Hacker News: metaltyphoon

New comment by metaltyphoon in "Good Tools Are Invisible"

metaltyphoon — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 01:18:23 +0000

This must be an online thing. In 15+ years of career I haven't yet heard "real software engineer...". If you get your work done no one cares how the hell you accomplish it

New comment by metaltyphoon in "Rewriting Bun in Rust"

metaltyphoon — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 03:53:35 +0000

> Rust is (mostly) safer and more succinct than Zig while being dramatically less ergonomic

This is just your opinion.

New comment by metaltyphoon in "Tokenmaxxing is dead, long live tokenmaxxing"

metaltyphoon — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 18:51:55 +0000

> Tokenmaxxing was never a thing to begin with.

Anecdote, I thought so too until the company I work just instated this where you have spend from 35-60K within 6 months. Insanity

New comment by metaltyphoon in "Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads"

metaltyphoon — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:43:45 +0000

The M5 air is much faster than M1 Pro (I have the same setup as OP)

New comment by metaltyphoon in "Pledging another $400k to the Zig software foundation"

metaltyphoon — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 03:55:23 +0000

I guess I should have been more specific. I'm not a fan of fields all being public

New comment by metaltyphoon in "Pledging another $400k to the Zig software foundation"

metaltyphoon — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 18:07:24 +0000

For me, anytype and the everything is public

New comment by metaltyphoon in "Code duplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction (2016)"

metaltyphoon — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 16:47:52 +0000

> Do you want to iterate using for loop or using .iter().step(2).map()?

I don’t think it matters, specially for sort sized loop scopes

New comment by metaltyphoon in "What job interviews taught me about Kubernetes"

metaltyphoon — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 03:41:21 +0000

The grass is not always greener. I would change the Service Fabric crap I have to deal with any day to K8s.

New comment by metaltyphoon in "macOS Container Machines"

metaltyphoon — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:40:46 +0000

> wsl2 (and this apple thing) is just a meme. if you're working in it, you're better of just installing Linux or ssh'ing to a server.

Many enterprises allow windows only so your way into Linux is via WSL2

New comment by metaltyphoon in "Zig: Build System Reworked"

metaltyphoon — Sat, 30 May 2026 14:31:15 +0000

For me it’s string handling, no private, unused variable is compilation error, and having to implement interfaces myself.

New comment by metaltyphoon in "Zig: Build System Reworked"

metaltyphoon — Sat, 30 May 2026 14:18:18 +0000

Go changed something, not sure if 20 or 21, where it will download the Go compiler of all your third-party which don’t match yours. It slows things down.

New comment by metaltyphoon in "Announcing Rust 1.96"

metaltyphoon — Fri, 29 May 2026 12:39:01 +0000

Don't let perfect be the enemy of good enough. This is much better, IMO, than what many other languages do, including Go's modulename/v2 style.

New comment by metaltyphoon in "Announcing Rust 1.96"

metaltyphoon — Fri, 29 May 2026 00:41:17 +0000

> std::range should stay where it is, and the new one be introduced as std::range/v2

Isn’t this what editions are for?

New comment by metaltyphoon in "Go: Support for Generic Methods"

metaltyphoon — Wed, 27 May 2026 23:21:41 +0000

Except Zig is not 1.0

New comment by metaltyphoon in ".NET (OK, C#) finally gets union types"

metaltyphoon — Sun, 24 May 2026 12:48:57 +0000

> C++ codebases

Now this one sounds almost unbelievable :). I’ve yet to see 3 or more C++ codebases using the same language feature set.

New comment by metaltyphoon in "Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses"

metaltyphoon — Sat, 23 May 2026 19:05:23 +0000

> Productivity. You generate the skeleton of the code with Codex/Claude Code/et. al. and refactor it manually.

This doesn’t mean much if you are using a terminal editor.

New comment by metaltyphoon in "Shunning AI is the human choice"

metaltyphoon — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:34:45 +0000

> "Working my ass off as an IC who can't move up the gradient" -> "Principal Investigator, CEO, CTO, CMO, CRO of a 10-person team, captain of creation, actual Iron Man."

* Are you being compensated for all those roles you now do?

* If you do 5x does this mean you get more time for yourself or are you now busy 24/7 with more work?

* Extrapolate this all other "5x" IC, now you all are CEO CTO CMO CRO iron man. Now what?

New comment by metaltyphoon in "Shunning AI is the human choice"

metaltyphoon — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:07:51 +0000

Thinking -> Pay something else (AI) to "think" for you

New comment by metaltyphoon in "Shunning AI is the human choice"

metaltyphoon — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:05:37 +0000

Society is just 3 meals away from going that route

New comment by metaltyphoon in "Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes"

metaltyphoon — Tue, 12 May 2026 22:05:02 +0000

+1. The idea of making tiling + floating a first class citizen was the best decision they made.