Hacker News: niels_bom

New comment by niels_bom in "The git history command"

niels_bom — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 14:55:43 +0000

lazygit can already reword

New comment by niels_bom in "Can we have the day off?"

niels_bom — Thu, 28 May 2026 06:32:29 +0000

Nothing bad has ever happened from privatizing well running government orgs either.

New comment by niels_bom in "My approach to building large technical projects (2023)"

niels_bom — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 07:04:43 +0000

MitchellH also talks about this in some interviews he gave about Ghostty.

New comment by niels_bom in "Statement on planned protests during the upcoming FOSDEM 2025"

niels_bom — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 09:27:47 +0000

Here’s the talk description: https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4507-infu...

New comment by niels_bom in "Ask HN: Books about people who did hard things"

niels_bom — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 09:58:39 +0000

I think most people don’t have access to supermarkets tho.

New comment by niels_bom in "Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases"

niels_bom — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 17:09:38 +0000

And that’s why you talk about it and agree on stuff. I call that being a professional.

New comment by niels_bom in "Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases"

niels_bom — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 17:07:56 +0000

The need is quite widely interpretable though.

I worked on a Drupal site once where somebody had put business logic and database querying inside of template files.

Just because you can implement something without touching any other part of the codebase doesn’t mean that’s a good decision.

New comment by niels_bom in "Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases"

niels_bom — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 17:01:14 +0000

Expecting a developer with 4 YoE to be able to handle a messy legacy codebase by themselves is a suboptimal business decision I’d say.

New comment by niels_bom in "Title drops in movies"

niels_bom — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 07:10:24 +0000

Referenced strongly in 2024’s The Substance.

New comment by niels_bom in "Show HN: Rust Web Framework"

niels_bom — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 10:48:19 +0000

The biggest reasons for me to use the clean architecture are faster testing (most logic is in functional code) and most changes having impact in a small number of files only.

New comment by niels_bom in "Deno 2 Commercial [video]"

niels_bom — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 15:28:58 +0000

Quite a funny commercial imo. I do wonder if getting commercials for big software releases is gonna be a thing from now on.

Deno 2 Commercial [video]

niels_bom — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 15:28:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swXWUfufu2w

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41849602

Points: 2

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New comment by niels_bom in "Hoodmaps: Publicly Annotated City Maps"

niels_bom — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 15:44:21 +0000

In Amsterdam close to Sloterplas (lake in the West) “aggressive Moroccans”.

New comment by niels_bom in "Classifying all of the pdfs on the internet"

niels_bom — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 01:29:01 +0000

Typo: “meats the eye”

New comment by niels_bom in "What I Learned Working for Mark Zuckerberg"

niels_bom — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 01:26:54 +0000

How do y’all filter out survivorship bias in articles like this? I can imagine 50 other people with the exact same experiences but then having worked for companies that ended up fizzling.

New comment by niels_bom in "UI elements with a hand-drawn, sketchy look"

niels_bom — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 13:16:09 +0000

tldraw.com is also excellent

New comment by niels_bom in "Show HN: Godspeed is a fast, 100% keyboard oriented todo app for Mac"

niels_bom — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 08:08:13 +0000

If I have todo items that are 10 years old it’s a sign I don’t really care about them.

For (PKM) notes it’s a whole different story.

New comment by niels_bom in "How web bloat impacts users with slow devices"

niels_bom — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 20:53:05 +0000

It might also be people not willing to admit that they don’t know how to optimize website performance. And if you have a somewhat complex web app it can be complicated, especially if your stack doesn’t help you (looking at you React).

New comment by niels_bom in "Building Meta's GenAI infrastructure"

niels_bom — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 07:00:44 +0000

Capitalism is so weird sometimes.

New comment by niels_bom in "Show HN: 3 years and 1M users later, I just open-sourced my "Internet OS""

niels_bom — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 08:48:22 +0000

I think there are valuable positions to take in between “let’s manipulate the DOM by hand” and “React Server Components, NextJS and the kitchen sink”.

I personally think there’s great value in the pattern of reactivity where parts of your DOM update based on bits of data. Developing, designing and testing components like this becomes way simpler.