Hacker News: mrkaye97

New comment by mrkaye97 in "Building durable workflows on Postgres"

mrkaye97 — Fri, 29 May 2026 21:10:17 +0000

Hello! Hatchet engineer here - just thought I'd drop a link to some discussion on this topic from last year, which is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43574767

Happy to answer more questions beyond this!

All the Worst People Seem to Want to Be 'High Agency'

mrkaye97 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:06:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/opinion/high-agency-silicon-valley.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47643370

Points: 9

# Comments: 3

Pg_plan_advice: Plan Stability and User Planner Control for PostgreSQL?

mrkaye97 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 18:27:03 +0000

Article URL: http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2026/03/pgplanadvice-plan-stability-and-user.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47299677

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

Show HN: Call Your Loved Ones

mrkaye97 — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 03:07:55 +0000

Hey HN!

I've been needing to do a better job of staying in touch with the people who are important to me. So I built a little app that lets me add people to call, and tells me when I last called them. I figured some of you might find this useful in some way :)

The code is here: https://github.com/mrkaye97/call-your-loved-ones

If you go to the URL linked in the post, you can use the app with all of the data stored in local storage, so no account needed and no data going to my server.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46549641

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by mrkaye97 in "Advent of Code 2025"

mrkaye97 — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 16:16:00 +0000

I've been using Elixir, which has been wonderful, mostly because of how amazing the built in `Enum` library is for working on lists and maps (since the majority of AoC problems are list / map processing problems, at least for the first while)

New comment by mrkaye97 in "Collaboration sucks"

mrkaye97 — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 21:08:33 +0000

IMO this is very dependent on the risk of cutting once, so to speak. I'd imagine that at PostHog, the idea is there's little risk of cutting many times - iterating - and more damage is done by the measuring taking far too long.

Show HN: Medici, an open-source Splitwise-like app for managing expenses

mrkaye97 — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 00:14:23 +0000

Hey everyone!

I've been working on this little app I'm calling Medici after getting annoyed with Splitwise only allowing me to submit a few expenses a day. It has all the main Splitwise features (debt simplification, different ways of splitting expenses, default splits, etc.)

Would love feedback and just wanted to share! I'm self-hosting on my RaspberryPi and figured others might find it useful too :)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44741029

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Medici, a minimal, open-source, dead-simple Splitwise alternative

mrkaye97 — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 03:22:47 +0000

Hey everyone!

I've been a Splitwise user for a long time (sometimes paying, sometimes not), and have been rather frustrated at their new-ish policy of only allowing N (small) expenses to be submitted per day. And I was curious to write some Rust and thought the expense simplification algorithm would be fun to implement, so I built this.

Thought others might find it fun or useful! It's dead simple to self host if you want to try it out :)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44612306

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by mrkaye97 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)"

mrkaye97 — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 14:34:45 +0000

I've been working on this little Splitwise clone type app I've been calling Medici: https://github.com/mrkaye97/medici

Mostly to learn some Rust and because I thought most of the features of Splitwise worth paying for would be fun to build. Been loving working in Axum and getting to implement some fun database things

Thank you [styled-components entering maintenance mode]

mrkaye97 — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 16:11:38 +0000

Article URL: https://opencollective.com/styled-components/updates/thank-you

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43507142

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Use Postgres for your events table

mrkaye97 — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 19:56:54 +0000

Article URL: https://docs.hatchet.run/blog/postgres-events-table

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42259146

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Zen, a seeker-first job searching tool

mrkaye97 — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 22:53:16 +0000

Hey everyone!

I've been building Zen since I was on the job hunt and realized it was harder than it should've been to just get notifications when a company I was interested in posted a job that was relevant to me.

It's come a long way since then, but the core mission is still the same: It's a seeker-first job searching tool, with no promoted content, no ads, no recruiter spam, and so on.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39160708

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by mrkaye97 in "[dead]"

mrkaye97 — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 15:30:17 +0000

Hey everyone! I built a little app I thought people in this community might like / find useful, so I thought I'd share here. It's pretty MVP so go easy on me ;) The app: https://jobcrawler.matthewrkaye.com/ A blog post about it: https://matthewrkaye.com/posts/2023-11-10-jobcrawler/jobcraw... The idea is to make it easier to find jobs at companies you're interested in (especially in tech) and track your search without the usual bullshit of LinkedIn, Indeed, etc. I also won't sell your data, it's free (for now at least until my hosting costs go up), etc. Give it a shot and lmk what you think!

New comment by mrkaye97 in "[dead]"

mrkaye97 — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 14:24:31 +0000

I built an app for job searching with some features I've found useful, and I'm excited to share it with HN! The main features include: job recommendations, automated emails when relevant, new postings go up at companies you're interested in, and analytics.