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New comment by johannessjoberg in "Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated"

johannessjoberg — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 04:19:48 +0000

It sounds great man! Thanks for sharing both the story and the album.

New comment by johannessjoberg in "Do the simplest thing that could possibly work"

johannessjoberg — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 07:03:27 +0000

“Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.”

― Dijkstra

New comment by johannessjoberg in "We are destroying software"

johannessjoberg — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 19:52:31 +0000

> We are destroying software trying to produce code as fast as possible, not as well designed as possible.

Legacy systems are born from rushing into implementation to feel productive rather than understanding the problem. Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast.

New comment by johannessjoberg in "Why pay for a search engine"

johannessjoberg — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 04:42:30 +0000

I can highly recommend switching to kagi. Happy paying customer here.

Could a Giant Parasol in Outer Space Help Solve the Climate Crisis?

johannessjoberg — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 17:07:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/02/climate/sun-shade-climate-geoengineering.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39263553

Points: 2

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New comment by johannessjoberg in "Culture Change at Google"

johannessjoberg — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 07:38:45 +0000

Fastmail is great and worth the small cost imo

New comment by johannessjoberg in "What Do We Owe Our Teams?"

johannessjoberg — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 22:05:30 +0000

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New comment by johannessjoberg in "Installed electron / react, it has 1861 dependencies. This is a problem"

johannessjoberg — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 14:42:52 +0000

It's also a matter of choice when consuming libraries like expressjs, which the linked article referes to.

For example, hapi (https://hapi.dev/), a feature comparable web server framework to express, has zero external dependecies.

There are a lot of responsible maintainers of great packages in the node community which keep dependencies to a minimum. It's up to the consumers to use and value them, not just default to the likes of express.