Hacker News: olcarl75

New comment by olcarl75 in "Omarchy Is Not A Distro"

olcarl75 — Sun, 24 May 2026 17:04:16 +0000

if we depended on you no one would use linux then. This is the type of garbage mentality that we need OUT this community.

We need Linux to win period. I don't care if it's called Distro, gist of envfiles, or a tank for gods sake. I want the market share for linux rather than macOs and Windows.

"omarchy install will include a bunch of proprietary software, including... what are we doing?? these are not the kinds of packages that any sane distro would ship to its users" - Ye this is great software. You know what is not good? when you download a distro that only has open source software and your codecs doesn't work, then that person just install windows again (true story many of my friends went through that). So please, don't tell people to skip stuff just because you dislike it

New comment by olcarl75 in "GitHub experience various partial-outages/degradations"

olcarl75 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 18:32:05 +0000

ah well, with agentic coding relying more and more on worktrees, I think it's about time to revive my good and old SVN server

New comment by olcarl75 in "Show HN: Dock – Slack minus the bloat, tax, and 90-day memory loss"

olcarl75 — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 05:55:49 +0000

Don't this would be a problem. Mobile notifications are good with vapid/pwas nowadays

New comment by olcarl75 in "Show HN: Epstein IM – Talk to Epstein clone in iMessage"

olcarl75 — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 22:29:16 +0000

aint no way

New comment by olcarl75 in "TailwindSQL – Like TailwindCSS, but for SQL queries in React Server components"

olcarl75 — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 15:31:10 +0000

everyday there is a new `insert something related to react` framework.

Everyday we stray further from the simplicity god.

New comment by olcarl75 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"

olcarl75 — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 12:09:19 +0000

I run a SVN server for my personal projects, home lab and home automation stuff.

I noticed that the SVN CLI workflow is a bit dated and I think there's room to create a graphite like experience for svn, especially focusing on stacking.

I am set out to: - create a modern CLI to interact with SVN

- create a subsystem to run alongside the svn repo (similar to gitaly)

- create a good looking web UI to browser the repo, review code reviews, etc

New comment by olcarl75 in "We chose OCaml to write Stategraph"

olcarl75 — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 10:57:17 +0000

I wonder if the locks held in postgres are optimistic locks or what is the logic for database lock contention at the application level

New comment by olcarl75 in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025)"

olcarl75 — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 23:49:14 +0000

Any chance of sponsoring Canadians via TN visa ?

New comment by olcarl75 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)"

olcarl75 — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 00:29:55 +0000

Scriptwriting require specific formatting (set by Hollywood ages ago). Doing this in google docs is really painful. Besides that, people who work in this industry are already used to the format, so if you wanna pitch something to studios, they expect to be in industry format.

ref: https://www.dramatistsguild.com/sites/default/files/2020-01/...

New comment by olcarl75 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)"

olcarl75 — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 00:14:30 +0000

I am creating a webapp to let screenwriters collaborate when writing their scripts.

I have several friends in this industry and their tooling is either expensive, not localized for their market or straight away bad (I've seen terrible dataloss).

I got some inspiration from linear and am building it on top of ruby on rails with CRDTs.

New comment by olcarl75 in "Ask HN: How do you choose languages for building applications?"

olcarl75 — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 06:12:32 +0000

if coding a webapp, I use full stack ruby on rails (hotwire/turbo/javascript with importmaps).

System stuff go/pyhon. I haven't had time to learn either Rust or Zig, but I think Golang is good enough for now.

I have a lot of java experience, but to be honest the opensource toolchain outside big tech is too much of a pain to use (say gradle or mvn). I believe SBT is quite good but learning scalla goes into the bucket alongside rust and zig.

New comment by olcarl75 in "Serving 200M requests per day with a CGI-bin"

olcarl75 — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 12:26:26 +0000

2400 requests is somewhat decent. Having seen companies like amazon, where their website backend can only handle a few hundred RPS per box, 2400 ain't that bad.

New comment by olcarl75 in "Yet another reason you should use Signal"

olcarl75 — Sat, 31 May 2025 16:22:21 +0000

Is your post related to a political stance against Elon musk, a distrust call against putting AI on a privacy first app or you don't like AI chat bots?

It's very hard to understand what's it you want people to get out of the blog post since it's just "don't use x, use y" and usually people rather get some reasoning rather than being herded to do what you want