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New comment by englishspot in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

englishspot — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:34:17 +0000

basically IT work. trying to "refactor" my home network, from wiring to the VLANs. created quite a few VLANs with plans for the future that I no longer remember and probably don't need anymore. and the wiring is very much spaghetti.

New comment by englishspot in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

englishspot — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 13:15:13 +0000

I didn't like any of the car maintenance apps I've tried, so I'm building my own. simpler, can be run locally (I run it in a k3s cluster). I don't think I have any stand-out features for it right now, or planned for the near future, but it works well for my purposes.

New comment by englishspot in "AI’s impact on engineering jobs may be different than expected"

englishspot — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 16:21:56 +0000

I review even before they implement. My typical workflow for anything major is to ask for a plan and an overview of the steps to execute. This way I can read the plan, mull over it, make a few changes myself. And then when I'm ready I go through the steps with claude code, usually in fresh sessions.

New comment by englishspot in "AI’s impact on engineering jobs may be different than expected"

englishspot — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 18:46:14 +0000

I keep hearing about how they're "really good" now, but my personal experience has been that I've always had to clear sessions and give them small "steps" to execute for them to work effectively. thankfully claude seems really good at creating "plans", though. so I just need claude code to walk through that plan in small chunks.

New comment by englishspot in "Porsche sold more electrified cars in Europe in 2025 than pure gas-powered cars"

englishspot — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 15:33:56 +0000

as a wannabe "car enthusiast", I'd happily buy a fun EV if one existed for a reasonable price. the xiaomi su7 for example looks incredible, and I'd jump on that if sold here in the US in a heartbeat.

but for the majority of people, yeah, I don't think they really care either way. if we had the infrastructure and EVs were sold at the prices that people are seeing for the Chinese EVs, I think they'd switch away from ICE fairly easily.

New comment by englishspot in "BYD Sells 4.6M Vehicles in 2025, Meets Revised Sales Goal"

englishspot — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 18:02:17 +0000

> Ford seems not doing anything

honestly it really does seem that way. the impression I'm getting is farley just wants to make as much money as he can off of whatever's left of ford and leave. I mean, what kind of leader goes "wow I drove my competitor's car and it's freaking great, I give up!"?

compare this with toyota's CEO. they easily could've just coasted on corollas, camrys and RAV4s forever. nope, here's a new beastly supercar on the way!

New comment by englishspot in "BYD Sells 4.6M Vehicles in 2025, Meets Revised Sales Goal"

englishspot — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 22:07:28 +0000

ford in particular seems to only ever give up on everything. they couldn't compete on compacts, so they killed the focus and fiesta. they couldn't compete on EVs, so they killed those too. next thing you know toyota will start carving away at the F-150's market share and they'll kill that, too.

New comment by englishspot in "The future of software development is software developers"

englishspot — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 20:58:36 +0000

I feel like I have to be strategic with my use of claude code. things like frequently clearing out sessions to minimize context, writing the plan out to a file so that I can review it more effectively myself and even edit it, breaking problems down into consumable chunks, attacking those chunks in separate sessions, etc. it's a lot of prep work I have to do to make the tool thrive. that doesn't mean it's useless, though.

New comment by englishspot in "If you don't design your career, someone else will (2014)"

englishspot — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 18:02:16 +0000

I can't be the only one burnt out on trying to design my career. especially these days when things outside your control just keep making it harder and harder (bad job market).

New comment by englishspot in "ChatGPT Pulse"

englishspot — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 00:57:37 +0000

sounds nice I guess, but reactiveness over proactiveness wasn't the pain point I've had with these LLM tools.

New comment by englishspot in "After months of coding with LLMs, I'm going back to using my brain"

englishspot — Fri, 16 May 2025 14:46:24 +0000

> Meanwhile, the people who say it's done nothing for them are writing against [proprietary in-house library from 2005].

there's MCP servers now that should theoretically help with that, but that's its own can of worms.

New comment by englishspot in "Getting Older Isn't What You Think"

englishspot — Wed, 07 May 2025 19:46:45 +0000

> Grooming and style: you can, nonetheless, choose to date yourself with your clothing and overall presentation, or not. This can be overdone and make you stand out “trying too hard” not to be old. But there’s a world of middle ground.

for the longest time, I've resisted the zoomers' attempt to bring back 90s/early 00s fashion with oversized shirts and baggy pants, hopelessly clinging to my millennial sensibilities (I like my fitted shirts and skinny jeans, dammit). then one day I just said screw it and bought new oversized shirt and it kinda grew on me.

I'm not going full zuckerberg with the gold chain and whatnot, though.

New comment by englishspot in "Distributed systems programming has stalled"

englishspot — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 23:19:12 +0000

curious as to how you made that transition. seems like that'd be tough in today's job market.

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

englishspot — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 13:31:18 +0000

an email notifications service for Frigate NVR in rust. even wrote my own MQTT library. could I just use pre-existing solutions like home assistant? probably.. but then, it wouldn't be half as fun.

New comment by englishspot in "Bill requiring US agencies to share source code with each other becomes law"

englishspot — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 17:34:24 +0000

yep. usually the original architect moves on to another project before things get really bad. and then all that's left is the bag-holder (me).

New comment by englishspot in "The trap of "I am not an extrovert""

englishspot — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 23:02:36 +0000

for me I've realized my problem isn't introversion/extroversion, my problem is just that I have trouble thinking on the fly. or even just speaking off-the-cuff.

New comment by englishspot in "Ask HN: Programmers who don't use autocomplete/LSP, how do you do it?"

englishspot — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 15:55:29 +0000

I have NeoVim open on one terminal and just the console on another. I just run the linter/auto-formatter/compiler directly on that second terminal after I write in the first. if I need to remember a type/method/class, the default suggestions (ctrl+n in INSERT mode) or a simple grep are usually enough.

is this the most efficient way to code? probably not. but it involves zero yakshaving, which I no longer have the patience for.

New comment by englishspot in "I Stopped Using Kubernetes. Our DevOps Team Is Happier Than Ever"

englishspot — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 14:12:07 +0000

karmada?

https://karmada.io/

New comment by englishspot in "Japan's declining births on track to fall below 700k"

englishspot — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 17:13:55 +0000

we recently traveled to Kaga and that's where I saw what appeared to be the "aging population" in full effect. it was a pretty big city around the Kagaonsen station, and it did look like it _used_ to be bustling and full of life at _some_ point. now, you can drive around and you'll barely see anyone around. if you do see someone, it's likely someone at least 50.

though the caveat is that maybe we visited at the wrong time (it was a weekday). maybe the youth only show up on the weekends.

New comment by englishspot in "YouTube Premium is getting a big price hike internationally"

englishspot — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 14:13:26 +0000

how long before google kills it, though?