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New comment by phartenfeller in "Show HN: Calyx – Ghostty-Based macOS Terminal with Liquid Glass UI"

phartenfeller — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 14:26:40 +0000

Sorry, not my cup of tea. I think UI peaked with minimal/material/flat a few years ago, which also made me more calm.

Besides that, I think readability could be an issue.

New comment by phartenfeller in "LibreOffice Writer now supports Markdown"

phartenfeller — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 19:24:17 +0000

Great news. My first thought was that I want to see how this looks. Unfortunately there is not a single screenshot in the announcement. Missed opportunity in my opinion.

New comment by phartenfeller in "RIP Low-Code 2014-2025"

phartenfeller — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 11:55:52 +0000

Heavily disagree (for serious low-code platforms). AI produces code that only AI maintains. That's a big burden. Low-code vendors ship code patterns that are easy to compose. They have the burden of maintaining that code.

Let AI build apps using these building blocks instead of wasting tokens reinventing the wheel on how interactive tables should be, which chart library to use, and how speaking from the frontend to the backend works securely.

LLMs will make creating low-code apps as easy as normal apps. But it has one constraint: how is the extensibility of the low-code framework?

New comment by phartenfeller in "Cloudflare acquires Astro"

phartenfeller — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 19:14:26 +0000

There are so many more options than being acquired and abandonware. Its hard but there are many independent and stable open source projects.

New comment by phartenfeller in "Cloudflare acquires Astro"

phartenfeller — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 19:12:23 +0000

Maybe not by market capitalization but Cloudflare is used by around 25 % of the web. Internet giant in my books.

New comment by phartenfeller in "Cloudflare acquires Astro"

phartenfeller — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 14:47:37 +0000

Why does Cloudflare need a web framework? Most obvious would be they think they can make money from hosting astro sites (like Vercel and NextJS). I hope Cloudflare's impact on Astro will be tiny. But another great thing being swallowed by big tech...

New comment by phartenfeller in "AI helps ship faster but it produces 1.7× more bugs"

phartenfeller — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 13:52:20 +0000

Definitely. But AI can also generate unit tests.

You have to be careful by exactly telling the LLM what to test for and manually check the whole suite of tests. But overall it makese feel way more confident over increasing amounts of generated code. This of course decreases the productivity gains but is necessary in my opinion.

And linters help.

New comment by phartenfeller in "Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros"

phartenfeller — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 20:18:40 +0000

I think you are true to a point. But great movies get almost universal praise with scores of 9/10 on IMDb or near 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The same goes for food; there are things that are quite controversial, but who says no to fantastic ice cream or bread?

But most importantly for movies, it is not the micro-genre that decides. People who are not into fantasy or astrology still love Lord of the Rings or Interstellar because they are particularly highly produced, where all crafts making up that movie are treated highly instead of strategizing and optimizing.

New comment by phartenfeller in "Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros"

phartenfeller — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 14:30:59 +0000

It is probably not just a Netflix issue. But it is also quite a philosophical question as to who is to blame. The consumers who watch and pay, or the ones who fund the mediocrity.

It is definitely sad to see Netflix turn from their early phase, where they valued quality over quantity, and since have reversed that.

I just want to see more great art that really sticks, has ambitions and something to tell, and values my time.

New comment by phartenfeller in "Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros"

phartenfeller — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 14:20:33 +0000

It's about all the other projects that would have had great quality but did not secure funding because Netflix prefers to fund mass-produced mediocrity. In Germany we have a saying "Even a blind hen sometimes finds a grain of corn".

New comment by phartenfeller in "Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros"

phartenfeller — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 12:50:48 +0000

I don't like this. Netflix rarely creates excellent content; instead, it frequently produces mediocre or worse content. Will the same happen for Warner? Are cinemas now second behind streaming?

Edit: I agree Netflix has good Originals. But most are from the early days when they favored quality over quantity. It is sad to see that they reversed that. They have much funding power and should give it to great art that really sticks, has ambitions and something to tell, and values my time instead of mediocrity.

New comment by phartenfeller in "Cloudflare was down"

phartenfeller — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 09:39:21 +0000

My Hetzner servers have been running fine for years. Okay, there were times when I broke something, but at least I was able to fix it quickly and never felt dependent on others.

New comment by phartenfeller in "Cloudflare was down"

phartenfeller — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 08:55:46 +0000

Wow, three times in a month is really crushing their trust.

New comment by phartenfeller in "Advent of Code 2025"

phartenfeller — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 14:37:59 +0000

Well some people like to code and logic puzzles. And especially as it is in its raw form where you can forget all the noise you encounter while coding professionally with many hoops and responsibilities.

New comment by phartenfeller in "Oracle has adopted BOOLEAN in 23ai and PostgreSQL had it forever"

phartenfeller — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 16:56:32 +0000

This post is mostly an ad for their migration services?.

New comment by phartenfeller in "I Create Presentations in HTML"

phartenfeller — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 12:20:01 +0000

Author here. I am still happy leaving PowerPoint etc. behind. I am currently in Croatia for a conference and will do two talks with my HTML slides.

New comment by phartenfeller in "Database Linting and Analysis for PostgreSQL"

phartenfeller — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 06:36:54 +0000

We are also working on a database linter. Currently focusing on Oracle but we will support Postgres soon too.

Rules can either run queries against the DB (e. g. foreign key without index) or use our parser to check code SQL, PL/SQL, and pgSQL soon (naming standards, security and performance issues, etc.). We currently have over 280 rules [1]. The tool runs as a lange server during development or as a CLI so you can use it in your automations. Its more enterprise focused, an admin can create configurations that get applied to all developmers.

[1]: https://dblinter-rules.united-codes.com/all-rules/

New comment by phartenfeller in "Cloudflare Introduces NET Dollar stable coin"

phartenfeller — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 08:46:54 +0000

That's probably their strategy of handling 402 Payment Required[1]. They want to become the platform over which auctions for AI crawlers buying rights to use content take place.

Scary if it works out their way and Cloudflare becomes an even bigger giant.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/de/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/Sta...

New comment by phartenfeller in "Improved Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite"

phartenfeller — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 21:31:07 +0000

It's weird that the just keep the version number. Why not release it as 2.6 or something else. Now it is confusing, do my existing workflows automatically use the updated version and if yes do I need to monitor them for unwanted changed behavior etc.

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