Hacker News: jackdh

New comment by jackdh in "Vite+ Beta"

jackdh — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 14:10:04 +0000

I've followed all the main migrations and I've say they where really quite smooth, can't remember having any major issues and each time it tended to be worth it.

New comment by jackdh in "[dead]"

jackdh — Wed, 06 May 2026 09:06:14 +0000

What's the context here?

Edit: https://xint.io/blog/copy-fail-linux-distributions

New comment by jackdh in "Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others"

jackdh — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:08:25 +0000

I was always roughly of the mind that Backblaze was just too close to the "If it's too good to be true it probably is", seems like that may have been a good decision.

New comment by jackdh in "Apple Business"

jackdh — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:48:25 +0000

Depending on how you define "new" but there are certainly examples of this, Spotify is the first to come to mind, AWS could be another.

New comment by jackdh in "There's a ridiculous amount of tech in a disposable vape"

jackdh — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 12:35:01 +0000

Hardly, they banned fully disposable. You can still by them but now you can swap in a refill cartridge. The price of this refillable one is the same as the original.

Many places apparently don't even sell the refills so it's practically the same.

New comment by jackdh in "Show HN: WalletWallet – create Apple passes from anything"

jackdh — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 16:46:00 +0000

Unlikely, I've used apps similar to this such as passbook [0] for a while now and they're still up.

[0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/passbook-wallet-pass-creator/i...

New comment by jackdh in "Oil Tanker U.S. Seized Has Faked Its Location Before, Data Shows"

jackdh — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 09:14:51 +0000

https://archive.is/loovh

New comment by jackdh in "Viral 'Free Potatoes' Post Cost This Farmer 150 Tons of Crops"

jackdh — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 17:16:16 +0000

Sounds like a nice way for someone to get a free fence.

New comment by jackdh in "CSS's problems are Tailwind's problems"

jackdh — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 16:44:39 +0000

My point is that there is no one CSS library to rule them all and likely never will be. The closest to that is going back to pure raw CSS which I highly doubt people will do.

And yes while it's obviously not ideal to have a hundred competing libraries in your code, you can create what works for you / your team.

New comment by jackdh in "Tailwind Is the Worst of All Worlds"

jackdh — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 16:25:38 +0000

I used to be a naysayer of tailwind. However after getting practically forced into it I'm now drinking the koolaid. Yes things like having to duplicate styles using multi cursor is kind of silly, however for the vast majority of the time, having the styles written clearly each time, for me, makes it worth it.

There is also nothing stopping you mixing and matching.

New comment by jackdh in "OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive"

jackdh — Thu, 22 May 2025 14:12:11 +0000

Yes that worked so well the last time ha.

New comment by jackdh in "No GPS required: our app can now locate underground trains"

jackdh — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 11:13:35 +0000

There is a very good set of podcasts[0] by Cautionary Tales about the German V2 rockets in WW2 which tried to use this. It was so hard the Allies allowed them to continue wasting money on it during the war. Well worth a listen to if you're into that.

[0] https://timharford.com/2023/07/cautionary-tales-the-v2-trilo...

New comment by jackdh in "American WWII bomb explodes at Japanese airport, causing large crater in taxiway"

jackdh — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 16:52:54 +0000

Ha, that is definitely not type of abandoned that I was expecting. That poor chap who was killed, what an incredibly unlucky event for him.

New comment by jackdh in "Dell XPS13 RAM Upgrade"

jackdh — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 12:28:50 +0000

Unless you're with Apple, in which case a solid 8GB should be enough for the next decade or so! /s

New comment by jackdh in "Leaving my last job [at Apple]"

jackdh — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 12:52:40 +0000

It hadn't even occurred to me that working on OSS outside of work hours on your own equipment might be against policy and get you fired.

Is this perhaps only a US thing? I've never heard of that in the UK / Europe.

New comment by jackdh in "Ask HN: My son might be blind – how to best support"

jackdh — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 12:47:23 +0000

That is incredible to read. It's one of the things which makes you stop thinking about all the awful things in the world and realise just how incredible modern science and medicine is.

New comment by jackdh in "North Korean Spies Are Infiltrating U.S. Companies Through Remote IT Jobs"

jackdh — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 12:31:50 +0000

Without paywall

https://archive.is/20240905102136/https://www.wsj.com/tech/n...

New comment by jackdh in "2024 Stack Overflow Developer Survey"

jackdh — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 15:28:20 +0000

Interesting to note that almost all of the salaries from 2023 - 2024 dropped by quite a substantial amount.

New comment by jackdh in "Micromouse"

jackdh — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 12:44:46 +0000

Give it ago, for as little as £20[0] you can get a Raspberry pit kit which would let you build something similar to a micro mouse, ( I'm not sure if the actually raspberry pi is included/required.)

[0] https://thepihut.com/products/camjam-edukit-3-robotics

New comment by jackdh in "310-mile automated cargo conveyor will replace 25,000 trucks in Japan"

jackdh — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 11:59:18 +0000

Hey, this worked for me in Factorio (trains instead), I'm sure it could work here as well!