Hacker News: o_m

New comment by o_m in "AI Made Writing Code Easier. It Made Being an Engineer Harder"

o_m — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 14:50:58 +0000

I think we need to change our perspective of what success is. I believe there will be a ton of small companies popping up instead of a few big ones that eats everyone's lunch. Like Google, Microsoft and others giants have done until now.

New comment by o_m in "An Update on Heroku"

o_m — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 20:55:34 +0000

What is there to be studied? Once a company is acquired you bounce. There is usually a two year grace period before you start feeling the pain as a customer, which should give you the time to migrate.

New comment by o_m in "Bunny Database"

o_m — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 21:01:22 +0000

Bunny has their own infra while Turso relies on a cloud provider (AWS) which is unfortunately a no-go for many European companies

New comment by o_m in "State of the Windows: What is going on with Windows 11?"

o_m — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 22:49:29 +0000

Who would have thought forcing one developer to write a million lines of code each month would have negative consequences

New comment by o_m in "Comic-Con Bans AI Art After Artist Pushback"

o_m — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 15:01:12 +0000

This is nothing new: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitsch

New comment by o_m in "Turbopack: Building faster by building less"

o_m — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 09:06:06 +0000

Yes, TurboPack is for legacy projects that can't update from Webpack, but still want some bundle speed improvements.

New comment by o_m in "jQuery 4"

o_m — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 11:02:09 +0000

The main divide now is client side React versus Server Components usually with a node.js backend

New comment by o_m in "Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work"

o_m — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 20:40:52 +0000

So the future is NixOS for non-technical people?

New comment by o_m in "Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team"

o_m — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 21:57:56 +0000

It says 75% of the engineer team. There might be other roles not affected.

New comment by o_m in "“You should never build a CMS”"

o_m — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 13:35:38 +0000

Maybe for developers, but I can't imagine most people going back to the terminal. The smartphones won and has the largest market. It would be especially awkward to use a terminal on a touch display. Maybe with voice this will be easier, but I doubt people want to go around in public talking and giving instructions to their phone. UIs are here to stay.

New comment by o_m in "The effect of shingles vaccination at different stages of dementia"

o_m — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 19:25:39 +0000

I got it last year, as a man in my early 30s. My doctor didn't believe me but his eyes widened as I showed him the rash. It took him one second to say that is shingles, with no doubt. If you get it you have to get to the doctor ASAP to get the antiviral medicine before it spreads. It is the most painful thing I have gone through.

I'm pretty sure I got is because of stress. I quit my job, sold my home and all my stuff to travel for a year. I was awarded shingles the week after handing in my resignation.

New comment by o_m in "Cloudflare was down"

o_m — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 14:35:28 +0000

I wonder if this is the new normal? Weekly Cloudflare outages that breaks huge parts of the internet.

New comment by o_m in "Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm"

o_m — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 18:08:27 +0000

It’s a catch-22: why build a RISC-V CPU if there’s no software for it, and why write software if there’s no CPU to run it?

New comment by o_m in "Are consumers just tech debt to Microsoft?"

o_m — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 18:42:25 +0000

The way Microsoft are ruining Windows makes it seem like enterprise users are the tech debt they want to get rid off. Like making their servers non-deterministic by serving random ads or leaking secret content to their AI. It makes sense that they would rather have their customers run Linux on Azure, so they don't have to do R&D for their own OS.

New comment by o_m in "Ripgrep 15.0"

o_m — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 16:24:17 +0000

I don't think they claim they are using semver. Lots of companies/projects use "major" releases just for the added hype.

New comment by o_m in "Notion 3.0"

o_m — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 08:10:06 +0000

They would want the user base, i.e. those who has gone out of their way to pick something different, than Microsoft/Atlassian, like Notion

New comment by o_m in "iPhone Air"

o_m — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 18:20:47 +0000

This will be the replacement for my iPhone 13 mini. Although I wish they would make another mini instead.

New comment by o_m in "Le Chat: Custom MCP Connectors, Memories"

o_m — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 12:35:12 +0000

All or nothing mentally wont get you very far. You're digital device is probably made in China, but that doesn't mean you'll want to store your personal data in a Chinese data center. I try to choose European whenever possible and avoid or limit the use of American, Chinese, and Russian tech.

New comment by o_m in "Lit: a library for building fast, lightweight web components"

o_m — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 18:51:11 +0000

I mean sure, as long as it runs on the server. Personally I feel JSX is way more expressive. The JSX I write runs on server side rendering to HTML. That way there will be no flash of unstyled content, cumulative layout shift, or any other jank. It looks correct even before the javascript has been downloaded, except it isn't interactive yet.

New comment by o_m in "Lit: a library for building fast, lightweight web components"

o_m — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 11:33:58 +0000

Yeah, it does require some more boilerplate. I abstract some of it JSX, and with LLMs writing boilerplate code isn't that annoying anymore.