Hacker News: mindwork

New comment by mindwork in "Did moving to new place have intended effect?"

mindwork — Thu, 21 May 2026 00:47:41 +0000

To each their own, just stay away from Tenderloin and Market and 6th street. I'm sure if you set out some time to explore, you will find whatever fits you best. When I was moving, I sourced a bunch of opinions from my coworkers, non of them were of much help to me. I've charted my own way in the end, made my own mistakes

New comment by mindwork in "Did moving to new place have intended effect?"

mindwork — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:28:23 +0000

Ever since I've been very young I wanted to live in the global West. At first England, then USA became more lucrative place. I've spent 10 years trying to move to USA. Sacrificed a lot for it. Lots of self doubt, whether I can make it? Is it a right decision? What about my friends and family? I knew about some of the problems before I moved, but obviously not all of them.

I moved to San Francisco about 5 years ago. I can tell you, it was all WORTH IT! I'm still amazed by the city and the life around me. 5 years later it still impresses me. I feel like I'm living in a movie, and I'm a main character in a movie! I became a better version of myself. I can't imagine being myself if I'd stay back in my country.

p.s. those are my feelings. Obviously life around me is not ideal. There is no such place as ideal, but it works for me despite many-many-many problems that I have in my life right now.

New comment by mindwork in "Cursor Camp"

mindwork — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 03:49:11 +0000

neal.fun is the bestest place on the internet

New comment by mindwork in "I Built a 22k-Line App with Zero Coding Experience. Or, how to control agents"

mindwork — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:21:27 +0000

Good luck supporting it

New comment by mindwork in "Ask HN: What's your favorite number, and why?"

mindwork — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:55:37 +0000

1 is the loneliest number that you'll ever do

2 can be as bad as 1

It's the loneliest number since the number 1

New comment by mindwork in "GitHub now requiring 2FA for all contributors,what authenticator apps you using?"

mindwork — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:21:59 +0000

I still use Authy tbh

New comment by mindwork in "FCC updates covered list to include foreign-made consumer routers"

mindwork — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:06:22 +0000

Let me use my UniFi

New comment by mindwork in "Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers"

mindwork — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 22:39:09 +0000

I don't mind UI, but I think it's a bad approach. Instead of hiding all those complexities of the server behind UI, I would like to see each part of the application teach me how to achieve the same result in CLI. That would be useful for people to teach themselves, because UI comes and goes but basic linux commands - will stay

New comment by mindwork in "I'm a project manager, to the engineers: how replaceable do you think my job is?"

mindwork — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 16:12:18 +0000

JIRA replaced Project Management job a long time ago. If you select for proactive, driven, autonomous engineers, you don't really need to oversee them or tell them what to work on. Now Tech Lead or Product Manager is a whole different job

New comment by mindwork in "Ask HN: Share your vibe coded project"

mindwork — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 18:52:07 +0000

I took a python library for generating posters from maps and wrapped it up as a web UI:

https://maptoposter.penk.in/

I mean AI did all the work for me with some minimal guidance. All and all it took about 3 hours to do with PaaS hosting

New comment by mindwork in "Ask HN: Is there a good open-source alternative to Adobe Acrobat?"

mindwork — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 15:39:54 +0000

I self host Stirling-PDF for complicated tasks, and use native MacOs app Preview for easy tasks

New comment by mindwork in "Map To Poster – Create Art of your favourite city"

mindwork — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 16:41:30 +0000

yup, something to fix in the future. I suspect it couldn't find city coordinates

New comment by mindwork in "Map To Poster – Create Art of your favourite city"

mindwork — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 01:31:20 +0000

https://maptoposter.penk.in/

Using Claude Code and OP's library, I've put it on the internets. Web hosting is cheap(free) and generation takes some time

New comment by mindwork in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

mindwork — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:29:04 +0000

https://penk.in/ - one day I will add a proper blog in there and testing bed for tech, but for now it is as it is. The background image is the one I took in Iceland, really proud of it

New comment by mindwork in "Tell HN: macOS Time Machine will no longer support Time Capsules"

mindwork — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 22:38:15 +0000

RIP.

Also RIP my dreams about apple doing networking hardware like AirPort Express, AirPort Extreme, Time Capsule, XServe etc. It was a great time in 2000s

New comment by mindwork in "The future is not self-hosted"

mindwork — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 23:37:37 +0000

When running your own backup server, you're forgetting about scenario(however less-likely) when Google Photos will loose your photos, or if your google account gets banned with no ability to call anyone in Google to dispute that. In this case you can safely rely on your own backup to have those files at hand.

I was skeptical about this scenario until one day Gmail lost 1 year worth of my emails. It's just gone. All other emails are there, but not this particular year. And there is no person who you can call to talk about that.

New comment by mindwork in "The future is not self-hosted"

mindwork — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 23:32:00 +0000

have you tried CasaOs or Zima board? It's their premise your own micro cloud

New comment by mindwork in "Ask HN: How to find non-popular blogs and forums?"

mindwork — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 22:51:02 +0000

https://filebin.net/jptm6h7q2agr8qoe

Let's see if HN admins will allow it. File will be deleted in 6 days

New comment by mindwork in "Ask HN: How to find non-popular blogs and forums?"

mindwork — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 16:42:28 +0000

There was a post about 2 years ago on HN so that people would post links to their blogs. Somebody saved that post and extracted all the links in to the CSV file with their name and karma, and put it on a website(it's not there now). I've downloaded that CSV file and slowly went through all 1626 blog links over the last 2 years. I finished just about a week ago. It was quite a journey! Some links I would glance at the homepage and immidiately close, and some I stayed for days - reading all interesting articles from the Archive link. It was a blast!

New comment by mindwork in "Ask HN: Developer-as-a-Service?"

mindwork — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 17:19:24 +0000

I started to frown upon people calling themselves developers. This is the term I used a long time ago and now I use Software Engineer.