Hacker News: poushkar

New comment by poushkar in "Astro is a return to the fundamentals of the web"

poushkar — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 09:58:33 +0000

I am feeling old reading the phrase "traditional frameworks" as a reference to SPA/Virtual DOM frameworks all while the actual traditional frameworks like Backbone, jQuery, etc. actually worked the way described in the blogpost.

New comment by poushkar in "Ask HN: Would you still choose Ruby on Rails for a startup in 2025?"

poushkar — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 21:12:00 +0000

I've actually just did exactly that a few weeks ago.

I knew what to expect from Rails from my previous experience.

Yet, I wasn't prepared for how freaking fast it is to iterate with Rails and some LLM (I use Cursor atm) when you know what you are doing.

The MVP I expected to take at least 2 months to finish, is going to be done in under 3 weeks, with the current speed, given there are no large blockers.

Ask HN: How many failed side-projects you had before a successful one?

poushkar — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 08:09:52 +0000

I am on my N-th attempt of making a side-project, after many years of failed or not-finished ones. Every time I get a motivation to do something, I convince myself that this time is different for some reason. I would love to hear stories where it WAS actually different for you, and you succeeded (by your own definition of success)?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41043755

Points: 1

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New comment by poushkar in "Ask HN: What is the best way to author blogs in 2024?"

poushkar — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 08:11:00 +0000

I run one blog on Jekyll[0], another on Hugo[1]. I must admit, Hugo somehow feels much more flexible and fast.

- [0] https://jekyllrb.com/ - [1] https://gohugo.io/

blog running on hugo: https://hackerstations.com/

New comment by poushkar in "The only tourist in Moldova"

poushkar — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 08:06:34 +0000

There is a bigger lexical distance between UA and RU than between UA and PL: https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/a-map-of-lexical-distances...

Ask HN: Help me find a topic on HN about the most value for your money things

poushkar — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 21:05:36 +0000

There used to be a relatively popular post here on HN a few years ago with links to multiple similar blog posts where authors collected list of the best value (in their opinion) things and activities. For example, I remember an author argued that hiring a tutor on any new activity is money well spent. Or buying certain items like Aeropress, etc

Thank you

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38994431

Points: 2

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Ask HN: Tech stack for small SaaS side projects as a solo developer?

poushkar — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 14:47:46 +0000

What tech stack would you choose for building SaaS side projects as a single developer if these were your priorities:

- build it once, deploy and forget for months or years;

- adding new features is easy (once it's needed once a year or even less frequently). "Easy" here means little time spent reminding yourself how the app works and where to add new features;

- deploying is simple and can be done with little to no setup;

- language/platform/dependencies updates are infrequent, easy to do, unlikely to break the app;

- open source and developed by a community, no dependency on an enterprise.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38459960

Points: 27

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Ask HN: How do you state up to date with the important innovations in the field?

poushkar — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 09:34:20 +0000

What it says in the title: for a person who has no time to read HN every day, how do you make sure you are not getting rusty and missing out on important improvements in the field?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38082216

Points: 1

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Polyend Tracker Mini: a portable version of the popular hardware music tracker

poushkar — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 08:13:25 +0000

Article URL: https://polyend.com/tracker-mini/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35625667

Points: 1

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Inside the home office of Daniel Stenberg – the creator of curl

poushkar — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 15:33:35 +0000

Article URL: https://hackerstations.com/setups/daniel_stenberg/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34957578

Points: 6

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New comment by poushkar in "Ask HN: Are you preparing for WW3? If so, how? If not, why not?"

poushkar — Mon, 20 Feb 2023 09:28:50 +0000

How much of the region history do you know? Russia has been invading countries for centuries. You are fooling yourself by reducing the complicated history and relations between Russia and Ukraine to some kind of semi-conspiracy theory about proxy wars and what's not.

New comment by poushkar in "Ask HN: What are some blog posts that you have enjoyed going through?"

poushkar — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 15:25:11 +0000

Sorry, I am still struggling to see what the VS Code is a commoditized complement to?

New comment by poushkar in "Ask HN: Name 3-5 books that had the most impact on your career and knowledge?"

poushkar — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 14:10:53 +0000

It's technically the truth, though :D - It's a book. - Had impact on the commenter's life

New comment by poushkar in "Hacker Stations – Tech workspace setups to get inspiration from"

poushkar — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 19:18:21 +0000

Thanks for sharing this! It's been only a few posts so far since I started the blog, but I am actually looking for persons first, and the "coolness" of a setup doesn't really matter to me. In fact, I find a laptop that moves between sofa and a kitchen table as inspiring as some intricate setups. There is something about doing more with less. And I am sure there will be people with such setups featured on the blog, as well.

Hacker Stations – Tech workspace setups to get inspiration from

poushkar — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 18:14:35 +0000

I really like the "workspace porn" and been frequenting various blogs and communities with workspace setups. It's inspiring and interesting to see how other people organize their workspaces and achieve focus and comfort. And while it's also interesting to see random setups from people with different backgrounds, I especially like to see setups from developers and tech professionals like myself. That's why I decided to start the blog dedicated solely to such setups. I hope some HN visitors will appreciate it, too.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32694031

Points: 91

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New comment by poushkar in "Mikhail Gorbachev has died"

poushkar — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 09:02:22 +0000

Here we come again with the "Ukrainian nationalism" and "coup". So boring. Will you ever update your guide on Russian propaganda? Even the russian troll factory stopped using these arguments like 2 years ago.

Ask HN: Anyone has experience with Contoura Vision eye surgery?

poushkar — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 19:18:56 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32487490

Points: 3

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New comment by poushkar in "Software engineering books"

poushkar — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 14:37:55 +0000

Nice list! I love that the Code by Charles Petzold is on it!

I created something similar out of my list of books which I used to navigate the transition to a Tech Lead role: https://techleadcompass.com/. I see that some of the books presented on the OP's list overlap with my list.

New comment by poushkar in "Ask HN: Best place to learn blog marketing?"

poushkar — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 13:06:17 +0000

https://bloggingfordevs.com/

New comment by poushkar in "Ask HN: Non-technical founders, would you buy a course on building a SaaS MVP?"

poushkar — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 09:16:56 +0000

Thank you for such a detailed, honest feedback! I really appreciate it! There are a lot of books on Rails and I don't think I can add much value there. But approaching at it from a different, more pragmatic "what needs to be done to have it running" angle feels fresh to me. I know of one success story where non-technical founders learned just enough of RoR to build an MVP, but AFAIR it took them several months only to learn to use Ruby/RoR. And it would be exactly this problem that I am trying to solve: bringing it from several months down to several weeks.