<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: jweir</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jweir</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 03:12:17 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=jweir" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jweir in "I'm the mom in that viral Giants clip. Let me tell you about my husband"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Universal context - or uni-context is an idea that could use some more attention.<p>The idea is universally we can all relate to the negative, but the good is rarely universal,
but often local.<p>This is what drives social media or media in general to tend negative.<p><a href="https://matthewevanseducation.substack.com/p/why-context-matters-more-than-ever" rel="nofollow">https://matthewevanseducation.substack.com/p/why-context-mat...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 20:10:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49860098</link><dc:creator>jweir</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49860098</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49860098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jweir in "The Estranged Worlds of J. G. Ballard"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I enjoy my copy of RESearch’s Ballard<p><a href="https://www.researchpubs.com/shop/p/research-89-jg-ballard-limited-hardback" rel="nofollow">https://www.researchpubs.com/shop/p/research-89-jg-ballard-l...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 22:49:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48913929</link><dc:creator>jweir</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48913929</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48913929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jweir in "Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>See first post at <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48870988">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48870988</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 06:06:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48878754</link><dc:creator>jweir</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48878754</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48878754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party?]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/cec8df9e-b43b-4cd1-8feb-c07e804e8d33">https://www.ft.com/content/cec8df9e-b43b-4cd1-8feb-c07e804e8d33</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48878641">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48878641</a></p>
<p>Points: 27</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 05:44:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.ft.com/content/cec8df9e-b43b-4cd1-8feb-c07e804e8d33</link><dc:creator>jweir</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48878641</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48878641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jweir in "US battery manufacturing output continues to break records"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>According to projections this year will hit 300 GWh in the US<p><a href="https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy-manufacturing/us-capacity-storage-cell-factories" rel="nofollow">https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy-manufactur...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 22:46:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48548071</link><dc:creator>jweir</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48548071</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48548071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jweir in "At least 25 Flock cameras have been destroyed in five states since April 2025"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>generate a story where there is not much of a story. What is unfortunate is this has gotten upvoted and is now part of the noise.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 18:10:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48171527</link><dc:creator>jweir</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48171527</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48171527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jweir in "Nullsoft, 1997-2004 (2004)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ah memory lane.  I created the "speaker head" characters and lead the redesign of the WinAmp web site back in 2004.  Good times.  Through Odopod in San Francisco<p><a href="https://x.com/WebDesignMuseum/status/1700520818478854523" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/WebDesignMuseum/status/1700520818478854523</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 20:57:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100588</link><dc:creator>jweir</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100588</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jweir in "Claude Design"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This but attached targeting a 3D printer.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 04:06:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47813058</link><dc:creator>jweir</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47813058</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47813058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jweir in "Delve removed from Y Combinator"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you see a fraud and do nothing you are part of the fraud.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:42:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47636495</link><dc:creator>jweir</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47636495</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47636495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jweir in "It Took Me 30 Years to Solve This VFX Problem – Green Screen Problem [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>True, but with visual art there is what is correct and what looks correct.  When things are moving and the area small no one is going to notice.<p>But now that is problem is solved a director will come along and say... I want a scene with a big glass of water and the camera will zoom in on it and will see the monster refracted through the glass.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 21:56:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47418891</link><dc:creator>jweir</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47418891</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47418891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jweir in "Pi for Excel: AI sidebar add-in for Excel"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Something, well may things, kill about Microsoft. The Office suite have a wonderful API and loading a JS app with an an interface in the apps works great.<p>We took an Elm app from our web app and put into Excel to control downloading reports. Works great.<p>Except you have to side load this and that is a pain - or you have to go through the MS App Store, which is a whole other headache.<p>If anyone has any advice on making it easy for customers to install Office apps please let me know.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 04:51:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47083905</link><dc:creator>jweir</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47083905</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47083905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jweir in "Rome is studded with cannon balls (2022)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Lewes Delaware has the Cannonball house which was struck in the 1812 bombardment. Delightful town and beach, worth a visit.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 18:17:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46978635</link><dc:creator>jweir</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46978635</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46978635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jweir in "Speed up responses with fast mode"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I switched back to 4.5 Sonnet or Opus yesterday since 4.6 was so slow and often “over thinking” or “over analyzing” the problem space. Tasks which accurately took under an minute in Sonnet 4.5 were still running after 5 minutes in 4.6 (yeah I had them race for a few tasks)<p>Someone of this could be system overload I suppose.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2026 00:21:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46929882</link><dc:creator>jweir</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46929882</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46929882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jweir in "How to effectively write quality code with AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Remember having to write detailed specs before coding?  Then folks realized it was faster and easier to skip the specs and write the code?  So now are we back to where we were?<p>One of the problems with writing detailed specs is it means you understand the problem, but often the problem is not understand - but you learn to understand it through coding and testing.<p>So where are we now?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2026 21:52:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46918618</link><dc:creator>jweir</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46918618</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46918618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jweir in "NYC Mayoral Inauguration bans Raspberry Pi and Flipper Zero alongside explosives"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Look up Sean Bell - not a stop a frisk, just an open fire.<p>Once, my wife and I were stopped, but not frisked, and cited for riding bikes, on a sidewalk at 2AM on a stretch of Atlantic Ave that would kill you to ride on.  It made no sense, until I found out that my neighbor and his friend had been murdered at a street party.  There was a drag net out trying to find the killer and they stopped anyone for anything.<p>A tough city.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2025 00:45:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46440048</link><dc:creator>jweir</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46440048</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46440048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jweir in "T-Ruby is Ruby with syntax for types"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We have some tests that ensure the interface is correct - that the correct type of args are passed say from a batch process to a mailer and a mail object is returned.<p>For these tests we don’t care about the content only that something didn’t get incorrectly set or the mailer interface changed.<p>Now if the developer changes the Mailer to require a user object the compiler tells us there is an error. Sorbet will error and say “hey you need to update your code here and here by adding a User object”<p>Before we would have had test coverage for that - or maybe not and missed the error.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2025 19:03:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46404221</link><dc:creator>jweir</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46404221</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46404221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jweir in "T-Ruby is Ruby with syntax for types"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is our experience. We have added Sorbet to a 16 year old Rails app. It is a big win in avoiding errors, typos, documentation, code completion, fewer tests are required, etc.<p>And the LLMs take advantage of the types through the LSP and type checking.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2025 03:24:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46398798</link><dc:creator>jweir</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46398798</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46398798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jweir in "Ruby 4.0.0"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We have been adding Sorbet typing to our Rails application and it is a positive enhancement.<p>It’s not like Ruby becomes Haskell. But it does provide a good deal of additional saftey, less testing, LSP integration is good, and it is gradual.<p>There is a performance hit but we found it to be quite small and not an issue.<p>But there are area of our application that use Grape and it is too meta for Sorbet so we don’t try and use it there.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2025 07:21:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46382789</link><dc:creator>jweir</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46382789</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46382789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jweir in "I failed to recreate the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And use a single px invisible gif to move things around.<p>But was Space Jam using multiple images or just one large image with and image map for links?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2025 03:06:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46187863</link><dc:creator>jweir</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46187863</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46187863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jweir in "Childhood Friends, Not Moms, Shape Attachment Styles Most"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And moms are the gate keeps of their kids friends.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2025 02:05:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46011399</link><dc:creator>jweir</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46011399</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46011399</guid></item></channel></rss>