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New comment by julenx in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"

julenx — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 19:59:30 +0000

I believe the detachment gets exacerbated by the fact that others are simultaneously modifying the codebase at speeds that doesn't allow you to keep up. Depending on how the codebase boundaries and ownership are defined, this directly impacts your ability to reason about the whole system and therefore influence direction.

New comment by julenx in "The Claude Code Leak"

julenx — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 07:49:28 +0000

Code quality aside (n.b. there exist many bad quality codebases before AI), a risk I perceive as an industry is we are making the logic of our businesses dependent on a few big players.

Given the output speed, it's practically impossible for developers to keep up, which directly impacts maintenance: the knowledge that would previously reside in-house, now is becoming dependent on having codebases pre-processed by LLMs.

I hope in the near future local LLMs will gain traction and provide an alternative, otherwise we are in the risky path where businesses are over-reliant on a few big companies.

New comment by julenx in "Slop is not necessarily the future"

julenx — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 07:48:02 +0000

The same people that pursue economic incentives are who I hear speaking about number of lines produced by developers as a useful metric. I sense a worrying trend toward more is better with respect to output, when the north star IMHO should be to make something only as complex as necessary, but as simple as possible. The best code is no code at all.

New comment by julenx in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

julenx — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:55:28 +0000

Some employees in the company might understand the emotional impact, but companies themselves would only look for certainty in protecting what belongs to them, which will hardly align with fairness or emotions towards employees in a situation like this.

New comment by julenx in "Some things just take time"

julenx — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 17:58:30 +0000

I'm seeing this cultural pattern where developers have started accepting LLM output with very little scrutiny. This ends up code that works on the surface, but most of the times problems are not addressed at their source.

Creating these wrong things is only cheaper with LLMs. Since developers now spend less time and effort to create that wrong thing, they don't feel the need validate or reflect on them so much.

The risk is not the tool itself, but the over-reliance on it and forgoing feedback loops that have made teams stronger, e.g. debugging, testing, and reasoning why something works a particular way.

New comment by julenx in "Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS"

julenx — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 08:13:43 +0000

Thanks for sharing! The link to the PR looks like a wrong paste. I found https://github.com/simonw/tools/pull/181 which seems to be what was intended to be shared instead.

New comment by julenx in "Is Proton leaving Switzerland?"

julenx — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 19:33:24 +0000

> Wir haben angefangen, unsere gesamte Infrastruktur zu kopieren. Unsere Daten befinden sich nun auf Servern sowohl in der Schweiz wie auch in Deutschland und Norwegen. Wenn nötig, können wir die Systeme in der Schweiz innerhalb von kurzer Zeit herunterfahren. Ich hoffte immer, solche Schritte nie einleiten zu müssen. Aber das Umfeld in der Schweiz ist für uns zurzeit zu unsicher. Wir hatten keine andere Wahl, als unseren Wegzug zu planen.

They started to copy the infrastructure, and the data is currently in Switzerland, Germany, and Norway. They can technically shut down the systems in Switzerland on short time. He (Andy Yen, CEO) always hoped they'd never need to take such steps, but the environment in Switzerland is too insecure for them at the moment. So they had no other choice but to plan their way out.

New comment by julenx in "State-based vs Signal-based rendering"

julenx — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 15:01:17 +0000

  > Also I don't like that React requires installing Node and compilation tools, this is a waste of time when making a quick prototype. Vue can be used without Node.

React can be used without Node too, and this has always been the case to the best of my knowledge. You can check out this gist which is linked from the official docs[1]: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/gaearon/0275b1e1518599bbe...

[1] https://react.dev/learn/installation#try-react

New comment by julenx in "Next.js vs. TanStack"

julenx — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 08:08:12 +0000

  > I don’t see enough value in the added complexity and the increasingly complicated API surface.

This very much. For my own work and personal projects, the pages router has been more than enough.

In terms of the complicated API surface and the difficulty to grasp newer concepts introduced with the app router, it continuously reminds me a couple lines of the Zen of Python[0]:

  > If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea.
  > If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea.

[0] https://peps.python.org/pep-0020/

New comment by julenx in "Web Browser Engineering"

julenx — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 17:20:11 +0000

I was able to pre-order the book just fine — it didn't prompt me for any promo codes.

New comment by julenx in "Rusty revenant Servo returns to render once more"

julenx — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 21:01:29 +0000

The multi-process Firefox project was called Electrolysis: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis

New comment by julenx in "Xstate: State machines and statecharts for the modern web"

julenx — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 21:12:00 +0000

For vanilla state machines there's also @xstate/fsm. In their docs[1] you have a feature comparison.

[1] https://xstate.js.org/docs/packages/xstate-fsm/

New comment by julenx in "Why was Roman concrete so durable?"

julenx — Sat, 07 Jan 2023 11:19:55 +0000

Well, it's also wonderful they speak Italian!

New comment by julenx in "Shimano Forces Hammerhead to Remove All Di2 Related Functionality From Karoo"

julenx — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 16:53:15 +0000

> If you are descending at 40-50mph you have to remove your hand from your hood in order to see your map.

Well you don't have to, you can switch to the map screen before starting the descent. If you are willing to change screens while descending, the blame on safety is not on technology, but rather on your own decision to do so.

New comment by julenx in "Basque–Icelandic Pidgin"

julenx — Sun, 03 Apr 2022 07:47:56 +0000

On this note, it's fascinating to see how the influence reaches the coat of arms and the flag of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, which includes the Basque flag or Ikurriña.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Pierre_and_Miquelon [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikurri%C3%B1a

New comment by julenx in "How to Squash and Rebase in Git"

julenx — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 17:19:14 +0000

With GitHub's squash + merge, clean history still depends on the person doing the merge, because when clicking the squash + merge button, GitHub places all commit messages in one large chunk of text, which devs are able to edit before confirming the merge, but it takes some discipline to do so.

In my experience, devs rarely pay attention to this, so commit messages end up as a big list of:

  * Ticket-1234 feature
  * fix
  * cleanups
  * fix
  * another fix
  * now the real fix

Which I wouldn't qualify as a contributor to a "clean" history. It'd be great if GitHub's UX around crafting the commit messages would be more considerate and foster more meaningful commit messages.

(edit: formatting)

New comment by julenx in "Ask HN: Have you accepted the TOS that give FB access to your WhatsApp data?"

julenx — Sun, 19 Dec 2021 13:01:07 +0000

If you close and re-open the app, eventually the ToS popup doesn't show up and you can keep using the app.

New comment by julenx in "Next.js 12"

julenx — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 17:48:34 +0000

Thanks for clarifying, Lee!

New comment by julenx in "Next.js 12"

julenx — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 16:39:41 +0000

Also excited about the Rust compiler! Apologies if this is far from reality, but by looking at recent commits in GH[1] it looks as though this has been rushed for a v12 release, so I was wondering how much of internal testing has this been going through before pushing it to the broader public.

[1] https://github.com/vercel/next.js/commits/canary

New comment by julenx in "It's Never a Bicycle Accident"

julenx — Fri, 19 Mar 2021 09:44:24 +0000

If roads are busy, it's worth noting traffic is created by motorized vehicles in the first place... plus, if slowing down is required to make roads safer, what? why is that a problem attributed to cyclists if usually (depending on which part of the world you live) cyclists don't have alternatives?