Hacker News: jessyco

New comment by jessyco in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"

jessyco — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:42:59 +0000

In Canada you can't call yourself an engineer unless you have some kind of association behind it; the title holds meaning including partially accountability. Something that is lacking in the tech world. I'm not saying I want to live in that world but also I worked hard for the knowledge I have starting in the IE days of web dev; it was hard earned experience making things work across the web without loosing performance. The idea that we have developers out there now getting paid higher than me that are clueless on how auth works, how the browser works, why css and browsers maintain backwards comparability for a reason.. well it's sad; but good for them I guess?

The behaviours of developers as well being beholden to their managers rather than the craft; meaning not saying No we will not move forward without proper unit tests, or pushing back when business demands quick corner cutting solutions.

Anyway, decades of bitterness. I wish we had associations to uphold some level of accountability on developers as much as protect developers. I think things would be a lot more expensive and slow if we did that though.

Fundamentally I agree with your take, not just on dev side but just the web/dev/produce' a culture of not giving a shit.

New comment by jessyco in "Angular v22"

jessyco — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:03:29 +0000

You should try using it, using react is mad in 2026 for me.

New comment by jessyco in "Angular v22"

jessyco — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:57:21 +0000

I never understood the problem with the rxjs, its a challenge to learn for those not used to the pattern but its very nice.

Regardless signals is also fine, we have ways now to interop between rxjs to signal for those looking for it:

https://angular.dev/api/core/rxjs-interop/toSignal

Personally the http client workflow is fine. Usually lives in a service and exposes the needed values in any form we want.

New comment by jessyco in "Does anybody like React?"

jessyco — Tue, 26 May 2026 16:23:01 +0000

People may like it; I do not. But who cares?

New comment by jessyco in "Flipper One – we need your help"

jessyco — Fri, 22 May 2026 12:19:36 +0000

Well said, and handled.

New comment by jessyco in "Plex's 200% Lifetime Pass price hike tries forcing users to another subscription"

jessyco — Tue, 19 May 2026 23:59:49 +0000

Casting from ios is useful for me.

New comment by jessyco in "Canada Wants Digital Sovereignty. Bill C-22 Pulls the Other Way"

jessyco — Fri, 15 May 2026 18:19:53 +0000

I appreciate the way this information is brought up and the points being made. I feel it brings a context to the Bills conversation that's hard to touch on. It makes it easier to understand on a social/technical level that's challenging. It's easy to shrug off "loosing privacy is bad, but bad guys are bad too" argument.

New comment by jessyco in "Wearable polygraph detects hidden stress"

jessyco — Fri, 15 May 2026 18:07:19 +0000

Pedantic comment: There is no such thing as an Apple iWatch; they finally did it right and named a product without `i` in front. Just Apple Watch. My guess is the level of detail the "signals" can be seen is what matters. Apple Watch is good for some things but its not constant its only checking in from time to time to get a reading. Purpose built device probably has higher details (faster polling or something) than a small thing on your wrist.

New comment by jessyco in "Mickey Mouse is watching you: Disneyland deploys facial recognition"

jessyco — Thu, 07 May 2026 17:14:23 +0000

What if tickets where given with devices; the device would hold the hash value of the facial recognition and zero data would be stored outside of the device. have open 3rd party reviews of these processes and made public so we keep our world safe but without the bullshit excuse that "privacy has to be given up for security".

New comment by jessyco in "Some people can't see mental images"

jessyco — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 15:42:39 +0000

I believe you, It think I'm also the same; however for me at least, I feel like I can "think" of what something looks like. This is hard to explain since its very "personal" way its easier to say "i can see a square" nope I can't see anything but I can "think" of a square.

The whole imagine a ball in your mind. Now tell me what colour it is. No idea you tell me :D I can pretend and make up a color or go with what my gut tells me which is the most common color my brain was probably trained on.(red). but in reality I don't see any ball.

New comment by jessyco in "Tesla remotely deactivates rapper's vehicle for singing about the Cybertruck?"

jessyco — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 01:26:09 +0000

Hmm, chat not found.

New comment by jessyco in "Nothing to watch – Experimental gallery visualizing 50k film posters"

jessyco — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 11:06:51 +0000

I found the labeling "potato" "mid-range" and "High-End" very clear.

New comment by jessyco in "Show HN: I'm building an app to replace Overleaf and Notion"

jessyco — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 00:32:26 +0000

I'll 2nd this; Obsidian has a new core feature being beta tested called "base" it allows for filtering on properties and other attributes of notes into a table type view, allowing display and editing of those properties in the "base" view. This is a huge step forward for a lot of users wanting to make the jump off of Notion.

New comment by jessyco in "Pixar's Newest Movie, 'Elio', Is a Box-Office Dud"

jessyco — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 00:02:58 +0000

I never heard of the movie, haven't seen any advertisements (YouTube, Radio, friends).

New comment by jessyco in "Everything Is Down"

jessyco — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 19:08:27 +0000

Was noticing issues with npm install, now it makes sense..

New comment by jessyco in "Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses"

jessyco — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 15:43:35 +0000

I wish we could go back; A lot of googles UI/UX is based on the next billion users experiences. I'm unsure how much influence this has on a day to day design choices they make. My experience right now on a 1440p monitor is 5 visible videos, 2 video ads, a ton of tags that I can't turn off for finding videos.

There are a ton of great UI/UX choices they've done over the years too; I just wish we had more options as a users.

New comment by jessyco in "uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store"

jessyco — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 10:37:16 +0000

I've done this around the same time and agree. Now google is used as a service (Firebase for example). The only thing I haven't been able to effectively shake off is their Calendar. I know lots of other options are available the issue is connectivity with others.

New comment by jessyco in "Goku Flow Based Video Generative Foundation Models"

jessyco — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 15:40:52 +0000

and very high contrast / sharp.. interesting.

New comment by jessyco in "Ask HN: How Do You Bookmark?"

jessyco — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 23:32:36 +0000

I'll just leave this idea out there, but https://obsidian.md/ now allows for in app, opening of links, which lets you have your notes + apps all in one place. Depending on what you're doing that workflow can be a huge boost.

The "Web Viewer" was added in this release: https://obsidian.md/changelog/2024-12-18-desktop-v1.8.0/

New comment by jessyco in "I am rich and have no idea what to do"

jessyco — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 20:16:47 +0000

> No path out of this valley involves traveling alone.

Just wanted to let you know, for unknown reasons this statement really resonated with me, thank you.