Hacker News: cwales95

New comment by cwales95 in "JetBrains Fleet drops support for Kotlin Multiplatform"

cwales95 — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 23:25:26 +0000

I’m similar but have three main editors:

Vim for super quick changes (I’d like to increase my proficiency with vim but not really done much to do so).

Vscode for light text editing : coding which doesn’t require me to dig in to debug for a major length of time.

Jetbrains IDE for real work / tinkering were I may need to debug / leverage breakpoints / have good autocomplete.

New comment by cwales95 in "Modern JavaScript for Django developers"

cwales95 — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 21:28:51 +0000

Where I get confused is storing the tokens securely. There's a lot of conflicting information online. I've come across many examples where they suggest localStorage which is a horrible idea.

A lot of the advice I see now is about http-only cookies but I think I'd probably look more into oAuth in the future.

New comment by cwales95 in "Modern JavaScript for Django developers"

cwales95 — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 18:14:11 +0000

I think this is a great resource but wish it had not chosen a hybrid architecture. All the guides on decoupled Django seem to choose hybrid. It makes sense because you get the CSRF / XSS safety benefits but I'd love to see how others tackle a fully decoupled Django stack e.g. oAuth, JWTs and how they do their CSRF / XSS security. It's an area I need to learn more about.

New comment by cwales95 in "James Thomson on the Origins of the macOS Dock"

cwales95 — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 09:08:59 +0000

I'm similar but I tend to use spotlight for launching. I do sometimes use the dock but all animations are disabled and it's hidden by default.

New comment by cwales95 in "What the TP-Link Ban in the US Means for You"

cwales95 — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 09:25:15 +0000

AI written content should really be banned. I don't want to read content from a bot I want to read content from a human.

New comment by cwales95 in "Dumb TVs deserve a comeback"

cwales95 — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 08:42:42 +0000

Whenever I obtain a 'smart' TV, I never connect it to the internet. I don't want a TV that can phone home.

New comment by cwales95 in "Show HN: Minimal, customizable new tab for Chrome/Firefox"

cwales95 — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 22:53:19 +0000

Looks good.

I recently just created my own custom new tab extension. Closed source because it's literally just for me. It does a few nieche things e.g. syncing a todo list that also appears on a e-ink display. I like it. I also like that it's something that's just for me.

New comment by cwales95 in "Useful built-in macOS command-line utilities"

cwales95 — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 22:17:35 +0000

I actual wrote a similar post a while back: https://www.chriswales.uk/blog/my-favourite-macos-terminal-c...

networksetup was one of my favourites as well as du and caffeinate.

The 'security' command is new to me so thanks!

New comment by cwales95 in "Is My Blue Your Blue?"

cwales95 — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 09:53:36 +0000

This was my opinion. Saying it's either blue or green when it looks to be a bit of both didn't sit well with me.

New comment by cwales95 in "Can we trust Microsoft with Open Source? (2021)"

cwales95 — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 22:06:42 +0000

No one company can be.

New comment by cwales95 in "Firing Myself"

cwales95 — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 20:38:24 +0000

Yeah, cannot help but agree. It should have been impossible for this to happen in the first place.

New comment by cwales95 in "Local First, Forever"

cwales95 — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 10:24:25 +0000

I'm not sure why but it made me feel nauseous. Did not like. I couldn't continue to read either.

New comment by cwales95 in "Show HN: A Firefox extension which removes subreddit styles on Old Reddit"

cwales95 — Sun, 02 Jun 2024 23:45:50 +0000

It is if you have an account. I browse Reddit anonymously and I wanted to get rid of the subreddit styles — hence why I put this together quickly.

New comment by cwales95 in "Show HN: A Firefox extension which removes subreddit styles on Old Reddit"

cwales95 — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 18:41:26 +0000

Likely yes but not everyone knows how (thinking the non-tech people here) and plus I think it’s nice just to be able to grab a quick extension and be done with it.

Show HN: A Firefox extension which removes subreddit styles on Old Reddit

cwales95 — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 17:31:40 +0000

Article URL: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/old-reddit-destyler/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40547586

Points: 4

# Comments: 5

New comment by cwales95 in "Windows Recall sounds like a privacy nightmare"

cwales95 — Wed, 22 May 2024 21:43:10 +0000

This immediately came to my mind as well.

This will be abused. It’s not an “if” but a “when”.

New comment by cwales95 in "Apple must open iPadOS to sideloading within 6 months, EU says"

cwales95 — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 11:33:51 +0000

The thing is though, as you said, it's my personal iPhone. If I want to be able to install an unsigned app I should be able to. There should be ways to dissuade the non-technical people but my feeling is it is my iPhone so I should be able to do as I wish.

New comment by cwales95 in "Working from home isn't going away, even if some CEOs wish it would"

cwales95 — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 11:10:38 +0000

I've had this conversation with quite a few people recently. As I say to them, once the genie is out of the bottle it's hard to put it back in again. People will simply go to companies who allow them to be remote or more flexible.

New comment by cwales95 in "Bython: Python with braces. Because Python is awesome, but whitespace is awful"

cwales95 — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 11:21:26 +0000

This unironically makes Python seem more cosy to me. It just feels better. My unpopular opinion, anyway.

New comment by cwales95 in "Akira Toriyama has died"

cwales95 — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 10:01:04 +0000

Like many others, this guy was a *huge* part of my childhood. Rest in Peace Akira Toriyama.