Hacker News: dukeofharen

New comment by dukeofharen in "Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users"

dukeofharen — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 11:28:38 +0000

You can add Alignerr to the list as well.

New comment by dukeofharen in ".NET MAUI is coming to Linux and the browser"

dukeofharen — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 06:46:29 +0000

I understood (can not confirm it though) that the new start menu in Windows 11 was built using React Native, so yet another ui framework in the mix.

New comment by dukeofharen in "PHP Core Security Audit Results"

dukeofharen — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 05:53:56 +0000

The language has its quirks, but frameworks like Laravel make application / API development very easy. And, of course, it runs practically anywhere :)

New comment by dukeofharen in "Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?"

dukeofharen — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 06:16:19 +0000

A few weeks ago, I started some tutorials in the game engine Godot. I've been a developer for ca. 15 years and actually started with Game Maker many years ago. I always found it very fun, but started studying software engineering, got a job and did not have much time left to develop games. I decided to pick it up again as my situation now is different than 10 years ago and man, it is a joy to work with. Currently, I am writing a game design document and writing some ideas down on paper. I want to make the art and the music all by myself, which is a challenge but a fun thing to learn.

New comment by dukeofharen in "Yugoslavia's Digital Twin – When a country's internet domain outlives the nation"

dukeofharen — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 06:27:19 +0000

If I'm not mistaken, ICANN uses the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes as country TLD's, so in a sense the UN indirectly specifies the rules for ICANN. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2

New comment by dukeofharen in "Ask HN: How do you track your work hours?"

dukeofharen — Sun, 26 Mar 2023 06:58:45 +0000

Yes, plus one for toggl. I used to track my time in a text file, but this became cluttered very quickly.

New comment by dukeofharen in "I made a website for lonely people, and got >100 people to log their locations"

dukeofharen — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 08:19:13 +0000

I also suffered from a bad case of social anxiety. It probably does not work for everyone, but what really helped me was just going away for 4 weeks. I just returned from my holiday and forced myself to stay in hostels. I was terrified before (having to socialize with unknown people, blegh), but it has been amazing and am really looking forward to doing something like this again.

Again, I know it does not work for everyone, but sometimes throwing yourself in the deep, away from your own comfortable home situation, works wonders.

New comment by dukeofharen in "Ask HN: Tools you have built for yourself?"

dukeofharen — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 19:55:09 +0000

I built an HTTP stub application in my spare time. At first, I only built it for myself but at some point open sourced it. I still have a lot of fun building it. You can find it here: https://httplaceholder.org/

New comment by dukeofharen in "QuestPDF: Modern .NET library for PDF document generation"

dukeofharen — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 06:33:59 +0000

We've been using [Gotenberg](https://gotenberg.dev/) since a few years and so far works really nice.

New comment by dukeofharen in "Is it time to retire the .gb top level domain?"

dukeofharen — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 10:41:27 +0000

Fun fact, besides .ru (Russia), .su (Soviet Union) is also still active.

New comment by dukeofharen in "Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?"

dukeofharen — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 20:35:16 +0000

I installed Plausible a few hours ago on my VPS. The installation process when very smooth and it gives me the data I'm interested in. I really did not want to use Google Analytics, and since I have some capacity left on my server, Plausible seemed like a good bet.

New comment by dukeofharen in "Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2020?"

dukeofharen — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 13:38:14 +0000

I run and develop the trailer booking website for my fathers company. I earn based on the number of bookings. For some reason (possibly COVID) a lot of people moved so it was a very busy year, which means I got a nice little side income.

New comment by dukeofharen in "Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?"

dukeofharen — Mon, 17 May 2021 07:17:03 +0000

Nice, will certainly check your project out. I created HttPlaceholder[1] some time ago. It is an open source mock server, which right now only has an on-prem version. I also have ideas to make a hosted version.

[1]: https://github.com/dukeofharen/httplaceholder

Edit: after looking through the comments, I found some 5 other HTTP mock server implementations XD Not that it's bad, just seems to be a problem that is tackled very often.

New comment by dukeofharen in "Employee accused of skipping work for 15 years"

dukeofharen — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 09:07:45 +0000

Reading this also reminded me of this: https://web.archive.org/web/20160523114950/https://www.reddi...

New comment by dukeofharen in "Adobe charges subscription cancellation fee"

dukeofharen — Tue, 13 Apr 2021 09:23:52 +0000

I don't know where you live, but I live in the Netherlands and here it is illegal to bill you for a second year of a subscription automatically. After year one, you can cancel at any time (with, I think, a month of notice period).

New comment by dukeofharen in "Show HN: Counter – Simple and Free Web Analytics"

dukeofharen — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 08:30:10 +0000

Fun fact. Once I made a Twitter account for my open source project. Twitter says you can use the "date of birth" field for your actual date of birth or the launch date of your product. Once I entered 2 May 2018, I was suspended because now I'm too young :|

I didn't want to go through the hassle of getting my account reinstated, because Twitter isn't that important to me.

New comment by dukeofharen in "Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?"

dukeofharen — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 08:37:04 +0000

Armyknife.net: a website with all kinds of developer related tools (yes, the 1000th one, I don't care :P I just enjoy creating it and don't expect any big source of income from it): https://armyknife.net/

New comment by dukeofharen in "Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows"

dukeofharen — Fri, 25 Dec 2020 11:20:40 +0000

In short, Scoop installs all your apps in the user home dir. Apps are not installed through an installer, but through a .zip file. A pro is that you do not need to be admin on your PC for Scoop to function (handy for PCs that are not in your control). A con I've encountered is that Windows is not very friendly towards apps that are not installed through an installer. I've installed IrfanView through Scoop, but for some reason, Windows restores "Photos" as default app for opening pictures a few times a week, this was not the case when I installed IrfanView with an installer.

New comment by dukeofharen in "Jetbrains founders turn billionaires without VC help"

dukeofharen — Fri, 18 Dec 2020 13:05:21 +0000

One thing that helped me in the beginning was the plugin "Key Promoter X" which suggests keyboard shortcuts on every action.

New comment by dukeofharen in "Show HN: DevUtils.app – Developer Utilities for macOS"

dukeofharen — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 13:54:49 +0000

Nice application. I may try it out this week.

I've also built a "tool of tools" a few years ago which I (and only I) use regularly. It's a command line tool and may need some more love these days (it's very slow due to a slow dependency injection framework). Maybe I will pick that project up, seeing your project made me inspired to pick my own project up again :)