<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: jrickert</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jrickert</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 14:17:19 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=jrickert" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jrickert in "Claude for Small Business"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’ve given it access to my small business books for the last few months (attended sessions only) and so far it’s helped me clean up countless errors made by humans, at the expense of a small handful of duplicated transactions that got shaken out pretty quickly.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 07:44:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48132290</link><dc:creator>jrickert</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48132290</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48132290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jrickert in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’ll admit this article was enough to convince me to port one of my CLI tools from Python to Rust last night and I got a 30x performance gain with a binary 20% of the size. Not bad!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 17:59:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48111854</link><dc:creator>jrickert</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48111854</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48111854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jrickert in "Blender releases their Oscar winning version tool"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’ve been using Blender for 20 years and it’s been amazing to see how far it’s come.<p>Sadly, the writing is on the wall for my trusty Hackintosh since they recently decided to drop support for AMD GPU acceleration on macOS.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2025 08:13:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43491373</link><dc:creator>jrickert</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43491373</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43491373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jrickert in "DaVinci Resolve for iPad"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah, a USB-C hub should do it. Also some cameras record directly to USB-C drives.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2022 16:20:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33289738</link><dc:creator>jrickert</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33289738</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33289738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jrickert in "Ask HN: Anyone into Music Production?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Lifelong musician, originally went to school back in 2009 for media arts with an emphasis on sound engineering.<p>It isn't my only source of income, but I've been diligent about growing it as a business and am starting to see some payoff.<p>I primarily work in Ableton Live. It's not only the most inspiring DAW that I know, but it is a fantastic performance tool as well.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2022 00:28:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30892984</link><dc:creator>jrickert</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30892984</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30892984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jrickert in "How L.A. Got Hooked on Adderall"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Intriguingly, ADHD is correlated with crime as well. Some studies would estimate that it's 4-10x (or more) as prevalent in prison populations as in the general population.[1][2]<p>We could conclude that a lot of people are self-medicating without realizing it.<p>[1](<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/dec/27/adhd-prisons-mental-health-crime" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/dec/27/adhd-prisons-ment...</a>)
[2](<a href="https://adultaddstrengths.com/2011/01/12/adhd-and-crime-ignore-now-jail-later-15-clinical-studies/" rel="nofollow">https://adultaddstrengths.com/2011/01/12/adhd-and-crime-igno...</a>)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 02 Apr 2022 16:05:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30889216</link><dc:creator>jrickert</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30889216</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30889216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jrickert in "But down in the underground, you’ll find someone true"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Growing up in the Midwest, these were a Halloween staple.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2021 06:50:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28453905</link><dc:creator>jrickert</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28453905</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28453905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jrickert in "Simple test reveals if your mental images are more vivid than other people's"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I had episodes like this when I was younger. And had them flare up when I was taking Buspirone for anxiety as an adult. They'd last about 10-20 minutes and I always described them as "pure chaos of the internal geometric space."<p>Never did find any kind of label for the symptoms. I kept a journal of the episodes for a while. They seemed to come up monthly when I was around 16.<p>At the very least it's validating to encounter others who had had similar experiences.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2021 04:07:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27671656</link><dc:creator>jrickert</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27671656</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27671656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jrickert in "On Depression and Founders"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That all makes a lot of sense. I wonder if those issues could be alleviated by contracting a sufficiently large outside firm to manage therapy services, thus at least creating some separation and objectivity for individual therapists.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2021 07:07:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27548063</link><dc:creator>jrickert</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27548063</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27548063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jrickert in "The collapse of the IRON stable coin"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This brings to mind Poe's Law (that on the Internet, any sufficiently advanced satire is indistinguishable from reality), so I would think not.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2021 15:19:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27540541</link><dc:creator>jrickert</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27540541</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27540541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jrickert in "Can you make a basic web app without Googling? I can’t"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When I run a technical interview for a dev role, I make a point to ask the candidate to Google their way to a solution since I figure that's probably one of the top skills they'll need on the job.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2021 06:48:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25966867</link><dc:creator>jrickert</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25966867</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25966867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jrickert in "Robinhood Said to Get 40% Revenue from HFT Firms Like Citadel (2018)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, Vanguard supports individual stocks with no trading fees.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2021 20:21:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25948477</link><dc:creator>jrickert</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25948477</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25948477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jrickert in "Why webcams aren’t good enough"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you haven't, try going into your video settings on Zoom and selecting "Enable HD". This solution has fixed the aspect ratio problem you're describing for my company's customers in almost every case.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2021 17:58:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25874182</link><dc:creator>jrickert</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25874182</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25874182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jrickert in "Ask HN: How/Where do you store/backup your photos safely?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I let my social photos and snapshots on my phone auto-upload to Google Photos.<p>Lightroom CC automatically ingests any raw images I take on my phone. I sort and archive those on Lightroom Classic later.<p>My Lightroom photo library mostly lives on my Synology NAS. This gets backed up to Wasabi using their Hyper Backup utility.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2021 17:08:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25764905</link><dc:creator>jrickert</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25764905</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25764905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jrickert in "Unity vs. Unreal Engine: Which Is Better for XR Development"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They don't take pull requests, but Unity has at least had their source code published for reference for a while.<p><a href="https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/UnityCsReference" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/UnityCsReference</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Dec 2019 23:42:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21830672</link><dc:creator>jrickert</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21830672</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21830672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jrickert in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2019)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The Dictionary Project | Full Stack Web Developer, IT Administrator | Charlestone, SC | Full-time, ONSITE<p>The Dictionary Project is a 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to assist all students in becoming good writers, active readers, creative thinkers, and resourceful learners by providing them with their own personal dictionary. The dictionaries are a gift to each student to use at school and at home for years to come.<p>We're looking for an in-house developer to join a small team of 2-3 (plus some outside consultants) to help us with our rebuild of our website and its backend API and database, which helps us track donations and sponsorships around the country. We want to have everything moved over to a modern software stack following current best practices that will make our applications maintainable for years to come. There are plenty more projects on the horizon as well.<p>The legacy site was a custom MVC application and a WordPress installation on a WIMP stack, while the new site is being built on Magento and will be deployed on modern cloud infrastructure. We also have some code that runs on .NET and SQL Server, with an Angular 6 frontend, so experience with that is a plus. There is another application running Ruby on Rails in production that will be needing some work on it soon, probably next year.<p>You'd also be responsible for IT administration in our small office.<p>Pay range is $80k-100k DOE.<p>For a more detailed description and to apply, visit <a href="https://www.dictionaryproject.org/jobs/" rel="nofollow">https://www.dictionaryproject.org/jobs/</a>. You can also email me directly for anything at josh {at} joshrickert.com. You can mention you found this post on Hacker News.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jul 2019 21:57:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20330147</link><dc:creator>jrickert</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20330147</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20330147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jrickert in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2019)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The Dictionary Project | Full Stack Web Developer, IT Administrator | Charlestone, SC | Full-time, ONSITE<p>The Dictionary Project is a 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to assist all students in becoming good writers, active readers, creative thinkers, and resourceful learners by providing them with their own personal dictionary. The dictionaries are a gift to each student to use at school and at home for years to come.<p>We're looking for an in-house developer to join a small team of 2-3 (plus some outside consultants) to help us with our rebuild of our website and its backend API and database, which helps us track donations and sponsorships around the country. We want to have everything moved over to a modern software stack following current best practices that will make our applications maintainable for years to come. There are plenty more projects on the horizon as well.<p>We're currently building with a Typescript/Angular frontend, a .NET Core/SQL Server backend, and a PHP/Magento website/storefront.<p>You'd also be responsible for IT administration in our small office.<p>Pay range is $80k-100k DOE.<p>For a more detailed description and to apply, visit <a href="https://www.dictionaryproject.org/jobs/" rel="nofollow">https://www.dictionaryproject.org/jobs/</a>. You can also email me directly for anything at josh {at} joshrickert.com.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2019 16:38:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20085157</link><dc:creator>jrickert</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20085157</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20085157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jrickert in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (April 2019)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>SEEKING WORK | Remote or SF Bay Area<p>I'm a full stack JavaScript/ES2015+ developer with 15 years of programming experience. I've been helping startups build MVPs for the last 5 years. I also have a formal education in multimedia including sound engineering, video production, animation, game development, and ui/ux + graphic design.<p>Languages: JS, PHP, C#, SQL, SASS/CSS, HTML, Bash<p>Frameworks and Libraries: AngularJS, React, Sails.js, Loopback, Express, Sequelize, Unity<p>Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL<p>CMS: WordPress, Drupal<p>Infrastructure: AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, Elastic Beanstalk, Elasticache), Nginx, Ubuntu, Amazon Linux<p>Tools: Git, Docker, Adobe Suite (Photoshop, Premiere, Lightroom, After Effects, InDesign, Audition)<p>Personable and easy to work with, fast at learning, patient when teaching, and one of my clients recently told me I delivered the best-documented code he's ever seen.<p>Website: <a href="https://joshrickert.com" rel="nofollow">https://joshrickert.com</a><p>Email: [my first name] [at] [my personal domain on the line above]<p>Github: <a href="https://github.com/joshrickert" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/joshrickert</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2019 17:56:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19546102</link><dc:creator>jrickert</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19546102</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19546102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jrickert in "Meat-free 'Impossible Burger 2.0' tastes even closer to the real deal"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Makes plenty of sense. Real beef doesn't taste as good when you overcook it too.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2019 23:19:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18860773</link><dc:creator>jrickert</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18860773</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18860773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jrickert in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2018)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>SEEKING WORK | Remote or SF Bay Area<p>I'm a full stack JavaScript/ES2015+ developer with 15 years of programming experience. I've been helping startups build MVPs for the last 5 years. I also have a formal education in multimedia including sound engineering, video production, animation, game development, and ui/ux + graphic design.<p>Languages: JS, PHP, C#, SQL, SASS/CSS, HTML, Bash<p>Frameworks and Libraries: AngularJS, React, Sails.js, Loopback, Express, Sequelize, Unity<p>Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL<p>CMS: WordPress, Drupal<p>Infrastructure: AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, Elastic Beanstalk, Elasticache), Nginx, Ubuntu, Amazon Linux<p>Tools: Git, Docker, Adobe Suite (Photoshop, Premiere, Lightroom, After Effects, InDesign, Audition)<p>Personable and easy to work with, fast at learning, patient when teaching, and one of my clients recently told me I delivered the best-documented code he's ever seen.<p>Website: <a href="https://joshrickert.com" rel="nofollow">https://joshrickert.com</a><p>Email: [my first name] [at] [my personal domain on the line above]<p>Github: <a href="https://github.com/joshrickert" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/joshrickert</a></p>
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