Hacker News: joeblubaugh

New comment by joeblubaugh in "Sweet Jeebus, macOS 27 Golden Gate Removes the Dumb Icons from Menu Items"

joeblubaugh — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:49:36 +0000

Hardware timelines are long. I doubt they could have switched in less than three years regardless.

New comment by joeblubaugh in "How we run untrusted customer code at scale"

joeblubaugh — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 01:05:28 +0000

60 invocations / second across all tenants

New comment by joeblubaugh in "'No way to prevent this,' says only package manager where this regularly happens"

joeblubaugh — Mon, 18 May 2026 08:42:11 +0000

It’s hard to enforce on developer machines - there are lots of ways to install npm even if you never use it for managing development dependencies.

New comment by joeblubaugh in "'No way to prevent this,' says only package manager where this regularly happens"

joeblubaugh — Sat, 16 May 2026 02:32:26 +0000

There has been a lot of pain at my various jobs installing a safe global npm config on every developer machine, asking people not to disable it, checking it with mdm tools. A safer out-of-the-box configuration is long overdue.

New comment by joeblubaugh in "Show HN: Epiq – Distributed Git based issue tracker TUI"

joeblubaugh — Sat, 16 May 2026 02:30:06 +0000

It’s very slick, but I would be interested to know how separable the UI and the data layer are. I love vim but asking a collaborative group to all use a TUI is difficult. A local web server would be a nice alternative UI

New comment by joeblubaugh in "Live: Artemis II Launch Day Updates"

joeblubaugh — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:17:53 +0000

Good luck to the astronauts

https://idlewords.com/2026/03/artemis_ii_is_not_safe_to_fly....

New comment by joeblubaugh in "Java 26 is here"

joeblubaugh — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 23:42:02 +0000

In fact it was “the Java way” for many years and “useless getters” was always a big complaint about Java.

New comment by joeblubaugh in "The bureaucracy blocking the chance at a cure"

joeblubaugh — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 23:50:00 +0000

Barbara O’Neill promotes baking soda injections as a cancer cure and encourages people not to use antibiotics because she thinks they cause cancer. She’s a dimwit.

New comment by joeblubaugh in "Operational issue – Multiple services (UAE)"

joeblubaugh — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 03:03:46 +0000

This has recently been updated:

> Due to the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, both affected regions have experienced physical impacts to infrastructure as a result of drone strikes.

So they're confirming actual aggression