Hacker News: pestaa

New comment by pestaa in "Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns"

pestaa — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 07:23:43 +0000

What are you talking about. Cory literally coined the term to describe this phenomena. He is not confused by the idea of cheaper products with wider appeal. He takes issue with vendor lock-in that is weaponized first against the end-user, then against paying customers, and finally against investors themselves. This is first and foremost a criticism of online products and platforms, not mass-produced gadgets from China.

New comment by pestaa in "Mullvad VPN: Banned TV Ad in the Streets of London [video]"

pestaa — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 12:37:24 +0000

I have a use for them too, but unlikely to happen. Too powerful to abuse.

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/removing-the-support-for-forward...

New comment by pestaa in "Stripe valued at $159B, 2025 annual letter"

pestaa — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 17:19:23 +0000

dewey was joking.

New comment by pestaa in "“Nothing” is the secret to structuring your work"

pestaa — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 12:10:00 +0000

Happens to me too. Especially when a secret token or API key is on the clipboard, then all senses are heightened until I replace it with something non-sensitive.

New comment by pestaa in "Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud"

pestaa — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 10:15:01 +0000

Managing product data on the cloud does not mean public internet access, unless someone messes something up big time.

New comment by pestaa in "Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2026?"

pestaa — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 07:48:12 +0000

Facebook is already like this. People didn't stop watching. In fact, they mostly stopped caring if it's fake. And no point in debunking the obvious BS: they scroll faster than you can say AI.

New comment by pestaa in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

pestaa — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 18:24:29 +0000

On the heavy side, but TeamCity is full of goodies.

New comment by pestaa in "Practical Tips for Gemini 3"

pestaa — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 09:20:15 +0000

Is "preserve nuance" the latest incantantion that solves all chatbot mistakes?

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/12/05/google-ai-mangles-news-he...

New comment by pestaa in "Tell HN: Even LinkedIn is running on Cloudflare and not Azure"

pestaa — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 08:23:17 +0000

They are customers of the CDN too.

Briefly yesterday, linkedin.com was down with Cloudflare's internal server error page.

I don't think that's necessarily a bad review for Azure services, there are other explanations, like organizational inertia, contractual agreements, team preference.

You can feel the pain of GitHub migrating to Azure from afar. With a beast that LinkedIn is, there's got to be a good prize for someone at the end of the road before they pull the trigger.

New comment by pestaa in "State of AI: An Empirical 100T Token Study with OpenRouter"

pestaa — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 07:05:32 +0000

I used it for a couple of days and was very impressed. Definitely a hidden gem, and super cheap.

New comment by pestaa in "GitHub to Codeberg: my experience"

pestaa — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 07:35:38 +0000

This seems to have been written in good spirit, addressing FLOSS maintainers.

New comment by pestaa in "Kubernetes Ingress Nginx is retiring"

pestaa — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 07:17:42 +0000

They are not retiring the API. Nginx Ingress is one of the many projects that implements this API, and you are free to migrate to another implementation.

New comment by pestaa in "Who needs Graphviz when you can build it yourself?"

pestaa — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 12:36:42 +0000

I dabbled in this area, there are poster layout generation attempts that use gen ai to come up with an initial layout plan, and even feed the visualization back into the llm for iterative fine-tuning.

I was intrigued, but couldn't make it work reliably. Perhaps I forgot to add "make it look nice" to my prompts.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.04237v3

https://haoyuchen.com/POSTA

https://github.com/microsoft/LayoutGeneration/blob/main/Layo...

New comment by pestaa in "We saved $500k per year by rolling our own "S3""

pestaa — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 08:12:51 +0000

Why nobody should use Apache? I rediscovered it to be great in many use cases. And there's llms to help with the config syntax.

New comment by pestaa in "Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available"

pestaa — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 18:23:14 +0000

I've been putting off a cloud to cloud migration, but apparently it can be done in hours?

New comment by pestaa in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2025)"

pestaa — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 16:16:25 +0000

Location: EU

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: PHP, Laravel, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes

Résumé/CV: https://pestaa.com

Email: pestaa@pestaa.com

I'm a full stack developer with 10+ years of experience finding absurd amount of enjoyment in B2B web applications.

Especially happy to work on internal tooling, and being the go-to developer for non-technical coworkers.

New comment by pestaa in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2025)"

pestaa — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 16:13:43 +0000

SEEKING WORK | REMOTE | EU | PHP full-stack developer

Technologies: PHP, Laravel, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes

I'm a full stack developer with 10+ years of experience finding absurd amount of enjoyment in B2B web applications.

Especially happy to work on internal tooling, and being the go-to developer for non-technical coworkers.

CV: https://pestaa.com

New comment by pestaa in "Show HN: Fecusio – Feature flagging and release management tool"

pestaa — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 18:06:20 +0000

Clean and solid, congrats on launching! Any unique features that may differentiate you from other feature flagging tools?

New comment by pestaa in "I don't read your email threads"

pestaa — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 11:55:30 +0000

I'm sure this is a problem in large corporations, but on some days I'd give an arm and leg to receive an actual email instead of the random slack messages with zero context and a builtin social pressure for low latency responses.

New comment by pestaa in "Broadcom to discontinue free Bitnami Helm charts"

pestaa — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 16:02:41 +0000

If you use the kustomize controller from the FluxCD project, you can set it to prune unmanaged objects.

In true GitOps, I think it's should be default on.