Hacker News: gabes

New comment by gabes in "Parse, Don't Validate – In a Language That Doesn't Want You To"

gabes — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:46:51 +0000

I think this misses what is undeniably the best part about zod. Yes, you could define all of your types this way, but it’s only necessary at the boundary of the program. Internal functions don’t need to validate inputs if the caller is trusted.

Being able to define a loose input schema at the boundary and then transform it into a shape that your program actually needs is extremely useful.

New comment by gabes in "I am a person who will look at the Steam Machine and cry"

gabes — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:34:40 +0000

The entitlement of the gaming “community” is next to none.

I did what you said last year and it’s been a delight.

Building a Robust Documentation Agent with DigitalOcean Gradient AI Platform

gabes — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 18:38:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/documentation-agent

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47756191

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by gabes in "OpenAI looked at buying Cursor creator before turning to Windsurf"

gabes — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 01:07:36 +0000

This is exactly what I would do too if AGI was just around the corner.

New comment by gabes in "Litdb – type safe SQL for JavaScript/TS"

gabes — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 01:44:11 +0000

What does a migration look like with something like this?

New comment by gabes in "Amazon to invest another $4B in Anthropic"

gabes — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 21:04:41 +0000

Meta doesn’t buy competition?

New comment by gabes in "Most of what you read on the internet is written by insane people (2018)"

gabes — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 14:11:38 +0000

You should have read the post before commenting.

React Facade: Strongly typed dependency injection for your React hooks

gabes — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 00:23:49 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/garbles/react-facade

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31914915

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Notes on maintaining an internal React component library

gabes — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 14:25:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.gabe.pizza/notes-on-component-libraries/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31766429

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by gabes in "Britain being forced to go cashless 'against its will'"

gabes — Sun, 03 Apr 2022 13:11:44 +0000

I was asking because American right wing news has frequently lied about what was happening here in Canada. To my knowledge there hasn’t been a single report of a frozen bank account over a donation except for some debunked tweet by a Canadian conservative politician.

Thus, I asked for a source.

New comment by gabes in "Britain being forced to go cashless 'against its will'"

gabes — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 06:03:24 +0000

> Even people who donated to the truckers before the crackdown got targeted in the bank account freezes.

Source?

New comment by gabes in "Ask HN: Why can't await be used from non-async functions?"

gabes — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 18:03:25 +0000

This isn't _exactly_ true. JS will await on anything that is Promiselike (an object with a `then` function that accepts a callback). See the TS definition of Promiselike.

Cloud Design Patterns

gabes — Sat, 08 Jan 2022 04:14:56 +0000

Article URL: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/patterns/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29848566

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by gabes in "Show HN: Concave, a lens-like state management library for React"

gabes — Mon, 27 Dec 2021 16:37:47 +0000

I've both personally and professionally worked on builder-type applications in the past and found that lenses are always the most elegant way to do state management. Over the past month I decided to hack on a general purpose library for React and lenses with the end goal of coming up with something that felt _good_ to use. Cheers!

Show HN: Concave, a lens-like state management library for React

gabes — Mon, 27 Dec 2021 16:37:47 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/garbles/concave

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29703919

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by gabes in "React Facade: Dependency injection for React hooks"

gabes — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 16:06:18 +0000

I think this suggestion highlights why I'm not a fan of the module-level mocking approach. It puts the onus on the developer to ensure that type checks are present where they wouldn't otherwise be. On larger teams, I've found that stuff like that is too easy to forget about or choose not to do.

New comment by gabes in "React Facade: Dependency injection for React hooks"

gabes — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 03:12:03 +0000

Yeah that’s fair. Not sure about you, but in the past I’ve struggled with keeping Jest module-level mocks in sync with their actual interface. Was playing around with how I could get around it and this is something I came up with.

React Facade: Dependency injection for React hooks

gabes — Sun, 04 Jul 2021 23:07:50 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/garbles/react-facade

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27733346

Points: 2

# Comments: 4

New comment by gabes in "The 'Fuck You' Pattern"

gabes — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 03:49:02 +0000

Ah of course. Shows how I hold my bias toward Facebook :facepalm:

New comment by gabes in "The 'Fuck You' Pattern"

gabes — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 20:38:25 +0000

Speaking of fuck you patterns, has anyone else been part of the A/B test where navigating to an Instagram page prevents you from using the back button? They somehow clean my tab history so that I can’t go back to Google. It’s been happening to me for months!