Hacker News: declnz

New comment by declnz in "The technical merits of Wayland are mostly irrelevant"

declnz — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 15:47:59 +0000

This.

New comment by declnz in "Scaling up the Prime Video audio/video monitoring service and reducing costs"

declnz — Thu, 04 May 2023 08:32:58 +0000

"Singleton" sounds like a good word here (though I've never heard it used in that context)

New comment by declnz in "Ask HN: Is the job market brutal? or is it just me?"

declnz — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 13:15:57 +0000

The problem is: this is absolutely not true in the real world.

New comment by declnz in "I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music"

declnz — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 10:47:27 +0000

A shameless plug, but you may also like Quod Libet[1]. Although not for everyone, it has very advanced searching and the more unusual integrations and features all implemented as plugins.

[1] https://quodlibet.readthedocs.io

New comment by declnz in "I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music"

declnz — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 10:38:18 +0000

> But then I've got some scripts that maintain a copy of that collection, except converted to MP3 at a variable bitrate

Yes. I have / had been doing this for years, and just want to sing high praises of mp3fs[1], assuming some kind of Linux or macOS machine. It solves this problem in a way that I think more people should know about!

[1] https://khenriks.github.io/mp3fs/

New comment by declnz in "Ask HN: I just want to have fun programming again"

declnz — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 15:18:24 +0000

This

Elm brought back joy and longevity for side projects to front-end for me (that had been ground down by the JS ecosystem sadly)

New comment by declnz in "Z-Wave Alliance Announces Z-Wave Source Code Project Now Open and Available"

declnz — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 16:24:57 +0000

I'm on my second home of full Z-wave (mostly Fibaro, pricey but would recommend) and though smaller this isn't my experience at all.

No it's not perfect but agree with others that the S2 seems to be way better.

Also bandwidth as a metric to aim for seems like a bad choice for IoT to me.

New comment by declnz in "2022 State of Haskell Survey"

declnz — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 17:32:44 +0000

> We use Stack together with Nix to pin all dependencies. That works very well.

Could you elaborate on the path you took here? Sounds interesting

New comment by declnz in "Ask HN: What social media site could replace Twitter?"

declnz — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 10:13:29 +0000

Lol, so just like Twitter then

New comment by declnz in "VS Code – What's the deal with the telemetry?"

declnz — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 15:04:20 +0000

IMO it's because they've done very smart pivots / rebranding (VSCode, Github, NPM, even the Surfaces) and people who even know start thinking "new Microsoft"

New comment by declnz in "Show HN: Digs.fm – For passionate music explorers (like Goodreads but for music)"

declnz — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 15:27:18 +0000

Nice! Have signed up and will play. What would work for me especially is some kind of API, so we could integrate it into, say, music players...

New comment by declnz in "Show HN: Rocket Drone, a lunar lander type game for the web"

declnz — Sat, 13 Aug 2022 20:07:36 +0000

Agh so good but so annoying :)

New comment by declnz in "You Don't Need Microservices"

declnz — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 17:39:44 +0000

> Odds are it is easier to resolve performance issues and bottlenecks in your monolith than it is to transition to a new architecture pattern.

I dunno but when I see odds are $X I read unproved and perhaps unprovably, my opinion is $X

New comment by declnz in "The Dhall Configuration Language"

declnz — Fri, 15 Jul 2022 11:08:18 +0000

Whilst I like the look of Cue... this argument reminds me of the Kubernetes trap ( We should use it... because Google does it and they're huuuuuuuge don't you know etc )

New comment by declnz in "The End of CI"

declnz — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 08:41:28 +0000

Thanks for the link

Side note: makes me sad when even open-source tools for Gitlab are hosted... on Github...

New comment by declnz in "Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity (2009)"

declnz — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 15:23:00 +0000

Oh God, are we still discussing 10x programmers?

Please let's not.

New comment by declnz in "Ask HN: How is Python's OOP is superior vs. Lisp CLOS?"

declnz — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 12:37:38 +0000

> It is said that

I for one have never heard that said about Python; if this was on Wikipedia I'd definitely be mumbling Weasel Word[1] now...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_word

New comment by declnz in "How Trustpilot Extorts Businesses"

declnz — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 12:43:40 +0000

Wow this left me a bit depressed. Are there any good third-party review systems out there then?

New comment by declnz in "Schools should be using open source software"

declnz — Tue, 31 May 2022 13:17:03 +0000

But do we really think that learning (current) Photoshop etc will have any relevance to them being successful in say 5-20 years? (if the graphic design world even exists by then)

New comment by declnz in "Windows OS, Services and Apps: Network Connection Target Hosts (2021)"

declnz — Fri, 27 May 2022 15:27:07 +0000

Yes.. but are we really saying that people can install Windows and ride off into the sunset?

IME there are always people who "get stuck" with their computer or end up in "nuke from orbit" situations.