Hacker News: jnpnj

New comment by jnpnj in "Antigravity 2.0"

jnpnj — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 19:01:56 +0000

When NLP is the interface the natural reflex is to cut the visual interface.

New comment by jnpnj in "GNU Hurd News 2026-Q2"

jnpnj — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 19:00:44 +0000

It seems Samuel Thibault is still there, sweet.

ps: some slides from earlier this year https://fosdem.org/2026/events/attachments/7FZXHF-updates_on...

full vid here https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/7FZXHF-updates_on_gnu...

Prolog for Veriﬁcation, Analysis and Transformation Tools Michael Leuschel [pdf]

jnpnj — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 11:46:31 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.02933

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49167271

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by jnpnj in "Twenty Years of Pandoc"

jnpnj — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 11:25:30 +0000

> "The choice of Haskell has also led to a high quality and low volume of contributors"

I find this mindset very refreshing in the era of availability often implying noise over signal.

New comment by jnpnj in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)"

jnpnj — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 11:23:59 +0000

    Location: Paris, FR
    Remote: full remote
    Willing to relocate: no
    Technologies: Python, Typescript, Lisps, React, Django, FastAPI, Postgresql, Gitlab/ci, Docker
    Résumé/CV: https://registry.jsonresume.org/jnpn?theme=elegant (github https://github.com/jnpn)
    Email: johan.ponin.pro@gmail.com
    Schedule: Part-time (10/20h per week)

Senior Fullstack Developer | 12+ Years | Seeking Long-Term Collaboration as Freelance

Currently employed but looking to build relationships with teams that value craftsmanship and velocity. I'm offering competitive rates ($70-90/hr) prioritizing team culture and interesting problems over maximizing income. I also enjoy procedural repetitive testing, so QA could do too (lower rates apply)

Summary:

- 12+ years shipping production code

- Dev tooling expertise (recently: custom Babel AST analyzers for faster debugging)

- Proactive problem-solver who likes to improve processes

Ideal projects:

- Teams with strong engineering culture who build ambitious things cleanly and fast

- Greenfield development or systematic refactoring

- Bonus: Highly formal/industrial model-driven environments and FP/Logic Programming environments (Clojure, Haskell, Prolog)

New comment by jnpnj in "StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time"

jnpnj — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 17:06:31 +0000

Fair point, I wasn't thinking about making everybody a civil engineer but you can clean some walkway, fix a simple bolt, a bench. that sort of thing.

New comment by jnpnj in "StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time"

jnpnj — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 20:29:41 +0000

ah yeah pretty common and pretty annoying.. either they had to avoid false issues or maybe there was a regulation forcing the use of a more beefy system (or maybe someone thought it's "better" to use the latest shiny thing)

New comment by jnpnj in "StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time"

jnpnj — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 20:27:23 +0000

That is true, that said reporting is not the same (imo) as having a global map of problems and proposals to fix some of them. To me it's a lot more engaging (again, imo) as you see the distance to a goal.

New comment by jnpnj in "StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time"

jnpnj — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:23:49 +0000

Are there other similar apps to stimulate soft "crowdfixing" ? I'm sure there are plenty of other aspect of society that would benefit from a light way to know where someone can contribute or notify so other can fix things (forest dumps, random trash). Homeostatic apps to ensure our surroundings are close to a good state :]

New comment by jnpnj in "Introduction to Genomics for Engineers"

jnpnj — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 19:53:40 +0000

What was your reading list ? I plan to add more medical / genomic knowledge to my skillset.

New comment by jnpnj in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)"

jnpnj — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 19:29:33 +0000

    Location: Paris, FR
    Remote: full remote
    Willing to relocate: no
    Technologies: Python, Typescript, Lisps, React, Django, FastAPI, Postgresql, Gitlab/ci, Docker
    Résumé/CV: https://registry.jsonresume.org/jnpn?theme=elegant (github https://github.com/jnpn)
    Email: johan.ponin.pro@gmail.com
    Schedule: Part-time (10/20h per week)

Senior Fullstack Developer | 12+ Years | Seeking Long-Term Collaboration as Freelance

Summary:

- 12+ years shipping production code

- Dev tooling expertise (recently: custom Babel AST analyzers for faster debugging)

- Proactive problem-solver who likes to improve processes

Ideal projects:

- Teams with strong engineering culture who build ambitious things cleanly and fast

- Greenfield development or systematic refactoring

- Bonus: Highly formal/industrial model-driven environments and FP/Logic Programming environments (Clojure, Haskell, Prolog)

New comment by jnpnj in "Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools"

jnpnj — Tue, 12 May 2026 17:13:18 +0000

Corporate emails asking why are you not using the paid plan ??? came very very rapidly. So naturally, everybody started to use it blindly so that the dashboard metrics are all high.

It's astonishing how society forgets.

New comment by jnpnj in "Programming Still Sucks"

jnpnj — Sat, 09 May 2026 13:36:16 +0000

I ask myself the same questions. And I see other people discussing this on HN or other websites (old video games culture for instance).

I too feel that the computing aesthetic has vanished, somehow on purpose, a lot of efforts were aimed at making gpus and browser able to emulate anything (magazine, movies), so that's what apps do.

And I also agree about the balance between the tool and user. Limitations forced UIs to be organized, structured in some simple ways, they would do enough work to do some of the work, but the rest was on you to grasp the abstractions and ideas around. The software became something to immerse yourself in to gain more. That was part of the magic.

New comment by jnpnj in "Programming Still Sucks"

jnpnj — Fri, 08 May 2026 12:32:31 +0000

Hehe yeah we all have our own tastes based on time. But I'm also interested about the perception of computers. I too was enamoured with the creative possibilities of it. But nowadays I see a detrimental trend in how aesthetics are born on computers. The cleanliness, the recurrent patterns. A lot of pre-computing visuals were really different, none of it would qualify as nice today, but it was seen a cute before, and I kind of miss the less structured, less obvious, less shiny approach. It was also material, a different game, with constraints about possible colours, shape and precision you know. It also distracts us too much and creates real mind issues (I struggle with strange behaviors when browsing, near no attention-span etc)

So now I rebalance things and put computers in a smaller niche, not the centre of gravity.

New comment by jnpnj in "Programming Still Sucks"

jnpnj — Thu, 07 May 2026 11:11:45 +0000

Could you tell us more about your grandma point of view (if she ever told you more of course).

With age I'm becoming jaded with computing, not personal computers per se, but the overwhelming space taken by them now (especially due to cheap networking I guess).

New comment by jnpnj in "IBM didn't want Microsoft to use the Tab key to move between dialog fields"

jnpnj — Wed, 06 May 2026 17:22:52 +0000

Not really, I knew it was radically strange in its philosophy.

New comment by jnpnj in "IBM didn't want Microsoft to use the Tab key to move between dialog fields"

jnpnj — Tue, 05 May 2026 20:21:45 +0000

I find admirable how every era was filled with fights on just about every detail. Keys included, layout, shape, meaning. And now nobody pays attention that any of this at all. Very strange and funny at the same time.

New comment by jnpnj in "Agent Skills"

jnpnj — Tue, 05 May 2026 11:42:20 +0000

it's strange to see software engineers using skills aka human description of small scripts instead of scripting things directly. often there were cli / tools / libraries to do what a skill does for many years. maybe it's culture issue, people who enjoy automation / devops / predictability will naturally help themselves, but other people just want to "delegate" and be done without trying.

New comment by jnpnj in "Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML"

jnpnj — Sun, 03 May 2026 11:39:08 +0000

looks like an informal DSL for specs that brings back some quantifiable structure, how many people follow the same ?

also, i wonder if people who did MDD (model driven development) have embedded AI in their methodology

New comment by jnpnj in "Dotcl: Common Lisp Implementation on .NET"

jnpnj — Sat, 02 May 2026 13:51:01 +0000

hehe. alternatively dotnil would have sounded closer to dotnet while hinting at lisp terminology and history