Hacker News: mati365

New comment by mati365 in "I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over"

mati365 — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 16:20:32 +0000

ofc it's sold. Take a look at this: https://www.rb2b.com/

It identifies users that visit your site and then shows their email, phone number and living place based on their Li profile ;))

New comment by mati365 in "SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes (2023)"

mati365 — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 20:56:27 +0000

Oh, it looks like my X86-16 boot sector C compiler that I made recently [1]. Writing boot sector games has a nostalgic magic to it, when programming was actually fun and showed off your skills. It's a shame that the AI era has terribly devalued these projects.

[1] https://github.com/Mati365/ts-c-compiler

Show HN: CKEditor 5 Symfony Integration

mati365 — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 06:18:25 +0000

In an era of widespread IT industry obsession with AI and the emergence of a quadrillion utilities that serve to integrate AI into projects, I decided to create a package that is NOT just another package generating prompts or integrating yet another of dozens of AI models.

Here is the integration of the good old CKEditor into Symfony, this time in version 5. With RTC support, multiple editor shapes, multiple editables (e.g., you can create header, content, and footer sections of an article with a single editor instance), and custom plugins.

The integration is designed to work with AssetsMapper and Symfony >= 6.4. I would appreciate your feedback!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46584740

Points: 1

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New comment by mati365 in "Quill OS: An open-source OS for Kobo's eReaders"

mati365 — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 06:46:04 +0000

You can also use Dropbox to sync your data on some kobo devices. It used to be disabled, but you can enable it manually in one config file.

New comment by mati365 in "Can text be made to sound more than just its words? (2022)"

mati365 — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 12:07:04 +0000

Consider learning Polish. Kurwa sounds exactly as it looks.

Show HN: CKEditor 5 Livewire Integration

mati365 — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 12:09:48 +0000

For Livewire, there isn't a solid WYSIWYG editor integration that handles syncing cleanly with the Laravel backend and Livewire itself, so I made one.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45720062

Points: 1

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New comment by mati365 in "Pasta/80 is a simple Pascal cross compiler targeting the Z80 microprocessor"

mati365 — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 13:40:33 +0000

Writing compilers for old CPUs has some real magic in it. It helps you see how processors really work and brings back the old days when hardware was simple and easy to understand. I miss that time. I once wrote a small C compiler in TypeScript for the Intel 8086 and 8087 ([1]), and I have huge respect for the people who coded for those chips. It’s super hard but also very rewarding.

[1] https://github.com/Mati365/ts-c-compiler

New comment by mati365 in "Why I Chose Elixir Phoenix over Rails, Laravel, and Next.js"

mati365 — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 18:00:35 +0000

It’s not about frustration, unwillingness to learn, or dismissing the tool altogether. My point is about trust. I just can’t imagine a Next.js app being as easily maintainable 10 years down the road as a Rails one. Honestly, I can’t even picture upgrading to a new major version without breaking something, because the pace of changes is just too fast. Sure, it’s great for small, simple projects. But building a business on it and risking breakages or dropped support? Not for me.

New comment by mati365 in "Why I Chose Elixir Phoenix over Rails, Laravel, and Next.js"

mati365 — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 16:59:39 +0000

In the latest Rails versions, it’s probably just as easy as in Phoenix. The question is whether, after years of churn in the Rails frontend ecosystem, the core team hasn’t already driven away most developers who might have cared. At this point, few people would use a library that targets the newest Rails versions when most teams treat Rails purely as a backend and handle the frontend with something else.

New comment by mati365 in "Why I Chose Elixir Phoenix over Rails, Laravel, and Next.js"

mati365 — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 16:30:25 +0000

I'm not so sure Next.js is as SEO-friendly as people claim. The JavaScript bundles are pretty heavy, and the page still needs to hydrate before it becomes fully interactive. There are attempts to speed this up with React Server Components, but the developer experience there is already worse than with Phoenix components.

Next.js server performance isn’t great either - honestly, it’s pretty bad. Pages don’t feel that fast for users despite all the tricks and optimizations. In my opinion, metrics like LCP and others are much easier to optimize in older, more traditional frameworks. Unless you’re building a full-blown web application, a classic web page will almost always be faster and simpler to deliver without all the Next.js complexity.

New comment by mati365 in "Why I Chose Elixir Phoenix over Rails, Laravel, and Next.js"

mati365 — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 16:25:03 +0000

The main issues were related to how JavaScript is integrated and distributed within Rails. In older versions, you have to deal with Sprockets and dependency bundling, which is tricky if you want your integration to work across a wide range of Rails versions.

In newer versions, import maps are recommended instead. The problem is that import maps enforce ESM, while Sprockets (as far as I know) doesn’t support ESM at all. On top of that, there are compatibility issues with Turbo links, various form libraries, and the limited extensibility of the import map library itself - adding extra dependencies is just painful.

Installing CKEditor wasn’t straightforward either, so I ended up creating a small DSL to simplify it. But then came another challenge: providing support for custom plugins in a way that would work with every Rails version, even without a bundler.

All of this is made even harder by the fact that CKEditor is distributed in both cloud and NPM versions, which complicates integration paths further.

In contrast, Phoenix makes things much simpler. From what I remember, the standard setup uses esbuild, which automatically pulls NPM dependencies from the deps directory - the same place where Elixir libraries are installed. This means you can distribute a package that includes both the Elixir and NPM parts of the editor, without having to manually modify package.json or worry about dependency conflicts.

New comment by mati365 in "Why I Chose Elixir Phoenix over Rails, Laravel, and Next.js"

mati365 — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 15:09:02 +0000

I implemented CKEditor integrations for Rails, Livewire, Phoenix, and React. I think the best developer experience was with Phoenix - at every step I was surprised by how well thought-out the framework is and how easy it is to build integrations for it. I definitely can’t say the same about Rails or, especially, React with the awful Next.js. For anyone curious: https://github.com/Mati365/ckeditor5-phoenix

As for Livewire - it feels like a simplified copy of Phoenix. In my opinion, it’s less advanced and less intuitive. For example, Livewire components don’t support slots, while Phoenix components handle them without any issues. Slots are critical for clean component composition - without them, you end up with messy, repetitive templates and a lot of unnecessary logic in the components themselves.

When it comes to Next.js, constant router changes and questionable decisions have become a daily routine. There’s no point integrating with something that gets rewritten every week and can’t be trusted to stay stable.

New comment by mati365 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)"

mati365 — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 04:57:28 +0000

CKEditor 5 integration for Laravel Livewire. Since Livewire doesn’t have an easily embeddable WYSIWYG editor, I built one.

https://github.com/Mati365/ckeditor5-livewire

New comment by mati365 in "Alibaba cloud FPGA: the $200 Kintex UltraScale+"

mati365 — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 07:21:18 +0000

What's special about this?

New comment by mati365 in "Was laid off from Microsoft after 23 years, and I'm still going into the office"

mati365 — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 16:51:58 +0000

That's messed up, because now he's working for the employer for free, hoping the company will somehow replace the social connections it made him lose in the first place. It's definitely not something to look up to - it's just sad.

New comment by mati365 in "How to run cron jobs in Postgres without extra infrastructure"

mati365 — Sat, 31 May 2025 09:23:42 +0000

This article seems to be written entirely by AI :/

New comment by mati365 in "Replacing Kubernetes with systemd (2024)"

mati365 — Tue, 06 May 2025 04:57:43 +0000

Nice! I’ve been using a similar approach for years with my own setup: https://github.com/Mati365/hetzner-podman-bunjs-deploy. It’s built around Podman and systemd, and honestly, nothing has broken in all that time. Super stable, super simple. Just drop your units and go. Rock solid.

New comment by mati365 in "Paged Out #6 [pdf]"

mati365 — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 19:36:21 +0000

Gratz Gyn!

New comment by mati365 in "Quadlet: Running Podman containers under systemd"

mati365 — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 05:41:53 +0000

If anyone interested - I made recently Ansible template for Quadlet deployment that shows how easy is it.

GH: https://github.com/Mati365/hetzner-podman-bunjs-deploy

New comment by mati365 in "Fly To Podman: a script that will help you to migrate from Docker"

mati365 — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 20:53:28 +0000

Systemd .container services (Quadlet) are excellent. I used them to set up multiple smaller sites without any issues. Containers work just like regular systemd services. I created a small Ansible template to demonstrate how simple yet powerful this solution is.

GH: https://github.com/Mati365/hetzner-podman-bunjs-deploy