Hacker News: plodman

New comment by plodman in "Claude.ai is unavailable"

plodman — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:27:21 +0000

Literally just got an email about connecting GitHub to the iOS app and now it’s down. Spike in traffic perhaps?

New comment by plodman in "UK total wind generation record beaten today"

plodman — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:33:00 +0000

And yet we’re about to face an eye watering increase in bills due to the way we’re charged for energy.

New comment by plodman in "iOS 26.2 fixes 20 security vulnerabilities, 2 actively exploited"

plodman — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 16:50:41 +0000

There appears to be a dark pattern occurring where the Tahoe update is selected by default and you need to uncheck it to just install the security update.

New comment by plodman in "Valve is about to win the console generation"

plodman — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 10:58:04 +0000

Maybe this is less of an issue now we’re in the digital era of console games but one of the biggest aspects for me is that if I buy one of these new machines, my existing library is just there. No starting from scratch or worrying about backwards compatibility. It’s a PC that has everything I need from the get go.

The story was the same with the Deck. Granted it took a little while for many games to be fully supported but the transparency from Valve on the store pages about compatibility was great and is in a far better state now.

New comment by plodman in "Why the end of support for Windows 10 is uniquely troubling"

plodman — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 15:05:35 +0000

Except those OSs would work on any machine. They’d be slow in some cases but would still work. Windows 11 has requirements that either require BIOS tweaks or a whole new MB (or new machine).

New comment by plodman in "TV Detector Vans"

plodman — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 09:03:45 +0000

If I choose not to use a service that costs a fee (such as Netflix), I am not hounded for not paying it. If I chose not to pay a tax, I am hounded with threats of prosecution and fines.

The license “fee” falls into the latter category.

New comment by plodman in "My Day Away from Reddit"

plodman — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 08:27:30 +0000

Absolutely this. I’ve only had a single Home Screen since Apple added the App Library. I’ve always had Apollo in the same position. I swapped it out with my grocery app. I can’t even count the number of times I’ve opened that grocery app without thinking.

New comment by plodman in "I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and give it to you"

plodman — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 06:40:32 +0000

The irony, it’s now in the public domain but I can only access the bottom of the post if I have a Substack account.

New comment by plodman in "London's Ultra Low Emission Zone to cover entire city"

plodman — Sun, 27 Nov 2022 12:19:07 +0000

With the cost of living crisis, this isn't going to help anyone. How does taking more money away from those with un-environmentally friendly cars help them afford to replace them?

What does this money go towards in terms of offsetting the environmental damage done by these cars? How would people feel if the money paid into these schemes went towards money off newer, more environmentally friendly cars?

I believe there was a government scheme for this, but I think it ended earlier this year.

New comment by plodman in "Ask HN: What's Your Biggest Regret?"

plodman — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 08:59:40 +0000

Letting myself get burned-out to the point of considering the s word. Every time I just thought “things will get better, it’s probably just me”.

I’ve since switched jobs after a break but I still struggle with focus and attention span. Hoping that improves over time.

Ask HN: Have you moved to a manager/lead role and realised you prefer coding?

plodman — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 14:23:16 +0000

I moved to more of a lead role about a year ago but I find myself jumping in to coding more often recently.

Is there anything wrong with going back to full time development?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30441238

Points: 1

# Comments: 3

New comment by plodman in "BBEdit 14"

plodman — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 15:26:03 +0000

https://macosicons.com/

Unfortunately it doesn’t stick if there’s an update but it solves the problem temporarily.

New comment by plodman in "Parallels Apple's ARM Announcement"

plodman — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 07:55:35 +0000

I think the link should really be to their blog post?

https://www.parallels.com/blogs/apple-silicon-wwdc/

New comment by plodman in "Honda bucks industry trend by removing touchscreen controls"

plodman — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 17:03:46 +0000

Tell that to my 2019 HRV. Doesn’t even have CarPlay so I can’t use Siri to do anything for me. All AC controls are touch screen so I have to look away from the road just to change the fan speed.

New comment by plodman in "Ask HN: How do I escape webdev?"

plodman — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 12:05:27 +0000

That’s exactly what I was referring to. I thought by replying to the comment that mentioned joining a team would have provided the context of what I was agreeing too...

New comment by plodman in "Ask HN: How do I escape webdev?"

plodman — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 09:36:08 +0000

100%. I worked alone for a few years. Again self taught web development. I tried to read the “best practices” for the languages I was learning. But it was bugs galore and code I feared maintaining after release.

I then spent 5 months at a company in a team where every bit of code went through a peer review process. Even I was responsible for reviewing others code. I learnt a hell of a lot, we barely had any bugs and if we found a bug, it was usually easy to fix. Since then, writing maintainable and (importantly) readable code is my standard and I try and help other Devs do the same.

New comment by plodman in "Docker for Windows won't run if Razer Synapse driver management tool is running"

plodman — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 10:04:13 +0000

Isn’t there a “law” that states the best way to get a correct answer is to post the wrong one first? I feel that should be in mind whenever reading through StackOverflow answers.

* * Cunningham’s law is the one I’m thinking of. https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law

New comment by plodman in "Show HN: 2ndWind - Find people to work on your unfinished projects"

plodman — Mon, 02 Sep 2019 18:06:05 +0000

Agreed. It’s a wholly bootstrap site with unfinished elements, poorly laid out columns (on mobile at least), stretched images and requires a login for any action that isn’t the front page.

Oh and the content overlaps the footer.

I think this should have been cleaned up a little before touting it on HN.

New comment by plodman in "Off-Facebook Activity"

plodman — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 19:06:56 +0000

How does this work in terms of GDPR? If it’s only rolled out in a few countries, surely this is Facebook admitting they collect this data but we have no way to access it right now?

Shouldn’t this incur a rather heavy fine?

New comment by plodman in "Ask HN: How do you control your diet while working at a tech company?"

plodman — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 07:30:26 +0000

I’m afraid to say it’s fairly easy for me. Two days of the week we get free fruit. Other than that, nothing is subsidised.