Hacker News: danmur

New comment by danmur in "YAML document from hell (2023)"

danmur — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 14:35:35 +0000

Jsonnet is pretty nice but the library support isn't quite as good. There are some nice libraries for yaml that do round trip processing for example so you can modify a yaml programmatically and keep comments. Yaml certainly has some warts (and a few things that are just frankly moronic) but it deserves some credit for hitting the sweet spot in a bunch of ways.

New comment by danmur in "Tesla Wants Out of the Car Business"

danmur — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 14:16:00 +0000

I wonder if it will ever be practical or economical to have humans and machines driving together on the roads we have now though. Maybe we'll skip that step and go to robot-only roads with more stuff built into the actual roads.

On Musk, he doesn't need PR so much as to keep his mouth shut for a while and try and deliver on some of his BS instead of spouting more.

New comment by danmur in "Monodraw"

danmur — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 13:12:46 +0000

It's very effective. Both times I've wanted to give them my money. But mac only, geeze

New comment by danmur in "Show HN: I vibecoded a 35k LoC recipe app"

danmur — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 04:29:56 +0000

They just haven't done the "now monitise it" step in the vibe-coding journey.

New comment by danmur in "One Drive in Toyota's $10k Pickup Will Make You Want One (2023)"

danmur — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 09:35:50 +0000

Blue windscreen of death you say

New comment by danmur in "Giant, fungus-like organism may be a completely unknown branch of life"

danmur — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 09:15:54 +0000

Glad to see diamond inheritance being a problem in other fields

New comment by danmur in "The role of developer skills in agentic coding"

danmur — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 10:56:24 +0000

The goal isn't to use AI, though, it's to be productive. Maybe for you AI + writing support tools to improve your workflow makes you more productive and that's great! For me, for the kind of work I'm currently doing, I'm more productive in other ways.

New comment by danmur in "The role of developer skills in agentic coding"

danmur — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 10:49:28 +0000

Why dumb down your work worse because the machine can't understand it?

New comment by danmur in "Dear hosters, you are selling wood, not furniture"

danmur — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 05:11:49 +0000

> From the perspective of the traditional server business, such a developer is unfortunately often seen as rather helpless—someone who needs assistance with everything, can’t run their own database, and has no idea what a nameserver is.

Developers who have no idea about how things work (like nameservers and databases) are pretty helpless generally, regardless of whether they call themselves cloud-native developers or not.

New comment by danmur in "GIMP 3.0"

danmur — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 01:19:16 +0000

That isn't always true, there's plenty of times where companies push features that users don't want. No Chrome users have been clamouring for more ads and more invasive tracking, for example.

New comment by danmur in "Telescope – an open-source web-based log viewer for logs stored in ClickHouse"

danmur — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 12:52:00 +0000

I've used graylog the most so that's what it looks like to me :P. I like how you can do a bunch of extraction stuff right there in the query interface though, that's awesome. It seems like a very thoughtful UI.

New comment by danmur in "Docker limits unauthenticated pulls to 10/HR/IP from Docker Hub, from March 1"

danmur — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:34:56 +0000

I'm not sure why you wouldn't set up your own mirror regardless, it costs peanuts and it's much faster

New comment by danmur in "A Mount Lyell shrew has just been photographed alive"

danmur — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 13:47:01 +0000

That picture at the beginning is a high quality troll, I spent ages looking at it before I read the caption: "The team set up traps in vegetation areas like this one to capture Mount Lyell shrews."

New comment by danmur in "Markdown's Big Brother: Say Hello to AsciiDoc"

danmur — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 13:42:20 +0000

It's a bit more effort but it just can't be beat for documentation.

New comment by danmur in "The first release of OpenVox, the OSS implementation of Puppet"

danmur — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 13:31:03 +0000

The DSL (and associated IDE support) is about the only thing I like about puppet

New comment by danmur in "What do you think about using a game engine for UI?"

danmur — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 04:35:58 +0000

Check out ImHex, I think that's an example of where it works.

New comment by danmur in "Next Generation Out of Band Garbage Collection"

danmur — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 10:05:46 +0000

I certainly don't claim to be an expert, but I have a hunch that getting to the point where performance becomes a significant factor (in the success or failure of a product) isn't going to be about the choice of language. I also think you're vastly underestimating the performance that good architects can get out of ANY (primary) language through good system design. Good design vs bad design makes the biggest difference in my experience, at least from a technical standpoint. Probably just nonsense though as you say.

New comment by danmur in "Next Generation Out of Band Garbage Collection"

danmur — Sun, 03 Nov 2024 00:14:07 +0000

I don't think using Zig over Python is gonna have the biggest impact in making your next big company successful. It's a drop in the ocean compared to the quality of people you have to actually design and build it.

New comment by danmur in "SSH Remoting"

danmur — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 13:46:52 +0000

Microsoft are expert at hiding the strings. I prefer obvious strings if there have to be strings attached.

New comment by danmur in "SSH Remoting"

danmur — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 12:27:44 +0000

I'm charitably reading it as "if I must develop on a Mac, this is a great way" :)