Hacker News: damianh

New comment by damianh in "Firefox profiles: Private, focused spaces for all the ways you browse"

damianh — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 09:35:58 +0000

It's actually astonishing that it took mozilla folks the guts of 20 years to get around to this glaring UX gap.

New comment by damianh in ""Begin disabling installed extensions still using Manifest V2 in Chrome stable""

damianh — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 10:00:38 +0000

Which bugzilla # is it. I can only find decades old requests for such a feature that are closed as WONTFIX.

New comment by damianh in ""Begin disabling installed extensions still using Manifest V2 in Chrome stable""

damianh — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 09:59:11 +0000

This same conversation plays out every time someone mentions profile switching that is responded with "container tabs".

New comment by damianh in ""Begin disabling installed extensions still using Manifest V2 in Chrome stable""

damianh — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 07:05:04 +0000

The switching UI/UX is atrocious.

New comment by damianh in ""Begin disabling installed extensions still using Manifest V2 in Chrome stable""

damianh — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 07:00:51 +0000

This is insanely overdue.

New comment by damianh in ""Begin disabling installed extensions still using Manifest V2 in Chrome stable""

damianh — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 11:45:54 +0000

When the hell will firefox have a decent profile manager?? It's the one thing that is preventing me from switching over. No, container tabs are NOT it.

New comment by damianh in "Cache is King: A guide for Docker layer caching in GitHub Actions"

damianh — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 04:56:57 +0000

The fact that GitHub don't provide a better solution here has to be actually costing them money with the network usage and extra agent time consumed. Right?

New comment by damianh in "Cache is King: A guide for Docker layer caching in GitHub Actions"

damianh — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 04:54:36 +0000

Plenty of marketplace actions will install things and/or mutate the runner. It's a matter of time before someone does something or there's a build that doesn't cleannup after itself (e.g. leaving test processes running) that ruins the day for everyone else.

New comment by damianh in "Cache is King: A guide for Docker layer caching in GitHub Actions"

damianh — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 04:49:36 +0000

I won't disagree. It should be easier imo. I guess this is why a cottage industry has sprung up addressing such e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39930908

New comment by damianh in "Cache is King: A guide for Docker layer caching in GitHub Actions"

damianh — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 04:02:28 +0000

Selh-hosted runners can be ephemeral too. With such either mount the cache as a disk or bake docker layers/images into the runner image.

New comment by damianh in "Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]"

damianh — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 00:28:52 +0000

The trick is to do these sort of engagements as a fixed price contract. You could have probably done an assessment in a hour or two. Then you charge on what you estimate is the value to the company.

New comment by damianh in "Terraform module for scalable GitHub action runners on AWS"

damianh — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 09:55:29 +0000

If you are interested in having self-hosted auto scaling github actions runners but don't want to manage your own webhook handling infrastructure, https://cirun.io is worth a look.

New comment by damianh in "Using extra Firefox profiles to make my life better"

damianh — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 15:35:42 +0000

Strong agreement

New comment by damianh in "Using extra Firefox profiles to make my life better"

damianh — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 11:42:23 +0000

How does one launch a profile from the about:profiles page? ;)

It's a concept that is first class supported and easy to use in all othe browsers. There is just a ton of usability issues across the board, even with the third party addon.

New comment by damianh in "Using extra Firefox profiles to make my life better"

damianh — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 09:48:59 +0000

Am a firefox user since 0.9. I see there's a lot of love for Firefox in the responsonses here.

However, the profile UI and general managment experience compared to Chrome/Edge is pure trash. No, container tabs is not a viable substitute (my work and my personal profiles don't even share bookmarks). Yes am aware of a third party addon that requires additional software to be installed - this just proves the point further.

This issue was reported 13 years ago! https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=662025

So today I'm using Firefox only for personal and chrome (/edge) profiles for everything else. Only reason I am sticking with Firefox is because of the Android version. If I could get ublock origin working on edge/chrome on android I'd probably abandon Firefox.

New comment by damianh in "The Twelve-Factor App (2011)"

damianh — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 15:04:22 +0000

"One app - one repo"

Where did you see that being expressed?

New comment by damianh in "How FoundationDB works and why it works (2021)"

damianh — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 07:44:53 +0000

Since you mention Kestrel I'll assume .NET so I suggest you take a look at yarp. It's fully programmable and "plugins" are just small pieces of middleware, a lot of which is available as a nuget package.

(I'm the author of ProxyKit that predated yarp)

New comment by damianh in "Microsoft YARP"

damianh — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 09:31:55 +0000

Lua vs C# - chose your poison. There's a ton of AspNet Core libraries for handling http things e.g. JWT handling. Things that might need the licensed version of nginx.

Also it's embeddable and self-hostable into any .NET / AspNet Core application.

New comment by damianh in "Microsoft YARP"

damianh — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 08:40:05 +0000

We know there is an ongoing issue with MS's relationship with .NET OSS ecosystem, but in this case I am totally fine with this. I proved the need of a code-first, highly extensible/customisable reverse-proxy (vs other approaches with config only and/or scripting). I also discovered on my journey there where things that needed to happen in layers I couldn't control nor influence (e.g. HttpClient, Kestrel etc) that YARP team could get done. I expressed these things when I had a meet with the team.

Ultimately we got a solid product with a not-too-dissimilar API and I have one less thing to maintain :)

New comment by damianh in "Mono 3.2.7 is out"

damianh — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 19:30:39 +0000

They also use NancyFx on mono.