Hacker News: gcv

Real programming vs. interviews: A dyslexic perspective

gcv — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 09:49:04 +0000

I'm a programmer with almost 20 years of experience, and I'm dyslexic.

I can do the job well, but interviews are often the hardest part. They're stressful, expect quick answers, and demand heavy use of working memory.

That's not how programming actually works. In real work, we use notes, tools, documentation, and time to process, digest, and reason about them

I'd like to connect with other dyslexic programmers to talk about interview environments and how they could better work for us.

If you're dyslexic, or involved in hiring, I'd love to hear your experiences.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46703293

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by gcv in "[dead]"

gcv — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 18:38:20 +0000

Author here. SXO + Reactive Component offers a middle ground between full hydration and static HTML. By rendering semantic server-side JSX and using a 4.8KB client library to provide signal-based reactivity.

I'd love to hear what you think about this approach for web components architecture.

New comment by gcv in "Show HN: SQLite JavaScript - extend your database with JavaScript"

gcv — Thu, 22 May 2025 16:21:38 +0000

Q|ery uses SQLite and QuickJS, too, but in Rust.

https://qery.io/

New comment by gcv in "[dead]"

gcv — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 17:25:35 +0000

Documentation is an essential part of software development in the open-source world. We all know it's crucial, yet somehow, it always ends up as a collection of outdated markdown files and half-finished README.md lurking in our repositories. That's exactly why Query Docs exists—not to reinvent documentation but to make it actually work for both contributors and developers.

New comment by gcv in "Rewriting my website in plain HTML and CSS"

gcv — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 08:27:47 +0000

Hey, Query [1] creator here. The article raised some exciting challenges. With Query, we solve booth downsides mentioned in it. To keep things simple, we use EventSource for live reloading [2] and JSX Server-Side Rendering [3] for those who want component reuse in the server. It's just JSX with some helpful extras. I'm happy to elaborate on the technical decisions if anyone's curious.

A couple of days ago, I wrote an article about it: https://dev.to/gc-victor/building-static-html-pages-with-jsx...

[1] https://qery.io

[2] https://github.com/gc-victor/query/tree/main/examples/minima...

[3] https://qery.io/docs/modules/function.html#jsx-server-side

[Data] a map of every state’s favorite corporate buzzword

gcv — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 21:17:46 +0000

Article URL: https://textio.ai/50-corporate-cliches-you-secretly-love-514f20470393

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14877646

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Social Influence, Fads, and Informational Cascades (1993) [pdf]

gcv — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 18:18:17 +0000

Article URL: http://sites.uci.edu/dhirshle/files/2011/02/The-Blind-Leading-the-Blind-Social-Influence-Fads-and-Informational-Cascades.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13376087

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by gcv in "Magit maintainer taking a break"

gcv — Thu, 11 Feb 2016 01:03:02 +0000

Donation link: http://magit.vc/donations.html

Magit maintainer taking a break

gcv — Thu, 11 Feb 2016 01:02:38 +0000

Article URL: http://emacsair.me/2016/02/10/magit-2.5

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11077526

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by gcv in "Hit Charade"

gcv — Sat, 19 Sep 2015 16:26:02 +0000

Is or was? The article explicitly mentions several of her tracks as having come from the pop production machine.

New comment by gcv in "The Most Misread Poem in America"

gcv — Fri, 18 Sep 2015 14:31:58 +0000

Thank you for posting this. Fine work. I need to give it another read later, but for now, I find Thomas' iambs a little heavyweight. Every line has the same 4x(ba-DUM, ba-DUM) rhythm, with almost no variety. Frost has a lighter touch with meter.

Linguistic Harbingers of Betrayal

gcv — Fri, 04 Sep 2015 13:09:33 +0000

Article URL: http://vene.ro/betrayal/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10170128

Points: 102

# Comments: 13

New comment by gcv in "Best practices for a new Go developer"

gcv — Wed, 02 Sep 2015 15:37:22 +0000

A nasty workaround for a problem which should not exist in the first place. Ditto dependencies on private repositories.

New comment by gcv in "Eve Version 0"

gcv — Mon, 17 Aug 2015 18:06:30 +0000

> Is it hard essentially, or is it hard accidentally?

Not exactly either, but certainly a bit of both. Programming is hard primarily because it is so poorly understood. The entire field is in its infancy. Comparing it to art, I'm pretty sure we haven't even reached the "stick figures scrawled on a cave wall" stage yet. As Alan Kay pointed out we sure didn't invent an arch yet: http://squab.no-ip.com/collab/uploads/61/IsSoftwareEngineeri...

It's nice to see the Eve team trying to do something at least slightly different from the same-old, same-old. Even if it looks a lot like some horrors of yore (FoxPro) when I squint.

New comment by gcv in "American Electronics Hobbyist Census [pdf]"

gcv — Thu, 13 Aug 2015 20:21:40 +0000

That's fantastic! If you don't mind me asking, how old is she? University student or younger?

New comment by gcv in "For only the second time in our history the ownership of The Economist changes"

gcv — Wed, 12 Aug 2015 21:15:30 +0000

If you didn't catch The Economist's biases on a cursory reading of one issue, that's on you. Simply skimming one of the leader opinion pieces and comparing it to, e.g., a Krugman column, should tell you that the authors would come to blows.

Besides, what is an "orthodox" position? Whose?

New comment by gcv in "For only the second time in our history the ownership of The Economist changes"

gcv — Wed, 12 Aug 2015 20:48:17 +0000

The obituaries are brilliant. One of the best things I read every week.

New comment by gcv in "For only the second time in our history the ownership of The Economist changes"

gcv — Wed, 12 Aug 2015 20:43:12 +0000

Recently? The Times has been acquiring credibility question marks since before it unquestioningly published the nonsense about aluminum tubes in Iraq.

New comment by gcv in "For only the second time in our history the ownership of The Economist changes"

gcv — Wed, 12 Aug 2015 20:41:11 +0000

Your comment simply says that your politics don't align with The Economist's.

I personally find the "he said, she said" style of reporting that purports to give a fair account of all sides intolerable and hypocritical. It often allows complete idiots to air their opinions in the name of presenting a "different" view. This lets the reporter subtly influence the reader while preserving the illusion of impartiality.

The Economist is a highly biased newspaper. Unlike nearly all other publications aspiring to high-brow status, it displays its biases openly.

New comment by gcv in "Ask HN: What was Usenet's ultimate demise?"

gcv — Sun, 02 Aug 2015 15:43:03 +0000

Not entirely. Team control is a major part of it for companies, and history makes a huge difference to the experience. Slack servers allow the use of IRC clients, but I gave up on Colloquy almost immediately after seeing the benefits of history. For the right teams, the IRC+history combo can almost completely eliminate email use.

Also, Slack bought a company which did voice, video, and screen sharing. Since join.me went downhill, this will be a welcome addition to Slack.