Hacker News: matthewwolfe

New comment by matthewwolfe in "Ask HN: What are you working on (non-AI)?"

matthewwolfe — Thu, 14 May 2026 05:06:31 +0000

An alternative to instagram and facebook. No ads and a focus on your friends instead of an explore feed that keeps you endlessly scrolling.

New comment by matthewwolfe in "How you breathe is like a fingerprint that can identify you"

matthewwolfe — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 17:02:49 +0000

This is the real reason why people like remote work.

New comment by matthewwolfe in "Trump's NASA cuts would destroy decades of science and wipe out its future"

matthewwolfe — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 18:09:23 +0000

That’s certainly one way to live life, although certainly not the only way. Many people use tech as a path to financial independence. There’s a running joke/groan that the FIRE sub is filled with software engineers making 6 figures.

New comment by matthewwolfe in "Ask HN: Am I old?"

matthewwolfe — Thu, 29 May 2025 21:31:43 +0000

I both like to code but am lazy enough to hate the monotony of doing the same thing over and over. While I do use AI regularly, I also use an extensive collection of code generators that are deterministic that help me skip past the boring part. Doing something novel (to me) is fun, creating a form UI for the 1000th time is not very fun.

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

matthewwolfe — Mon, 26 May 2025 03:15:02 +0000

If already open sourced, would love a link!

New comment by matthewwolfe in "Is Google UX Design Certificate Worth It?"

matthewwolfe — Fri, 10 May 2024 22:33:39 +0000

My wife went completed the Google UX Cert on a faster schedule (couple months I think) and she really enjoyed it. She did a lot of searching and looked at university/college online programs in UI/UX and even signed up for one, but found the quality horrible and cancelled. The Google program she thought was much higher quality, although ultimately you get out of it what you put in.

New comment by matthewwolfe in "How do HN users go about meeting significant others?"

matthewwolfe — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 12:26:56 +0000

I met my wife on a dating app, and we would have 100% never met without it. She is from Central America and happened to be visiting the US for a month. We went on a date, and then two and then three. Her one month stay turned into a five month stay.

We did long distance back and forth for ~2 years and then got engaged and married and now she lives with me in the US.

New comment by matthewwolfe in "Ask HN: HN App for iOS"

matthewwolfe — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 12:00:05 +0000

I’ve been using Octal for multiple years and really like it. I am primarily a reader, rarely a poster, and it seems to do the job well enough.

New comment by matthewwolfe in "Ask HN: React Native or Flutter for a new app in 2023?"

matthewwolfe — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 22:21:20 +0000

See my other comment above, but I was able to share basically everything that was not UI code. Types, request hooks, utils, configs/constants. Probably about 60% of the app, and you wouldn’t want to share UI code anyway because web and Native are so different.

New comment by matthewwolfe in "Ask HN: React Native or Flutter for a new app in 2023?"

matthewwolfe — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 22:02:30 +0000

Finally I have a relevant blog post!

Reflecting on Code Sharing React and React Native

https://matthewwolfe.github.io/blog/code-sharing-react-and-r...

Reflecting on Code Sharing Between React and React Native

matthewwolfe — Sun, 09 Jul 2023 15:17:30 +0000

Article URL: https://matthewwolfe.github.io/blog/code-sharing-react-and-react-native

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36655151

Points: 2

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New comment by matthewwolfe in "Ask HN: What are some niche features of your go-to programming language?"

matthewwolfe — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 19:46:51 +0000

And using objects to do the same thing in JS

New comment by matthewwolfe in "Ask HN: What lifestyle choices do you make to be productive?"

matthewwolfe — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 11:51:06 +0000

8 hours of sleep minimum. No drinking or smoking. Exercise regularly. Be content with what I have. Enjoy the little things in life, laugh at life’s absurdities.

New comment by matthewwolfe in "The 'fuck you' pattern (2021)"

matthewwolfe — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 21:07:16 +0000

My favorite part of Reddit mobile on iOS is that when it prompts you to view in app, it redirects to the App Store, even though I have the app installed! Then when I open the app it doesn’t preserve the page I was trying to get to. So it doesn’t even work!

New comment by matthewwolfe in "Ask HN: Free/Open Source equivalent to a CS bachelors degree?"

matthewwolfe — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 12:35:03 +0000

The closest I have found is this: https://github.com/ossu/computer-science

Wondering if anyone has found good alternatives or different options.

Ask HN: Free/Open Source equivalent to a CS bachelors degree?

matthewwolfe — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 11:59:09 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36390029

Points: 1

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New comment by matthewwolfe in "Ask HN: Would downvoting rude drivers reduce rude behavior while driving?"

matthewwolfe — Sat, 03 Jun 2023 19:58:46 +0000

Id like a system where people can submit dash cam footage of dangerous drivers or people doing illegal things, and if the person gets a ticket you get some percentage of the fine. Like what they did in NYC with people blocking bike lanes.

New comment by matthewwolfe in "Ask HN: What's your favorite stack for personal projects?"

matthewwolfe — Wed, 31 May 2023 23:30:50 +0000

NextJS, Vercel, Mongodb Atlas

New comment by matthewwolfe in "How to Cancel Your Hiccups"

matthewwolfe — Tue, 30 May 2023 01:19:09 +0000

This is the content I come to hacker news for

New comment by matthewwolfe in "Ask HN: Request for more takehomes over coding interviews"

matthewwolfe — Sat, 13 May 2023 18:31:54 +0000

The downside of take home assessments is that anyone can do it. You could hand off the assignment to a friend, or even hire someone to do it. So figure 1 hour for the take home + 1 hour for an additional interview where we ask questions about the take home to make sure you actually know what you are doing.

At my job, we designed our interview process around the question: “what is the minimum coding exercise that we expect anyone we hire to be able to do?”

This has resulted in an interview where we do ~30 minutes of coding, stuff like: function to reverse a string, function to add an array of numbers, find the largest number in an array of integers.

From there the rest of the interview is conversational. If the candidate is frontend we may dive into X, Y, Z technology. For example, if someone has 5+ years of React experience but doesn’t know what a hook is, that’s a red flag, etc.

You’d be surprised how many people are absolute garbage at those simple coding questions, despite having years of experience. And everyone that cruises those questions has been a great hire thus far, assuming no other red flags like bad culture fit or poor communication etc.