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

netghost — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:23:55 +0000

They might have opinions about it, but look at the pay for frontend engineers at the same company. It's not uncommon to see the same seniority be 20% lower than a backend role.

New comment by netghost in "A practical guide for setting up Zettelkasten method in Obsidian"

netghost — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 13:22:11 +0000

I see a lot of people say you have to use methodology X, or that methodology Y is worthless.

I'm the end, I think we have maybe different uses for notes. Journaling, scratchpads, to-do lists, research, etc.

Take a methodology with a grain of salt. If it doesn't fit, there's a good chance it's solving someone else's problem, but you can always inform your own approach with it.

New comment by netghost in "The Weather Channel – RetroCast"

netghost — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 04:12:50 +0000

Looks great on mobile in portrait mode. Bonus points for the audio.

New comment by netghost in "From zero to a RAG system: successes and failures"

netghost — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 01:38:49 +0000

I think you're operating in a scale that is small enough that there's little risk.

You'll be able to iterate if you run into anything that doesn't work. You should however be clear on what problem you and your team are solving, and not just "get some rag".

New comment by netghost in "Show HN: Pg-typesafe – Strongly typed queries for PostgreSQL and TypeScript"

netghost — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:59:53 +0000

That seems like a reasonable tradeoff, thanks.

New comment by netghost in "Fastest Front End Tooling for Humans and AI"

netghost — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:57:56 +0000

Bun ships with lots of tools built in. It has support for bundling js, html, etc for the browser.

I suspect that if you want the best results or to hit all the edge cases you'd still want vite, but bun probably covers most needs.

New comment by netghost in "Show HN: Pg-typesafe – Strongly typed queries for PostgreSQL and TypeScript"

netghost — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:16:43 +0000

Thank you. This looks like a nice improvement on pgtyped, and another good option.

I'm curious if there are any good patterns for dealing with dynamic query building or composing queries?

New comment by netghost in "Sqldef: Idempotent schema management tool for MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite"

netghost — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 05:04:20 +0000

Out of curiosity, the post you linked mentions that it won't work for renames. What's the approach for these and other types of procedural migrations, such as data transformations (ie: splitting a column, changing a type, etc.)

With a declarative model, would you run the migration and follow immediately with a one off script?

New comment by netghost in "Stelvio: Ship Python to AWS"

netghost — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 21:54:04 +0000

Seems great for really small apps where you want your resource definitions colocated with the code using them. I'd imagine the benefits start to break down as your infrastructure gets more complicated.

The bigger answer is that if you're proficient and happy with CDK or anything else to wire resource up, you're probably not going to see much (if any) benefit.

New comment by netghost in "Nonograms: a practical guide with interactive examples"

netghost — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 05:54:44 +0000

Wonderfully done, thanks for sharing!

AI Curb Cuts

netghost — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 20:29:09 +0000

Article URL: https://snakeshands.com/blog/ai_curb_cuts/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46840495

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New comment by netghost in "Make.ts"

netghost — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:30:07 +0000

I think the make in the title is a bit misleading, the author is actually just advocating for having a consistent file you use for adhoc scripting and testing in your application.

The thrust of the article could be summarized as: if you type more than one command into the shell, make a script.

New comment by netghost in "How I estimate work"

netghost — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 17:42:34 +0000

I think it really depends on how teams use their estimates. If you're locking in an estimate and have to stick with it for a week or a month, you're right, that's terrible.

If you don't strictly work on a Sprint schedule, then I think it's reasonable to have high variance estimates, then as soon as you learn more, you update the estimate.

I've seen lots of different teams do lots of different things. If they work for you and you're shipping with reliable results then that's excellent.

New comment by netghost in "150k lines of vibe coded Elixir: The good, the bad and the ugly"

netghost — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 17:36:46 +0000

I did too, and I've had a challenging time convincing people outside of those ecosystems that this is possible, reasonable, we've been doing it for over a decade.

New comment by netghost in "How I estimate work"

netghost — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 01:38:00 +0000

I worked on a product that was built around planning an estimation with ranged estimates (2-4h, 1-3d, etc)

2-12d conveys a very different story than 6-8d. Are the ranges precise? Nope, but they're useful in conveying uncertainty, which is something that gets dropped in any system that collapses estimates to a single point.

That said, people tend to just collapse ranges, so I guess we all lose in the end.

New comment by netghost in "Turso is an in-process SQL database, compatible with SQLite"

netghost — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 06:23:14 +0000

It natively supports vector embeddings, which seems like it could be nice. The sqlite extensions I've tried for vector embeddings have been a challenge to get working (may just be me though).

New comment by netghost in "Sins of the Children"

netghost — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 20:57:07 +0000

Hands down one of my favorite series. It's inventive, cynical, wry, dark, and entirely engrossing.

If you enjoy him, I was surprised by how much I enjoyed the Dogs of War series (1st and 3rd especially).

At some point you start to see his themes recycled across all these series, but it's still fun.

New comment by netghost in "Handy – Free open source speech-to-text app"

netghost — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 17:10:32 +0000

I'll bet you could take a relatively tiny model and get it to translate the transcribed "git force push" or "git push dash dash force" into "git push --force".

Likewise "cd home slash projects" into "cd ~/projects".

Maybe with some fine tuning, maybe without.

New comment by netghost in "Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?"

netghost — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 06:37:47 +0000

I found out that the guy who broke the thing I was working on was… me.

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

netghost — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 21:21:40 +0000

https://snakeshands.com - The best part of the snake…