Hacker News: jwhiles

New comment by jwhiles in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)"

jwhiles — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 14:37:34 +0000

I won't be applying, due to my lack of a swedish work permit - but I love to see Vim or Emacs listed as a hard requirement in a job advert.

Why and how I rewrote these Obsidian plugins

jwhiles — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 15:29:49 +0000

Article URL: https://johnwhiles.com/posts/obsidian-plugins

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45645065

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by jwhiles in "Apple M5 chip"

jwhiles — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 10:52:21 +0000

These obviously are’t planned obsolescence though.

Flexgate is a manufacturing error, that they handled in a consumer hostile way

Batterygate, was an arguably misguided way to support outdated models - prioritising one goal (battery life) over another (speed)

The iPod thing I’ll admit I know nothing about.

It sounds like, for you, planned obsolescence is defined as any instance where a product isn’t manufactured perfectly or degardes over time, regardless of whether it was planned. For me, planned obsolescence should contain at least a hint of planning.

New comment by jwhiles in "Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy"

jwhiles — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 10:46:53 +0000

Your interpretation of my comment, though I guess intended as a joke, can only really mean two things:

1. You are unaware of DHH’s more recent favoured topics 2. You don’t think there is a problem with DHH’s opinions

Either is fine, I don’t really care.

The issue for me is that Cloudflare’s PR team obviously are aware what DHH writes about. And they’re sponsoring his project anyway. Cloudflare knows that this is repellant to a lot of people, that some of us will begin removing them from our stacks in response. But they don’t care, because they think it’s more valuable to cosy up to a bunch of mid life crises who’ve spent too much time on twitter.

New comment by jwhiles in "Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy"

jwhiles — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 16:40:07 +0000

DHH very keen to demonstrate to all Londoners that he’s not been to London

edit: and also is a tool

New comment by jwhiles in "Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy"

jwhiles — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 15:11:10 +0000

hmm. Increasingly it feels like I shouldn't be using cloudflare.

New comment by jwhiles in "Areal, Are.na's new typeface"

jwhiles — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 11:04:54 +0000

We can add hacker news commenters to the list of people who wouldn’t get Pierre Menard

New comment by jwhiles in "AI slows down open source developers. Peter Naur can teach us why"

jwhiles — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 18:55:15 +0000

Thanks for the response, and apologies for misrepresenting your results somewhat! I'm probably not going to change the title since I am at heart and polemicist and a sloppy thinker, but I'll update the article to call out this misrepresentation.

That said, I think that what I wrote more or less encompasses three of the factors you call out as being likely to contribute: "High developer familiarity with reposito- ries", "Large and complex repositories", and "Implicit repository context".

I thought more about experimenting on myself, and while I hope to do it - I think it will be very hard to create a controlled enviornment whilst also responding to the demands the job puts on me. I also don't have the luxury of a list of well scoped tasks that could feasibly be completed in a few hours.

AI slows down open source developers. Peter Naur can teach us why

jwhiles — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 14:32:08 +0000

Article URL: https://johnwhiles.com/posts/mental-models-vs-ai-tools

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44560740

Points: 363

# Comments: 211

New comment by jwhiles in "Why does Britain feel so poor?"

jwhiles — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 13:24:07 +0000

It's because we won't build things. Writing from a part of zone-2 London which is full of two story detached and terraced houses.

New comment by jwhiles in "Photo calorie app Cal AI was built by two teenagers"

jwhiles — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 13:10:42 +0000

It's not about being right, it's about appearing to be right

New comment by jwhiles in "Mac Numbers now supports LAMBDA functions and MAP"

jwhiles — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 12:34:38 +0000

I was briefly terrified this was Lambda in the AWS sense

New comment by jwhiles in "The Frontend Treadmill"

jwhiles — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 08:35:56 +0000

In case anyone isn't familiar with remix, bloomingkales seemingly has no familiarity with the framework. Obviously it's not been created as a conspiracy to sell training courses. The idea is ludicrous.

It's quite a nice framework. It's easy to learn, straightforward, the people in their discord are very helpful. It has the backing of a large company (shopify) who are using it extensively.

It is, I'll say again, obviously not a conspiracy to sell training courses.

New comment by jwhiles in "Garmin's –$40B Pivot"

jwhiles — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 17:04:23 +0000

The title made me think this was about a 'negative 40B pivot', when it actually means an 'approximately 40B pivot'.

Does hacker news not support Tildes or what?

My mum couldn't use WhatsApp because her font size is too large

jwhiles — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 09:23:18 +0000

Article URL: https://johnwhiles.com/posts/whatsapp-font-bug

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40798053

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

How to Make Cloudflare Properly Cache a Remix Site

jwhiles — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 16:51:50 +0000

Article URL: https://johnwhiles.com/posts/cloudflare-remix-cache

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39263343

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by jwhiles in "Poem/1: AI rhyming clock"

jwhiles — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 11:08:26 +0000

I do think this is a cool product, but I would be very hesitant to buy a clock that relies on the internet, and on an API that might die at some point.

New comment by jwhiles in "The Loneliness of the Mid-Level Vimmer"

jwhiles — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 20:26:03 +0000

The only time I had to work with C# it was a non .Net Core project, and I had to run the editor in a virtual windows machine running on a Macbook. It was a vaguely traumatic experience.

New comment by jwhiles in "New UK record for wind power set today – 21.81 GW between 0900-0930 GMT"

jwhiles — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 14:23:43 +0000

I did think it was very windy today.

The Loneliness of the Mid-Level Vimmer

jwhiles — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 14:22:43 +0000

Article URL: https://johnwhiles.com/posts/vimming-pains

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38720694

Points: 39

# Comments: 57