Hacker News: ohthatsnotright

New comment by ohthatsnotright in "Ask HN: How does one build large front end apps without a framework like React?"

ohthatsnotright — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 23:55:12 +0000

It's unexpectedly mutable unless you've closely read the documentation, been bitten by the mutations, or are doing very simple date manipulations.

It's a great library, but it does need fewer footguns. date-fns is a good alternative.

New comment by ohthatsnotright in "What Google Translate can tell us about vibecoding"

ohthatsnotright — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 00:53:57 +0000

What a strange thing to ask for a citation on when CEO pay, stock buy backs and corporate dividends are at all time highs while worker pay and honestly just affording to live continue to crater.

New comment by ohthatsnotright in "Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests"

ohthatsnotright — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 23:25:45 +0000

Can you tell me how all those immigrants "flaunting the law" were affording food and rent, if not for a U.S. citizen paying them for their labor? Why are we not going after those who pay first? Nip the problem in the bud.

New comment by ohthatsnotright in "A manager is not your best friend"

ohthatsnotright — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 17:34:21 +0000

Gripes go up, but shit rolls down hill.

New comment by ohthatsnotright in "Typing 118 WPM broke my brain in the right ways"

ohthatsnotright — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 12:21:01 +0000

I think the problem with this approach is that when I type, I don't type formatting because prettier can do that for me.

New comment by ohthatsnotright in "Car companies are in a billion-dollar software war"

ohthatsnotright — Mon, 12 May 2025 14:31:22 +0000

When I started my career I had a very keen interest in the embedded space, but when it pays half of what CRUD webapps pay I quickly changed to software only. I still tinker with embedded on the side and maybe at some point I can justify the cut in pay to go back to something I'd prefer to work on.

New comment by ohthatsnotright in "Interviewing a software engineer who prepared with AI"

ohthatsnotright — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 10:57:00 +0000

Probably get promoted to C-suite.

New comment by ohthatsnotright in "U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat"

ohthatsnotright — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 12:28:12 +0000

Oh this administration does that, too.

New comment by ohthatsnotright in "As Ozempic turns consumers off processed foods, junk food industry fights back"

ohthatsnotright — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 11:47:17 +0000

Not for long, given who will be running the next administrations FDA, and the general cult of "de-regulation" taking hold.

New comment by ohthatsnotright in "The tragedy of running an old Node project"

ohthatsnotright — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 11:52:48 +0000

If you're looking for a stable target you should not even consider Next.

New comment by ohthatsnotright in "Against Best Practices"

ohthatsnotright — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 11:17:14 +0000

Often what is one developers "best practice" is another's "anti-pattern" because a lot of this is just arbitrary.

New comment by ohthatsnotright in "The myth that you can’t build interactive web apps except as single page app"

ohthatsnotright — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 23:38:23 +0000

And dates and times And currency

New comment by ohthatsnotright in "Ask HN: I don't want higher salary, I need more freetime"

ohthatsnotright — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 15:53:29 +0000

I've struggled finding work that is other than 40 hour a week body shops. Where do you look for these magical clients that will take variable time engagements?

New comment by ohthatsnotright in "The Weeds Are Winning"

ohthatsnotright — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 12:22:04 +0000

Until you're dealing with invasive non-natives, or bindweed. Nothing is fun about those.

New comment by ohthatsnotright in "Amazon ordered a return to the office – but research says they'll backtrack"

ohthatsnotright — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 18:32:04 +0000

> but because they didn't pass our tests

I'd love to see what your tests consist of.

New comment by ohthatsnotright in "On over-engineering; finding the right balance"

ohthatsnotright — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 11:57:35 +0000

If the MBA-management class wanted good software they wouldn't be so short sighted, but it's all about the pump-and-dump right now.

New comment by ohthatsnotright in "Arduino PLC IDE"

ohthatsnotright — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 23:36:17 +0000

Autonomy may have some software you'd want to check out https://autonomylogic.com/

New comment by ohthatsnotright in "Show HN: OBS Live-streaming with 120ms latency"

ohthatsnotright — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 10:55:15 +0000

If it's a separate layer or different server you can bet that someone will figure out how to remove it from the DOM, hide it, or prevent it from even loading.

New comment by ohthatsnotright in "Ask HN: I don't want to be a Software Engineer any more. What else could I do?"

ohthatsnotright — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 16:02:31 +0000

In the US it's common for entry level or apprentice to be the ones making a trench on residential jobs. It's part of the hazing culture, my best guess, that the older workers pass down. I hired electricians and they did the trenchwork with shovels.

New comment by ohthatsnotright in "Show HN: OBS Live-streaming with 120ms latency"

ohthatsnotright — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 14:58:01 +0000

> It feels wrong to me that a streaming service is able to modify video however it pleases.

This would significantly complicate services such as Twitch and YT Live going to server-side ad insertion if the source video were E2E. I think server-side ad insertion is likely the only method available for providers that isn't able to be circumvented by ad-block or DNS blocking plugins.