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New comment by kellpossible2 in "Boris Cherny: TI-83 Plus Basic Programming Tutorial (2004)"

kellpossible2 — Fri, 08 May 2026 00:59:01 +0000

productive procrastination!

New comment by kellpossible2 in "Good developers learn to program. Most courses teach a language"

kellpossible2 — Sat, 02 May 2026 09:42:01 +0000

lessons could be learned without submitting upstream PRs

New comment by kellpossible2 in "Make macOS consistently bad (unironically)"

kellpossible2 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 21:39:34 +0000

writing this reply on a 13 inch macbook air...

New comment by kellpossible2 in "Diverse perspectives on AI from Rust contributors and maintainers"

kellpossible2 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 23:40:27 +0000

There must be plenty of people who "accept" it in a fatalistic manner, where the final result will not be a surprise.

New comment by kellpossible2 in "Go's Sweet 16"

kellpossible2 — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 04:42:49 +0000

Go with Sum types and no nil pointers would be fantastic! Is it too much to dream of? It feels like Gleam gets pretty close but it flies off in a bunch of other directions.

New comment by kellpossible2 in "Ask HN: Have you ever regretted open-sourcing something?"

kellpossible2 — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 08:16:51 +0000

what's to stop them from Recreate this library so that I can use it in my project without fear of copyright violation. in their very own claude code?

New comment by kellpossible2 in "Docs – Open source alternative to Notion or Outline"

kellpossible2 — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 19:10:02 +0000

please name some open source (or lower priced) alternatives that support: comments on documents, database functionality to a similar level, publishing websites, scripting for properties. I'm very curious!

New comment by kellpossible2 in "Waydroid – Android in a Linux container"

kellpossible2 — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 20:16:34 +0000

Lots of mapping apps have no equivalent, especially with an interface optimized to work on a phone

New comment by kellpossible2 in "Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia"

kellpossible2 — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 11:34:17 +0000

https://github.com/LucasPickering/slumber is also a good TUI alternative

New comment by kellpossible2 in "Engineering for Slow Internet"

kellpossible2 — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 07:17:06 +0000

Surprisingly my experience of GitLab is even worse! How's yours? BitBucket wasn't much better from memory either. Seems like most commercial offerings in this spaces suck.

New comment by kellpossible2 in "Show HN: Using Google Sheets as the back end/APIs of your app"

kellpossible2 — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 23:59:09 +0000

I did something very similar with https://github.com/kellpossible/avalanche-report/ we started with Google Sheets because it allowed us to quickly iterate with data entry workflow. When paired with a server this also allowed us to generate custom charts/diagrams via the IMAGE function with a crafted URL query. Reads are cached in a local sqlite database.

We're in the process of migrating away from Google Sheets now as it's a little painful to set up and it's impossible to completely prevent users from editing the wrong fields in our use case. But it has served very well so far and would highly recommend this approach to start with for anyone!

New comment by kellpossible2 in "Show HN: Using Google Sheets as the back end/APIs of your app"

kellpossible2 — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 23:53:06 +0000

It's max a couple of hours work to cache in some local database like sqlite or in memory.