Hacker News: dansult

New comment by dansult in "Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow?"

dansult — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 09:25:17 +0000

Will try this out, I'm just running claude in terminal panes stacked on the right hand side. Cheers!

New comment by dansult in "Many Small Queries Are Efficient in SQLite"

dansult — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 20:44:29 +0000

You should update it, it benefits many users.

New comment by dansult in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

dansult — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 08:17:14 +0000

https://danielms.site

New comment by dansult in "Ask HN: Anyone still using RSS feeds?"

dansult — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 05:17:16 +0000

Miniflux is how I subscribe to much of my tech content via their RSS. Always a little disappointed when no RSS is available for interesting blogs.

New comment by dansult in "Ask HN: Does reading HN make you happy?"

dansult — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 02:58:12 +0000

I agree with you, in general this place doesn't increase my happiness but finding insights from the submissions and more often, well crafted comments, does. This is going into my browser search shortcut - thank you!

New comment by dansult in "Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell"

dansult — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 00:27:46 +0000

I'm reading this because of the newsletter! HN is a time sink so the newsletter lifts only items worthy of attention to my email. Been a sub for many years. Thank you!

New comment by dansult in "How I use every Claude Code feature"

dansult — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 05:53:10 +0000

Yes and you can select multiple files to give it focus. It can run anything in your PATH too. Eg it's pretty good at using `gh` and so on

New comment by dansult in "Unsafe and Unpredictable: My Volvo EX90 Experience"

dansult — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 09:48:33 +0000

You've gotta be in Australia because I had a cx-5 2014 2.2 TD and it was a nightmare. I'll never buy a Mazda again. You know its bad when years after the warranty has expired Mazda are fixing head gaskets or outright replacing engines for free.

New comment by dansult in "Ask HN: People who work different timezones than your company. How sched?"

dansult — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 08:57:12 +0000

I work in a global company with people in Asia, Australia, North America and across Europe. My team are all in NA and I'm in Australia. I just get up early to maximise cross over, two morning meetings for me a week. Works pretty well but I do get up/stay up occasionally for 2am meetings. Apart from all hands there's no pressure to do so. Hardest part is arranging a meeting between a European, American and myself - someone is going to be out of normal hours. Fully remote rather than "remote but this timezone" is great.

New comment by dansult in "Ask HN: People who work different timezones than your company. How sched?"

dansult — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 08:49:46 +0000

2am all hands.. but for the most part it's great working with European and American colleagues

New comment by dansult in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)"

dansult — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 02:14:29 +0000

Thats an interesting project. Thanks for sharing.

New comment by dansult in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)"

dansult — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 00:50:45 +0000

Very cool man. Love this!

New comment by dansult in "Ask HN: Are AI dev tools lowering the barrier to entry for creating software?"

dansult — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 04:56:10 +0000

Thats a sombre take. My father in law was a professional photographer for 30 years. His experience was very much that everyone can take a decent photo today. But he saw diminishing opportunities as early as the days of small point and shoot cameras. Today, they're not used as much because commodity DSLRs are relatively cheap and dont require much if any training. Are we in the days of the Nikon Coolpix? Maybe, its definitely something to consider.

New comment by dansult in "Ask HN: What is one programming language you would recommend to a new learner?"

dansult — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 06:57:15 +0000

Python is a good first language. Big community. Easy to start, can start without OOP or even functions - just a script. Large ecosystem from web to AI. Automating the boring stuff type work has real world application and is a decent glide path from learning programming to actually enjoying it.

I want new programmers to learn to enjoy it before trudging through theory and patterns. "Read what you love until you love to read" sings true here.

New comment by dansult in "Ask HN: How does JetBrains protect their IDE Java source code?"

dansult — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 20:06:39 +0000

Accurate. JetBrains IDEs are the only ones I'll use. Webstorm, PyCharm, GoLand - all wonderful.

New comment by dansult in "Show HN: A Directory of 500 HN Side Projects"

dansult — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 12:47:24 +0000

How do you see all the entries? Each option only shows ten items with no way to load more.

New comment by dansult in "Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell"

dansult — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 10:43:20 +0000

Really cool approach to running a VPN company

New comment by dansult in "Excalidraw's AI Tool – useful and underrated"

dansult — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 23:02:14 +0000

I use mermaid.js a lot but not enough that I an fluent in the DSL. So I pump things into excalidraw's AI and tell it to create the mermaid chart. It gets my 80% of the way and I tweak/extend from there. If nothing else its awesome for that

New comment by dansult in "Ask HN: How to Start as Golang Developer?"

dansult — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 06:39:36 +0000

Thank you for following up with the links, I also made a mistake in my post. It was Let's Go Further but hopefully OP figured that out.

New comment by dansult in "Ask HN: How to Start as Golang Developer?"

dansult — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 06:56:19 +0000

Having experience in other languages it should be fairly easy to pick up. I personally bought the book Let's Go by Alex Edwards. It's a project based book where he teaches you Go by writing an API server. I found it really beneficial as I was familiar with API development but not with Go. After that I used what I learnt to create some side projects and the rest is history.

If you feel you're already past that point of learning then I'd just create little projects. Re-write one of your old ones in Go, and things like that.