Hacker News: mindfulmark

New comment by mindfulmark in "Why AI Sucks at Front End"

mindfulmark — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:47:44 +0000

I think it’s ok that it’s similar to other SaaS websites. It wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for LLMs and it gets the job done and looks decent.

New comment by mindfulmark in "Why AI Sucks at Front End"

mindfulmark — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:48:13 +0000

We built the frontend for https://brooked.io and https://app.brooked.io using only prompting so I agree!

New comment by mindfulmark in "Porsche sold more electrified cars in Europe in 2025 than pure gas-powered cars"

mindfulmark — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 15:35:33 +0000

Anecdotal, but I'm extremely disappointed with my Hyundai Tucson purchase. It's the first car I've owned. The drive train is gone on it and the mechanic says it's a common issue. Only 140k on it, 2019. It's hard to believe I paid so much for it and got so little use.

New comment by mindfulmark in "Freeway guardrails are now a favorite target of thieves"

mindfulmark — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 12:10:47 +0000

More like we are all equally unprincipled when it comes to survival

New comment by mindfulmark in "Show HN: Tool to Automatically Create Organized Commits for PRs"

mindfulmark — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 11:11:05 +0000

I’ve reviewed stacked PRs a couple of times and found it pretty terrible. The only one that ends up making any sense is the first. Better off with either just one single big PR, or don’t ask anyone to look at the next PR until the first one is merged.

New comment by mindfulmark in "Gukesh becomes the youngest chess world champion in history"

mindfulmark — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 16:05:37 +0000

I guess I was just disagreeing with your opening sentence, the rest was spot on.

New comment by mindfulmark in "Gukesh becomes the youngest chess world champion in history"

mindfulmark — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 15:53:00 +0000

Disagree. Gukesh was constantly putting pressure on Ding to find defensive moves and Ding finally made a mistake. The fact that it happened when it did just makes it even more dramatic. We know from the other matches that Ding is capable of finding them, and the fact that he didn't just highlights that they're both human, both under extreme pressure and that it's not just mindless computation.

New comment by mindfulmark in "Can A.I. be blamed for a teen's suicide?"

mindfulmark — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 13:46:44 +0000

Can a bear be blamed for murder? Somewhere in between the two is where AI models currently are, and they’re going to continue getting closer to the bear scenario.

New comment by mindfulmark in "Ask HN: How to roll out an internal UI component library"

mindfulmark — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 03:32:13 +0000

Second this. Libraries like Material UI are battle tested and cover the vast majority of components you’re going to need. You can extend or theme them to match your needs and often include a built in design system. The likelihood of building something better from scratch are low.

New comment by mindfulmark in "Figma’s Journey to TypeScript"

mindfulmark — Sat, 04 May 2024 10:28:53 +0000

It’s interesting to read comment threads of people that are dead set against Typescript. It’s a tool that has very few downsides and that improves nearly every single line of code you write. Either they’re scared to learn something new, not willing to take the time, or misunderstanding how useful it is. For anyone reading these comments and agreeing with Typescript naysayers, I would think more about why the commenter and yourself feel that way. You’re putting yourself at a big disadvantage.

New comment by mindfulmark in "Varda Capsule Reentry – Five Minutes from LEO to Earth [video]"

mindfulmark — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 15:57:39 +0000

Seems like the gases are getting compressed either way and it's just different ways of wording the same effect. As for it being reversible or not, is it not just a matter of whether the energy was actually transferred somewhere? Like you could technically undo the shock the same as you could depressurise air in a pump no? I don't really know what I'm talking about though, fyi.

New comment by mindfulmark in "60 Terrible Tips for a C++ Developer"

mindfulmark — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 22:53:34 +0000

There are a some things in your comment that give me the impression that your opinions are too strong for your experience. 99% of codebases are bad. It’s the baseline condition. It’s our job everyday to slowly make them better. I’m extremely picky about what comments are allowed to make it into the codebase since the majority of comments I see are wrong, outdated, obvious and riddled with typos. I think it’s very easy to complain about bad code when really the best thing to do is just suck it up and fix things.

New comment by mindfulmark in "Ask HN: What boosted your confidence as a new programmer?"

mindfulmark — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 18:35:25 +0000

Realizing that external dependencies are regular codebases just like the one you're working on. That you can open them up in VSCode, look around and figure out any bugs or issues you're having and even open pull requests to improve them.

At that point, you lose the feeling that there are magic things out there that you will never understand and that for the most part everything is just regular old code that regular people wrote.

New comment by mindfulmark in "Ask HN: Tools to visualize data in SQL databases?"

mindfulmark — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 14:19:49 +0000

I'm curious why you don't recommend PowerBI. What are the pain points?

New comment by mindfulmark in "Ask HN: Would you like me to review your resume?"

mindfulmark — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 16:06:55 +0000

Ah, thanks! I've added it.

Ask HN: Would you like me to review your resume?

mindfulmark — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 15:42:39 +0000

Hoping this doesn’t go against any HN guidelines. My apologies in advance if it does.

With the holidays coming up I'll have some free time on my hands and would like to give back something to this community. I've been working as a frontend developer for almost a decade and I've looked at many resumes in that time. I've seen just about every level of quality in a resume and feel like many could have benefitted from having another developer review it.

So, if anyone is interested, I’m inviting you to send your resume to the email in my profile and I’ll try to give you some feedback. I don’t have any particular qualifications in doing this type of thing, so keep in mind that my feedback is subjective and not necessarily good advice. Nonetheless, I think there is still value in knowing the impression your resume makes on another developer and I'd like to provide that to you!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29626132

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New comment by mindfulmark in "The “Granny Knot”"

mindfulmark — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 23:33:32 +0000

Personally I call this « playing piano », as I’m not sure I’ve ever gotten passed this stage when practicing..

New comment by mindfulmark in "Netlify for the frontend, Micro for the backend"

mindfulmark — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 13:23:29 +0000

I think it's a good point and something I find myself worrying about as well. The hype around GraphQL and Apollo, for example, made me feel that I was losing serious time developing a REST APIs until I finally committed and decided to use it on a project. Obviously there ended up being a lot of trade-offs but in the end it was hard to tell if I saved any time at all. More generally, after falling for this a couple times of I realized that often you're just pushing problems around to different parts of the stack, or hiding complexity in places you'll eventually need to uncover. My experience says that the time consuming parts of building a product are rarely solved by adding flashy new services and libraries, and so I try to worry about these things less. On the other hand, trying out new stuff even just for an hour or two can give you a lot of insight into how much time it's actually going to save you - so worse case you just take it for a test run and see what it's actually all about.

New comment by mindfulmark in "Attention Is My Most Valuable Asset for Productivity as a Software Developer"

mindfulmark — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 16:30:53 +0000

Agreed! I got back into piano at the beginning of quarantine and it's been really interesting for learning how I learn. As you said, to make any level of progress on new pieces I need to break it up in to short 20 min exercises interleaved with breaks. My ability to motivate myself and to retain anything is also directly correlated with the amount of sleep I get. Going to check out your book recommendations as well!

New comment by mindfulmark in "Ask HN: What book changed your life in 2019?"

mindfulmark — Sat, 11 Jan 2020 01:44:24 +0000

I cannot agree more. I haven't felt so strongly about a book in a long time.