Hacker News: gabriel_dev

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

gabriel_dev — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 20:51:49 +0000

Jounaling bot that asseses the content and hilights over time important stuff. Obviously relying on llm and well designed prompts and data structures. Already in testing on live users.

New comment by gabriel_dev in "Ask HN: How do I learn practical electronic repair?"

gabriel_dev — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 16:22:54 +0000

My personal experience is made up of partly comprehensible Physics classess in electricity and partly Arduino tinkering. Alltogether I got the basic building blocks together.

New comment by gabriel_dev in "Ask HN: How do I learn practical electronic repair?"

gabriel_dev — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 16:19:03 +0000

Guess this boils down to what electronics? iPhone grade or Timemore Kettle grade? Latter is accessible (recently repaired a malfuncioning circuit). Former - not so much.

New comment by gabriel_dev in "Ask HN: What Does Your Self-Hosted LLM Stack Look Like in 2025?"

gabriel_dev — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 16:17:17 +0000

Ollama + mac mini 24gb (inference)

New comment by gabriel_dev in "How I Stay Motivated Working on My Solo SaaS (When It Feels Like Nobody Cares)"

gabriel_dev — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 21:01:21 +0000

Gut feeling plus enjoy the ride. But objective metrics matter too. Myself being a developer I lack many marketing and sales skills. Trying to leverage what Claude or GPT might offer to cover the skills I lack.

New comment by gabriel_dev in "I'm a 44 y.o. bored back end dev – does it make sense to switch to DApp?"

gabriel_dev — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 05:45:00 +0000

Thanks for the idea. Basically that's why I'm considering DApp - new stuff. Also new language - Solidity. On top of that new paradigm I'd say. Refreshing. Yet something practical - I mean I could Imagine building a mvp. On the other hand building a gRPC which you suggested is more like system programming with target audience other developers and their software - low level stuff. Guess I'm more on the other side. Did you switch at some point after doing same stuff for years?

I'm a 44 y.o. bored back end dev – does it make sense to switch to DApp?

gabriel_dev — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 22:30:45 +0000

The main thing here is that I am slightly bored of doing mostly same thing again and again. I do like Django, the main framework I have been using since 2010. But still, having this gut feeling that it would be more fun to try out something new, something different.

Does anyone have ideas, suggestions, clues... anything that could assist in making up my (or somebody's) mind?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41771801

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

gabriel_dev — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 04:51:54 +0000

Simple and ultra low cost (sometimes free) loyalty program software for small business owners using Google and Apple Wallet. All the tech hassle taken away from them. Tailored to local markets with language support, formats and habits. For the client side FB, telegram or whatsapp sign up, no password, no nothing. Just get the card via qrcode and that's it. Comprised of a web app for the SMB's and their admin staff (basic tenant setup). Mobile app for the line staff (Android). Also adding staff check ins to automatically calculate monthy hours.

All this is based on previous work with real coffee shop business owners. So giving it a try as a SAAS service.

New comment by gabriel_dev in "Ask HN: Are any databases implementing own memory paging (swapping)?"

gabriel_dev — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 02:08:37 +0000

As far as I know the OS handles the low lever memory management. The ephemeral database uses the allocated from the OS ram. Depending on your OS configuration one may have or not have a swap. However for the database app (daemon, service) this may be transparent. Either there is some free ram to run or there's no ram available.

The other thing is that probably it's not a good idea to rely on swap memory. Not sure there's a point of going that path for performance reasons.

New comment by gabriel_dev in "What are great international locations to work at?"

gabriel_dev — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 06:18:14 +0000

If you have a remote dev job in the US then any Asia country would be great. Just need to do some visa runs every couple months and that's it. Low entry barrier and fun. Not a local job though but much better salary/cost of living ratio. Also if the chosen country is say Thailand - positive overall vibe.

New comment by gabriel_dev in "Ask HN: How to build site with payment, subscriptions, user login, registration"

gabriel_dev — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 17:15:19 +0000

Probably the easiest would be starting off with Firebase for the overall backend and user management. Stripe for payments including recurring. However, if the project will take off, then you'd be dealing with a dilemma: how to switch to something more mature friendly Like, say, Django or others. I use Django as the main backend framework (sometimes for full stack).

New comment by gabriel_dev in "How is everyone managing user authentication for their platform?"

gabriel_dev — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 15:48:35 +0000

I stick to Django User + custom secret link via email for my pet project. No need to remember any password or 3rd party auth flow.

New comment by gabriel_dev in "Ask HN: Do you get offended when someone outside your area suggests an idea?"

gabriel_dev — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 02:49:28 +0000

I would strongly reconsider my state of mind if I'd get offended by a simple suggestion. Like why and what in the suggestion make me feel offended given it was done randomly by a person with positive intentions.

New comment by gabriel_dev in "Ask HN: How do I save my content from AI crawlers?"

gabriel_dev — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 02:46:21 +0000

perhaps adding a challenge (captcha, other) if the pattern of the client is being considered malicious (requests per min, avg time on page, other stats)? This might not entirely block the crawler, but will still provide data that will allow blocking entirely the source if it's a cloud IP range, degrading the velocity of crawling if measures taken. The other way around would be displaying publicly a degraded in any way copy of the content and delivering a full (high quality) one after signing in.

Overall - simply making life a bit harder for the crawler (AI or plain old hardcoded one).

New comment by gabriel_dev in "Ask HN: What's better Terraform or AWS CDK?"

gabriel_dev — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 04:26:16 +0000

I guess the vendor lock issue is not as harsh if using Terraform

New comment by gabriel_dev in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2024)"

gabriel_dev — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 17:07:54 +0000

Hi, Location: Digital Nomad Remote: OK Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Django; Python; Linux; Infrastructure; js; Email: gamil.gabriel@gmail.com

Detail:

Backend dev - Django, Python Experience +- 15 years Latest project - NYC based COVID testing lab - worked from initial phase till production. All on Django. Mainly focused on business logic and entity design, unit tests. Business logic in it's own layer (module). Stack: - Django - DRF - gunicorn or uwsgi - celery (and a broker) or uwsgi spools - postgrSQL - Grafana (Loki, promtail)

Have experience on AWS, GCP and pure Linux (systemd, permissions, other basic stuff).

As a bonus have some Firebase (NodeJS and Firestore) experience and ReactJS experience - 2 MVP's buil in 2019-2021. Open to new opportunities

New comment by gabriel_dev in "Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?"

gabriel_dev — Sun, 22 Mar 2020 08:26:35 +0000

I’m working on a problem I have myself as a developer-founder: how to prioritize my dev and product time and focus on one project. Happened so that this is not only my issue. It is pretty common that it was a topic of one of the y combinator startup schools lectures. Here’s a link to the early version built on firebase and react: https://www.priorittime.com/ Still have to figure out how to make it smooth and intuitive. But using it now myself: dogfood. So if anyone has suggestions, pls comment. Thanks.