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New comment by hmhhashem in "We built an air-gapped Jira alternative for regulated industries"

hmhhashem — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 07:59:04 +0000

When you add features such as telemetry, curl calls in install scripts, and in general build on public cloud infra, everything assumes you have internet connectivity. That assumption is so crucial that it is embedded in everything and touches most software components. When you already have an established product, I imagine changing it to remove the assumption without a full rewrite can be tricky.

New comment by hmhhashem in "Any program can be a GitHub Actions shell"

hmhhashem — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 07:59:09 +0000

Thanks, I didn't know about this!

New comment by hmhhashem in "Any program can be a GitHub Actions shell"

hmhhashem — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 07:40:03 +0000

- You get an overview in the Github UI for each step and can expand/collapse each step to inspect its output.

- You can easily utilize Github actions that others have contributed in your pipeline.

- You can modularize workflows and specify dependencies between them and control parallel executions.

I'm sure there are more. But the main advantage is you don't need to implement all these things yourself.

New comment by hmhhashem in "Dijkstra On the foolishness of "natural language programming""

hmhhashem — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 07:35:20 +0000

For young engineers, it is a good thing to spend time implementing what you call "bad ideas". In the worst-case, they learn from their mistake and gain valuable insight into the pitfalls of such ideas. In the best case, you can have a technological breakthrough as someone finds a way to make such an idea work.

Of course, it's best that such learning happens before one has mandate to derail the whole project.

New comment by hmhhashem in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)"

hmhhashem — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 08:28:06 +0000

Sounds similar to https://github.com/jhaals/yopass.

New comment by hmhhashem in "Making any integer with four 2s"

hmhhashem — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 07:02:47 +0000

You're using 5 twos, not 4.