Hacker News: justech

New comment by justech in "Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge"

justech — Sun, 03 May 2026 05:09:42 +0000

I’ve been maining Kimi k2.6 through opencode go and openrouter for a week and I can say it’s the same experience as when I was maining Sonnet 3.5/4 late last year.

Not as good or as fast as Claude Code on Opus now but definitely enough for casual/hobby use. The best part is multiple choices for providers, if opencode gimps their service, I’ll switch

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

justech — Sat, 02 May 2026 06:01:19 +0000

Location: Manila, Philippines

Remote: Yes

Willing to Relocate: Yes

Technologies: TypeScript, React, Next.js, React Native, Node.js, Rails, PostgreSQL, AWS, Terraform

Résumé: https://blog-images-ejmercado.b-cdn.net/documents/justin-emm...

Email: ej@ejmercado.com

Full-stack engineer, ~10 years. Currently at PayMongo (YC S19), shipping end-to-end — frontend, backend, infra, rollout.

- Rebuilt the merchant dashboard in Next.js

- Migrated paymongo.com off Webflow to Next.js + Ghost on AWS

- PIC on the React Native merchant app — OTP/KYC onboarding, USDC/USDT wallet with custody partners.

- Built the internal employee dashboard now used by Compliance, Finance, and PayOps.

Looking for remote full-stack roles. Bonus: payments/fintech.

New comment by justech in "Atuin v18.13 – better search, a PTY proxy, and AI for your shell"

justech — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 15:23:51 +0000

Yeah, that's part of the "less features" I mentioned. I don't get any value from syncing shell history, but I can see why it's useful for some.

New comment by justech in "Atuin v18.13 – better search, a PTY proxy, and AI for your shell"

justech — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 12:27:25 +0000

I tried atuin and then switched back to fzf[0]. It's less features but that's not necessarily a negative.

[0]https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

New comment by justech in "Push events into a running session with channels"

justech — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 04:00:53 +0000

Do you have notifications turned on for your terminal app? I never received notifications from Claude Code until I moved to a new machine and remember explicitly allowing notifications from Ghostty.

New comment by justech in "Krazam OS"

justech — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 02:14:24 +0000

He's pretty funny, but suffers from having to pump out more content for tiktok IMO. Krazam rarely uploads but it's always a banger

New comment by justech in "Show HN: I made a tool to clean and convert any webpage to Markdown"

justech — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 08:13:45 +0000

This is pretty cool. Care to share your Swift port?

New comment by justech in "Ask HN: Best resources on starting a lifestyle business?"

justech — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 07:33:36 +0000

Also PHP has Laravel Spark[0]. They basically bootstrapped a SaaS but for a price. Not sure if it's worth it, but it's from the guys who made Laravel, and everyone only has good things to say about that so...

[0] https://spark.laravel.com

New comment by justech in "A steep rise of Hacker News in Google rankings"

justech — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 22:54:51 +0000

I think it's a lot less obvious here than on Reddit you could hover over a username and see it.

New comment by justech in "Show HN: Oration (iOS) turns pdfs into audiobooks"

justech — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 02:31:29 +0000

Also there's two versions of the Samantha voice. One is 11 mb (downloaded by default) and another is 152mb (have to download from settings). The improvement with the 150mb version is very noticeable

New comment by justech in "Show HN: Oration (iOS) turns pdfs into audiobooks"

justech — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 02:28:33 +0000

Did you try downloading the bigger Siri voices? I'm using English (US) Voices -> Siri -> Voice 5 (90mb)

New comment by justech in "Finding a new software developer job"

justech — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 23:33:18 +0000

I don't know where I found it, but I saw a job ad for a dev role that asked for an MBTI test first (it's about personality types thing like INFJ INFP etc).

Asking for this in a job for coding was... something else. And I thought leetcode was all I had to study

New comment by justech in "Show HN: Oration (iOS) turns pdfs into audiobooks"

justech — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 23:16:55 +0000

This topic has always interested me. For people looking for a free alternative (free for Apple users), I recommend looking into iOS and MacOS spoken content under Accessibility [0]

It's a bit finicky at times but the pros are

1. Free

2. It works on anything on your iPhone, iPad or Mac screen

3. Apple's Siri voices are actually really good! (Better than Speechify voices)

[0] https://support.apple.com/en-ph/guide/iphone/iph96b214f0/ios

New comment by justech in "Finding a new software developer job"

justech — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 23:09:48 +0000

Started looking late November and started tracking my applications in January.

I have applied to a total of 46 positions within a month. This has led to six interviews, several of which I received no response, 13 formal rejections, and one job offer which I declined (The decline was due to the position being advertised as a developer role, yet the recruiter mentioned that about 50% of the duties would involve support tasks)

Seeing this thread gives me some relief. At least it's not just me but a broader trend across the whole industry

New comment by justech in "ZX – A tool for writing better scripts"

justech — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 07:29:58 +0000

I’m assuming it’s this https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... (no pun intended)

New comment by justech in "Disney to take $1.5B stake in Epic Games"

justech — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 01:02:17 +0000

> goofy mashup fun

Heh, not sure if pun intended but this made me giggle

New comment by justech in "JetBrains' unremovable AI assistant meets irresistible outcry"

justech — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 14:57:18 +0000

This may go against the whole ethos of using neovim, but I would suggest giving LazyVim[0] a try.

- Dead simple to install

- Sane defaults

- IDE like out of the box

- Still feels like VIM

- Configurable

- Actions are discoverable (press space and a menu pops up with all the possible shortcuts)

- Good enough docs

Before I moved to LazyVim I always used VSC with the vim plugin installed before I took the full plunge and went all in on LazyVim (I don't care for vim itself but I like the motions).

It was also the sweet spot for me, I don't like configuring my tools for work but I like using well designed tools and discovering things along the way

[0] https://www.lazyvim.org

New comment by justech in "Google search is losing the fight with SEO spam, study says"

justech — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 16:52:01 +0000

Reddit itself is monetized, but the people writing the review or suggesting products most likely weren't paid to recommend stuff. Not that there aren't paid shills on reddit, but as long as your BS meter is decent, a quick peek at the poster's profile can confirm whether the suggestions are legit.

It's a bit of work to weed out real testimonies but if you can collect a bunch of reviews and use your own judgement as a final filter. I think that's better than just clicking any of the "Top 10 " sites that google shows on the first page.

New comment by justech in "Templ: A language for writing HTML user interfaces in Go"

justech — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 06:11:16 +0000

The standard templating in Go has been good enough for my small projects, and I usually avoid adding libraries if I can help it. But seeing this makes me want to try it just to see how it compares.

New comment by justech in "Templ: A language for writing HTML user interfaces in Go"

justech — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 06:10:54 +0000

More like PHP and Pug, but in Go. As someone who likes server-rendered websites but prefers Go over PHP, I like this approach.