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New comment by igsomething in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"

igsomething — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 05:42:37 +0000

Currently working on a CLI tool that performs property-based testing from Arazzo documents: https://github.com/IgnacioGoldchluk/cuerdo

New comment by igsomething in "98% isn't much"

igsomething — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:33:54 +0000

I agree, but one thing is to demand all your users to be on the latest Chrome, and another one is to support browsers that are no longer maintained and contain security issues (IE). If we discourage people from driving old insecure cars, we can also discourage people from using old insecure browsers.

New comment by igsomething in "98% Isn't Much"

igsomething — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 13:55:24 +0000

For public services you can tell people to use another device, or provide a way to schedule an appointment in-person that is accessible using old browsers.

New comment by igsomething in "My Mathematical Regression"

igsomething — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:59:09 +0000

Maths IS pattern recognition

New comment by igsomething in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"

igsomething — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:05:54 +0000

I had a contract once to save a government website that had serious performance issues, it was so unusable that people preferred to go in-person and wait 4h in a queue rather than try to fill the forms online.

The frontend was in React because the company that got the contract initially used React for everything. The frontend was a 5MB SPA, but it could've been (mostly static) HTML files with some interactivity for forms like TFA. Everyone working on the project agreed React didn't make sense, but we couldn't do anything about it because someone from the government IT department would have to admit they made a mistake. There was no budget for rewrites in the contract. The few times a developer attempted to remove any "React monstrosity" they got in trouble.

Sometimes developers care, but the people in charge don't, and in government environments every change must go through them first.

New comment by igsomething in "Elixir v1.20: Now a gradually typed language"

igsomething — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 05:53:22 +0000

One important thing that is often not mentioned is the lack of operator overloading. In Elixir if you have "a + b" it means "a" and "b" must be numbers for the code to succeed, which narrows down the possibilities significantly. Compare that to Python, where "a + b" applies to numbers, string concatenation, and any object that implements the __add__ or __radd__ magic methods, it becomes a nightmare to type.

New comment by igsomething in "We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag"

igsomething — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:42:17 +0000

Then people from a sanctioned countries are blocked from open source, or worse, you have to explain to the bank and/or the government why you sent 20USD to someone in Venezuela.

New comment by igsomething in "Bitcoin miners are losing on every coin produced as difficulty drops"

igsomething — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:44:18 +0000

It is a negative feedback loop, so yes, it makes systems stable.

New comment by igsomething in "Returning to Rails in 2026"

igsomething — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 09:48:49 +0000

Dependency hell. Usually how it goes is you have to develop a new feature, you find a library or a newer version of the framework that solves the problem but it depends on a version of another library that is incompatible with the one in your project. You update the conflicting dependency and get 3 new conflicts, and when you fix those conflicts you get 5 new conflicts, and repeat.

New comment by igsomething in "MinIO repository is no longer maintained"

igsomething — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 09:53:16 +0000

Server Side Public License? Since it demands any company offering the project as a paid product/service to also open source the related infrastructure, the bigger companies end up creating a maintained fork with a more permissive license. See ElasticSearch -> OpenSearch, Redis -> Valkey

New comment by igsomething in "Some notes on starting to use Django"

igsomething — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 06:49:59 +0000

Going from Django to Phoenix I prefer manual migrations. Despite being a bit tedious and repetitive, by doing a "double pass" on the schema I often catch bugs, typos, missing indexes, etc. that I would have missed with Django. You waste a bit of time on the simple schemas, but you save a ton of time when you are defining more complex ones. I lost count on how many bugs were introduced because someone was careless with Django migrations, and it is also surprising that some Django devs don't know how to translate the migrations to the SQL equivalent.

At least you can opt-in to automated migrations in Elixir if you use Ash.

New comment by igsomething in "Oban Comes to Python"

igsomething — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 16:59:24 +0000

Hey, first I want to say that Oban has been a lifesaver for me and it is the tool I miss the most from the Elixir ecosystem when doing work in Python. Thanks so much and congrats on the release.

I have one question: are there any plans for interop between Oban and the new Django Tasks[1]?

[1] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/6.0/ref/tasks/

New comment by igsomething in "Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn"

igsomething — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 17:17:40 +0000

As another 3rd world citizen living in Northern Europe, I usually describe it as "processes and rules over common sense". They understand your situation, they agree with you, they can solve your problem, but they will not do it because it goes against some obscure rule, or it would not follow a specific mandatory procedure step by step, and who knows what are consequences.

New comment by igsomething in "What will enter the public domain in 2026?"

igsomething — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 11:44:14 +0000

Keep in mind in Argentina public domain works are not free (free as beer) of use, you have to pay a fee to the government, for example if you play Beethoven music in your short film or any work you created.

This is likely going to change since the organism responsible for collecting the fees is undergoing a big restructuring.

New comment by igsomething in "Is Software the UFOlogy of Engineering Disciplines?"

igsomething — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 17:31:47 +0000

Electronic Enginering is also not that old and it has been a proper engineering discipline for many years already

New comment by igsomething in "‘No Other Land’ consultant Awdah Hathaleen killed by Israeli settler"

igsomething — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 17:22:56 +0000

In an ideal world none of the past 70 years of conflicts that led to this unrecoverable resentfulness would have happened. Unfortunately the only peaceful solution I can imagine is for Israel to let Gazans move to other Arab-world countries, let Israel annexate Gaza, and then imposing strict border controls and watches such that if Israel attempts any ethnic cleansing or illegal occupation they get severly sanctioned.

New comment by igsomething in "Vanishing home field advantage in English football"

igsomething — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 15:22:58 +0000

It would be useful to compare with other leagues where home field advantage is significant. I do not have any data but as a football fan I suspect the following variables are important:

- England is an homogeneous country in terms of geography. There is no 40C degree temperature difference between north/south clubs. Playing in weather conditions one is not used to can affect the away team.

- England is also a small country. The away team can arrive at the stadium within the day. Not only it means they are better rested but also home fans cannot bother them at the hotel making noise, throwing fireworks, etc. preventing them from sleeping.

- The FA is not as corrupt. Sure, certain teams can get away with playing dirty, but in general referees will show red card to a home team player, or call out a penalty for the away team.

- Less threatening environment at the stadium, both for the away team players and the referees. Nobody is throwing food, beer or anything at the players during the game, and hooligans will not try to harm the referee if the home team loses.

New comment by igsomething in "Notes on Argentina"

igsomething — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 18:54:36 +0000

Surprisingly, no. Milei's party does not have majority in the Congress, he does not have much power, and the best example is his omnibus bill [1]. Initially Milei's party attempted to pass a massive 300-page reform, consisting primarily of deregulations and paving the road for a more free-market government model. The reform was debated for almost 6 months, and the accepted version was about a 3rd of the original one.

The president has power to make only small changes in Argentina, but the previous system was so flawled that any minor change resulted in noticeable changes to the general economy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Bases_and_Starting_Poin...

New comment by igsomething in "Bitcoin has made a new all-time high price"

igsomething — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 17:10:45 +0000

That is not the definition of fungible. You can put a mark on a USD$100 bill and trace it, but it still has the same value as any other USD$100 bill, or 5 20$ bills, etc.

New comment by igsomething in "Show HN: es6_maps, new Elixir syntax feature via runtime compiler hacking"

igsomething — Sun, 12 May 2024 19:43:43 +0000

The map '%{username, age, first_name, last_name}' would be 1 character away from the tuple '{username, age, first_name, last_name}'. It is easy to miss the '%' character and you'll waste some time figuring out why your code is throwing match and/or function clause errors at runtime.