Hacker News: comatory

New comment by comatory in "Show HN: Hacker News em dash user leaderboard pre-ChatGPT"

comatory — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 12:42:24 +0000

Fun thing but do "winners" feel superior to others? Is that what em dash is about?

How to find OSS libraries/projects that are looking for maintainers?

comatory — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 05:58:13 +0000

As the title suggests, I’d like to know what are the methods for finding out this information, apart from explicitly searching such projects via GH, mailing lists etc. E.g. would like to have a list, which I could filter by tech stack or area (UI, cryptography…)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44981434

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New comment by comatory in "Ask HN: What is the best way to author blogs in 2024?"

comatory — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 14:50:27 +0000

I can only recommend Zola as well. I’ve been using it for past 4 years or so and it’s been very stable. Like you, I feel the docs could be a bit more deeper (+more examples) but I’ve always managed to figure out what I need to do.

New comment by comatory in "Show HN: Unforget, the note-taking app I always wanted: offline first, encrypted"

comatory — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 13:11:27 +0000

I'm a web dev so naturally, I'd pick something I know well to implement UIs. Second, distribution is a big one. With native mobile, you have to go through lot of hoops to get your code onto the device easily, usually it means dealing with certificate, licenses etc.

New comment by comatory in "Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software"

comatory — Fri, 10 May 2024 12:48:22 +0000

Software devs doing wood working is kind of a meme nowadays, isn’t it?

New comment by comatory in "Kagi to start charging sales tax/VAT"

comatory — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 20:44:27 +0000

This feels really amateur-ish. I am a customer of Kagi and I wish them to succeed. So what were they doing up until now? Tax fraud? Paying for search is uncommon for regular folk, I was hesitant to pay for it as well but $10 felt like a good spot for the value I'm getting. If the price hikes again and gets to $15 area, I'm switching back to DDG (I have no use for AI features so it's not a big differentiator to me).

New comment by comatory in "How to Start Google"

comatory — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 07:33:07 +0000

You can do this if you're in US, salaries elsewhere for tech jobs are more inline with salaries for specialized professions (doctors, lawyers). They're still larger than other jobs but it goes nowhere near the levels of western/eastern US (exceptions exist ofc).

Then there's a question when you start a family, that's subjective and something you can control but the model of creating career and then having kids (in late 30s/early 40s) seems more common in US. If you have your first child in mid 30s, then few laters 2nd one for example, you still need to be very hands-on, attentive and provide at least until your late 40s/early 50s.

New comment by comatory in "DevDocs"

comatory — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 08:42:07 +0000

I have an idea to make any documentation rendered in HTML to be processed. You could then have an application that could parse it, digest it, store it for offline access and have some kind of notification mechanism to let you know it changes.

New comment by comatory in "Bandcamp's Entire Union Bargaining Team Was Laid Off"

comatory — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 09:52:05 +0000

If you're not a technical type you will not be bothered with setting up a website so that's why I think centralized services will always win. It's similar to why people don't make their own websites but just post to social media.

I can imagine a 1-click solution that would set up everything. But bandcamp also has this functionality where labels can list their artists etc so I think it wouldn't work that well.

New comment by comatory in "Jitsi Meet Flutter SDK"

comatory — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 08:34:47 +0000

I picked up Dart in a week or so and felt very productive with it in less than a month, the language itself is very easy to understand if you already know Typescript or Java. Flutter has a learning curve as well, you need to understand the concepts and the built-in widgets but even after month or so I was able to code up basic cross-platform app for iOS/Android. Ended up spending almost a year working on that project and gradually evolving it to support offline state, geolocation and real time updates.

New comment by comatory in "Why I started (and stopped) making games"

comatory — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 10:03:17 +0000

nice I like it

New comment by comatory in "Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace"

comatory — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 05:53:44 +0000

Whats the game?

New comment by comatory in "Using xyz TLD domain as a primary email address"

comatory — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 09:55:57 +0000

Is this still the case? I checked few registrars and they seem to go around $10 nowadays but maybe I missed places with better deals.

I get the reason why that would attract spammers. Bummer for people who would like to use it for legitimate reasons.

New comment by comatory in "Using xyz TLD domain as a primary email address"

comatory — Mon, 23 Aug 2021 13:03:25 +0000

I mean especially .ninja, .work etc

New comment by comatory in "Using xyz TLD domain as a primary email address"

comatory — Mon, 23 Aug 2021 12:26:39 +0000

Yeah but I wonder if all of these others would get flagged as well.

Using xyz TLD domain as a primary email address

comatory — Mon, 23 Aug 2021 05:39:08 +0000

Is this considered OK. I want to use email address such as `me@mylastname.xyz`

I already purchased the domain. I'm only asking if I can run into some issues where my email would be considered spam since I've read somewhere that bunch of spam emails come from .xyz TLD domains.

The reason why I'm getting .xyz and not .com is because someone with same last name already has .com but I still want to use something recognizable.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28272630

Points: 3

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New comment by comatory in "Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?"

comatory — Fri, 21 May 2021 18:24:12 +0000

I have been using this for few years. It's great and I think it fits well how developers want to configure and backup overall.

Ask HN: Is back-end web development less complex than front-end nowadays?

comatory — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 09:59:27 +0000

Basically I'm just wondering if grass is greener on the other side.

Don't get me wrong, I really like FE development and I've been successful in creating a nice career out of it for myself, becoming specialist in certain areas - I'm working on what is now I guess considered "modern" web apps. That means more or less creating React SPAs and figuring out the whole tech stack (webpack etc).

I do have experience with BE as well but last time I did any professional work was 4 years ago, I used to be Ruby on Rails developer and I liked that as well. I can also do some NodeJS development and work with databases. So I think I have general idea of both sides, just not very up-to-date on current backend tech.

I am asking because I seem to notice micro-trend where some people are actually advocating for moving back to monolith architecture and manage user state, including FE all at one place (server), Phoenix's LiveView comes to mind. I have not tried these new web-socket approaches yet. I was thinking maybe having a look at that and if the trend actually becomes norm, I'd like to have the skill set.

I know BE has become more complex as well with introduction of Kubernetes and other technologies (or more simple? IDK).

What is your take on this?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26777685

Points: 2

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New comment by comatory in "Kanban board in one HTML using localstorage"

comatory — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 19:29:47 +0000

It’s cool. I tried reading the code but man, the HTML file is over 2k lines since everything is inline. I understand your motivation to implement this without build tools and frameworks but you could have used at least stylesheets and put JS into separate files. Or even use ES modules to split functionality into modules. All of these are native to modern browsers and do not need any build tools.

New comment by comatory in "Kanban board in one HTML using localstorage"

comatory — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 19:27:10 +0000

Switch local storage for IndexedDB. Good library that wraps it is PouchDB: https://pouchdb.com/

It can sync browser db to remote database.