Hacker News: kerryritter

New comment by kerryritter in "My AI skeptic friends are all nuts"

kerryritter — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 21:18:08 +0000

A well articulated blog, imo. Touches on all the points I see argued about on LinkedIn all the time.

I think leveling things out at the beginning is important. For instance, I recently talked to a senior engineer who said "using AI to write programming is so useless", but then said they'd never heard of Cursor. Which is fine - but I so often see strong vocal stances against using AI tools but then referring to early Copilot days or just ChatGPT as their experience, and the game has changed so much since then.

New comment by kerryritter in "Launch HN: mrge.io (YC X25) – Cursor for code review"

kerryritter — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 14:12:30 +0000

This looks like a cool solve for this problem. Some of the other tools I tried didn't seem to contextualize the app, so the comments were surface level and trite.

I'm on Bitbucket so will have to wait :)

New comment by kerryritter in "Transcriber AI – Free, end-to-end machine based transcription with speaker id"

kerryritter — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 15:02:28 +0000

Impressed by how accurately this identified and transcribed. Nice work

New comment by kerryritter in "Red meat is not a health risk. New study slams years of shoddy research"

kerryritter — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 20:45:51 +0000

The easiest way to understand unprocessed food is "nothing bad added, nothing good taken away".

For instance, pure peanut butter is unprocessed. While it runs through a mechanism to change it from peanuts to peanut butter, there is no oil added, nor are any of the healthful nutrients of peanut butter extracted. Opposite to this is peanut butter like JIF which is processed - the mix is diluted with sugar and vegetable oil to make the same amount of food for cheaper.

Same with tofu - it starts as soybeans and is ran through a mechanism to turn it into the blocks of tofu we see in stores, but we do not add sugar or oils to change the contents of that block, nor do we remove nutrients from the soybean (this may not be 100% accurate, but generally speaking, nutrients are not removed in this). However, many vegan meat products put a lot of unhealthy additions into the mix, thus making it processed.

New comment by kerryritter in "Fresh is a new full stack web framework for Deno"

kerryritter — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 14:47:20 +0000

I am very interested in seeing where this goes. I would love to see things get fleshed out a little more ala BlitzJS (auth, simple client/server session management, integrated database tooling), but I don't know if that goes along with Fresh's principles. But this is a very exciting start for this framework and looks like a great addition to the Deno ecosystem.

New comment by kerryritter in "Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell"

kerryritter — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 18:05:18 +0000

i <3 forwardemail. thank you for building this!

New comment by kerryritter in "Web Push Notifications in WebKit"

kerryritter — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 20:30:08 +0000

Anecdotally, every client that rejected a PWA approach has been due to insisting on push notifications. These apps are typically internal employee apps and the push notifications are important alerts that they do not want lost in the shuffle of emails.

New comment by kerryritter in "Ask HN: Does anyone else find the AWS Lambda developer experience frustrating?"

kerryritter — Sun, 18 Apr 2021 20:17:29 +0000

I typically write my Lambda functions as Nest apps, develop locally, and then deploy with the aws-serverless-express (or fastify) NPM package, and I enable The ability to trigger a kinesis/s3/etc events locally as well. The fact that my app gets deployed to Lambda doesn't really have any impact on my developer experience. What stops you from working locally?

Show HN: Symposia – host videos and live streams for paying subscribers

kerryritter — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 11:46:23 +0000

Article URL: https://symposia.app/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23562137

Points: 4

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New comment by kerryritter in "Ask HN: How do you organize and manage database migrations?"

kerryritter — Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:14:48 +0000

+1 for code-first migrations. It's a bit of a learning curve, but the effort is worth it imo.

New comment by kerryritter in "Ask HN: Best language to share code between an Android and iOS app?"

kerryritter — Sun, 27 Oct 2019 22:11:18 +0000

I'm surprised no one has pointed out the value of Ionic Framework (https://www.ionicframework.com). I'm a huge, huge proponent of this. TypeScript is a great language (in my opinion), UI code-sharing is inherent, and Capacitor (https://capacitor.ionicframework.com/) is great for all the native work you need to do. Worth noting you can do this in Angular, React, Vue, or pure JS.

This won't suit your needs for processing-heavy apps (though can WebWorkers help), but will work well for many apps (https://csform.com/top-10-apps-built-with-ionic-framework/ for a "top 10" list for examples).

I noticed after submitting that you mentioned machine-learning. Any reason you can't offload that to a web API and take the load off the client?

New comment by kerryritter in "Ionic React"

kerryritter — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 22:58:25 +0000

Sure, but this is a tool to build cross-platform mobile apps which look and feel native. Imo, proper UI defaults makes sense for such a purpose.

New comment by kerryritter in "$PHP = ;"

kerryritter — Wed, 24 Jan 2018 14:33:41 +0000

This is a satire piece.

New comment by kerryritter in "Node.js v9.2.0"

kerryritter — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 14:28:28 +0000

I have the same complaints. I've found NestJS (https://nestjs.com) to be a wonderful solution for a lot of what you're talking about. There's a few recipes to get you up and rolling with a real framework and also an ORM (TypeORM or Mongoose). Highly recommend.

New comment by kerryritter in "Cloud Firestore: A New Document Database for Apps"

kerryritter — Tue, 03 Oct 2017 19:11:04 +0000

Maybe I'm naive but I think a lot of people consider this, but the benefits of development speed outweigh the risk for a number of cases.

New comment by kerryritter in "New Surface Pro"

kerryritter — Tue, 23 May 2017 21:22:35 +0000

Same. I don't get it. My machines are 16gb and have zero problems with VMs, docker. What am I missing?

New comment by kerryritter in "Why I Stopped Using Multiple Monitors"

kerryritter — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 16:03:23 +0000

I wish I could do single monitor, but I need at least two - one with editor, one with browser for the app/site I'm building. Then preferably one for database admin/documentation/email/chat. Context switching between all that tends to slow me down I feel.

New comment by kerryritter in "German traffic light stays red for 28 years (2015)"

kerryritter — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 16:59:54 +0000

Wow, that moving IBM ad in the background is ridiculously annoying.

New comment by kerryritter in "Why I’m throwing out React and going back to Angular 1.x"

kerryritter — Tue, 14 Mar 2017 21:49:46 +0000

I am also a React fan but phrases like "I worked with React for a year and know well enough to get a brand new app up in less than a day" make me kind of sad. The cost just to get up and running with a JS framework these days is kind of painful. CLIs are doing a decent job resolving this, though.

New comment by kerryritter in "Ask HN: How do I get up to date as a frontend developer in 2017?"

kerryritter — Sat, 14 Jan 2017 00:06:04 +0000

All the teams I've been a part of use Bootstrap, including a lot of experienced front-end devs. Using SASS customization with Bootstrap really lets you hammer out a unique toolkit of common UI elements. However, my context is in web apps, not web sites. I could see strong reasoning for not bothering with Bootstrap for sites.