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New comment by josefrichter in "The asteroid currently hitting front end web development"

josefrichter — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 07:17:08 +0000

You can pivot to design systems. I believe they’re 80% development problem and just 20% design problem really.

The river of Apple's interface guidelines

josefrichter — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 20:23:50 +0000

Article URL: https://hig.josefrichter.design/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49514454

Points: 19

# Comments: 3

New comment by josefrichter in "Defrag98: Windows 98 Disk Defragmenter Simulator Online"

josefrichter — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 23:53:19 +0000

bill gates, I want my time back!

New comment by josefrichter in "Trump signs order to rename Lake Ontario as 'Lake America'"

josefrichter — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 11:11:06 +0000

Nobody really cares anymore, right? All this nonsense will be reversed the first day his successor steps into the Oval Office.

New comment by josefrichter in "France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls"

josefrichter — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 11:34:18 +0000

Surprised it’s not banned there yet. It’s banned in Czechia, so I was expecting it to be the same across the whole EU.

New comment by josefrichter in "World Train Map – 1247 train routes around the world"

josefrichter — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 07:08:42 +0000

Tracks in Czechia are mostly missing. It’s known as a country with the most dense railroad network in the world.

The "design engineer" role should go beyond front-end

josefrichter — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 13:38:50 +0000

Article URL: https://josefrichter.design/blog/design-engineer-password-input-validation

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49196515

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by josefrichter in "We finally learned to center a div, then browsers added sidebars"

josefrichter — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 23:14:32 +0000

Centering a div? Impossible.

New comment by josefrichter in "LLMs reward expertise"

josefrichter — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 08:57:30 +0000

LLMs are like fire: great servant, terrible master

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

josefrichter — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 08:54:34 +0000

Senior Design Engineer

Location: Czechia, EU

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Figma, Paper, Claude Design, Open Design, Elixir, Phoenix, LiveView, Hologram, BEAM, Node, TypeScript, React, Next.js, React Native, Swift, Swift UI, Ruby, some Rust, Go

Résumé/CV: https://josefrichter.design/cv

Email: josef.richter@me.com

Turns out "design engineer" is the new name for what I've been doing for 10+ years. Product/ux/ui design of complex Saas and mobile products. Full-stack development in Elixir, JS/TS, Swift,.. Shipped production apps, agent-ready/agent-first, mcps, apis, agents, loops..

See https://josefrichter.design/blog and https://github.com/josefrichter

Past: T-Mobile, Vodafone, Medable, Enaia, various fintech

New comment by josefrichter in "Show HN: Elevators"

josefrichter — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 14:36:41 +0000

Fabulous! I studied Air Traffic Management. Kinda like Lift Traffic Management, just with airplanes :-)

New comment by josefrichter in "I don't recommend Tailwind CSS"

josefrichter — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 12:11:18 +0000

Tailwind requires a certain mental shift. That typically comes on a project where you feel like "there needs to be a better way", then you read https://tailwindcss.com/docs/styling-with-utility-classes and feel like BINGO!

Using @apply totally KILLS Tailwind - that's the clearest tell that the author didn't have that moment yet. Hence the other arguments in the article that feel somewhat petty.

New comment by josefrichter in "Apple has decided to compete for creativity app users"

josefrichter — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 09:28:52 +0000

lol great thread

New comment by josefrichter in "Apple has decided to compete for creativity app users"

josefrichter — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:41:44 +0000

Side note to author: the web renders really bad on mobile

New comment by josefrichter in "Elixir-lang.org has a new design"

josefrichter — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 06:20:55 +0000

BEAM, the Elixir runtime, happens to be the perfect choice for agents and orchestration of multi-agent systems. I’ve written about it e.g. here https://josefrichter.design/blog/crowd

New comment by josefrichter in "Show HN: Hackney – Compare Uber, Lyft, Waymo, and Robotaxi Prices"

josefrichter — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 07:24:32 +0000

There’s an app called Obi that does exactly this.

https://rideobi.com/

It’s been around for years now. The great thing about it is it works worldwide - so if you come to a country and have no clue which company operates there, you just open Obi.

New comment by josefrichter in "Building and Shipping Mac and iOS Apps Without Ever Opening Xcode"

josefrichter — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:29:54 +0000

Wait, I am not aware that I've done ANY of those setup steps, yet I'm building iOS and macOS apps without XCode. Both Claude and Codex handle it just fine and didn't ask me for any setup steps.

New comment by josefrichter in "An agent in 100 lines of Lisp"

josefrichter — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 10:41:02 +0000

he's sharing an idea, not "text". text is just a medium.

New comment by josefrichter in "An agent in 100 lines of Lisp"

josefrichter — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 09:17:20 +0000

you can use LFE (Lisp flavored erlang) = lisp on BEAM runtime.

you get a snippet from LLM, compile it to module, and hot-load it into the running node. the module lives in the node's code table, so it persists and every other agent can call it. not just the one that wrote it.

the agents themselves are seaprate supervised processes, so if one crashes - e.g. because the snippet was crap, it doesn't take down whole system.

of course you can do that in just elixir too, the lisp is just cosmetics really.

New comment by josefrichter in "An agent in 100 lines of Lisp"

josefrichter — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 08:46:46 +0000

is that wrong though? you write all your code with AI already, but you still need to supervise and steer it. same with blog posts - as long as you steer it towards converying your point, it doesn't matter the text itself was written by AI rather than typed by you, does it?