Hacker News: mikl

New comment by mikl in "The RubyGems "Security Incident""

mikl — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 10:23:06 +0000

> I took action as the primary on-call engineer to lock down the AWS account and prevent any actions by possible attackers.

So he suspected an attack, but did not contact his employer about it or other team members. No action taken to mitigate the attack or to identify what was going on. Just changed the AWS root account password and nothing else.

Even assuming the very best intentions, I don’t think it unreasonable that Ruby Central found that a little bit suspicious.

New comment by mikl in "An open letter calling for a hard fork of Rails to remove DHH's influence"

mikl — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 07:38:35 +0000

I don’t really think pedantry about terms changes the overall point.

New comment by mikl in "An open letter calling for a hard fork of Rails to remove DHH's influence"

mikl — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 18:13:59 +0000

Great Britain is the big island next to Ireland. So the Scots, Welsh and English are British.

Most Irish people would not take kindly to be called British, but then there’s Northern Ireland with all its complexities.

New comment by mikl in "An open letter calling for a hard fork of Rails to remove DHH's influence"

mikl — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 07:56:23 +0000

They can just fork Rails right now, no need for dramatic open letters.

As for trying to unseat the Rails founder and BDFL, no chance.

New comment by mikl in "Murex – An intuitive and content aware shell for a modern command line"

mikl — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 07:33:03 +0000

Maybe I’m just not the target audience, but looking at the front page, I don’t see what actual problems this solves. The claims sound nice, but without examples of what they mean in real world use, it’s not really compelling.

New comment by mikl in "All-In on Omarchy at 37signals"

mikl — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 00:03:01 +0000

You can't do anything like Omarchy with macOS. Everything is locked down tight, no customization or tweaking allowed.

Lots of developers are tired of being hemmed in and disrespected by Apple. Omarchy gets us back into using an OS made for developers, by developers.

New comment by mikl in "Against the UUID"

mikl — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 11:35:41 +0000

This exceedingly uninformed rant makes more sense when you understand that the author has his own timestamp format he wants to push.

Counterpoints:

- UUID is not random characters, it's a 128 bit number and is stored as such in many databases. It can be presented as a hex-string with dash-separators, but it doesn't have to be.

- There are several types of UUIDs. UUIDv4 is mostly just random bits. Others have time and machine numbering, like Snowflake IDs. UUIDv7 has a combination of time and randomness.

- UUIDv7 was made to address the database index problem, rendering that point moot.

Lots of tools understand and/or support UUIDs.

You can complain about the overhead of storing and indexing 128 bit numbers if you want, but realize that a string like 2025_P5U5_326662 is likely also going to be stored as 128 bits. And the added value of having the year in front (the rest is not going to mean anything to the average user) is not that great.

New comment by mikl in "Gitea Private, Fast, Reliable DevOps Platform"

mikl — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 00:14:09 +0000

There’s also a more community-driven/open source fork of Gitea, called Forgejo: https://forgejo.org/

New comment by mikl in "A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page (2022)"

mikl — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 10:17:42 +0000

How relevant is this now, if you have a modern server that supports HTTP/3?

HTTP/3 uses UDP rather than TCP, so TCP slow start should not apply at all.

New comment by mikl in "The Danish Ministry of Digitalization Is Switching to Linux and LibreOffice"

mikl — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 10:54:26 +0000

Will be interesting to see if they can make it stick. Everyone is used to Windows + Office, so there’ll be a lot of resistance to trying something else, and if their IT department is not ready for it, it can quickly become a shit-show.

New comment by mikl in "The Danish Ministry of Digitalization Is Switching to Linux and LibreOffice"

mikl — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 10:48:46 +0000

That’s the nice thing about Open Source. Nothing’s stopping you from organizing this yourself.

New comment by mikl in "The Awful German Language (1880)"

mikl — Fri, 16 May 2025 15:16:33 +0000

Everyone likes their mother tongue better, so does Mark Twain. No need to write a whole treatise about it.

Having lived 10+ years in Switzerland and having learned the language (and the local dialects), I really like German. But like many delicacies, it is an acquired taste.

New comment by mikl in "BYD to offer Tesla-like self-driving tech in all models for free"

mikl — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 00:28:03 +0000

One might hope it’ll cause Tesla to drop the price for their “full” self-driving too. $8'000 for a software feature is just bonkers. Especially in Europe, where there’s no subscription option, so you can’t even try it without paying the full price first, and many of the fancier features are not supported here. Even regular auto-pilot is not very reliable for me, it often fails to recognize city limits signs, and fairly often panic brakes because it misinterprets cars driving on the other side of the road as being on collision course.

New comment by mikl in "BYD to offer Tesla-like self-driving tech in all models for free"

mikl — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 00:19:59 +0000

So would all the other western automakers. The lower wage- and energy costs in China would strangle them all.

New comment by mikl in "I have made the decision to disband Hindenburg Research"

mikl — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 10:38:26 +0000

Hindenburg goes down in flames?

New comment by mikl in "Swedish minister eyes energy crisis steps, blames German nuclear phase-out"

mikl — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 09:17:02 +0000

You can say that, but on the power flow maps, it was quite clear. At the same time we were paying ~$1.5 USD for 1 kWh, we were exporting power to Germany (and other energy-unstable countries like Italy). Sure, better energy links inside Sweden could have helped, but part of the reason the price was being bid up so high was the exports to Germany.

New comment by mikl in "If not React, then what?"

mikl — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 23:15:31 +0000

Hello world might be simple, but you don’t have to build very much before you start to run into problems with the simple “props down, events up” and you start needing to learn about contexts, hooks in general and so on.

Hooks is really one of those things where you need an IDE to tell you that you’re doing it wrong, since there’s a whole bunch of footguns. It’s doing its best to solve a hard problem inside the limitations of JavaScript, but it is essentially a kludge.

New comment by mikl in "WordPress.org's latest move involves taking control of a WP Engine plugin"

mikl — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 11:20:32 +0000

1. Release your code as open source.

2. Make a fortune.

3. Complain that people are freeloading.

4. Abuse your power as project founder to punish them, torching the community trust you’ve built up over decades.

5. Profit?

Whatever Mullenweg hoped to gain by undermining WPEngine can’t possibly be worth the damage he’s done to WP and his own company.

New comment by mikl in "Whence '\n'?"

mikl — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 19:03:34 +0000

The interesting point is how the value of 10 is not defined in Rust’s source code, but passed down as “word of mouth” from compiler to compiler.

New comment by mikl in "Matt Mullenweg cries foul and threatens me with legal action"

mikl — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 07:06:36 +0000

He’s really working hard on torching his reputation. The whole WPEngine debacle just makes him look petty and mean.