Hacker News: jayroh

New comment by jayroh in "EDE: Small and Fast Desktop Environment (2014)"

jayroh — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 16:56:13 +0000

If anyone wants some screenshots: https://edeproject.org/page/screenshots

New comment by jayroh in "Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year"

jayroh — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 16:08:30 +0000

So you know - campfire is now open source.

https://x.com/dhh/status/1963675999012552970

New comment by jayroh in "Waymo the Leapfrog"

jayroh — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 22:26:18 +0000

If Waymo could operate in downtown Boston? Safely, reliably? Then, at that point, color me impressed!

New comment by jayroh in "Reorient GitHub pull requests around changesets"

jayroh — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 14:20:47 +0000

Convention and culture. Hence - I wish that I could.

New comment by jayroh in "Reorient GitHub pull requests around changesets"

jayroh — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 00:30:04 +0000

Question: does CodeApprove place related files in closer proximity during review? I would _love_ to have a class and its test next to each other instead of sorted alphabetically. I'm tired of jumping around all over the place, trying to traverse through my review thought process.

New comment by jayroh in "Goodbye, Ozempic"

jayroh — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 21:34:48 +0000

I see you. I see you 100%

New comment by jayroh in "Goodbye, Ozempic"

jayroh — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 21:33:12 +0000

Yes, and …

“Calories in” is half. “Calories out” (the amount you burn) is the other half.

Having been on the “nothing but diet” train for long windows of my life I can confidently say that if you don’t pair the former and latter, you’ll end up in the yo-yo cycle. Over and over again. Took a long time for me to understand that and I STILL struggle.

New comment by jayroh in "Now on the menu at Toast: A new 99 cent fee"

jayroh — Sat, 24 Jun 2023 15:37:23 +0000

Call? On the phone?

Haha, nah man. That ain’t it.

Sorry for the tone of my reply but - no. People use toast because it’s convenient and no humans are involved.

New comment by jayroh in "Reddit Doubles Down"

jayroh — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 01:26:10 +0000

The simple answer is "yes". Many many many people use Reddit through native apps and not the website.

New comment by jayroh in "Growing from engineer to manager"

jayroh — Sun, 11 Jun 2023 21:32:25 +0000

Point well made.

New comment by jayroh in "Growing from engineer to manager"

jayroh — Sun, 11 Jun 2023 21:31:51 +0000

I think it’s perfectly reasonable to say that many people get into management for the money. My thought is that the motivation, the incentive, is wrong.

I’ve had too many shitty managers in my career to think I’d put other people through similar experiences. So, my switch into management was motivated by, hopefully, making the experiences on my team positive ones

New comment by jayroh in "Growing from engineer to manager"

jayroh — Sun, 11 Jun 2023 18:13:41 +0000

> If you want money, do management.

If you make it to my comment, please - do not go into management for the money. If you want to build, then remain an IC. If you want to grow other engineers, further THEIR career, make THEM better - go into management.

The friends of mine who ended up in management for the money and complain about their reports make me so angry.

New comment by jayroh in "Ask HN: How do you not take criticism of your work personally?"

jayroh — Thu, 25 May 2023 14:52:23 +0000

I find this to be an incredibly well-balanced and mature measure of one's self. You should be proud that you were able to reach this level of self-reflection and clarity. Many people never get there, so kudos to you.

New comment by jayroh in "The Best Pens for 2023: Gel, Ballpoint, Rollerball, and Fountain Pens"

jayroh — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 21:50:14 +0000

If anyone from JetPens is reading this(?) - would love to hear about the effects of this article ending up on HN today.

Why? Because I'm about to drop ~$40 on pens as a result of the post, and discussion here.

Echoing other people's sentiments here - love the site, love the density, love the niche'ness, love the information.

New comment by jayroh in "Transmission v4.0"

jayroh — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 21:59:09 +0000

Prrrrrretty sure it's the same thing they were using torrents for 10 years ago.

New comment by jayroh in "GitHub-Next"

jayroh — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 16:56:04 +0000

No problem! :)

Glad to help

New comment by jayroh in "GitHub-Next"

jayroh — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 14:20:19 +0000

If anyone on the team at GitHub who built this site sees this --

Heads up, that page has no `` tag so the browser tab is `githubnext.com/`. That is a _VERY_ minor nit, but still an SEO ding (you're github, that doesn't matter much), and a rough edge that could be buffed out.<p>Bonus points for adding a favicon too. :)</p> </article> <article> <h1>New comment by jayroh in "How to advertise to developers: deep dive into paid developer marketing"</h1> <p>jayroh — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 22:50:24 +0000</p> <p>Effective! Seriously!</p> </article> <article> <h1>New comment by jayroh in "How to advertise to developers: deep dive into paid developer marketing"</h1> <p>jayroh — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 14:27:04 +0000</p> <p>Apologies for grammar-police'ing here but ...<p>> Advertising to developers with feels like asking for trouble.<p>~with~. "Advertising to developers feels like asking for trouble."<p>Looking forward to reading the rest of this :)</p> </article> <article> <h1>New comment by jayroh in "Even your boss wants to quit"</h1> <p>jayroh — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 15:32:13 +0000</p> <p>It's funny how fast and profoundly "perspective" will hit you. When I was a young programmer I always dreamed of that promotion and comp adjustment. Constantly looking for that next step. That's not inherently bad, per se, but once you reach a particular place you come to find out what the commensurate responsibility looks like. Sometimes -- dare I say, often? -- it's just not fun. That's what they pay you for, though, right?<p>The friends and colleagues in my cohort, the ones NOW with larger financial and familial responsibilities, curse their former selves for not knowing how good they had it.<p>I guess all that is to say, as cliche as it is, "be careful what you wish for".</p> </article> </main></body></html>