Hacker News: huddo121

New comment by huddo121 in "Tsrs: A Port of TypeScript to Rust"

huddo121 — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 01:57:48 +0000

Egg upon all your faces! I have released tsoracle, which knows (by unknown means) whether your ts compiles correctly, instantly!

New comment by huddo121 in "The future of Terraform CDK"

huddo121 — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 23:16:18 +0000

Metastatized branding

New comment by huddo121 in "Show HN: Nestable.dev – local whiteboard app with nestable canvases, deep links"

huddo121 — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 23:58:41 +0000

I've been working on something that might be worth giving a try! [1] It's built more for specifically for software architecture rather than general whiteboarding, but we just recently added custom icon uploads so you could add whatever icons you want if you're more interested in hardware. The 'logical component' operates in two modes, one which is just a group, and one where it acts like a sub-board that scales its contents to fit the box.

[1] https://contexts.online

New comment by huddo121 in "Ask HN: Will my comments/topics on HN be deletable under the GDPR law?"

huddo121 — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 04:33:10 +0000

My understanding of it is that HN/YCombinator would also have to be targeting EU customers directly, such as by offering the service in EU languages (english probably wouldn't count) or offering prices in EU currencies.

On Getting Started with Phoenix v1.3.0

huddo121 — Wed, 12 Jul 2017 13:43:23 +0000

Article URL: http://michaelhudson.net.au/on-getting-started-with-phoenix-v1-3-0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14752436

Points: 1

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New comment by huddo121 in "A Link Between Autism and Addiction"

huddo121 — Tue, 07 Mar 2017 07:13:25 +0000

On my first pass of the title on the front page I figured this was going to be a Legend of Zelda game... This article is not as fun as LoZ, not even in the slightest.

New comment by huddo121 in "Mulesoft files for IPO"

huddo121 — Sat, 18 Feb 2017 01:40:44 +0000

Their main product is an Enterprise Service Bus, a piece of technology that is supposed to help make it easy for software developers to integrate with multiple disparate third party solutions (and potentially internal solutions). So you can get a "Connector" for SAP, and another for Salesforce and consolidate, transfer or do practically whatever with the data in both systems, without having a bunch of developers working on an in-house solution to consume the requisite APIs.

My one criticism of them would be they focus very heavily on cloud, and their on-premises offering is woefully anaemic, lacking fundamental functionality, such as messaging.

New comment by huddo121 in "Ask HN: When and how should I release my open source tool?"

huddo121 — Wed, 01 Feb 2017 23:25:26 +0000

Release it straight away.

Don't worry about the code looking dirty, embryonic code always does. If it's a big enough tool it may warrant setting up a GitHub Pages site for it, just to make it a bit easier to find when somebody is suffering from the same problems you were.

In terms of new features, once you've put the repo on GitHub (or wherever) other people will likely suggest features as issues or modify the program themselves (and hopefully open a PR).

New comment by huddo121 in "You Don't Find Bugs in Legacy Code"

huddo121 — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 10:35:36 +0000

As someone that has spent the last two years migrating legacy code, I can assure you, you do find bugs in legacy code.

I've seen bugs that user's don't notice.

I've seen bugs that user's have just gotten used to.

I've seen bugs where that failures it caused were dismissed as the system being a bit temperamental, for many years.

I've seen bugs that financially affected thousands of customers, and remained unnoticed over the course of several years.

I've even seen bugs that only remained because, by luck, the preconditions to trigger it had not been met.

I can assure you, you do find bugs in legacy code.

On Playing with Elixir

huddo121 — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 23:55:49 +0000

Article URL: http://michaelhudson.net.au/on-playing-with-elixir

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13288542

Points: 3

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New comment by huddo121 in "Ask HN: How to transition from worker to manager?"

huddo121 — Tue, 29 Nov 2016 05:43:18 +0000

I would start by kicking off the process of codifying your knowledge. I've used confluence for this, and it's a real art to sit down and work out how to structure your information, the level of detail required, and what should be documented in the first place. I've found that the people I've worked with the went from a technical to managerial role were mostly relied on for that vast technical and organisational knowledge that they had built up over the years.

I'm not sure if you're managing a project, product or divisional team structure, but I would say that no matter what level you're attempting to manage, set some sort of vision for your team to align themselves with. This can cover things such as technical aspirations, or organisational strategic goals.

Trust your team. It doesn't sound like there is any mistrust in your team, but I understand the difficulty in getting over that initial knowledge hump when introducing people to a new domain, especially as an "expert" in the area. Documenting knowledge in clear and concise ways, and making different members of your team experts in certain areas of your knowledge will help them to become more self-sufficient in their quest for knowledge and answers. Consider this an investment.

As a general piece of advice, not aimed at any particular part of your post, you were in the same position as your team members are now not long ago, think about the pain points you had and try to learn from them.

On Playing with Docker – Part 2

huddo121 — Fri, 21 Oct 2016 11:54:45 +0000

Article URL: http://michaelhudson.net.au/on-playing-with-docker-part-2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12759627

Points: 1

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New comment by huddo121 in "Results from Candy Japan box design A/B test"

huddo121 — Fri, 06 May 2016 04:59:25 +0000

That works under the assumption that humans are purely rational beings, which we are not. Though I don't necessarily think the design chosen was a great choice based on other comments here. Maybe something a bit more generic, yet still colourful (like the candies in games like candy crush) would have been a better choice.

New comment by huddo121 in "Show HN: passgo, a command line password manager written in go"

huddo121 — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 06:11:41 +0000

When I use passgo, how do I collect my $200?

edit: Now that I've read the commit message; :(

On the Art of Well Crafted Tasks

huddo121 — Sun, 10 Apr 2016 12:15:20 +0000

Article URL: http://michaelhudson.net.au/on-the-art-of-well-crafted-tasks

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11465852

Points: 1

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