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Creators of Zig, SQLite, Htmx, Roc Speaking at SSW

isaacvando — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:36:44 +0000

Article URL: https://softwareshould.work

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48357413

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Nondeterminism's Not the Problem

isaacvando — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:43:39 +0000

Article URL: https://isaacvando.com/nondeterminisms-not-the-problem

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48324662

Points: 15

# Comments: 9

Software Should Work Conference

isaacvando — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 17:00:04 +0000

Article URL: https://softwareshould.work

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46782734

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by isaacvando in "I hate GitHub Actions with passion"

isaacvando — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 16:12:28 +0000

You should try RWX! You can trigger runs from the CLI for way faster feedback loops. The automatic caching is surprisingly good too. https://www.rwx.com/

New comment by isaacvando in "1000 Blank White Cards"

isaacvando — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 16:08:29 +0000

This game is a ton of fun. Try it!

New comment by isaacvando in "RegreSQL: Regression Testing for PostgreSQL Queries"

isaacvando — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 21:08:05 +0000

We using Tonic.ai. Although I am interested in writing something myself; I suspect there are a lot of ways it could be improved such as generating the anonymized version more quickly.

New comment by isaacvando in "We deleted our Dockerfiles: a better, faster way to build container images"

isaacvando — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 18:38:07 +0000

We use jib at work (https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/jib) which also skips the Dockerfile and builds an image for a Java project directly.

This certainly looks like a much nicer experience than docker build, especially given that there can be a cache hit after a cache miss.

New comment by isaacvando in "RegreSQL: Regression Testing for PostgreSQL Queries"

isaacvando — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 22:06:24 +0000

At work we have anonymized dumps of our production data that we use for local development. This is extremely helpful as it allows testing things locally that would be completely unrealistic to setup otherwise. Your whole dataset might not be able to fit on a dev machine, but I'd guess in most cases you could create a subset of it that would be large enough to be useful for local performance work.

New comment by isaacvando in "We cut our Mongo DB costs by 90% by moving to Hetzner"

isaacvando — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 17:52:56 +0000

There are also an enormous number of ways to build insecure apps on AWS. I think the difficulty of setting up your own server is massively overblown. And that should be unsurprising given that there are so many companies that benefit from developers thinking it's too hard.

New comment by isaacvando in "Vibe code is legacy code"

isaacvando — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 22:38:42 +0000

programming as theory building mentioned

New comment by isaacvando in "Ask HN: Is the Ask HN algorithm broken?"

isaacvando — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 18:25:23 +0000

How did this end up on the front page with 0 comments??

New comment by isaacvando in "Show HN: Unregistry – “docker push” directly to servers without a registry"

isaacvando — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 01:29:04 +0000

Love it!

New comment by isaacvando in "Show HN: Chawan TUI web browser"

isaacvando — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 02:09:27 +0000

Nothing happens for me either

New comment by isaacvando in "Show HN: Chawan TUI web browser"

isaacvando — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 01:02:36 +0000

Here's the contents of a. Let me know if there are any other commands you'd like me to type.

``` handleCommandInput 1, buffer "" c 'j' handleCommandInput 2, buffer "" c 'j' after handleCommandInput, buffer 0x104c5b780"j" c 'j' handleCommandInput 1, buffer "" c 'k' handleCommandInput 2, buffer "" c 'k' after handleCommandInput, buffer 0x104ca8b70"k" c 'k' handleCommandInput 1, buffer "" c 'l' handleCommandInput 2, buffer "" c 'l' after handleCommandInput, buffer 0x104c5bab0"l" c 'l' handleCommandInput 1, buffer "" c 'k' handleCommandInput 2, buffer "" c 'k' after handleCommandInput, buffer 0x104ca8d20"k" c 'k' handleCommandInput 1, buffer "" c 'j' handleCommandInput 2, buffer "" c 'j' after handleCommandInput, buffer 0x104c5b480"j" c 'j' handleCommandInput 1, buffer "" c 'h' handleCommandInput 2, buffer "" c 'h' after handleCommandInput, buffer 0x104ca89c0"h" c 'h' handleCommandInput 1, buffer "" c 'g' handleCommandInput 2, buffer "" c 'g' after handleCommandInput, buffer 0x104cae780"g" c 'g' handleCommandInput 1, buffer "" c '1' after handleCommandInput, buffer "" c '1' handleCommandInput 1, buffer "" c '2' after handleCommandInput, buffer "" c '2' handleCommandInput 1, buffer "" c '3' after handleCommandInput, buffer "" c '3' handleCommandInput 1, buffer "" c '1' after handleCommandInput, buffer "" c '1' handleCommandInput 1, buffer "" c '2' after handleCommandInput, buffer "" c '2' handleCommandInput 1, buffer "" c '2' after handleCommandInput, buffer "" c '2' handleCommandInput 1, buffer "" c '3' after handleCommandInput, buffer "" c '3' handleCommandInput 1, buffer "" c '\3' handleCommandInput 2, buffer "" c '\3' after handleCommandInput, buffer 0x104cae690"\3" c '\3' handleCommandInput 1, buffer "" c '\3' handleCommandInput 2, buffer "" c '\3' after handleCommandInput, buffer 0x104adaed0"\3" c '\3' handleCommandInput 1, buffer "" c '\3' handleCommandInput 2, buffer "" c '\3' after handleCommandInput, buffer 0x104ca8720"\3" c '\3' handleCommandInput 1, buffer "" c '\4' handleCommandInput 2, buffer "" c '\4' after handleCommandInput, buffer 0x104bf8d80"\4" c '\4' handleCommandInput 1, buffer "" c '\3' handleCommandInput 2, buffer "" c '\3' after handleCommandInput, buffer 0x104caaa80"\3" c '\3' handleCommandInput 1, buffer "" c '\4' handleCommandInput 2, buffer "" c '\4' after handleCommandInput, buffer 0x104ca8e40"\4" c '\4' ```

New comment by isaacvando in "Show HN: Chawan TUI web browser"

isaacvando — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 23:56:27 +0000

I tried it in Ghostty, iTerm2, and Terminal.app and they all behaved the same.

New comment by isaacvando in "Show HN: Chawan TUI web browser"

isaacvando — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 23:39:28 +0000

This is super cool! Bravo. Awesome to see it written in Nim too.

When I do `cha example.com` I can't figure out how to use any of the commands (hjkl, etc). The only keys I've found that have any effect are typing numbers which show up in the bottom left. Haven't figured out how to do anything with those. Am I missing something obvious about how to use this or could this be a bug?

I built from source on MacOS Sequoia 15.5 Apple Silicon using Nim 2.24. Pages load correctly, I just can't get the commands to work. Thanks!

New comment by isaacvando in "A faster way to copy SQLite databases between computers"

isaacvando — Thu, 01 May 2025 15:10:24 +0000

Nice!

New comment by isaacvando in "Typst 0.13 is out now"

isaacvando — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 19:16:07 +0000

Looks wonderful!

New comment by isaacvando in "Roc rewrites the compiler in Zig"

isaacvando — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 01:14:32 +0000

I believe the main reason is for achieving the best possible performance. Someone closer to the compiler could give more detail.

New comment by isaacvando in "Roc rewrites the compiler in Zig"

isaacvando — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 23:25:55 +0000

Not necessarily! Each Roc app runs on a particular platform which is built in a host language for a specific domain. That host language could be Rust, Zig, C, C++, Go, Swift, etc. It's possible the basic-webserver platform will be rewritten to Zig but it doesn't need to be.