Hacker News: elwesties

New comment by elwesties in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"

elwesties — Thu, 14 May 2026 18:37:31 +0000

This is so awesome! What a time to be alive that something like this is possible.

New comment by elwesties in "Adventures in Decoding Outlook's Hxstore"

elwesties — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 08:49:12 +0000

Claude and I had some adventures in areas nobody had yet explored

Adventures in Decoding Outlook's Hxstore

elwesties — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 08:49:12 +0000

Article URL: https://johnson.fyi/post/reverse-engineering-outlook-hxstore

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47423232

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by elwesties in "Kids who own smartphones before age 13 have worse mental health outcomes: Study"

elwesties — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 06:21:42 +0000

Honestly seems like a proxy for bad parents have sad kids. Makes logical sense to me.

New comment by elwesties in "USB in a Nutshell (2010)"

elwesties — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 21:51:43 +0000

I was 100% sure I was about to see a USB drive made out of a nut shell when I clicked on that link. Both disappointed and not :P

New comment by elwesties in "Offline-First Apps: Why Should Apps Be Made to Work in an Offline State?"

elwesties — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 03:11:51 +0000

No problem :) Only other talk so far is a very similar talk from the iOS side available here - https://youtu.be/rvfVs_29MsI?t=4578. We do intend to talk about many more things in the near future. Ill try to remember to report back here when we do.

New comment by elwesties in "Offline-First Apps: Why Should Apps Be Made to Work in an Offline State?"

elwesties — Sun, 21 Aug 2022 22:55:44 +0000

Shameless plug for the banking app that I work on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AsM4gwmS5Y Fully offline on both Android and iOS

New comment by elwesties in "‘Anti-hunger’ molecule forms after exercise, scientists discover"

elwesties — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 07:19:38 +0000

It’s funny, they way I describe the relationship I have with weight loss is exercise is that the exercise is giving you the reason to eat clean. You won’t want to make that effort worth nothing. It’s not the same for everyone but I certainly notice it

New comment by elwesties in "Ask HN: What Roles/Skills Do You Struggle to Hire For?"

elwesties — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 09:13:00 +0000

Honestly it's not technical things that are hard to hire for its finding engineers who show initiative and can communicate well with stakeholders. Its like finding gold especially now in remote working.

New comment by elwesties in "Open-source Dropbox client, with multi-account, no-device-limit and M1 support"

elwesties — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 01:58:08 +0000

I would make that tradeoff in a second.

New comment by elwesties in "Facebook extends its work-at-home policy to most employees"

elwesties — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 01:37:15 +0000

Personally, I have joined a company and scaled the team from 12-52 engineers over the pandemic. Our productivity is through the roof and everyone is getting really well and forming good connections.

New comment by elwesties in "Ask HN: Meeting overload – how many do you have daily/weekly?"

elwesties — Mon, 09 Mar 2020 23:15:02 +0000

Engineering Manager - Normally around 4-5hrs a day of meetings.

New comment by elwesties in "Ask HN: Why do people love Slack?"

elwesties — Sat, 07 Mar 2020 00:51:36 +0000

If you think that Slack requires constant monitoring then I think you are using it wrong. I believe there is zero difference in the reply expectations of Slack and email. As per my initial comment, you are someone who doesn't check email and that's ok, in my engineering manager role I receive over 200 emails a day. Most of these could be 3 - 10 word slack messages but they arrive in my inbox with the same urgency as every other message requiring the same level of triage as a very important contract.

New comment by elwesties in "Ask HN: Why do people love Slack?"

elwesties — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 22:56:53 +0000

I suspect much of the hate for slack is from two types of people. Those who are too young to know the tyranny of email and those who used to ignore their email. As to why it’s so popular, it was the first good business chat solution that went mainstream. And I still haven’t seen another that matches it’s quality

New comment by elwesties in "Storm Ciara helps plane beat transatlantic flight record"

elwesties — Sun, 09 Feb 2020 22:05:50 +0000

There is also the question of relative airspeed. Planes need to create enough lift to stay in the air. With a large tailwind they need to go faster to keep enough air flowing over the wings thus higher ground speed to keep the same relative air speed.

New comment by elwesties in "Ask HN: Recommend one book I need to read this summer?"

elwesties — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 06:18:49 +0000

Recommend "radical candor" it has totally changed my management style and it applicable to both managers and non managers

New comment by elwesties in "The Hidden Cost of GoFundMe Health Care"

elwesties — Tue, 25 Jun 2019 19:59:58 +0000

This comment might be generalised to "I live in a functional country, I'm gland im not American"... I agree f-that

New comment by elwesties in "Teen Becomes First Hacker to Earn $1M Through Bug Bounties"

elwesties — Sun, 03 Mar 2019 09:04:13 +0000

I don't doubt this has happened but also just as likely they did know about it but some dumbass product owner decided it wasn't a high priority until someone external reported it. My company has hundreds of similar (not just security) issues just lying around.

New comment by elwesties in "We're Entering a Golden Age of Podcasts"

elwesties — Thu, 21 Feb 2019 20:49:58 +0000

Overcast (iOS app) does the first of your points.

New comment by elwesties in "A $10 Accessory Proves Smartphones Are Too Big"

elwesties — Sun, 17 Feb 2019 18:44:03 +0000

How do you read the article?