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New comment by jamil7 in "Ask HN: Are cross-platform UI frameworks suitable for camera apps?"

jamil7 — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 18:27:13 +0000

They mostly help with centralising UI concerns. I’d imagine your camera app has less of that type of code and more code related to the respective camera APIs, which those frameworks don’t help much with. So I’d say no.

New comment by jamil7 in "The Nerd Reich – Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy"

jamil7 — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 11:20:27 +0000

It's cute but are there any actual nerds left in big tech leadership? Of the magnificent seven we basically only have Jensen Huang left as a technical leader and maybe you can count Zuckerberg.

New comment by jamil7 in "We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed bugs"

jamil7 — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 17:05:03 +0000

Yes, it's a leadership failure and probably time to go, it only gets worse. In my experience. It's a vicious cycle where, as velocity slows, inexperienced leadership gets more and more panicked and starts frantically rearranging projects, features and people in desperate attempts to fix the problem, obviously exacerbating the communication breakdown and gridlock further. It also builds resentment and can turn pretty toxic as everyone starts just looking out for themselves.

New comment by jamil7 in "Nano Banana Pro"

jamil7 — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:33:42 +0000

Yeah I think they all shed under heavy load as part of some scaling strategy.

New comment by jamil7 in "The surprising benefits of giving up"

jamil7 — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 09:06:02 +0000

In most trading advice, cutting loses as soon as possible and as emotionlessly as possible is emphasised heavily. It's also physiologically one of the hardest parts for people to do consistently.

New comment by jamil7 in "A modern 35mm film scanner for home"

jamil7 — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 12:43:29 +0000

I don't shoot 120, only 35mm. But I thought you could get away with a high end flatbed scanner for 120 negatives?

New comment by jamil7 in "Show HN: I built a local-first daily planner for iOS"

jamil7 — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 13:22:48 +0000

In general it's a bit of a closed box, it's not that easy to work with and to me felt unreliable and difficult to debug. Running migrations can be easily forgotten and this needs to be done in the dashboard as far as I remember. There aren't official APIs to check certain things like if the user has quota, what to do when the quota is full, how to communicate that etc. I think you may be able to check if it's enabled though. Another one is its not cross platform in any meaningful way, I thought this would be fine initially but as the app I worked on developed it was clear a web or Android version would be nice to add without being tied to an Apple account. I ultimately removed it and wrote my own optional sync layer with my own auth and no one seemed to mind. This thread might be useful https://mastodon.social/@marcoarment/109540935902363728

Most of those things can probably be worked around and might not be applicable to your app but for me it went to the bucket of technologies not to touch again.

New comment by jamil7 in "Show HN: I built a local-first daily planner for iOS"

jamil7 — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 12:28:36 +0000

The developer fee is a business expense for anyone publishing software as an entity on the App Store. This is the same as any other expense someone might require for their profession, it doesn't have anything to do with their financial security.

New comment by jamil7 in "Show HN: I built a local-first daily planner for iOS"

jamil7 — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 12:20:05 +0000

Just a heads up from someone who's gone down iCloud sync path before. Make sure you're aware of the tradeoffs before relying on it for your app. It has a lot of downsides that aren't immediately obvious due to it relying on the user's iCloud storage quota. Many user's don't understand this and will leave 1 star reviews etc.

New comment by jamil7 in "AI workslop is driving me insane"

jamil7 — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 05:30:22 +0000

Had a coworker paste an error log from a repo I maintain in Slack with an LLM summary of the log, three dot points which were written quite clearly in the log if he’d bothered to read it.

New comment by jamil7 in "Esports scholarship at Deutsche Bahn (German railways)"

jamil7 — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 13:08:47 +0000

There's no incentive for them to do so, so they won't.

New comment by jamil7 in "I am a programmer, not a rubber-stamp that approves Copilot generated code"

jamil7 — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 08:39:17 +0000

There's a lot to unpack here but to me your comment sort of contradicts itself. You're saying these things are in their infancy and therefore not able to produce code at the standard of a skilled software engineer. But you also seem to have an axe to grind against code review, which is fine but wouldn't that mean code review is even more important? At least right now? Which is kind of the point of the article.

New comment by jamil7 in "I am a programmer, not a rubber-stamp that approves Copilot generated code"

jamil7 — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 08:29:21 +0000

You can do over 100k if you freelance but it's risky to be a freelancer in a lot of ways in Germany. Salaries in Berlin and Munich are approaching 100k or over for leadership roles. The problem is COL in both cities is high and Berlin you basically can't get a flat anymore even if you can pay the rent on it.

New comment by jamil7 in "Death rates rose in hospital ERs after private equity firms took over"

jamil7 — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 14:53:49 +0000

> (e.g. marketing radium water to cure what ails ya)?

Sounds like something the current US health secretary might actually like.

New comment by jamil7 in "API, Claude.ai, and Console services impacted [resolved]"

jamil7 — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 20:57:52 +0000

Yeah, also the CI queues start to get longer towards the end of the EU day as the Americans start their day.

New comment by jamil7 in "Microsoft doubles down on small modular reactors and fusion energy"

jamil7 — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 09:48:01 +0000

The problem of meeting demand is in industrial use and residential heating, both of which aren’t typically electrified in Germany. The problem has more to do with an active war and an industrial sector built on cheap Russian gas.

New comment by jamil7 in "Look Out for Bugs"

jamil7 — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 12:46:03 +0000

I also do this quite a lot but pair it with an automated test to repeatedly trigger the breakpoint with different values and round out the tests and code accordingly.

New comment by jamil7 in "How can I deal with a team member who is always complaining?"

jamil7 — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 11:48:55 +0000

> A good way to partition the complainers into serious and unserious groups is to ask for a written plan

This can be good but I've seen it weaponized before by an incompetent cto to deflect and delay any change. He would ask for written proposals on the most minute details until people just gave up trying to fix anything.

New comment by jamil7 in "Serverless Horrors"

jamil7 — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 13:56:32 +0000

Don’t most of these services have config options to protect against doing this? I haven’t used most of these services but it running up a bill during traffic spikes but not going down seems like it’s working as intended?

New comment by jamil7 in "CocoaPods trunk read-only plan"

jamil7 — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 14:50:31 +0000

> xCode with built-in live rebuild preview simulator

You couldn't have picked a slower, more buggy, opaque feature to highlight here. Its useful for UI work when it works properly but I feel like I have to mentally prepare myself everytime I switch the canvas on to avoid throwing the computer out the window.

I'll agree on Xcode Cloud though, integrated CI, signing and TestFlight builds with minimal hassle is very nice.