Hacker News: martpie

New comment by martpie in "Show HN: Gapless.js – gapless web audio playback"

martpie — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:50:44 +0000

Look very nice, I may end up using for https://museeks.io, gapless playback has been on the roadmap for a while, but WebAudio APIs have always been super cryptic, a higher-level API is very much welcome.

Meta Ray-Ban Display

martpie — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 00:30:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.meta.com/blog/meta-ray-ban-display-ai-glasses-connect-2025/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45283306

Points: 639

# Comments: 962

Linux Mint 22.2 "Zara" released

martpie — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 16:30:00 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4881

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45278004

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Vitest Browser Mode

martpie — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 19:21:04 +0000

Article URL: https://vitest.dev/guide/browser/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44802939

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Biome v2–Codename: Biotype

martpie — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 14:07:01 +0000

Article URL: https://biomejs.dev/blog/biome-v2/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44299423

Points: 12

# Comments: 1

New comment by martpie in "We are destroying software"

martpie — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 12:33:44 +0000

I mean, I hate business as much as any other engineer, but what’s the point of software without a business? (excl. the beauty of open source)

New comment by martpie in "Bun 1.2 Is Released"

martpie — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 16:27:34 +0000

TBH, all of what’s in this release came from previous 1.1.x patches.

It seems they just drafted a new release to communicate the groups of change from the previous releases.

New comment by martpie in "Svelte 5 Released"

martpie — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 09:36:11 +0000

That the whole industry embraced. Not bad for a piece of trash.

Tauri 2.0 Stable Release

martpie — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 16:00:57 +0000

Article URL: https://v2.tauri.app/blog/tauri-20/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41721996

Points: 39

# Comments: 10

New comment by martpie in "WP Engine is banned from WordPress.org"

martpie — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 08:36:00 +0000

Well, it definitely becomes harder when you cannot (officially) access any of the WP infra, including themes and plugins.

New comment by martpie in "Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses"

martpie — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 22:11:18 +0000

That is exactly what Meta acknowledged, and this is not a product that is going to be released to the public anyway.

Tauri 2.0 Release Candidate

martpie — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 19:44:16 +0000

Article URL: https://v2.tauri.app/blog/tauri-2-0-0-release-candidate/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41141962

Points: 209

# Comments: 96

New comment by martpie in "Proton Scribe: AI Writing Assistant"

martpie — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 15:41:11 +0000

As a non-native English speaker, I may be one the few finding this addition really useful to correct syntax and spelling mistakes.

I am not 100% sure to understand the hostility towards such a feature, that seems accessible only via a user-action.

New comment by martpie in "After 6 years, I'm over GraphQL"

martpie — Thu, 30 May 2024 15:43:08 +0000

To me, the best feature is Relay Fragments (I think Apollo has fragments too?), as each component describes the data they need: no need to do a big top-level request then pass down the data to the responsible components, everything is in one file.

It makes UI changes much much easier to deal with.

New comment by martpie in "React Labs: What We've Been Working On – February 2024"

martpie — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 11:45:27 +0000

Lots of valid points about the increase in complexity for React over the years, and that one should pick another more modern tech stack (Svelte, Solid, html, whatever), and I used to be thinking like that

But since maybe 1-2 years, I am back and betting on React for most of my serious projects (for the ecosystem, the ease of hiring, etc), but the most important point is the following:

React backwards compatibility is really good, and will stay so for a good reason: a LOT of Meta’s UI code is using old features (classes syntax etc), and Meta cannot afford to break those. If there are breaking changes, they must be “codemodable” (so, usable by everyone).

Meaning in terms of stability, I know my codebase today will still work fine in years ( or upgrade-able with minimal efforts). Of course there will be new shiny features, but I or my team will not have to rewrite old code all the time following tedious migration guides.

disclaimer: I am kind of biased as I work at Meta, but far from React.

New comment by martpie in "Tauri 2.0 tries to make mobile apps crossplatform"

martpie — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 00:28:51 +0000

Thank you very much for sharing your experience. I am developing on macOS so I have yet to face the Linux issues, but I have already faced a few issues on macOS, that require editing some plists file (switching media outputs for example), which made me "sigh" a couple of times.

In Electron, I got my fair share of Linux issues, but nothing critical (tray appearing twice, this kind of things).

This is the Electron paradox: this is the best platform to develop cross-platform apps, because it just works. Yet people hate it (for valid reasons).

New comment by martpie in "Tauri 2.0 tries to make mobile apps crossplatform"

martpie — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 23:03:31 +0000

@Sytten mentionned many issues with WebkitGTK, do you share the sentiment?

New comment by martpie in "Tauri 2.0 tries to make mobile apps crossplatform"

martpie — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 21:14:57 +0000

I am currently working on porting Museeks [0] from Electron to Tauri 2.0, mainly to reduce the memory and app size footprints, which are the main things everybody complains about with Electron.

What I really like:

- the dev experience is stellar and comes out of the box. No need to setup binary compilation, webpack, vite, hot-reload, TS compilation for back-end, etc yourself. You can pick your favorite JS framework with Vite, during setup, or use a Rust frontend (kind of what electron-forge is doing, but it is buggy, and landed yeaaaars after Electron was released).

- the architecture makes sense (commands, security, plugins, all very well-designed)

- they provide official plugins for common-usecases (SQL, config, etc)

- Rust is fun and interesting to learn for folks like me used to high-level languages like JS or Python

What I don't like as much:

- facing webview-specific UI issues (feature X does not work on Safari, Y not on gtk-webview etc), with Electron, you know if X works on Windows, it will work on Linux or MacOS

- some rough edges with the framework or the ecosystem (not as mature or dev-friendly as npm's or Electron), but the crates (and Tauri's) maintainers are very friendly and reactive.

- the focus on mobile apps, It seems like a very different space, and it feels weird to try to build with big mashup framework. I would rather have them work on more integrations, but whatever.

- changes in the Rust backend can take minutes to compile, and rust-analyzer is damn slow.

Overall I'm really happy and having a lot of fun. I will keep working on this port and release it when I can. Kudos to the Tauri team, what you are building is awesome :)

[0] https://museeks.io

New comment by martpie in "Claim: the ideal PR is 50 lines long"

martpie — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 19:36:18 +0000

Graphite is a code review tool (to organize PRs in stacked diffs), their data probably comes from their userbase, not just their internal team.

New comment by martpie in "Introducing react.dev"

martpie — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 21:03:15 +0000

How is that an actual _fundamental_ problem?

The world has embraced hooks, for better or worse. The fact is React still works well, and the React team has always been clear that performance is (somewhat) an implementation details. For example, they often advertise to use inlined functions and to use `useCallback` only if you're facing performance issues.

So `useCallback` invalidation is definitely not "fundamental" (imho)