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New comment by kjmr in "Uv is fantastic, but its package management UX is a mess"

kjmr — Fri, 22 May 2026 09:47:27 +0000

Author here. It wasn't a recommendation, it was just the only way I knew how to. "uv pip list --outdated" indeed has much better output, thanks!

Though this makes me wonder why are there 2 ways of viewing outdated packages, with wildly different output? The UX is mess...

New comment by kjmr in "Uv is fantastic, but its package management UX is a mess"

kjmr — Fri, 22 May 2026 07:15:53 +0000

“Removing upper version bounds is important when publishing libraries.”

That makes total sense! The article however was written as someone creating websites, not libraries. And when I consume dependencies in my web project, I do want those upper bounds to prevent breaking changes (assuming the dependencies respect SemVer of course).

Thanks for pointing out that config, I’ve updated the article.

New comment by kjmr in "Uv is fantastic, but its package management UX is a mess"

kjmr — Fri, 22 May 2026 01:40:28 +0000

Once you know what the ^ means (I always think of “roof”), I do think that one character is easier to read than >=,<

New comment by kjmr in "Uv is fantastic, but its package management UX is a mess"

kjmr — Fri, 22 May 2026 01:34:58 +0000

What you’re saying makes sense for library authors. But when I make a website and I depend on a bunch of packages, that’s where I want to be safe when upgrading and I want that upper bound. The —-bound flag really helps, but is one more thing to type and remember.

Maybe when uv knows the project isn’t a library it could default to upper bounds?

New comment by kjmr in "Uv is fantastic, but its package management UX is a mess"

kjmr — Fri, 22 May 2026 01:21:54 +0000

The lack of an upper bound in pyproject.toml isn’t the real problem. The real problem is that `uv lock —-upgrade` does a wholesale upgrade of everything without an upper bound. If there was a way to upgrade packages without updating the major version, this command would be a lot safer to run.

New comment by kjmr in "Uv is fantastic, but its package management UX is a mess"

kjmr — Fri, 22 May 2026 00:57:40 +0000

Author of the article here. Sorry it comes across as “clickbait style” when actually it’s simply Dutch bluntness and honesty

poetry update also updates the lockfile. I really think the way the uv cli is organized makes it quite annoying to work with. It’s designed for correctness, for machines, not for user-friendliness.

New comment by kjmr in "Tim Cook sold Apple's soul"

kjmr — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 15:10:59 +0000

The article links to https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-crisis-no-5, which goes deep into China and manufacturing.

Tim Cook sold Apple's soul

kjmr — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 14:01:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.loopwerk.io/articles/2026/tim-cook-sold-apples-soul/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46856133

Points: 34

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Coolify accidentally broke Docker layer caching (and what you can do now)

kjmr — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 19:20:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.loopwerk.io/articles/2025/coolify-docker-layer-caching/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45939872

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by kjmr in "Are there any CLI-only tools that are monetized, no web UI at all?"

kjmr — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 20:43:13 +0000

Yeah, you'd have to outsource the payment processing completely to a third party, which handles everything like updating payment methods etc. Stripe payment links might work well, although I have no experience with them.

New comment by kjmr in "Are there any CLI-only tools that are monetized, no web UI at all?"

kjmr — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 20:27:22 +0000

I wouldn't want to give my credit card info to a CLI. When it's on the web I can see if the connection is encrypted, I can (usually) see who the payment processor is (like Stripe). What happens with my credit card number that I enter into the CLI? How is it sent, where does it get stored, etc.

You also wouldn't be able to support Apple Pay or Google Pay, or international payment methods (like iDEAL in The Netherlands).

Payments seem like a huge problem to go pure CLI without a web UI.

An archive of Spamusement.com (which went offline in 2020)

kjmr — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 20:14:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.spamusement.cc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45430658

Points: 3

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A quarter century of chasing simplicity

kjmr — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 03:48:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.loopwerk.io/articles/2025/25-years-chasing-simplicity/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45177179

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Show HN: I built a Trump filter for RSS feeds

kjmr — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 20:00:22 +0000

I love RSS feeds - it’s how I keep up with all of my (tech) news. The big downside with RSS though? You get all the articles that are in the feed. And unless your RSS reader of choice offers built-in mute or filter functionality, you’re just stuck with those articles.

So I built RSSfilter.com, a service that filters public RSS feeds, and spits out a new RSS feed without the articles that match keywords or categories you’re not interested in.

Announcement: https://www.loopwerk.io/articles/2025/announding-rssfilter-c...

Site: https://rssfilter.com

Django code: https://github.com/loopwerk/django-rss-filter

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43604460

Points: 1

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