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New comment by pahbloo in "QGIS 4.0"

pahbloo — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 15:19:14 +0000

I work with and contribute to a QGIS plugin that manage water and sewage network data. Together with PostGIS, it's a powerful tool.

https://github.com/giswater

New comment by pahbloo in "QGIS 4.0"

pahbloo — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 15:17:03 +0000

I don't know about Blender, but for QGIS I think open or at least well known formats are what gave it a chance to compete against ArcGIS.

For CAD, I think that an strong open format would make things much more easy for FOSS CAD software. I can see this starting happening with BIM.

New comment by pahbloo in "Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back"

pahbloo — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 13:54:33 +0000

There is an interesting pattern emerging in this thread. There are a lot of 'same here' and 'opposite for me' comments, but both sides are converging on the same point: people developing software to solve a problem.

Many who are considering a career shift away from software due to 'AI disgust' devoted their lives to developing software because they loved the craft. But with AI churning out cheap, ugly, but passable code, it's clear that businesses never appreciated the craft. I hope these folks find an area outside of SWE that they love just as much.

But once these folks find this area, it would be naive to think they won't use software to scratch their itch. In the same way that people who didn't pursue a career in SWE (because they felt under-qualified) are using AI to solve their problems, these folks will now find their own problems to solve with software, even if at first that is not their intention. They probably won't use AI to write the code, but ultimately, AI is forcing everyone to become a product manager.

New comment by pahbloo in "Launch HN: Tweeks (YC W25) – Browser extension to deshittify the web"

pahbloo — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 14:47:17 +0000

Yeah, but I think there is a space in the market for people who don't want/know how to manage their own API keys. Anyway, IMO Tweeks is not for most of the HN audience [EDIT: because there are alternatives like Magix or even Greasemonkey itself].

New comment by pahbloo in "Optimising for maintainability – Gleam in production at Strand"

pahbloo — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 17:44:31 +0000

I believe the best scenario is a language that gives an AI the best environment to train itself in a manner similar to the way a game like Go gave AlphaGo the opportunity to play innumerable times against itself and study the results.

I think the best programming languages of the future will come with their own LLMs, synthetically trained before release.

New comment by pahbloo in "A gentle introduction to anchor positioning"

pahbloo — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 16:12:47 +0000

That's telling about CSS design. Folks here on HN are talking about how they purposely ask LLMs about APIs that don't exist, and they hallucinate with a better and more intuitive design that they would come up with on their own.

I don't know the best solution for the problem, but CSS is a very convoluted one.

New comment by pahbloo in "How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-)"

pahbloo — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 17:48:30 +0000

Fun fact: In Portuguese, the em dash is often used to introduce direct discourse, much like double quotes are used in English, but only when the direct discourse opens the paragraph. So instead of:

"Hello," said John, "how are you today?"

You'd see:

— Hello — said John — how are you today?

Firefox Is Finally (Re)Adding Support for Web Apps

pahbloo — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 17:25:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/03/firefox-nightly-supports-web-apps-taskbar-tabs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43484542

Points: 105

# Comments: 95

New comment by pahbloo in "Show HN: Live-updating version of the 'What a week, huh?' meme"

pahbloo — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 10:48:59 +0000

Awesome idea! Just a thought, but a century version would be spot-on!

New comment by pahbloo in "A Mini Data Center"

pahbloo — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 22:16:44 +0000

How is the strategy for backups and redundancy in a setup like this?

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

pahbloo — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 13:22:51 +0000

People treat SPA and MPA as oposing teams, one is the right way and the other is garbage. But this is not how it must be seen.

What we have is the natural way to do things with web stack (the way it's is mean to be used), and the "hacky way" (the way that let us do what we want to do, even when the web stack doesn't support it yet).

SPA is the hacky way today, but before it we had CGI, Java applets, Flash... And the web purists were always very vocal against the hacky way.

But the hacky way is what pushs the envelope of what the natural way can do. Every feature cited in the article that makes an MPA competitive with an SPA today only exists because of SPAs.

I'm on the side of preferencially use the web the way it's meant to use whenever it's possible, but I love to see what can be done when we are a little hacky, and it's awesome to see the web stack adapting to do these things in a less hacky way.

New comment by pahbloo in "Wikipedia article blocked worldwide by Delhi high court"

pahbloo — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 02:46:59 +0000

In fact, the most valuable resource on the internet is finite: atention with the possibility of influence those who give it to you. This is already a question of national security.

New comment by pahbloo in "Rust is rolling off the Volvo assembly line"

pahbloo — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 12:21:36 +0000

Rust (the language) is rolling off the Volvo assembly (not the language) line

New comment by pahbloo in "GNU Turns 40"

pahbloo — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 12:32:01 +0000

Even ignoring opinions not related to software, Stallman is still controversial; he's a radical advocate for software freedom. And FSF is a radical organization, too. People and institutions with radical positions are unlikely to achieve mainstream acceptance. But, radical positions are a needed influence in the ecosystem, helping to keep the balance. So, I think that after all FSF is a succesfull organization.