Hacker News: grsmvg

New comment by grsmvg in "Does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer?"

grsmvg — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 14:07:27 +0000

If you don’t use serverless but instead a few (vertically scaling) servers, and your ORM / query builder supports pooling (all node libraries I’ve used have a pooler)…

Having a setup with just a simple docker deploy, running a monolith, not using pgbouncer so you can use LISTEN/NOTIFY to implement your own job queue:

https://www.dbos.dev/blog/postgres-listen-notify-scalability

This gives me warm fuzzy feelings, also making me relatively cloud-agnostic in the process, even though devops is not my strong point.

Most projects I do don’t need something more complex or vendor locked-in than this.

New comment by grsmvg in "I don't recommend Tailwind CSS"

grsmvg — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 08:29:47 +0000

As a 26+ year frontender, years ago I was against it on so many levels. Until I tried it.

Never looked back. Also, inheriting projects with someone else’s code is fine. Just a quick look at the central config and you’re good to go.

New comment by grsmvg in "Say No to Palantir in Europe"

grsmvg — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 17:03:12 +0000

Reading this interview and the comments doesn't really spark a lot of confidence in the product (in Dutch): https://tweakers.net/reviews/14562/nextcloud-met-een-strik-e...

I paints the picture of it being mostly a hyped marketing wrapper around Nextcloud that hasn't even launched yet.

New comment by grsmvg in "Apple, What Have You Done?"

grsmvg — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 13:43:51 +0000

My number one bug for years that baffles me as to why Apple hasn’t fixed it: Zooming in on heavy websites or PDFs (with large images or WebGL) force closes the Safari tab. Over and over again.

New comment by grsmvg in "Bugs Apple loves"

grsmvg — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 06:59:07 +0000

Text selection peaked with Force Touch, where holding the space button, moving to start point, pressing down even harder to start selection en lifting finger at the end was sooo ergonomic.

New comment by grsmvg in "Why Big Companies Keep Failing: The Stack Fallacy (2016)"

grsmvg — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 19:09:56 +0000

So many examples mentioned can be explained by network effect, first mover advantage, or an already saturated market, instead of underestimating the making of a good product.

New comment by grsmvg in "iPhone Typos? It's Not Just You – The iOS Keyboard Is Broken [video]"

grsmvg — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 16:55:39 +0000

For the power users: you can swipe up from the bottom URL bar and then swipe from rtl on a thumbnail to close. That’s two actions instead of three.

You can also swipe right or left on the URL bar to switch tabs.

Alternatively hold the URL bar and press close.

New comment by grsmvg in "iPhone Typos? It's Not Just You – The iOS Keyboard Is Broken [video]"

grsmvg — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 15:58:56 +0000

I’m using a 12 mini and I’m running into so many typos since the new iOS. Maybe the combination of buggy software with their smallest screen is making it even worse.

New comment by grsmvg in "Show HN: PGlite – in-browser WASM Postgres with pgvector and live sync"

grsmvg — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 18:31:54 +0000

What I always wonder is which people use SQLite to run tests for a Postgres application. Isn’t the difference in dialect pretty much always an issue unless you do only the most basic type of queries? pglite fills a hole where imho currently only dockerized Postgres sits

New comment by grsmvg in "Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora"

grsmvg — Sat, 11 May 2024 00:00:37 +0000

I saw visible pink bands from my balcony in Amsterdam, showing bright pink fading to green when looking through my iPhone. And yes, lots of light pollution here. Shows how crazy strong this northern light was.

New comment by grsmvg in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (February 2024)"

grsmvg — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 10:13:51 +0000

SEEKING WORK | Remote or on site Location: Amsterdam, NL

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: JavaScript TypeScript NodeJS PostgreSQL SQLite Jest React NextJS Svelte SvelteKit Git Docker

Résumé/CV: https://gersom.nl/cv

Experience: 12+ years

Email: hn[at]gersom[dot]nl

New comment by grsmvg in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2023)"

grsmvg — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 21:28:09 +0000

SEEKING WORK | Remote

Location: Amsterdam

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: JavaScript TypeScript NodeJS PostgreSQL SQLite Jest React NextJS Svelte SvelteKit Git Docker

Résumé/CV: https://gersom.nl/cv

Experience: 10+ years

Email: hn[at]gersom[dot]nl

New comment by grsmvg in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2023)"

grsmvg — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 08:44:26 +0000

SEEKING WORK | Remote

Location: Amsterdam

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: JavaScript TypeScript NodeJS PostgreSQL SQLite Jest React NextJS Svelte SvelteKit Git Docker

Résumé/CV: https://gersom.nl/cv

Experience: 10+ years

Email: hn[at]gersom[dot]nl

New comment by grsmvg in "Aleksandr Sorokin smashes 24-hour world record with 198.6 mile run"

grsmvg — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 09:45:47 +0000

This is his actual running pace. Strava only calculates pace including the stops when you set the activity type to ‘race’, which he didn’t.

New comment by grsmvg in "Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?"

grsmvg — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 07:37:25 +0000

Try and get an invite for Arc. It solves these problems. Honestly i thought this post was just a secret marketing plug by one of their employees haha, but no one mentions it in the comments so far.

New comment by grsmvg in "My favorite iPhone feature was removed, long live its subpar replacement"

grsmvg — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 08:51:40 +0000

You can then ‘grab’ the cursor and move it. Or just use the hold spacebar trick two merge those two steps into a single action.

New comment by grsmvg in "I put my whole life into a single database"

grsmvg — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 14:37:25 +0000

I partially agree with that shaming strangers might not be a good way forward. But I also believe in some basic level of 'holding each other accountable'.

Maybe, besides political leaders and businesses, that should be limited to inner circle family and friends with whom you have a more complex relationship, and where there is a little bit more receptiveness towards critique. Even in that context it's probably better to just live the lifestyle yourself and hope they will follow.

On the other hand, if you put something out there, to be discussed publicly on HN, I don't feel obliged to only give positive feedback necessarily. Also, the author picked this up in a really nice way and has already added carbon stats to the page.

But man, it's so hard if you deeply care about something to keep your mouth shut. I don't know if you have any topics that make you feel like that?

Edit: actually responding to the rest of your comment, I'm a strong believer in the power of individual choices. The whole plant-based movement for example in The Netherlands (and outside) over the last few years was fully driven by individual consumer choices and little bits of money shifting in other directions. European politics actually tried to hinder it for a while, but at some point when something becomes the popular thing to think, politics will have to follow.

New comment by grsmvg in "I put my whole life into a single database"

grsmvg — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 12:46:35 +0000

You're right, there could be many reasons. But given the time we live in know it seems like something you don't want to wear with pride or without a disclaimer.

It's a fine balance between caring about stuff and wanting to raise awareness while also seeing other human beings for who they are, assuming good intent.

New comment by grsmvg in "I put my whole life into a single database"

grsmvg — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 09:47:18 +0000

I'm happy to return to the comment section here and see I'm not alone in my frustration over the author seeming to take pride in this crazy amount of air miles. Until that chart I really enjoyed scrolling through the page, seeing all the time and obsession the author put into this.

New comment by grsmvg in "Facebook chooses profits over people"

grsmvg — Fri, 22 Oct 2021 11:45:20 +0000

That works because the purpose — at least currently — doesn't actually cannibalise on the profits.