0000

Technology as a whole is on an exponential growth curve. The further we get along that, the more likely it is that we'll see an artificial intelligence singularity. LLMs/chatgpt may or may not play a direct role.

New comment by codingclaws in "The beauty of a text only webpage"

codingclaws — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 15:15:51 +0000

Couldn't agree more. I love text only pages/sites that have some style.

New comment by codingclaws in "What would you name a new programming language?"

codingclaws — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 15:12:31 +0000

Thinking of what to name an app or language is torturous.

New comment by codingclaws in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2025)"

codingclaws — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 17:17:51 +0000

SEEKING WORK | Portugal

I have 20 years of experience as a remote freelance developer.

Technologies: Anything with documentation. Learning is my top skill.

Email: In my HN bio.

Musical Instrument: A cheap digital piano with broken speakers, so I am using MIDI output + Linux [0].

[0] https://www.commentcastles.org/p/jnA0cdCtStN0R9flkVVLj2

New comment by codingclaws in "Fast"

codingclaws — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 19:27:58 +0000

Fast and light weight. That's why I love vim/cli over IDEs.

Btw, cool site design.

New comment by codingclaws in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)"

codingclaws — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 18:40:25 +0000

My Reddit clone called Comment Castles [0].

Earlier today I implemented "bbcodes" for bold, italic, underline, em (grey background color) and strikethrough. They way it works for bold is like this: b[text here]. If you want to apply multiple you can go bui[text here] for example, which would be bold, underline and italic text.

[0] https://github.com/ferg1e/comment-castles

Ask HN: Is there demand for general purpose GUIs for AI APIs?

codingclaws — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 15:42:00 +0000

I'm thinking of making a desktop app that makes available the Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, etc API functionality. I guess the user would have to plug in their API key.

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New comment by codingclaws in "Ask HN: What book are you reading?"

New comment by codingclaws in "Ask HN: What would you recommend a vibe coder learn about how all this works?"

New comment by codingclaws in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"

New comment by codingclaws in "Ask HN: How do you reset an AppleID?"

New comment by codingclaws in "Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?"

Ask HN: What's your current stance on agentic coding?

New comment by codingclaws in "The RSS feed reader landscape"

New comment by codingclaws in "Qualcomm to acquire Arduino"

New comment by codingclaws in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2025)"

Ask HN: How many good developers do you personally know?

Ask HN: Which JavaScript URL regex do you use?

New comment by codingclaws in "Ask HN: When was the last time you visited Stack Overflow?"

New comment by codingclaws in "Where is the exponential growth part of AI?"

New comment by codingclaws in "The beauty of a text only webpage"

New comment by codingclaws in "What would you name a new programming language?"

New comment by codingclaws in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2025)"

New comment by codingclaws in "Fast"

New comment by codingclaws in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)"

Ask HN: Is there demand for general purpose GUIs for AI APIs?

Ask HN: What are your favorite coding tools?