Hacker News: justkez

New comment by justkez in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

justkez — Mon, 11 May 2026 07:51:03 +0000

A few months ago I got so fed up of squinting at glowing rectangles to stay informed/updated. I feel like there's a finite amount of podcasts I can reasonably follow/digest so I built a very basic prototype to summarise RSS feeds/transform the content and transcribe it in to a personalised podcast.

I put a bit more work in since May have it running almost end to end, still with plenty of gotchas. It's transcribing on an RTX3070 under my desk so pretty limited, but have enjoyed a few morning briefings just as I want them (weather, chance of rain today, BBC/NPR top stories from yesterday, some specific sports news then HN most popular summarised with summary of comments. Got a chuckle out of the LLM summarisation of HN commen threads which was always "Comments reaction: mixed" (which it no longer embeds!)

Found traces of it being done before and I understand you can do similar in Notebook LM, but I was hoping to build something set-and-forget.

New comment by justkez in "The Codex App"

justkez — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 18:46:33 +0000

Genuinely curious if people would just let this rip with no obvious isolation?

I’m aware Mac OS has some isolation/sandboxes but without running codex via docker I wouldn’t be running codex.

(Appreciate there are still risks)

New comment by justkez in "VSCode config to disable annoyances – telemetry, notifications, welcome pages"

justkez — Mon, 15 May 2023 12:26:45 +0000

More focussed on developer UX than telemetry, `Make VS Code Awesome` [0] shares a lot of configs to clean up the UI/nags/prompts. I'm not affiliated but have bought it and found it significantly improved my days in Code.

[0] https://makevscodeawesome.com

Manticore Search v6 Released

justkez — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 10:28:29 +0000

Article URL: https://manticoresearch.com/blog/manticore-search-6-0-0/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34721987

Points: 10

# Comments: 1

New comment by justkez in "Faceting large result sets in PostgreSQL"

justkez — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 14:24:10 +0000

I'm implementing some faceting in a project I'm working on. I have some nested `jsonb` columns which include categorical variables (to quote this article).

The table is only 5 million rows and isn't likely to grow significantly, but it is not very wide.

The performance is okay and I was about to experiment with flattening out the table (putting all categorical vars into their own columns) and indexing that way vs. indexing JSONb paths.

I'm not super familiar with the postgres internals to know if this is better or worse so wondering if anyone could share any similar experience?!

Cloudflare Is Down

justkez — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 06:37:52 +0000

Nothing on their official status, but their dashboard is non-operational and numerous reports dripping in of services dropping off

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31820642

Points: 10

# Comments: 0

New comment by justkez in "Cloudflare Images Now Available to Everyone"

justkez — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 10:51:22 +0000

Non-starter because you don't want to migrate the images into Cloudflare? I.e. you want the transformation/caching of some non-CDN images via Cloudflare?

Asking as this could look very attractive (£ wise) for a project with images stored in Uploadcare where it would be feasible for us to do the source-image migration.

New comment by justkez in "Klarna users are being signed in to random accounts"

justkez — Thu, 27 May 2021 11:24:02 +0000

They also had a snafu with marketing emails late last year [1] - not a great look for a company handling bank/payments.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-54521820

New comment by justkez in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2021)"

justkez — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 18:39:29 +0000

EmpowerRD | https://www.empowerrd.com | London, UK or UK REMOTE | Full Time

EmpowerRD is a fast-growing scale-up based in London, UK. Our vision is to assist our clients to unlock all of the funding that rewards innovation globally. We do this by combining expert knowledge and advanced technology to take the complexity out of claiming for funding that is available. Our current focus is on helping companies within the UK unlock some of the £5Bn of funds available annually for companies that invest in research and development.

As we grow we're looking for a full stack developer versed in Ruby.

Skills and experience we need:

  Ruby (1+ years), Ruby on Rails, Modern frontend framework (1 year, React/Vue/Alpine), SQL

Skills and experience that would be a bonus:

  AWS (EC2, RDS, VPC), Docker, Experience in a SaaS business

If you're interested, please head to https://empowerrd.breezy.hr/p/b2ba3dcd368601-full-stack-deve...

New comment by justkez in "Dark patterns after the GDPR: consent pop-ups and their influence"

justkez — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 18:42:05 +0000

I recently purchased something from the official UK Nintendo Store [1]. I did not opt-in, and was not asked to opt-in, to marketing emails.

Several days after purchase I received a marketing email with an Unsubscribe link.

I submitted a GDPR enquiry and after a few weeks I get:

  Having investigated this matter fully, we can see that you were opted in as a result of a small technical difficulty which we are now fixing. We have taken action to set your marketing permissions to "no" as requested.

I think we're so far past the GDPR "start date" that there's an apathy to it from companies and they're pushing the limits again. How Nintendo can have such a formalised GDPR enquiry process but such sloppy controls is beyond me. I will formally complain to ICO (UK data regulator) but I doubt it'll effect much.

[1]: https://store.nintendo.co.uk/

New comment by justkez in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2021)"

justkez — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 20:26:55 +0000

EmpowerRD | https://www.empowerrd.com | London, UK or REMOTE | Full Time

EmpowerRD is a fast-growing startup based in London, UK. Our vision is to assist our clients to unlock all of the funding that rewards innovation globally. We do this by combining expert knowledge and advanced technology to take the complexity out of claiming for funding that is available. Our current focus is on helping companies within the UK unlock some of the £5Bn of funds available annually for companies that invest in research and development.

As we grow we're looking for a full stack developer - versed in Ruby - who can support both internal and external development.

Skills and experience we need:

  Ruby (1+ years), Ruby on Rails, Modern frontend framework (1 year, React/Vue/Alpine), SQL

Skills and experience that would be a bonus:

  AWS (EC2, RDS, VPC), Docker, Experience in a SaaS business

To apply: https://empowerrd.breezy.hr/p/b2ba3dcd368601-full-stack-deve...

New comment by justkez in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2021)"

justkez — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 06:18:29 +0000

EmpowerRD | https://www.empowerrd.com | London, UK | Full Time | Onsite (Remote during Covid-19)

We are looking for a Ruby full stack developer to help support our journey from startup to scale up.

As we grow we're looking for a full stack developer well versed in Ruby.

Skills and experience we need:

Ruby (3+ years), Ruby on Rails, Git (gitflow), front-end JavaScript (jQuery/Alpine/vanilla) and CSS, SQL (Postgres)

Skills and experience that would be a bonus:

AWS (EC2, RDS, VPC), Docker, Redis, Sidekiq, Agile/Scrum sprint planning, Postgres PL/SQL programming and statistical analysis

Please apply directly via https://empowerrd.breezy.hr/p/b2ba3dcd368601-full-stack-deve...

New comment by justkez in "Google outage – resolved"

justkez — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 12:30:18 +0000

Unless I'm misunderstanding something, they are going to have an immense SLA claim issue. 99.9% SLA on Workspace services, so any business paying for Google for Business (now known as Workspace) is going to have a credit claim (assuming the outage is longer than 43m 49s which feels like it will be).

Edit: As I comment it looks like things are coming back! Timing or what...

New comment by justkez in "Show HN: Wellcome – office check-in platform for employees and visitors"

justkez — Sun, 11 Oct 2020 14:52:13 +0000

Workable solution for "who was in the office" to aid tracing, but the capacity part seems a bit off.

You'd really want to know ahead of commuting what the planned capacity is, and make a decision based off of that.

Otherwise you run the risk of travelling in and walking into an over capacity office. Surely better to prevent this than view a report about it after the fact.

New comment by justkez in "Micro frontends with Stacker"

justkez — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 15:06:56 +0000

I was a bit confused given the recent launch of YC-funded Stacker (https://stacker.app/) - given the sibling comment, it sounds like another Stacker will be unveiled soon!

New comment by justkez in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2020)"

justkez — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 15:29:02 +0000

EmpowerRD | https://www.empowerrd.com | London, UK | Full Time | Onsite (Remote during Covid-19)

We are looking for a Ruby full stack developer to help support our journey from start up to scale up.

We are an exciting, VC-backed Government innovation incentives service provider using technology to automate, improve and optimise our customer's claims for R&D tax incentives in the UK. By layering in tech to what has traditionally been an advisor business, we are able to support customers secure government funding for R&D quickly and reliably.

As we grow we're looking for a full stack developer - well versed in Ruby - who can support and then lead on both internal and external development.

Skills and experience we need:

Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Git (gitflow), front-end JavaScript (jQuery/Alpine/vanilla) and CSS, SQL (Postgres)

Skills and experience that would be a bonus:

AWS (EC2, RDS, VPC), Docker, Redis, Sidekiq, Agile/Scrum sprint planning, Postgres PL/SQL programming and statistical analysis

Please email hn@empowerrd.com if interested.

New comment by justkez in "Garmin services and production go down after ransomware attack"

justkez — Thu, 23 Jul 2020 21:20:13 +0000

It’ll be interesting to see how Strava copes when the tap is turned on again. Maybe there’s some rate limiting built in but they’ll be getting a flood of accumulated data to process

New comment by justkez in "Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?"

justkez — Fri, 15 May 2020 06:00:13 +0000

I've also made quite a bit of bread - very satisfying first thing in the morning.

I used the change in routine to put spare time into launching a specialty coffee indexing site[1]. I've been thinking about it for +1 year.

Still working on the backend and the ultimate goal is to tell you when harvests from producers you've liked before are back on sale (i.e. I liked this coffee last year, what might I like this year), and build a kind of engine to recommend coffees.

(It's also a testbed for ruby continuous deployment with Docker!)

[1] https://www.coffeesindex.com/

New comment by justkez in "AI-Powered JavaScript Completions"

justkez — Tue, 12 May 2020 16:59:12 +0000

I've come back to TabNine after a hiatus and do see the occasional lag or the process thrashing at 100% of a core. Depending on mood I'll kill it or let it recover. I find myself forgiving any sporadic lags thanks to the productivity gains.

New comment by justkez in "Show HN: Time Cop – A simple, private, open-source time tracking app"

justkez — Wed, 01 Apr 2020 15:21:05 +0000

On the desktop side, I'd recommend Tim[1] to anyone looking for a similarly-simple, hassle free time tracking app ($2.99 on Mac app store). My only gripe is you can't archive old tasks so the menu gets a little overwhelming.

[1]: https://tim.neat.software/