Hacker News: nickkell

New comment by nickkell in "GitHub Actions is slowly killing engineering teams"

nickkell — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 12:42:13 +0000

I assume by DSL they mean some custom templating language built on top, for things like iterating and if-conditions. If it's plain JSON/YAML you can produce that using any language you wish.

New comment by nickkell in "France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US"

nickkell — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 13:26:22 +0000

For the most part I agree with you: there is less functionality and hence less to police. There are also fewer people in chats/channels, as for the most part they are private or undiscoverable.

There are definitely still breaches of etiquette though, e.g. people frequently tagging a whole channel when they have a support question, even though it contains hundreds of people.

New comment by nickkell in "Real-time estimates of animals consumed by humans worldwide"

nickkell — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 12:39:44 +0000

Again, this just isn't true. Where are you getting your information from?

Feeding the world is technically easy, there is more than enough space for growing crops. The only reason that it's not done is the desire to eat meat and the lack of any real will to do it.

New comment by nickkell in "Real-time estimates of animals consumed by humans worldwide"

nickkell — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 12:36:24 +0000

What would make it interesting? Most of the animal mass on earth is livestock for human consumption. More animals are reared to replace the ones that are slaughtered.

It might be interesting for wild fish, but I'm not sure if there are accurate numbers for the wild populations remaining.

New comment by nickkell in "Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub"

nickkell — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 08:33:14 +0000

Is it really beneficial to use a deck created by someone else? I thought part of the learning process is really engaging with the cards - by writing them, thinking about them, and making mental associations with things you already know.

New comment by nickkell in "Git Rebase for the Terrified"

nickkell — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 22:21:53 +0000

I'm a big fan of rebasing to keep the commit history clean and as a form of self-discipline when coding to make sure I'm grouping the changes atomically.

I will try to give Jujutsu a go based on your recommendation!

New comment by nickkell in "Peep Show is the most realistic portrayal of evil I have seen (2020)"

nickkell — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 20:02:51 +0000

You don't see any of yourself in the pair? I found a lot of their neurotic behaviour relatable.

Butter the toast, eat the toast, shit the toast... God, life's relentless.

New comment by nickkell in "Migrating away from Rust"

nickkell — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 21:42:58 +0000

Awww that's not fair.

C# actually has fairly good null-checking now. Older projects would have to migrate some code to take advantage of it, but new projects are pretty much using it by default.

I'm not sure what the situation is with Unity though - aren't they usually a few versions behind the latest?

New comment by nickkell in "Chongqing, the Largest City – In Pictures"

nickkell — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 11:44:34 +0000

No need for a gym membership if you climb those stairs often enough!

New comment by nickkell in "Found a simple tool for database modeling: dbdiagram.io"

nickkell — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 10:19:23 +0000

I use it in my project to document the schema. We keep the markdown file in source control so that we update it whenever we make database changes. We also have an extension that allows viewing it as the diagram in vscode in our .vscode\extensions.json file.

There are some disadvantages however:

1. The foreign key relationships aren't completely clear

2. The diagram became difficult to navigate in vscode as our schema grew in size

New comment by nickkell in "String of recent killings linked to Bay Area 'Zizians'"

nickkell — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 21:16:40 +0000

He knew his Judo well.

New comment by nickkell in "Turn any bicycle electric"

nickkell — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 19:43:06 +0000

Do you believe it's fake? There are many kits on the market to turn old bicycles into e-bikes.

As to the USB charging - that's an outlet for charging things like mobile devices, not for charging the battery on the bike.

New comment by nickkell in "I kind of like rebasing"

nickkell — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 07:49:20 +0000

That's where reflog comes in handy

New comment by nickkell in "How to test without mocking"

nickkell — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 20:38:15 +0000

Using an in-memory database does not increase my confidence that in my software either. I also started using dockerised dependencies in tests a couple of years ago.

Can you please explain what you did with a RAM disk to speed them up?

New comment by nickkell in "I digitalized Berlin's registration form"

nickkell — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 13:44:49 +0000

They have one already, but it's probably not as big: https://digitalservice.bund.de/

New comment by nickkell in "Don’t mess with a genius (2010)"

nickkell — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 11:08:04 +0000

The source of all his power.

New comment by nickkell in "Ask HN: What's your seniority, location and notice period?"

nickkell — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 13:51:28 +0000

It's 75k, but I believe I could be receiving 95k if I was either smarter, better at interviewing or better at negotiating.

As to other benefits: it's 30 days vacation and they mention profit-sharing, but nothing concrete.

New comment by nickkell in "Ask HN: What's your seniority, location and notice period?"

nickkell — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 13:34:05 +0000

As I point out in another comment, this happened to me previously and they were loath to compromise. I'm therefore very reluctant to depend on an Aufhebungsvertrag.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37480726

New comment by nickkell in "Ask HN: What's your seniority, location and notice period?"

nickkell — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 13:31:39 +0000

Or that his compensation was very good...unlike mine

New comment by nickkell in "Ask HN: What's your seniority, location and notice period?"

nickkell — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 13:26:53 +0000

How difficult did it make finding a new job?

I mentioned it to a recruiter I'm dealing with and she agreed that it would significantly complicate the search.