Hacker News: normanvalentinehttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=normanvalentineHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:11:50 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by normanvalentine in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"]]>A bit tough to photograph:

https://kentwalters.com/posts/public/IMG_0828.jpeg

https://kentwalters.com/posts/public/IMG_0829.jpeg

]]>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 21:37:46 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47734241normanvalentinehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47734241https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47734241<![CDATA[New comment by normanvalentine in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"]]>(author) If anyone around the Bay wants to let me use their CNC mill please reach out! I have lots of things to chamfer.

Here's what it looked like freshly after filing fyi: https://kentwalters.com/posts/public/IMG_7438.jpeg

]]>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:18:49 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47731805normanvalentinehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47731805https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47731805<![CDATA[New comment by normanvalentine in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"]]>I actually agree with this too — playing with the sharp edge is kind of satisfying. Like having something in your teeth that you're working on.

]]>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:02:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47724889normanvalentinehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47724889https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47724889<![CDATA[Filing the corners off my MacBooks]]>Article URL: https://kentwalters.com/posts/corners/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47724352

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]]>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:16:40 +0000https://kentwalters.com/posts/corners/normanvalentinehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47724352https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47724352<![CDATA[New comment by normanvalentine in "RIP Low-Code 2014-2025"]]>I'll admit to having joined the industry after 2005.

Can you say more about how easy it was to get stuff done back then? What was actually easier? Was Access just good and you didn't need to deal with building web apps?

]]>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 01:38:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46774398normanvalentinehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46774398https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46774398<![CDATA[New comment by normanvalentine in "Ask HN: Infinate canvas workflow JavaScript frameworks?"]]>I think this is the standard: https://reactflow.dev/

]]>Wed, 05 Feb 2025 01:18:22 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42942104normanvalentinehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42942104https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42942104<![CDATA[New comment by normanvalentine in "Render Raises $50M Series B"]]>Anyone have a sense of their revenue/valuation? Would be interesting to get a calibration as we've seen relatively fewer raises lately.

]]>Tue, 20 Jun 2023 17:52:51 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36407830normanvalentinehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36407830https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36407830<![CDATA[New comment by normanvalentine in "Retool raises $45M at a $3.2B valuation"]]>Fairly different - for one, Retool isn't the system of record; they're not storing any of your data, more of a back-end agnostic UI layer.

The user is pretty different too, Airtable generally targets business users who may otherwise reach for a spreadsheet, whereas Retool is focused on developers who might otherwise reach for React Admin (or something).

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