Hacker News: neverartful

New comment by neverartful in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

neverartful — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:35:47 +0000

I've been building CheckSitePulse, a website auditing tool that crawls sites and reports issues like broken links, spelling mistakes, accessibility problems, SEO issues, missing security headers, and content policy violations.

https://checksitepulse.com

One thing I've focused on is producing reports that are actually actionable instead of overwhelming. I'm also putting a lot of effort into reducing false positives—for example with spell checking and URL analysis.

It's still under active development, but it's reached the point where I'm starting to get feedback from other developers and site owners.

I'd love to hear what kinds of website issues you wish existing audit tools did a better job finding.

paul@checksitepulse.com

New comment by neverartful in "How to Survive in a Louisiana Swamp"

neverartful — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 13:46:06 +0000

The author also has a youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@PeterSantenello) with some really well done videos. He's curious, respectful, and gives a fair reporting of the different local cultures.

New comment by neverartful in "US Schools Are Ditching Chromebooks for MacBooks by the Thousands"

neverartful — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 21:46:51 +0000

One aspect that is most definitely easier with Chromebooks is that it only takes a powerwash (1-2 minutes) to make the device ready for someone else. With Windows devices it takes our school district hours to get a device re-imaged and fully updated to be ready to issue to the next person. Not sure what the process would be with Macs but I strongly suspect it's much more akin to Windows than Chromebooks in this regard.

New comment by neverartful in "Ask HN: Anyone still do work on Intel Macs?"

neverartful — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 02:21:11 +0000

I still very actively use a Mac Pro 2013 (aka trashcan). It has 64 GB RAM, an 8 core Xeon cpu, and 1TB NVMe. I'm running macOS Monterey (12.7.6) on it. The hardware is still plenty powerful enough to be very useful. Supported software is getting to be more troublesome as the days go by. When the pain gets too great I'll look into installing Linux on it with the goal of continuing to use it.

New comment by neverartful in "Prefer strict tables in SQLite"

neverartful — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 19:55:03 +0000

I agree with you. I'd go one step further and let it be the only mode available starting with new versions of the library.

New comment by neverartful in "How working with a blind client revealed invisible accessibility gaps"

neverartful — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 18:34:05 +0000

I understand your point, especially for company websites whose products/services aren't oriented to the blind.

However, there are many companies with products/services that are just as much for the blind as the sighted (government, insurance, legal, medical, etc.) and many of them don't even make an attempt. The blind are still people and they should have equal access.

New comment by neverartful in "How working with a blind client revealed invisible accessibility gaps"

neverartful — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 17:36:32 +0000

I'd like to connect with you offline for further conversation. I didn't see any contact information in your profile (and there's none currently in mine either).

New comment by neverartful in "Show HN: ZeroFS – A log-structured filesystem for S3"

neverartful — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 19:57:12 +0000

There are a couple of different ways of using Ceph with a filesystem: (1) CephFS, or (2) RBD (Ceph block device) volume mounted and then create filesystem on the mounted RBD volume. Historically, the RBD approach would likely have been the more common of the 2. Which of these 2 ways were you referring to?

New comment by neverartful in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

neverartful — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:55:55 +0000

Still working on my web site quality assurance software. Getting close to private beta (hopefully very soon). Back end is written in Java and built with Javalin and Jsoup and persisted to PostgreSQL. Front end is JS/React. My back end crawls the designated website and for each page runs a number of analyzers to assess the quality across the following categories: accessibility, content quality (spelling, missing spaces between words, etc), performance, security, content policy (required phrases and forbidden phrases), site integrity, and seo. Each site can be configured to have its own custom dictionary (for spell checking). It's been a lot of fun and I'm looking forward to taking the wraps off it.

New comment by neverartful in "A 10 year old Xeon is all you need"

neverartful — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 01:04:36 +0000

I have and use a Mac Pro 2013 too. Mine is 8 cores with 64 GB RAM. I haven't used mine for any LLM workloads, but it does just fine for most stuff. My biggest concern with it is the OS. I'm still running macOS (the latest supported version) but it's getting continually further out-of-date security wise all the time.

New comment by neverartful in "Ask HN: Struggling with Anxiety as a Developer – What Are My Options?"

neverartful — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 15:19:13 +0000

Have you discussed this with your doctor? If not, I would schedule an appointment ASAP. It's possible that medication might be able to help significantly. If it does help, it could be that it helps you enough to turn things into a more manageable situation at work. This might not be your long-term optimal solution, but it could make life less miserable until you do find your long-term optimal.

New comment by neverartful in "A look back: WordPerfect on DOS (2023)"

neverartful — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 21:27:22 +0000

It was the best of times (WP5.1) and the worst of times (first versions for Windows). I used WordPerfect for DOS 5.1 extensively and it was a joy to use. It was not WYSIWYG, but it was fast, stable, and very capable. A couple of years later I used one of the early versions of WordPerfect for Windows (I don't recall the version number) and it was a complete disaster. It crashed very often. Hence, my love/hate with WordPerfect.

New comment by neverartful in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)"

neverartful — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 14:37:45 +0000

2 things: (1) trying to find a job, and (2) continuing work on my software.

I've been working on a new software product (native Windows) that is for analysis of SQLite databases. It's geared towards non-technical and slightly technical who may not know anything about SQL. The software includes an ER diagram, ability to browse table data, query building, and charting (bar, column, histogram, line, pie, scatter). Trying to get it finished up so that it can be released (hopefully in next few weeks).

New comment by neverartful in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)"

neverartful — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 01:45:00 +0000

Very nice on both! I've long had an affinity for non-mainstream programming languages (mostly those with Wirth lineage). I wish there were more projects that used them.

New comment by neverartful in "A Few of the Birds I Love"

neverartful — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 12:28:46 +0000

Nice list. I also delight in having purple martins nearby. They're such a joy to watch.

New comment by neverartful in "Ask HN: Former devs who can't get a job, what did you end up doing for work?"

neverartful — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 13:23:26 +0000

Consider writing your own software. Maybe something that scratches an itch, related to one of your hobbies, or a need you've observed in the market.

New comment by neverartful in "Ask HN: Former devs who can't get a job, what did you end up doing for work?"

neverartful — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 13:20:31 +0000

I voluntarily left the corporate world in spring of 2024. I already had a part-time handyman business going so I just took it full-time. I also started developing my own software product (soon to be released).

New comment by neverartful in "Ask HN: Former devs who can't get a job, what did you end up doing for work?"

neverartful — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 13:19:02 +0000

In the US the laws vary considerably by state on what electrical (and plumbing) one is allowed to do without a license.

New comment by neverartful in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)"

neverartful — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 07:52:23 +0000

I'm still working on development of a native Windows application for data analysis of SQLite databases. It's geared towards non-technical (or only slightly technical) users and allows queries to be easily made without knowing SQL. Additionally, it easily lets the user quickly create charts from the queried data (bar, column, histogram, line, pie, scatter). Development is nearly complete and hoping to put in the hands of testers within the next couple of weeks. Also trying to decide on name for the product so that I can start development of website for it.

New comment by neverartful in "Delta offers $30k to passengers in Canada plane flip"

neverartful — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 00:13:58 +0000

My cynical take is that it's a let's buy off these folks before they sue us.