Hacker News: fetus8

New comment by fetus8 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

fetus8 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 03:33:41 +0000

Thank you! I haven’t implemented support for importing from IG, would you drop a couple of links and I’ll take a look and see! Searching on meta anything is so bad.

New comment by fetus8 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

fetus8 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 02:59:17 +0000

Hi, I’m working on Trophikos, a recipe organization app for iOS. Not a meal planner, not a social feed. Just a calm, well-designed place to collect your own recipes, food, baked goods, and even native support for cocktails. Manual entry, OCR importing, URL importing, and the ability to share and export.

I’m still actively working on it but just submitted to App Store review. TestFlight is open if anyone wants to try it before launch: https://testflight.apple.com/join/baWAQ4tj

Happy to hear any feedback, especially from people who currently store recipes across Notes, screenshots, and 15 open browser tabs.

I am actively working to support iOS 27 (and the other 27 OS’s) and will be posting development updates over on mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@saxtechsolutions

New comment by fetus8 in "New Lifetime Plex Pass Pricing"

fetus8 — Tue, 19 May 2026 14:37:12 +0000

How can they justify an exponential price increase like this? The blog post doesn’t really mention new features aside from bringing features from the desktop website to the mobile app…

Even though I bought my lifetime membership years ago, I think it’s time to explore other options. I don’t like this.

New comment by fetus8 in "Claude Opus 4.7"

fetus8 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:59:47 +0000

That’s truly awful. What a broken tool.

New comment by fetus8 in "Claude Opus 4.7"

fetus8 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:27:16 +0000

on Tuesday, with 4.6, I waited for my 5 hour window to reset, asked it to resume, and it burned up all my tokens for the next 5 hour window and ran for less than 10 seconds. I’ve never cancelled a subscription so fast.

New comment by fetus8 in "Do Back-End Developers Even Have Portfolios?"

fetus8 — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 19:03:33 +0000

I am not a full back-end developer, more full stack currently. I do not have a portfolio. Linking to github and highlighting projects is usually enough for prospective employers and gets me into interviews.

New comment by fetus8 in "Apple M3 Ultra"

fetus8 — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 17:49:42 +0000

How much RAM are you running on?

New comment by fetus8 in "Instagram deals reveal Meta is offering TikTok creators as much as $300k to post"

fetus8 — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 20:33:13 +0000

Meta's algorithm on IG has gone so far down the toilet over the years. Before I deleted my account last year, I'd have to scroll through 5-7 sponsored posts before I'd actually see something from someone I actually follow. Nevermind the amount of regular old ads that were inserted into my feed.

New comment by fetus8 in "Is Colorado's EV incentive worth it?"

fetus8 — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 17:24:50 +0000

My brother jumped on the Ioniq 5 deal back in October and just got hit with the surprisingly high registration fees too. I know registration fees in CO are high, but having people jump on sub $200 a month car payments and then expecting them to pay $1000+ or more to register feels bad.

New comment by fetus8 in "Ask HN: What are your personal red flags when you're interviewing at a company?"

fetus8 — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 20:33:12 +0000

Recently interviewed with a startup, and during the process via email, I was constantly communicating with different people. After the 3rd interview with the CTO, I thought they ghosted me and emailed the last interviewer and got no response. Over a week later the director of engineering emailed me to schedule the 3rd interview with the CTO. I immediately knew that they had internal communication issues and decided I wasn't going to pursue the role further.

My current role has a somewhat misleading title, but to offset that I make sure I really highlight my experience and the projects I've worked on. If an interviewer starts asking me about my title and why I'm applying for something more 'generic' I immediately know they didn't read my resume or pay attention and I'm out.

Years ago I walked out of an all day interview, maybe 2 hours in, because one of the engineers was on his phone the entire time, seemingly just scrolling and not paying attention.

New comment by fetus8 in "Bartender 5 Blog: Let's Try This Again"

fetus8 — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 15:25:06 +0000

It's too bad they waited this long to be transparent about what happened. I already uninstalled and found another alternative. Collecting analytics without informing your users is pretty not okay. Good luck.

New comment by fetus8 in "Ask HN: Have you used Arc Browser"

fetus8 — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 17:30:10 +0000

Same, been using it on my Macbook since last summer, and just got a desktop Mac earlier this summer and it's my main browser there too. Split views are A+, the different zones is really useful for work related stuff, and I like the layout of the browser as a whole.

New comment by fetus8 in "Ask HN: Have you stopped using Google much because of ChatGPT?"

fetus8 — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 18:56:26 +0000

I stopped using Google search 5-6 years ago in favor of DDG. I haven't replaced my DDG searches with ChatGPT or any other AI tools.

New comment by fetus8 in "Colorado repealed law limiting municipal internet"

fetus8 — Thu, 25 May 2023 20:52:30 +0000

NextLight is truly an incredible service.

New comment by fetus8 in "Ask HN: Phone camera with no post-processing"

fetus8 — Thu, 11 May 2023 19:02:23 +0000

Halide (iOS Camera App) let's you shoot RAWs with no post processing.

New comment by fetus8 in "Vivaldi 6.0 Web Browser Introduces Tab Workspaces and Custom Icons"

fetus8 — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 16:43:52 +0000

Same, Arc has been pretty great so far, and they just launched their iOS "version" which has been neat too. It's become my default on my macOS machines.

New comment by fetus8 in "Why buying furniture is so miserable"

fetus8 — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 21:15:48 +0000

I am not sure about your idea here, I'm under 35, own my home, and insist on buying second hand furniture for vastly different reasons. I scour craiglist, thrift stores, and my local flea markets for vintage furniture, and have almost entirely furnished my small 2 bedroom house over the last 6 years. A big part of this simply deals with build quality and real wood. I know furniture built before 1980 tends to be real wood, and I'd much rather have solid wood construction over particle board nonsense that won't last 10 years.

My searching and insistence has required a lot of patience, but it's ultimately been worth it for me. My holy grail was a 1970's Danish Teak dining room table (w/ 8 chairs!) that someone locally was selling for $800. Anything modern that's of comparable quality would easily be well above $2500. As of now, almost everything in my house is from the 1960/70s, and made of real wood. I'm willing to spend the money on these things instead of junk from Wayfair.

New comment by fetus8 in "I Returned the Mac Mini M2 Pro"

fetus8 — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 18:48:29 +0000

I too have had 0 issues with Sublime Text on my 14in M1 Macbook Pro...I've been using the machine since last March and never noticed anything like this...

New comment by fetus8 in "DPReview.com to close"

fetus8 — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 16:31:12 +0000

You're spot on, this is _THE_SITE for extremely detailed analysis of of cameras/lenses/etc. I have no idea what will end up filling the gap of losing something like this.

I hope Chris and Jordan continue on their Youtube journey and make the content they've been making, but man, there's still a need for a detailed text based site with super indepth info about modern camera equipment.

Such a bummer.

New comment by fetus8 in "Altstore: Home for apps that push the boundaries of iOS"

fetus8 — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 17:03:01 +0000

While travelling, being able to have a rather large library of classic games to play, while using the device that I'm already carrying is a huge benefit. While I wish emulation on iOS was a little easier, using Delta/AltStore is not difficult or anything.

I've carried a Backbone with me and played a ton of GBA games with touchscreen controls and the backbone, and it's pretty great, depending on the game. Carrying the backbone is a lot smaller than a Nintendo Switch or one of the many larger screened android emulation devices that are now available.

This is all up to personal preference obviously, but having one less device to carry is a big plus for me. Game emulation is the one thing that makes me question whether or not it's time to ditch iOS and just get an Android for my daily driver...