Hacker News: coneonthefloor

New comment by coneonthefloor in "Fable 5 Is Back"

coneonthefloor — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 20:19:27 +0000

Site does look great. I’ve not used Claude Design. How much do you feel like you were able to give your own personal touch to it?

I ask as I see many vibe coded products that look well but are very generic. It signals vapourware to me. But honestly your site looks a cut above. Do you have a design background?

Also is the design system you mentioned public?

New comment by coneonthefloor in "Fable 5 Is Back"

coneonthefloor — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 19:54:17 +0000

> So my customers will face a new wave of refreshed screens all over the place in coming days

How do you determine the changes to make?

Do you A/B test?

How do you measure success?

What is your product?

How many customers do you have?

New comment by coneonthefloor in "LuaJIT 3.0 proposed syntax extensions"

coneonthefloor — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:51:19 +0000

The syntax proposals look fine. But I don’t feel they are needed. Lua is easy to write and grok. I default to using LuaJIT, and have never had an issue with the actual code. Integration with the Lua ecosystem is the problem. Fix the compatibility issues with LuaRocks packages and PucRio. That would be the best dev ex update in my opinion.

New comment by coneonthefloor in "Show HN: Nub – A Bun-like all-in-one toolkit for Node.js"

coneonthefloor — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 21:42:42 +0000

Yea, not sure what “written in rust” adds to this. I would have thought that you could get the same functionality with a few shell scripts and a package.json.

New comment by coneonthefloor in "I'm a "Software Engineer""

coneonthefloor — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:16:09 +0000

I agree, this is why the term Software Engineer is in italics or quotes throughout.

The article is rant written whilst looking back on a career in tech. The author is clearly questioning the legitimacy of the role, and whether or not he actually provided any value throughout his time as a “Software Engineer”.

New comment by coneonthefloor in "Software is made between commits"

coneonthefloor — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:08:24 +0000

Zed are doing a great job at making the exact things developers don’t want. It’s clear that their focus is on raising funding rather than making a great text editor.

Tailwind and slop apps

coneonthefloor — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:12:47 +0000

Article URL: https://briandouglas.ie/llm-tailwind-template/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48496483

Points: 111

# Comments: 83

New comment by coneonthefloor in "Apache Burr: Build reliable AI agents and applications"

coneonthefloor — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 10:51:50 +0000

Yes, I have nothing against Tailwind as a technology. My gripe is that you can now prompt an LLM “make a stylish homepage for my product” and they almost exclusively spit out this Tailwind template.

If that’s all the effort you are going through to make your brochure site, I can only assume the same care was given to the actual product.

New comment by coneonthefloor in "Apache Burr: Build reliable AI agents and applications"

coneonthefloor — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:10:04 +0000

So many software homepages use that tailwind template, or a variety of it. As soon as I see it, it suggests to me a poor quality/rushed product.

AI and the Redmonk Language Rankings

coneonthefloor — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:28:33 +0000

Article URL: https://briandouglas.ie/redmonk-language-rankings-2026/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48452389

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by coneonthefloor in "Multi-stroke text effect in CSS"

coneonthefloor — Wed, 06 May 2026 18:57:54 +0000

First thing I thought to do was add an emoji to the content. But it just shows the unknown char rectangle. I was hoping for magic, I guess.

New comment by coneonthefloor in "AI, Intimacy, and the Data You Never Meant to Share"

coneonthefloor — Sun, 03 May 2026 10:44:18 +0000

“Accidentally recording” sensitive data is happening pretty much everywhere. Last year I was tasked with removing sensitive payment information that had been stored in an insurance company’s database as “call transcripts”. The automated system would state that the payment information would not be stored. It was in fact always stored…

New comment by coneonthefloor in "Having Kids (2019)"

coneonthefloor — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:23:31 +0000

Men that make sacrifices to serve.

New comment by coneonthefloor in "Having Kids (2019)"

coneonthefloor — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:22:32 +0000

I'm sorry for your loss.

New comment by coneonthefloor in "Having Kids (2019)"

coneonthefloor — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:37:24 +0000

You exist solely to procreate.

I could not imagine an emptier life, than one without children.

Big Time Burnout

coneonthefloor — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 12:24:26 +0000

I am totally burnt out.

I am a “software engineer” I am great at making things and solving problems with code. I love to code. I am an expert in my domain.

But I am employed to sit in meetings. Where my voice doesn’t matter. I am one dev to 6 middle managers with various lofty titles. They do not respect me. I am the bottom wrung of the ladder. But I am also the only member of the team who delivers anything. Without me the “developer” the product doesn’t exist. They hate me for this. So they lock me down. My computer is near unusable in its locked down monitored state. I have to ask permission to do the simplest things. They don’t want me thinking or being productive. Now they have me writing “prompts” so a robot can make me redundant. My confidence is zero, my skillset unappreciated.

It’s time to start again, find a new way to provide for my family.

The software engineering career that I loved has burnt out.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45412815

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by coneonthefloor in "A safe, non-owning C++ pointer class"

coneonthefloor — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 18:56:32 +0000

I’ve recently read the third edition of Bjarne’s “A tour of c++” (which is actually a good read). I feel the author of this post could benefit from doing so also.

New comment by coneonthefloor in "This website has no class"

coneonthefloor — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 12:05:44 +0000

I really like the concept of this. I'd love a html reference guide (pattern library?) with plain html no CSS or JS to document the basic building blocks of the web.

New comment by coneonthefloor in "What's New in C# 14: Null-Conditional Assignments"

coneonthefloor — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 22:51:37 +0000

I’d rather be explicit. If the value is null then it should be explicitly handled.

I feel like this is another step in the race to add every conceivable feature to a language, for the sake of it.

New comment by coneonthefloor in "Just Use HTML"

coneonthefloor — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 08:10:11 +0000

The server rarely has to render/build the html. It will do it once and then cache it. 99% of websites don’t have real time data. They are just boring webpages.