Hacker News: grugdev42

New comment by grugdev42 in "HomeOS – A self-hosted family dashboard for a kitchen touchscreen"

grugdev42 — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 13:15:48 +0000

Nice!

Cool idea for you:

Have one of the widgets as a photo album.

Upload some images, or maybe connect to a Google Drive folder.

Then every day it shows a family photo! :)

New comment by grugdev42 in "Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence"

grugdev42 — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:40:42 +0000

XMPP is great. You can own your whole stack with no commercial restrictions.

If you're coming from Slack, this plugin is a game changer:

https://modules.prosody.im/mod_slack_webhooks

sudo prosodyctl install --server=https://modules.prosody.im/rocks/ mod_slack_webhooks

New comment by grugdev42 in "MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID"

grugdev42 — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 08:25:21 +0000

Use this instead!!!

https://jspaint.app/

New comment by grugdev42 in "Berd"

grugdev42 — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 08:49:20 +0000

This website is not very user friendly. Huge amount of assets to load, an unclear product, and a visually distracting experience.

New comment by grugdev42 in "LinkedIn CringeBot 3000"

grugdev42 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 08:12:21 +0000

Amazing. The hall of fame section is hilarious!

New comment by grugdev42 in "Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub"

grugdev42 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 09:23:49 +0000

I don't want this. It's too complicated.

Plus it's vendor lock in.

Give it time. Soon you'll only be able to push using Github's CLI.

New comment by grugdev42 in "Ask HN: Is Zig worth it over Rust in 2026?"

grugdev42 — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 13:58:43 +0000

Worth it for what?

The "what" is important.

New comment by grugdev42 in "Ancient Roman Board Game"

grugdev42 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 21:49:10 +0000

Neat, but this game seems too simple. I think AI has missed a core gameplay mechanic.

There needs to be something to stop a deadlock. Like an element of luck for the hares?

New comment by grugdev42 in "Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests"

grugdev42 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 08:51:07 +0000

Neat as a pet project, but anyone thinking of using this is production is insane.

Rewriten in Rust is becoming a meme now.

New comment by grugdev42 in "Resetting Xbox"

grugdev42 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 10:55:23 +0000

Too little too late. Xbox is dying and PS won.

Try listening to your customers next time.

We don't want to be ripped off with paying for assets we don't own.

We don't want another monthly subscription.

We want the old games, remastered, with fully functioning multiplayer.

New comment by grugdev42 in "The new HTTP QUERY method explained"

grugdev42 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 08:44:53 +0000

We should have just added optional body support for GET requests.

So much simpler...

New comment by grugdev42 in "Ask HN: Conflicted about founding engineer role"

grugdev42 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:45:16 +0000

The cofounders will not put your priorities first. Their only goal is to make money for themselves. They will axe you if they feel like it.

They are not hiring a founding engineer because they want to do something nice. They've probably realised this path is cheaper than hiring an external software development company.

Don't think for a second that you will be an equal in this relationship. You will be at their beck and call. You will be forced to write bad code to get early sales.

You'll get paid less to do more. I would stay where you are.

New comment by grugdev42 in "Mechanical Watch (2022)"

grugdev42 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:02:16 +0000

What a brilliant resource.

I think this should be used in schools.

Really easy to understand and instantly captivating.

Please do more topics!!! :)

New comment by grugdev42 in "Ask HN: My competitors have flawed products but I can't get traction"

grugdev42 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 08:27:16 +0000

Two things jump to mind:

1. The best product rarely wins. As much as it pains me, marketing and sales matter more than product. Your competitors are likely better at marketing and selling themselves and their product.

2. It's a bit cliche, but look into the candy, vitamin, and painkiller theory. Your product is not a painkiller and I suspect it's a candy. Candies are very very hard to make a successful business from.

But, I wish you the best of luck. :)

New comment by grugdev42 in "C++: The Documentary"

grugdev42 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 08:19:39 +0000

Thank you for releasing this for free! :)

New comment by grugdev42 in "Laid off. Broke. Depressed. & idk how to market my SaaS"

grugdev42 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:22:23 +0000

The reality is that SaaS is hard to sell these days. It's not 2010 any more, the gold rush is over.

That's not to say it's impossible, but it's so much harder than 15 years ago.

Everyone and their dog is starting a SaaS. Very few are selling them. And almost no one is turning one into a job.

The people who are self employed by their SaaS started them 5 years ago.

Get a job, support your family, and protect your mental health.

New comment by grugdev42 in "Learn SQL Once, Use It for 30 Years"

grugdev42 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:22:35 +0000

Agreed. SQL has been one of the most stable and useful skills I have.

Rivalled only by Linux, shell scripts, and Cron!

New comment by grugdev42 in "Malicious npm packages detected across Red Hat Cloud Services"

grugdev42 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:38:35 +0000

This is a solved problem.

Use HTTPS and use the integrity attribute.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...

Also, what's more likely? Someone hacking jsDelivr/cdnjs OR some random NPM packages getting hacked?

New comment by grugdev42 in "Malicious npm packages detected across Red Hat Cloud Services"

grugdev42 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:35:40 +0000

The joke is on you NPM! I only use CDNs for my JS libraries.

New comment by grugdev42 in "Ask HN: When and why did you start believing in God?"

grugdev42 — Thu, 28 May 2026 09:32:27 +0000

> The god does not need to have a concept of human suffering

It does if it wants me to devote my life to worshipping it.