Hacker News: iimblack

New comment by iimblack in "Firebase Firestore down or high latency"

iimblack — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 15:46:52 +0000

We're seeing logins fail and trying to use the google meet and google drive APIs fail.

New comment by iimblack in "Microsoft Dependency Has Risks"

iimblack — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 23:32:26 +0000

How do you separate the good from the bad? What do you do when Microsoft changes the good things into bad things?

My take is that Microsoft consistently makes bad things and makes "good" things into "bad" things; so, I don't have much expectation or faith that anything that I currently think is "good" will stay that way.

New comment by iimblack in "Cloudflare was down"

iimblack — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 01:49:39 +0000

So weird to argue when google themselves listed these as having an outage.

New comment by iimblack in "Cloudflare was down"

iimblack — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 18:41:40 +0000

They updated the incident noting that it's not just authentication affected.

New comment by iimblack in "Ask HN: Is Firebase Down?"

iimblack — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 18:07:26 +0000

Yep, seeing SSO and auth errors from firebase.

New comment by iimblack in "The Continuing Crisis, Part IX: Inside the NIH Now"

iimblack — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 01:25:03 +0000

What blows my mind is how short sighted it is. Even the oligarchs benefit from scientific research. Even the oligarchs lose money when our industries move to other countries.

New comment by iimblack in "Kagi Is Bringing Orion Web Browser to Linux"

iimblack — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 15:21:27 +0000

Lenses can be setup with bang notation. So a research lens could use !r your-query-here

New comment by iimblack in "Paper Apps"

iimblack — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 15:06:42 +0000

Onirim is good but the phone app is better since there’s so much shuffling. Cursed?! is one of my favorites. Galdors Grip is really cool in that you can play it in hand, you don’t need a table, so you can play it anywhere.

New comment by iimblack in "Oh Shit, Git?"

iimblack — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 19:35:26 +0000

Since you brought it up, I personally switched to jujutsu and prefer it greatly. I regularly help coworkers deal with issues in git and keep dropping hints like `in jujutsu this would've been done way easier like this!`. Nobody bites yet since I think most of them don't want to use the CLI but maybe someday if enough people keep talking about it the inertia will get to the point that we can get some really slick GUIs for jj.

New comment by iimblack in "The NBA's Problem Is Economics, Not Basketball"

iimblack — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 21:55:51 +0000

> If a player just delivers a nasty dunk and then even so much as looks at the guy they just dunked on, that’s a foul.

On the other hand we get players like Draymond Green getting away with yelling at refs and trying to injure other players like nothing happened.

New comment by iimblack in "The NBA's Problem Is Economics, Not Basketball"

iimblack — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 16:46:55 +0000

Basketball is also the problem, refereeing specifically. Refs are humans and make mistakes but it’s hard to watch and not feel like there’s blatant favoritism to star players or certain teams.

There are the L2M reports that detail all the mistakes they make in the end of the game and way too often they’re game altering.

Then there’s the inconsistent approach to the rules. They’ll suddenly decide they want to push a rule, call every tiny infraction on it, then 10 games later it’s like the refs collectively forgot the rule exists at all.

It all makes for an extremely frustrating experience for the players and the fans.

New comment by iimblack in "Node.js adds experimental support for TypeScript"

iimblack — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 20:25:12 +0000

Rescript?

New comment by iimblack in "Three ways to think about Go channels"

iimblack — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 16:46:22 +0000

Might have simplified this with errgroup [0].

[0] https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/sync/errgroup

New comment by iimblack in "Show HN: Qq: like jq, but can transcode between many formats"

iimblack — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 18:45:28 +0000

This is the beauty of open source. I love that you’re being so collaborative here instead of seeing another tool as competition.

New comment by iimblack in "Biodiversity enhances immune regulation among daycare children (2020)"

iimblack — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 16:01:10 +0000

Anecdotally having lived in both types of houses, sweeping and mopping is much more frequent in the house that allows shoes inside.

New comment by iimblack in "What makes a great contribution to a codebase?"

iimblack — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 04:18:12 +0000

IME hard disagree. Projects with any longevity and/or turnover will have code that doesn’t seem to make sense but was put there for a reason. Commit messages are key to giving the context because even though there might be descriptions people will put the relevant slack messages and jira tickets in the pr or commit.

At this point I almost weekly have to review the full context on a pr to make sure my fix won’t break some historical use case that isn’t immediately obvious.

New comment by iimblack in "Weekly 1:1s are a staple of management. I hated it and found it useless"

iimblack — Thu, 16 May 2024 01:33:43 +0000

Are you the IC or the manager?

New comment by iimblack in "Weekly 1:1s are a staple of management. I hated it and found it useless"

iimblack — Thu, 16 May 2024 01:00:49 +0000

Having worked in both sides I’ve always liked monthly.

New comment by iimblack in "[dead]"

iimblack — Thu, 09 May 2024 13:34:28 +0000

I’d hate having 30 edits to a ticket description polluting my git log.

New comment by iimblack in "Design docs at Google (2020)"

iimblack — Tue, 07 May 2024 21:59:37 +0000

Couldn’t you just reference a recent doc and say this is mostly the same with these x differences leading to y alterations for z reasons?