Hacker News: hmans

New comment by hmans in "Rise and Demise of RSS"

hmans — Mon, 14 Jan 2019 09:11:15 +0000

I find articles like this obnoxious because

1) they (implicitly or explicitly) claim that RSS was at some point popular (with "normal users") in some way that it is not today, which is wrong.

2) they completely ignore the fact that RSS today is significantly more widespread than it was a decade ago.

Yes, Google Reader is gone. Get over it. Flipboard and similar have heaps and heaps of users, and they're all RSS-based.

New comment by hmans in "Moving from Disqus to Schnack"

hmans — Tue, 19 Dec 2017 15:36:46 +0000

And there's a beautiful little tool named Bridgy that can pull replies/mentions off Twitter and Facebook and turn them into Indieweb-able entities. It's all really quite great, but of course assumes the terrible, terrible inconvenience of running your own website.

New comment by hmans in "Author of cURL denied entry to the USA"

hmans — Tue, 27 Jun 2017 09:49:33 +0000

"It's never happened to me, so it must be that guy's fault!"

New comment by hmans in "Show HN: Keypad Layout Window Manager for Mac"

hmans — Sat, 20 May 2017 18:18:11 +0000

Hammerspoon

Adventures of an Ancient Web Developer in JavaScript Land

hmans — Thu, 04 May 2017 13:52:01 +0000

Article URL: https://hmans.io/posts/2017/05/04/ancient-web-developer-goes-javascript.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14264801

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by hmans in "Roadmap to becoming a web developer in 2017"

hmans — Tue, 28 Mar 2017 15:33:31 +0000

Focus on HTML and CSS. Those will still be relevant in ~10 years, while most of today's JavaScript hotness will be nothing but a memory long gone.

New comment by hmans in "Facebook launches Stories in its main app"

hmans — Tue, 28 Mar 2017 15:31:53 +0000

The only app on my phone that's not trying to copycat Snapchat is Termux.

New comment by hmans in "Show HN: Polished – A lightweight toolset for writing styles in JavaScript"

hmans — Tue, 28 Mar 2017 15:30:14 +0000

No.

New comment by hmans in "Uber Investigating Sexual Harassment Claims by Ex-Employee"

hmans — Mon, 20 Feb 2017 10:24:43 +0000

That's a very American thing to say.

New comment by hmans in "Ask HN: Are we overcomplicating software development?"

hmans — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 17:01:38 +0000

Yes, we are; no, it's not just you. Next question.

Ruby is still great

hmans — Tue, 10 Jan 2017 14:15:26 +0000

Article URL: http://hmans.io/posts/2017/01/10/ruby-is-still-great.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13364836

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by hmans in "When Node.js is the wrong tool for the job"

hmans — Fri, 06 Jan 2017 20:57:17 +0000

Always.

New comment by hmans in "Brew commands send data to Google Analytics"

hmans — Fri, 25 Nov 2016 10:23:43 +0000

"brew install" installs executable code on your system

New comment by hmans in "Park.io – automating tasks to make $125k per month"

hmans — Sun, 25 Sep 2016 16:48:13 +0000

Domain squatting as a service.

New comment by hmans in "Homebrew 1.0.0"

hmans — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 09:36:48 +0000

Good.

New comment by hmans in "If TypeScript is so great, how come all notable ReactJS projects use Babel?"

hmans — Tue, 20 Sep 2016 14:43:58 +0000

Because the masses will always gravitate towards inferior options.

New comment by hmans in "Ask HN: Is web programming a series of hacks on hacks?"

hmans — Mon, 12 Sep 2016 06:26:43 +0000

It's been ruined by a generation of developers who believe it a good idea to build stateful applications on top of an inherently stateless document-centric infrastructure.

New comment by hmans in "Save Netflix"

hmans — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 20:58:03 +0000

Remember when everyone agreed that there was no point to competing with AOL and CompuServe?

New comment by hmans in "What Does It Take to Be a ‘Best-Selling Author’? $3 and 5 Minutes"

hmans — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 20:17:38 +0000

How did Amazon approve this?

New comment by hmans in "The Elephant in the Room: Web design work is drying up"

hmans — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 20:29:57 +0000

This is the correct answer.