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New comment by crab_galaxy in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

crab_galaxy — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:59:58 +0000

`vendor/` folders give me the worst developer PTSD :p

6 conflicting versions of jquery, and you know every single one of them was monkey patched, cemented into the codebase forever.

New comment by crab_galaxy in "The dead Internet is not a theory anymore"

crab_galaxy — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:53:56 +0000

Fine in what way? What people?

I have not seen or heard of a single person who is excited about AI generated blog posts, or TikToks, or commercials, or images. In fact it’s the opposite, the internet coined the term AI slop, and my non-internet addicted friends hate the fact that chatGPT is killing the environment.

The only people I’ve ever seen champion AI are the few who are excited by the bleeding edge, and the many many peddlers

New comment by crab_galaxy in "So, you’ve hit an age gate. What now?"

crab_galaxy — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 21:58:31 +0000

They do, don’t they? Apple devices have had a robust whitelisting/blacklisting feature for at least a couple of years. I use it to block websites and apps to lessen my phone addiction. I’m sure Android offers similar features

New comment by crab_galaxy in "How your high school affects your chances of UC Admission"

crab_galaxy — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 20:36:11 +0000

Yeah you’re right. However, resource gaps can be filled by things like volunteer librarians, teacher wishlists/donations, field trips, strong PTAs, etc..

This is common in my city. It’s a big underfunded school district with a handful of coveted, well supported schools. I’m assuming it happens elsewhere in America with the success of platforms like donors choose.

New comment by crab_galaxy in "How your high school affects your chances of UC Admission"

crab_galaxy — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 20:06:12 +0000

Maybe they can bring their resources with them too, and the poor schools can have things like lead paint remediation, honors classes, and extra curricular activities.

I like this idea!

New comment by crab_galaxy in "How does lossless compression in Fuji RAF files work? (2020)"

crab_galaxy — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 18:27:07 +0000

> The question is whether you actually need such a camera for anything. With a new smartphone that has multiple lenses, out-of-the-box photos will turn out MUCH NICER than from a camera, because initial processing is built into the software. Digital cameras don't have this. You need to take RAW and work pretty hard on it to make the photo look as good as what a smartphone delivers right away.

You’re completely neglecting to highlight Fuji’s film simulations. I use Fuji’s specifically because they produce excellent jpgs out of camera. Not really sure where your take is coming from, an xt3 on auto will blow any smartphone picture FAR out of the water.

New comment by crab_galaxy in "I didn't bring my son to a museum to look at screens"

crab_galaxy — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 18:04:19 +0000

I totally agree with the authors point. The Franklin Institute at its core is a place that teaches science through tactile experience and the special exhibits don’t reflect that.

Some context as a local though, the Franklin Institute’s special exhibit space rotates every couple of months and I imagine they’re put on by outside vendors who move the exhibit from venue to venue. The special exhibits for better or for worse more akin to Disney World or the pop culture museum in Seattle. I’ve been to a bunch of them and they’re usually quite good, but they don’t represent that tactile learning experience at all.

Many of us Philadelphians really lament that the place isn’t as well maintained as it should be. It was the field trip destination for so many kids and I’m sorry OP wasn’t able to recreate that same level of magic for their kids.

New comment by crab_galaxy in "URL-Driven State in HTMX"

crab_galaxy — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 01:14:10 +0000

> never gets implemented because there’s never time

In my experience that time is saved and more when you find you no longer need to manage Zustand/redux stores to track application state. This pattern works beautifully when incorporating the query parameters as query keys with tan stack query too.

New comment by crab_galaxy in "Overtourism in Japan, and how it hurts small businesses"

crab_galaxy — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 17:04:51 +0000

I got the two fingers making an x sign a handful when I was in Japan. It’s really not a big deal and it never felt malicious. You just move on, though it does kind of suck when you’re hungry!

New comment by crab_galaxy in "Show HN: Trying to eat better? I built a nutrional assistant"

crab_galaxy — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 14:51:02 +0000

I’m interested based on the title but I have no idea how to use it. I think a placeholder prompt or basic instruction would go a long way, otherwise it just looks like a chatGPT clone

New comment by crab_galaxy in "FICO to incorporate buy-now-pay-later loans into credit scores"

crab_galaxy — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 12:49:53 +0000

Yeah, I’m not sure if BNPL loans have changed in the last decade at all but the financiers make money on the people who don’t pay the balance by the end of the term. I’ve financed a couple expensive electronics when it made more sense in my younger days and the terms were such that if you don’t pay it off by the end of the term, you owed ~24% of the total bill in interest.

New comment by crab_galaxy in "Selfish reasons for building accessible UIs"

crab_galaxy — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 03:36:52 +0000

This is a very popular take, but it has absolutely nothing to do with the article.

New comment by crab_galaxy in "Zod 4"

crab_galaxy — Mon, 19 May 2025 15:49:43 +0000

OpenAPI TypeScript is the closest thing I’ve found to perfection when your API is written in a different language than your client.

https://openapi-ts.dev/

New comment by crab_galaxy in "Solar grants held hostage in Pennsylvania legislature – as demand soars"

crab_galaxy — Sun, 18 May 2025 18:10:00 +0000

We do. PA politics are the absolute worst. Democrats are useless, and republicans perfected the art of voting for absolutely nothing positive, then call for privatization. As a cherry on top they loathe the cities, which are the core of the states economic engine.

New comment by crab_galaxy in "Airbnb is in midlife crisis mode"

crab_galaxy — Wed, 14 May 2025 11:50:42 +0000

Same experience here. It was shocking how bad Airbnb’s customer service was. When 95% of the stays are good it doesn’t matter but that one bad stay soured me on the company entirely

New comment by crab_galaxy in "More people are getting tattoos removed"

crab_galaxy — Thu, 08 May 2025 18:53:59 +0000

I got a ‘meaningful’ tattoo on my 18th birthday. I don’t fully relate to it with the same passion 20 years later. I still like it though for different reasons. It’s a snapshot of who I was and what I stood for when I got it. Tbh I don’t regret it at all and mostly forget I even have the thing. I think I’m lucky to have a mindset to appreciate that permanence, a lot of people end up regretting ‘meaningful’ tattoos once they lose their meaning.

New comment by crab_galaxy in "Show HN: Bhvr, a Bun and Hono and Vite and React Starter"

crab_galaxy — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 14:25:24 +0000

The benefits are very clear to me.

If you build MERN apps, this is a template that replaces Express with Hono, Node with bun, and Webpack with Vite.

All of which are significantly faster than their counterparts. Hono can be deployed anywhere and has a much smaller bundle size than Express.

New comment by crab_galaxy in "Next.js version 15.2.3 has been released to address a security vulnerability"

crab_galaxy — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 00:58:51 +0000

They’re different tools. If I were building a JS server for a backend, I’d use Express. Next gives you things like server side rendering and static site generation out of the box, and abstracts/blurs the line between server and client code through its paradigms. For better or for worse.

The deploy infrastructure is quite nice. Nextjs is surprisingly low config, even if you forego the Vercel deployment route it’s not difficult to generate a static site or docker container

New comment by crab_galaxy in "The Frontend Treadmill"

crab_galaxy — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 13:03:45 +0000

Class components and HOCs aren’t deprecated though.

New comment by crab_galaxy in "Show HN: I made a visual UI creation tool."

crab_galaxy — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:15:57 +0000

I like that the theme is added to the context up front!

How does the tool handle modifying existing components once requirements eventually change? I find the pain of implementing UIs isn’t the initial implementation, it’s that product/design loves tweaking requirements in a very complex way.

The benefit of component libraries is the extensibility, IMO. I’m not sure why I would use this over an existing library without a demo