Hacker News: kartoshechka

New comment by kartoshechka in "How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS (2024)"

kartoshechka — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 06:17:43 +0000

I found cockpit to be incredibly useful for managing NAS and VPS. Even though any configuration is not an issue with LLMs, having a dashboard with toggles, formatted logs and such is helpful, and I can even run shell commands on phone without ssh. In the NAS case, you can easily see the results of backup/maintenance cronjobs, manage samba (which is a huge pain in the ass to get to work properly on iPhone), and monitor disk usage

New comment by kartoshechka in "Developers don't understand CORS (2019)"

kartoshechka — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 05:36:25 +0000

- cors docs are written either from solution or implementation point of view, not the "why this exists, and how we successively deal with bad actors trying to game cors", cors RFC is terse

- protocol itself is quite nuanced, like iirc requests with Authorization (or some other) headers don't obide by usual rules, and again for developer it's just an arbitrary convoluted set of rules, if they don't grasp the problematics

- backend and frontend should work in unison to have correctly configured cors, but as we know, devs hate communicating with each other

New comment by kartoshechka in "Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore"

kartoshechka — Tue, 26 May 2026 03:57:59 +0000

imo books for programming language should be roughly a guide to docs, with better context collocation and more elaborate examples, otherwise it would be really painful to use language

you can't pick up c++ from the docs and the language itself is a monstrosity, and for that you must have book explaining why do you have 30 types of pointers, golang in the meantime have excellent official guide, and you don't really need any book

New comment by kartoshechka in "HashiCorp co-founder says GitHub 'no longer a place for serious work'"

kartoshechka — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:42:36 +0000

just like hashicorp, its careers site redirects to IBM site with no filter to find hashicorp positions

New comment by kartoshechka in "Nobody knows how the whole system works"

kartoshechka — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 09:24:41 +0000

engineers pay for abstractions with more powerful hardware, but can optimize at their will (hopefully). will ai be able to afford more human hours to churn through piles of unfamiliar code?

New comment by kartoshechka in "How I archived 10 years of memories using Spotify"

kartoshechka — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 13:20:07 +0000

I think part of the experience is actually remembering by feeling what time does this song come from, and making it available in one click kinda kills the magic

New comment by kartoshechka in "Zellij: A terminal workspace with batteries included"

kartoshechka — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 08:16:15 +0000

I was confused by its plugins. Despite reading docs over a few days I still have no idea what does runtime for plugins look like, does zellij download them once? on each server start? on each plugin call? and since some features like a switching to a session from another session without spawning child zellij process is available only as plugin, that adds up the confusion, like am I hitting github every time when I switch sessions?

I didn't manage to find a way to update existing session layout when the layout config changed, only to recreate it, which is super boresome when you tinkering with plugin config that is embedded in layout config.

Resurrected sessions needs to be restored manually via somewhat lagging session manager, there's no cli api for that, in general when you need something to be done in another session, you can't.

The only good built-in feature I found is stacking layout showing running command in pane, but I delegate it to tabs in niri now.

Overall I would say if you're long time tmux user, switching to zellij isn't worth it. If you're new to concept of terminal emulators, zellij is much more friendlier, and I'm sure plugins would mature, docs would improve.

New comment by kartoshechka in "Smartphone buyers meh on AI, care more about battery life"

kartoshechka — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 20:10:51 +0000

the most useful ML feature for me is text recognition on photos, helps to copy phone numbers and such

New comment by kartoshechka in "Hyprland 0.44"

kartoshechka — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 04:18:40 +0000

does zoom screen sharing works? it's the only thing preventing me from daily driving it

New comment by kartoshechka in "Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought [pdf]"

kartoshechka — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 17:29:23 +0000

offtopic, but I can't fathom why academia and Nature specifically thinks that 2 columns of tiny text is a comfortable format for reading off screen

New comment by kartoshechka in "Employees who stay in companies longer than two years get paid 50% less (2014)"

kartoshechka — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 03:43:42 +0000

for the sake of being marketable to recruiters and other hiring people, I think being honest won't do much good. I'd leave a handful of jobs, not necessarily the most recent, but for example ones where impact was the most salable, and the rest just throw under the rug, make up some dates if needed. I think it is very reasonable thing to expect from senior people, to highlight the most relevant experience from their long list of jobs

New comment by kartoshechka in ":syntax off (2016)"

kartoshechka — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 18:03:43 +0000

you should set up semantic token highlighting together with highlight on cursor hold for your language of use, former is usually a feature of language server, latter should be out of box behavior in modern ides

not quite what you desire, but certainly better than plain syntax highlight

New comment by kartoshechka in "Your GitHub pull request workflow is slowing everyone down"

kartoshechka — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 08:16:24 +0000

we tried to break up features into smaller PRs at one $dayjob, and the problem with small increments is that you have to plan out to some degree of detail upfront, which can't be always fast, and isn't always reasonable. otherwise, you can miss the bigger picture reviewing intermediate "steps", especially if it isn't the same person who reviews the entire feature.

also juggling branches doesn't scale beyond single repo, use worktrees instead

New comment by kartoshechka in "Show HN: I made a website to find best bus seat to avoid the sun while traveling"

kartoshechka — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 06:46:35 +0000

gosh, I've been thinking about making this for years, now I have to generalize for planes

New comment by kartoshechka in "The worst kind of programmer"

kartoshechka — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 12:17:54 +0000

rust teams claim aside, having golang as primary lang in your stack is the bulletproof way to suck all the joy out of daywork. I feel like I'm golang typist, rather then programmer/engineer. coming from functional language, how come it's only in 1.21 they added `maps.contains`, relying on ugly ass assign-two-vars-check-ok construct before?

I can't help but think golang is at best in beta version now, and it's too bad companies picked it up (even without generics, lol)

New comment by kartoshechka in "XPath Scraping with FreshRSS"

kartoshechka — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 01:46:32 +0000

rss bridge [1] seems to do the same, but it's not coupled to any rss reader

[1] https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge

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

kartoshechka — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 19:00:16 +0000

golang almost accomplished to be non scary language, but the users have been fighting back

New comment by kartoshechka in "Ask HN: Why isn't Phoenix/Elixir more mainstream?"

kartoshechka — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 02:53:06 +0000

IMO, lack of support from strong typing leaves you with nothing but writing better code in general. Undoubtedly type checker prevents obviously/not that obviously invalid code, but if you can't catch it yourself, you're fucked :)

Although most elixir code I've worked with was written by guys coming from ruby/java, and they just couldn't resist abusing macros for emulating inheritance, or overusing macros per se, once you switch your mind and clean that shit up, elixir is more maintainable than golang, for example (working for go company now). It has more tools to manage complexity and boilerplate, while nearly all golang code is complex/boilerplate itself.

New comment by kartoshechka in "Java 21 makes me like Java again"

kartoshechka — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 18:14:53 +0000

it's kinda funny to me when people with latest macbooks, loaded with actually useful but comically expensive programs, open up goland that itself has a shit ton of features, to write some error handling in go

New comment by kartoshechka in "Tech Independence"

kartoshechka — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 06:44:30 +0000

great post! I'd like to mention one more "indie" tip - physical security key is nice to have (2 even better) if you plan to lose/break your phone, or travel frequently. Add the most important auth keys (bank, email, etc) directly to the physical key, back them up on the second one, and now you're less "working smartphone with an active sim" dependent :)