Hacker News: kello

New comment by kello in "Show HN: Syncular – offline-first SQL sync with TypeScript and Rust cores"

kello — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 10:27:19 +0000

This is cool. Reminds of Lotus Notes. In a strange way a concept that felt "outdated" is something that I would love to be the default behavior for many apps today.

New comment by kello in "Ask HN: What non-fiction do you read?"

kello — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 13:46:40 +0000

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard

New comment by kello in "Ask HN: What should developers focus on now that AI can do a lot of coding?"

kello — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 09:37:45 +0000

I know you probably meant "it all boils down to that" but I am totally going to try to make "it all boils fish to that" a thing now :D

New comment by kello in "Ask HN: Tell me about how you bombed a technical interview"

kello — Sun, 09 Apr 2023 21:21:54 +0000

Just last summer I bombed a take-home interview project with Lufthansa Technik. They wanted me to implement Rock Paper Scissors a litte bit "over-engineered." Long story short their definition of "over-engineered" was much more involved than mine. I thought I would just need to implement it such that I showed that I wasn't bullshitting them about being able to do that which I said I could. Maybe 2-3 hours of work. I was wrong. Knowing what I know now, I would have had to spend at least 8 hours on it. They expected me to implement a complete backend, frontend, test suites, and design the application such that they would I would be able to extend it to fit an unknown requirement that they only revealed to me during the review of my assignment.

This culminated in the Engineering Manager saying to me at one point: "Wow, you have a lot of experience, it's sad you didn't show us that in your assignment."

TL;DR: Bombed a take-home assignment with the vague requirements of "over-engineer it on purpose" because my "over-engineering" was not over-engineered enough even though it completely fulfilled all requirements. If you're going to give take-home assignments please define hard requirements up front and avoid vague guidelines like "over-engineer this please k thanks"

New comment by kello in "Show HN: Apple Notes Liberator – Extract Notes.app Data and Save It as JSON"

kello — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 20:18:07 +0000

On my system it is located at /Users/YOUR_USER/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.notes/NoteStore.sqlite. I have a relatively older mac osx version though and an ancient 2013 MBP. Could be that the file location has changed in the meantime.

New comment by kello in "Show HN: Apple Notes Liberator – Extract Notes.app Data and Save It as JSON"

kello — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 05:59:15 +0000

This is so cool and way cooler than my tool!! I chose JSON because it was the easiest option. And also because it is the format I wanted to support first, but mostly because it was the easiest.

New comment by kello in "Show HN: Apple Notes Liberator – Extract Notes.app Data and Save It as JSON"

kello — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 05:57:30 +0000

Wow! this is so cool! I had no idea about this!

New comment by kello in "Show HN: Apple Notes Liberator – Extract Notes.app Data and Save It as JSON"

kello — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 05:56:19 +0000

Okay this is awesome! 100% cooler than my project!!

New comment by kello in "Show HN: Apple Notes Liberator – Extract Notes.app Data and Save It as JSON"

kello — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 05:55:44 +0000

Wow that is so cool! I had no idea Notes.app worked with IMAP!

New comment by kello in "Show HN: Apple Notes Liberator – Extract Notes.app Data and Save It as JSON"

kello — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 05:54:17 +0000

Literally 0 added value here over the other library. In fact, my tool is a net value subtraction from the other library. The other library has way more features and works great! This was mostly a project for my own learning of how Apple Notes stores its data. I honestly didn't expect it do get any attention!

New comment by kello in "Show HN: Apple Notes Liberator – Extract Notes.app Data and Save It as JSON"

kello — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 05:52:59 +0000

You should absolutely just do this. 100% the better option. I wanted to learn more about how Apple Notes stores its data and see how I could interact with it.

Show HN: Apple Notes Liberator – Extract Notes.app Data and Save It as JSON

kello — Sun, 26 Mar 2023 16:59:36 +0000

Hey there!

I just released the first version of a project I’ve been working on solves a very specific problem that perhaps only I have. I welcome any and all feedback, even if you just want to drop in to say that this is a hot piece of garbage!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35316679

Points: 563

# Comments: 105

New comment by kello in "More students are turning away from college and toward apprenticeships"

kello — Sat, 18 Mar 2023 18:18:41 +0000

Over here in Germany they have well-established apprenticeship programs for many more jobs than in the US. There are apprenticeships for software developers, for bankers, for "Bürokauffrau/Bürokaufmanm" (office clerks/administrators), for media work, for all sorts of medical jobs, and so on. You name it, and there is probably an "Ausbildung" (apprenticeship) for it here. The apprenticeship programs are still somewhat not as "prestigious" as going to university, but they will get you in the door at a company for that job.

Many people even combine the two, opting to do an apprenticeship and follow it up with studies, or vice-versa, or do both at the same time.

New comment by kello in "Parse Apple Notes SQLite Datastore Easily"

kello — Sun, 13 Nov 2022 12:24:10 +0000

I didn't make this, but find it incredibly cool. Thought I'd share.

Parse Apple Notes SQLite Datastore Easily

kello — Sun, 13 Nov 2022 12:24:10 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/threeplanetssoftware/apple_cloud_notes_parser

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33582413

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by kello in "Epic Games acquires Bandcamp"

kello — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 23:26:18 +0000

I hate everything about this :/

New comment by kello in "Failing to Learn Zig via Advent of Code"

kello — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 16:33:09 +0000

I definitely fall into this category. I stopped on Day 8 Part 2 this year getting frustrated and falling behind. Good practice for sure and I feel more prepared for next year, still, just wanted to post that I identify myself in what you mention here!

New comment by kello in "Game engines as an art form"

kello — Wed, 29 Dec 2021 19:59:09 +0000

This hits hard for me. The part about being in control especially.

New comment by kello in "Ask HN: What is your spiritual practice?"

kello — Mon, 27 Dec 2021 19:25:27 +0000

Hey fellow former devout mormon here. Im sure our journeys have been radically different but I identify so much with what you are saying here.

New comment by kello in "Tell HN: You are not alone this Christmas"

kello — Sat, 25 Dec 2021 12:06:16 +0000

Thank you so much for this! I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas spending it exactly the way you want to.