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New comment by herrherrmann in "Sovereign Tech Agency invests €500k in Flatpak"

herrherrmann — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:20:55 +0000

The “(all genders)” bit is probably just based on the fact that they translated the German job ad (in German you have to be more explicit with the male/female/all versions of titles, because the default is usually just the male form). So, it’s not a qualification, but just a way to be inclusive to applicants of all genders (we have a diversity problem in our industry).

The salary is bound to the limits of the public salary bands (collective agreement), that’s where the maximum comes from. (And, you can live quite well in Berlin with ~100k € per year.)

New comment by herrherrmann in "Please stop flooding our projects with AI slop to furnish your CV"

herrherrmann — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 06:07:10 +0000

I think it’s implied that accepting these kinds of PRs will take time away from working on actual improvements to the codebase. So, on the long term it’s better to be strict with these kinds of silly contributions, and focus on changes that matter more (e.g. features or fixes).

The Raycast Keyboard

herrherrmann — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:36:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.raycast.com/keyboard

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49463828

Points: 3

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New comment by herrherrmann in "Omakase Computing"

herrherrmann — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 12:40:21 +0000

Many people care and should care. Of course if a piece of software (or any project/tool, really) gets a lot of usage, it’ll indirectly make its creators more powerful. I wouldn’t want to make a person more powerful if they support horrible causes (like in DHH’s case), especially if there are many alternative routes to choose from that are less questionable.

New comment by herrherrmann in "Omakase Computing"

herrherrmann — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 12:36:33 +0000

I disagree. Technology is inherently political, and it’s valuable and important to get informed and reminded about the many horrible people that are directly or indirectly tied to any mentioned organizations and projects.

New comment by herrherrmann in "Small, native web tricks worth remembering"

herrherrmann — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:44:10 +0000

Neat! I like these opinionated lists, especially when it’s easy to browse and cherry-pick useful stuff. It’d be very good to mention how compatible the features are, though. Especially with newer CSS features, it’s easy to overestimate how ready they are for all browsers.

For that, there could just be links to the related MDN and/or caniuse.com pages.

New comment by herrherrmann in "Self hosted email continues to steeply decline"

herrherrmann — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 11:55:34 +0000

You like using Google and Microsoft products as an end user (even ignoring all the ethical issues with these companies)? That seems surprising to me. I find their products so horrible compared to e.g. Fastmail.

New comment by herrherrmann in "GIMP Development Update"

herrherrmann — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 08:50:29 +0000

Cool, I didn’t know that! But makes a lot of sense.

New comment by herrherrmann in "GIMP Development Update"

herrherrmann — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 08:31:09 +0000

… and the sizes of their updates are usually impressive! Seems to be a big project that is managed well to keep a good pace and keep the community in the loop. (Although I don’t know much about their inner workings.)

New comment by herrherrmann in "GIMP Development Update"

herrherrmann — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 08:28:39 +0000

Yep, even music software like Ableton Live is using zipped XML for the project files (although the much bigger audio files are stored independently in sub-folders). There were even efforts to use the XML format to manage Ableton project files with git in order to have a nicer change history (https://github.com/clintburgos/ableton-git).

New comment by herrherrmann in "Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin"

herrherrmann — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 20:20:09 +0000

It’s hard for me to imagine that most people care about speed. I think it’s more likely that they just don’t know how bad Chrome is (for the internet) and how evil Google is (it’s still the main search engine for most people). I think Chrome is familiar, and Google is good at locking people in, pretending that Chrome does things better (or even making sure other browsers are handicapped on the Google sites, like YouTube being slower on Firefox).

New comment by herrherrmann in "Orion Browser by Kagi"

herrherrmann — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 20:29:16 +0000

You should try Firefox or Waterfox then!

New comment by herrherrmann in "StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time"

herrherrmann — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 17:15:20 +0000

Wow, that is one well-documented migration project! Thanks for sharing, I wasn’t aware they are so seriously on it.

New comment by herrherrmann in "CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps"

herrherrmann — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 08:08:33 +0000

You can look up who the contributors are, e.g. in their open-source repo: https://codeberg.org/comaps There are also issues and projects with lots of discussions about what to prioritize, etc. So, bashing that “community” is too fuzzy is perhaps not very warranted. (Although I guess they should add a section “Who makes CoMaps?” to the FAQs or so.)

New comment by herrherrmann in "Building relationships with customers through support didn't turn out as hoped"

herrherrmann — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 05:50:46 +0000

I thought we’re talking about Building Relationships for a second. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2666920/Building_Relation...

New comment by herrherrmann in "GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17"

herrherrmann — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 10:33:51 +0000

You can check this crowdsourced list for the compatibility of banking apps: https://github.com/PrivSec-dev/privsec.dev/blob/main/content...

Authenticators should work normally, as far as I know (unless Google Authenticator does anything special). Can’t say anything about Google Wallet. There might be more lists/forums where people share which setups are (not) working well for them.

In general, I had these concerns as well until a few months ago. But I am much more optimistic these days that things will just work well out of the box (have read many positive sentiments in blog posts and here on Hacker News).

New comment by herrherrmann in "Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers"

herrherrmann — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:25:07 +0000

I’m sure the general premise around AI-generated code is accurate. That being said, I’ve definitely had interesting moments where e.g. Claude produced code that matched the pre-existing codebase quite nicely, and slowly started building up its memory of how new pieces fit into the codebase in an idiomatic way. Then again, it started to throw in Tailwind-based CSS classes all of a sudden, because it assumed that Tailwind had been set up (it wasn’t).

New comment by herrherrmann in "Perry Compiles TypeScript directly to executables using SWC and LLVM"

herrherrmann — Sat, 30 May 2026 07:16:52 +0000

> IMO the maintenance story is more or less solved if you can keep AI agents refactoring and improving it in a loop.

That’s a weak argument, though, if the future of AI is totally unreliable when it comes to cost and quality. Right now I definitely wouldn’t want to depend on being able to infinitely access AI tools for such an important part of the toolchain.

Aside from that it’s just not attractive to trust a project made by one person.

New comment by herrherrmann in "Using AI to write better code more slowly"

herrherrmann — Tue, 26 May 2026 05:52:57 +0000

Did they? Genuine question, because I do wonder if people in some industries in the past were ever anxious about these specific things (especially skill attrition).

New comment by herrherrmann in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

herrherrmann — Mon, 25 May 2026 12:54:24 +0000

Works well for me! Have been using Kagi for well over a year now. (I assume you’re talking about the German search results, not their German UI.)