Hacker News: joao

New comment by joao in "Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work"

joao — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 22:33:13 +0000

Congratulations! From time to time I visit your website and consider applying when between jobs but never did. Might try this year :)

New comment by joao in "OS9Map"

joao — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 18:57:31 +0000

Laptop wise: it's a PowerBook G4 1Ghz 15', Titanium model. Desktop: PowerMac G4 Tower, MDD version.

New comment by joao in "The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen"

joao — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:54:09 +0000

I'm among the first 6000 users of Instagram and my first name username was stolen a few years ago. Support for verified accounts acknowledged the issue, but couldn't do anything about it.

This turn was an AI exploit, in my case was an outsourcing support 'exploit', where someone paid for my username to be manually changed and given to another user. There will always be a way to get access to accounts if human accountable support doesn't exist, with criminal consequences for employees that violate it.

New comment by joao in "Download responsibly"

joao — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 09:26:06 +0000

At a previous job, I was downloading daily legal torrent data when IT flagged me. The IT admin, eager to catch me doing something wrong, burst into the room shouting with management in tow. I had to calmly explain the situation, as management assumed all torrenting was illegal and there had been previous legal issues with an intern pirating movies. Fortunately, other colleagues backed me up.

New comment by joao in "macOS Tahoe is certified Unix 03 [pdf]"

joao — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 12:48:04 +0000

Reminded of the origin story of making Mac OS X Unix certified: https://www.quora.com/What-goes-into-making-an-OS-to-be-Unix...

New comment by joao in "Show HN: Base, an SQLite database editor for macOS"

joao — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 22:40:41 +0000

Understood, thank you!

New comment by joao in "Show HN: Base, an SQLite database editor for macOS"

joao — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 19:50:41 +0000

Customer here, from previous versions. Could you expand on the reasoning of not offering an upgrade price? Is it just to messy nowadays on the technical side, especially with the Mac App Store?

Will be upgrading in the future, congratulations on the launch!

When a Bug Saved the Company

joao — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 15:09:02 +0000

Article URL: https://weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2025/08/21/when-a-bug-saved-the-company/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44973753

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

The Scaling Era

joao — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 22:36:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.stripe.press/scaling

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43441475

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by joao in "Launch HN: Resend (YC W23) – Email API for developers using React"

joao — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 14:57:24 +0000

Resend is, or at least at launch was, using SES as their email provider.

New comment by joao in "Migrating from AWS to Fly.io"

joao — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 02:36:22 +0000

Would love this also.

The best option I could find was using Digital Ocean Managed Databases. The cheapest costs $15, but you can host multiple databases with good insights and backups. You can choose where you host it, and place it close to the region where youre Fly.io apps are, with low latency.

Only caveat is there isn't an easy way to automatically update the IPs whitelist of the database, to support the Fly builder and deployed app(s).

New comment by joao in "I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard"

joao — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 14:42:43 +0000

This requirement is weird. Not everyone upgrades to the latest macOS version and lots of people still prefer to run macOS 10.x.

New comment by joao in "DALL·E 2 and The Origin of Vibe Shifts"

joao — Sat, 23 Apr 2022 13:45:51 +0000

This change was more due to the iOS 7 flat redesign, than to what the author proposes.

A design trend, where it became fashionable to have a flat design supported by illustration/iconography, further away from skeumorphism, which photography was more close to.

New comment by joao in "Apple announces 27-inch 5K Studio Display"

joao — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 19:31:59 +0000

Fine print: only compatible with macOS Monterey 12.3 or later.

Perhaps only spatial audio and some camera features won't be compatible with older macOS versions. Waiting for the first reviews.

New comment by joao in "Migrating from Netlify to Cloudflare Workers Sites for 2x Performance (2020)"

joao — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 12:08:34 +0000

One of the few grips I have with the more recent Cloudflare Pages is that the build times sometimes are 10x slower than Netlify.

If you need to perform a fast update or rollback, it does take its time.

Why doesn’t “Look Around” cover more areas?

joao — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 23:21:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.justinobeirne.com/look-around

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26083873

Points: 89

# Comments: 40

New comment by joao in "Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?"

joao — Sat, 08 Dec 2018 13:56:38 +0000

Macromedia/Adobe Director

Apple's New Map

joao — Thu, 01 Nov 2018 22:06:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.justinobeirne.com/new-apple-maps

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18358902

Points: 1250

# Comments: 365

New comment by joao in "“Designed by Apple in California” chronicles 20 years of Apple design"

joao — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 15:39:49 +0000

A video trailer for the book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkskY9bL9Bk

New comment by joao in "A Review of the Amazon Books Store"

joao — Wed, 10 Feb 2016 16:41:01 +0000

bookdepository.com is also owned by Amazon, since 2011. It's hard to escape their grasp on the market.