Hacker News: nirvanis

New comment by nirvanis in "A field guide to the modern front end for developers who hand-wrote HTML"

nirvanis — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:50:42 +0000

Hi, OP here. Thanks for this.

I don’t seem to have cracked the Hacker News writing formula yet. A few years ago I got similar feedback, but for the opposite reason: people complained that my English felt awkward because I’m not a native speaker. This time I asked an LLM to smooth out the wording, and it seems I accidentally outsourced my personality too.

The content and research are mine. I spent a few hours trying to collect all the moving pieces into something I wish I’d had as someone returning to frontend after many years away. It was just meant to save a few fellow dinosaurs from opening 47 tabs and wondering why they suddenly need seven package managers.

A field guide to the modern front end for developers who hand-wrote HTML

nirvanis — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 14:23:27 +0000

Article URL: https://davidpoblador.com/deep-dives/the-descent/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48719665

Points: 59

# Comments: 40

The day I started believing

nirvanis — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 11:51:33 +0000

Article URL: https://davidpoblador.com/blog/the-day-i-started-believing.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48685561

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

The favors we used to need

nirvanis — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:07:36 +0000

Article URL: https://davidpoblador.com/blog/the-favors-we-used-to-need.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48673653

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Vacant, a fast domain checker for you and your agent

nirvanis — Mon, 04 May 2026 15:37:31 +0000

Article URL: https://vacant.alltuner.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48010063

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Despite everything, a small praise of GitHub

nirvanis — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 07:48:32 +0000

Article URL: https://davidpoblador.com/blog/despite-everything-a-small-praise-of-github.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47945298

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

Czech president's letter to be unsealed after 88 years

nirvanis — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 20:05:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/09/18/last-words-czechoslovakia-founder-revealed-letter/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45294315

Points: 9

# Comments: 1

Decades in Tech: Lessons from Software's Evolution and a Look Ahead [video]

nirvanis — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 10:52:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujqgWDEOG6E

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44412040

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

The Evolution of Software Development: The Future Is Bright

nirvanis — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 11:48:04 +0000

Article URL: https://davidpoblador.com/blog/the-evolution-of-software-development-navigating-the-ai-powered-landscape.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43642891

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by nirvanis in "We built the city of Colombo in Cities:Skylines"

nirvanis — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 11:02:48 +0000

> Key Limitations [...] > Perfect adherence to schedules in public transport, unlike real-world variation

LOL

Spotify Spreadbeats [video]

nirvanis — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 22:11:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76KNM4w8ESI

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40613505

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

The conspiracy to make AI seem harder than it is

nirvanis — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 13:43:55 +0000

Article URL: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2fCZjq20OSl6NKODuYiP4d

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36955851

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Home Sweet Office: The Sweet and Sour Tale of Remote Work

nirvanis — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 14:09:44 +0000

Article URL: https://newsletter.keepitboring.com/p/home-sweet-office-the-sweet-and-sour

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36242156

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by nirvanis in "The C Standard Library Function Isspace() Depends on Locale"

nirvanis — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 21:26:29 +0000

Somewhat related tip: prepend LANG=C to many console commands such as grep to speed up many tools processing large files, as they will assume ASCII input (which is probably what you have in most cases)

The Evolution of Digital Interactions: From UX to MX

nirvanis — Fri, 26 May 2023 15:58:36 +0000

Article URL: https://newsletter.keepitboring.com/p/the-evolution-of-digital-interactions

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36085874

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

10 Predictions about AI, Internet, and Possibly Our World in 3 Years

nirvanis — Fri, 19 May 2023 12:08:57 +0000

Article URL: https://newsletter.keepitboring.com/p/the-tech-revolution-10-predictions

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36000837

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Cloud Native: Are We Paying Too High a Price?

nirvanis — Wed, 03 May 2023 12:20:30 +0000

Article URL: https://newsletter.keepitboring.com/p/cloud-native-are-we-paying-too-high

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35801471

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Spanish airline reserves Airlander 10 blimps for 2026 passenger service

nirvanis — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 16:42:21 +0000

Article URL: https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2022/06/spanish-airline-reserves-airlander-10-blimps-for-2026-passenger-service/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31812462

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Basic Pitch: Spotify’s Open Source Audio-to-MIDI Converter

nirvanis — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 14:16:39 +0000

Article URL: https://basicpitch.spotify.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31595188

Points: 28

# Comments: 4

New comment by nirvanis in "Summary of June 8 outage"

nirvanis — Wed, 09 Jun 2021 11:20:17 +0000

It's more common than we imagine. That's usually the start of many of the historical network incidents. The important part, as usual, is to make sure the remediations of such incidents focus on how to limit blast radius of small changes, and how to accomplish that without imposing artificial gatekeeping and bureaucracy into the change process.