Hacker News: george_sp

New comment by george_sp in "Blog post – web as a public good"

george_sp — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 10:18:38 +0000

Hey hackernews. Hoping to spark some conversation again. Cheers

Blog post – web as a public good

george_sp — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 10:18:38 +0000

Article URL: https://gspanos.tech/posts/web-as-a-public-good/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41577924

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by george_sp in "VanillaJSX.com"

george_sp — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 07:55:23 +0000

I've faced the same issue with multiple teams,in different business domains, some with rathe heavy UIs (canvas rendering, sophisticated graphs etc). From my experience, modern frontend frameworks seem to not have taken into account these kinds of problems. To my recollection, in all of those cases, we ended up managing state and rerenders with vanilla, rather than react or angular.

A rewrite on those occasions, I do not consider possible. Most businesses are way to deep into frameworks.

What I personally advocate is to choose frameworks with valid escape hatches, and then make sure to staff a team with JavaScript programmers rather than some-framework Andies.

In an even larger scale, I advocate for web-component based solutions. I try to stay close to vanilla as much as I can. Whether I like it or not, it's the highest value professional decision, imo.

New comment by george_sp in "Full AMD Linux Laptop (Radeon 7600M XT GPU, Ryzen CPU): Tuxedo Sirius 16 Review"

george_sp — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 16:00:08 +0000

I'm using Tuxedo for the last year for work and it's been amazing. I've been using the InfinityBookPro. Their support is insanely good, they even helped me troubleshoot OS issues caused by my own stupidity, quite often.

In terms of quality, I find that the modularity of the laptop under the hood is amazing. I can tinker and change stuff with ease. Battery lasts ~9 hours while coding, browsing, watching videos, and video calls.

I will highly likely buy more for my company as needed.

Show HN: Teaching react and express – 1 year review

george_sp — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 23:18:28 +0000

Article URL: https://gspanos.tech/posts/teaching-react-express/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38985698

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by george_sp in ".NET Blazor"

george_sp — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 15:30:05 +0000

I feel like your comment touched a million different places so I'll try to compose my arguments in a compact manner, hopefully to make some sense.

> All the dis-advantages are not relevant for enterprise LOB apps, which Blazor is best suited for.

Where does this conclusion come from? At least from my humble experience,I've been doing them for ~10 years with various tools, both JS and Blazor/Razor Pages and the fact that they "work" does not mean they stand on solid ground.

I've written apps in Blazor, yet I don't understand its existence. Most apps, even LOB as you said, Razor Pages are more than enough. Razor Pages are amazing. What seems to me to be the source of the problem is the whole mentality: > But, as a developer who has done exactly one complex web app for a client, let me tell you, the ability to use C# models, directly from your domain, in web app markup code, using Razor components is a god send... You can ship server side generated HTML with Razor and just LEARN a bit of JS. I don't understand the allergy of the so called "back end" developers with JS. Yes it's shitty. Yes it feels better writing C#. I also like my bike more than my car. Will I take my bike to drive 500km? No. There's a time and place for everything. I feel efforts like Blazor just fight against the (unfortunate yet inevitable) current that JS is the only language that can manipulate DOM. I really think all of us should be open to use whatever makes sense for the job, even if it occasionally makes us feel uncomfortable. This is the dev community I want to be a part of.

New comment by george_sp in "Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news"

george_sp — Fri, 12 May 2023 05:53:25 +0000

I think that transformed news by language models is just another hole to jump in. I'm definitely tired of the internet being filled with mostly junk nowadays. I just don't like the idea of learning things via a language model. I prefer to filter this myself. Maybe it's more effort but to me feels more valuable. I mean we whine all the time about Google directing your searches to specific places. This feels the same of worse.

New comment by george_sp in "SHOW HN Open Source Poker Planning App"

george_sp — Sun, 07 May 2023 16:10:52 +0000

Recently started my own company with a couple of pals. I intend to focus on open source as much as my income lets me. This is our first try to create something useful and open source. It's not groundbreaking but still it took some effort to test cover this as well as make it UX friendly. Let me know what you think.

SHOW HN Open Source Poker Planning App

george_sp — Sun, 07 May 2023 16:10:52 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/moby-it/planning-poker

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35852911

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by george_sp in "Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?"

george_sp — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 05:34:22 +0000

Created a query builder for microsoft's KQL for making my life easier for a client project. Turned out that this company still uses this library after 5 years :).

Probably the best feeling ever in work.

New comment by george_sp in "Ask HN: Create a new product vs. adding a feature to an existing one?"

george_sp — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 16:41:29 +0000

Hey, first of all congrats. To be honest with you your description is vague and I expect not for no reason, so I'll also give a generic answer as I believe the "correct" answer (if there is one) lies within the specifics of your domain.

I see no problem in extending an already successful product with a set of new features. You can always keep your promise regarding one-time licencing, that does not mean you cannot create a business model on top of that that leverages addons for example.

Personally I feel that spinning up a standalone product involves more risk as a rule of thumb, but again, the answer lies within your domain.

If I had the choice I would probably leverage the "already achieved" success and since you believe that this feature will help your customers, I would give them the feature within my product suite. Also more revenue does not exclusively mean higher price. It might also mean *more* clients.

Hope any of this helps.