Hacker News: cush

New comment by cush in "Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)"

cush — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:24:27 +0000

This has a solved problem for a long time

New comment by cush in "Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file"

cush — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:23:09 +0000

Love it! Thanks for sharing!

New comment by cush in "Show HN: CSS Studio. Design by hand, code by agent"

cush — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 23:51:12 +0000

It’s a design tool. Why communicate it with text?

New comment by cush in "Show HN: CSS Studio. Design by hand, code by agent"

cush — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 23:50:23 +0000

Seriously though. And this is a design company?

New comment by cush in "The Vercel plugin on Claude Code wants to read your prompts"

cush — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:32:11 +0000

If there were any semblance of liability for software engineering firms things like this wouldn’t happen

New comment by cush in "You can't cancel a JavaScript promise (except sometimes you can)"

cush — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:37:53 +0000

GC can be very slow. Relying on it for control flow is a bold move

New comment by cush in "I won't download your app. The web version is a-ok"

cush — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 23:43:28 +0000

Yeah true. Tabs, history, etc on the browser are unparalleled.

New comment by cush in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"

cush — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:41:11 +0000

They forgot the bit where Alice could barely make rent and ate trash for a year while she worked 70hr weeks for a poverty-line stipend. Bob had great sleeps and could hold a part time job waiting tables.

New comment by cush in "I won't download your app. The web version is a-ok"

cush — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:27:54 +0000

NYT occasionally uses fancy interactive articles. They have games, and other things that are better on the app. The NYT app is actually very good

New comment by cush in "I Won't Download Your App. The Web Version Is A-OK"

cush — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:24:44 +0000

It depends. The parking app example is an example of an app I want, for so many reasons

New comment by cush in "Introduction to Computer Music (2009) [pdf]"

cush — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:48:06 +0000

I like that Programming for Music and Music for Programming are both on the front page together

New comment by cush in "Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI"

cush — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:43:13 +0000

Good code will stand the test of time. No matter how great a project is, there’s no world in which I adopt anything written over a few months and just released, for maintenance reasons alone.

New comment by cush in "Why are we still using Markdown?"

cush — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:35:24 +0000

Just write in whatever language makes you happy. Nobody is forcing you to use markdown

New comment by cush in "EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security"

cush — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:09:35 +0000

This is such a valid concern. At this point I wouldn’t adopt new features unless they’ve been actively maintained and stable for 6 months. Too risky.

New comment by cush in "EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security"

cush — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:08:18 +0000

It doesn’t need to be said in the article, it’s obvious. EmDash is a term associated with slop.

New comment by cush in "EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security"

cush — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:06:42 +0000

Not sure why you’re being downvoted. The name is so bad. WordPress is a great name for normies. Something like Cloudflare Press would make more sense. EmDash is at best a temporary meme.

New comment by cush in "I am leaving the AI party after one drink"

cush — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:36:07 +0000

> making a hollandaise is not a skill I ever need in my life

I know you just wanted to poke at the analogy, but if you like hollandaise, it's one of the easiest and most rewarding sauces to make at home! Restaurant hollaindaise is usually terrible

New comment by cush in "I am leaving the AI party after one drink"

cush — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:32:05 +0000

> I want to shake these people by the shoulders... Do you use a microwave?

Microwaves aren't doing active problem solving though. It seems what the author is trying to say is they enjoy problem solving and they find coding a rewarding and creative experience. Sure microwaves saved at-home cooks might enjoy zapping a frozen dinner, but the author is a chef who enjoys writing their own recipes and cooking from scratch. AI isn't just the microwave, it's also the chef.

> None of us have "lost" the ability to go backwards if we really wanted

This absolutely isn't true. Using google maps quickly makes people poorer at navigation - skills need to be practiced. The author thinks letting AI into their kitchen to cook for them will change themself cognitively and make them lazy and lose their skills. And that would be true.

What it sounds like you're getting at but never said is there might be newer skills on the other side that are even more rewarding, which may be true. But if history is any indication, there will be no shortage of folks who like things the old way and want to use their meat brains to provide bespoke goods and services that AI can't.

New comment by cush in "Apple Just Lost Me"

cush — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:12:39 +0000

> It will take me a while before I can fully migrate away... I’m gonna throw all of them away... I purchased a MNT Pocket Reform. It will take them a while to assemble and send it to me... I am considering getting a Fairphone Gen 6...

Honestly it sounds like Apple is far from lost here, but I'm excited to see updates on how the transition is, if it ever does happen.

New comment by cush in "The future of version control"

cush — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 18:52:58 +0000

> I renamed a method, while someone else concurrently added another call to that

This is the most common use case for any compiler or linter