Hacker News: progforlyfe

New comment by progforlyfe in "Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers"

progforlyfe — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:52:12 +0000

This is why I always work at a new company at least 6-12 months before making any major changes. I use that time to get into the flow of how things are being done (even if I think they are not efficient). I may make some suggestions but that's it.

Of course, I'll probably never get hired again anywhere so it doesn't matter anymore.

New comment by progforlyfe in "Making Graphics Like it's 1993"

progforlyfe — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:37:58 +0000

Much respect -- at first glance when I saw the animated gif I thought this was just a project making assets from scratch for an existing game engine (e.g. Doom or Wolf 3D) but then I realize it's creating all the game code from scratch too! (But using similar techniques from the old days). Amazing work.

New comment by progforlyfe in "PHP's Oddities"

progforlyfe — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:30:00 +0000

I count 5 based on that link. And only 2 are in USA, so my apologies, should have said "PHP + allowed to work in USA (remote/hybrid/onsite)". two is greater than zero, so hurray I guess...

New comment by progforlyfe in "Accenture to acquire Ookla"

progforlyfe — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:26:34 +0000

I don't have any proof but it sounds plausible; they also have an interactive button (does not require any login), so it could be that they rank the interactive event higher, but still count plain views as something. I'd say it's a fair indicator at least on a basic level.

New comment by progforlyfe in "Sagrada Família Lego set"

progforlyfe — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:21:33 +0000

that sounds awesome. sad that something like that probably would not work well in USA. don't have the culture for it. too many pieces would get lost.

New comment by progforlyfe in "Love systemd timers"

progforlyfe — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:55:10 +0000

This is a very good intro to systemd timers -- I think you convinced me to finally start using them. Love the "list-timers" thing as well. With cron, it never seemed easy to me to get a picture of all the cron jobs running on a box. I'd need to check crontab for all users, as well as /etc/cron.d/, as well as the daily/hourly/monthly directories.

And in fact I do have a use-case for needing to run something ~5 minutes after the system boots and then every ~12 hours onward from there. It's great that systemd timers has me covered!

New comment by progforlyfe in "Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel"

progforlyfe — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:42:02 +0000

that's impressive -- nice work.

New comment by progforlyfe in "Accenture to acquire Ookla"

progforlyfe — Sat, 30 May 2026 17:18:31 +0000

that's nuts, unless I'm missing something, it doesn't seem like those products are that mind blowingly complex... wow. Makes we want to try building my own for the hell of it.

Downdetector in fact just seems to be a website catalog with essentially a guestbook and hit counter...

New comment by progforlyfe in "Show HN: Continue? Y/N: A 60-second game about AI agent permission fatigue"

progforlyfe — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:08:13 +0000

I got "approve" wrong for `ls -la ~/Documents` but I don't consider simply listing the documents folder a security problem, it's just file names. If it was reading the CONTENTS of them, maybe...

New comment by progforlyfe in "Show HN: Continue? Y/N: A 60-second game about AI agent permission fatigue"

progforlyfe — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:07:06 +0000

Just like real life! deny it from doing anything and you're safe :)

New comment by progforlyfe in "PHP's Oddities"

progforlyfe — Sat, 23 May 2026 20:56:44 +0000

I have not seen "PHP" listed as a language used in any Hacker News job posting in a very long time. Everything is Javascript/Typescript now, with the occasional Rust, C/C++, Golang, Python, Ruby. I never see PHP ever.

New comment by progforlyfe in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"

progforlyfe — Fri, 15 May 2026 00:48:26 +0000

From "This whole thread is an overreaction. 302 comments about code that does not work. We haven’t committed to rewriting. There’s a very high chance all this code gets thrown out completely." and what seems to amount to some experimental curiosity -- to merging the whole thing in 10 days!? This seems really crazy.

New comment by progforlyfe in "Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features"

progforlyfe — Wed, 13 May 2026 20:53:10 +0000

yes absolutely -- although I did use Nvidia GTX 1070 for a bunch of years without much of an issue, and I still believe Nvidia gets you more "bang for your buck", I would only buy AMD cards now due to the more integral support with Linux gaming.

New comment by progforlyfe in "Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features"

progforlyfe — Wed, 13 May 2026 20:37:34 +0000

Modding will continue to be a challenge, but doable, thing, until more mod devs get onboarded to Linux themselves. If the mod devs enjoy using Linux, they'll probably start building mods with UIs native to Linux.

I would say custom modding and online multiplayer anti-cheat systems are the last real hold outs, and even then it doesn't affect every game.

New comment by progforlyfe in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"

progforlyfe — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:31:53 +0000

That is honestly amazing and impressive. Probably a bit too much tweaking for the common gamer though, but glad it is possible!

New comment by progforlyfe in "Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)"

progforlyfe — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:13:37 +0000

I love it! I just wish I could enlarge the photos! EDIT: ah, it works to right-click open image in new tab.

New comment by progforlyfe in "Return of the Obra Dinn: spherical mapped dithering for a 1bpp first-person game"

progforlyfe — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:16:23 +0000

I grew up on the small 6 inch 1 bit Mac SE display so the art style has a special place in my heart. Sadly I'm too "dumb" to fully enjoy the game as it requires a lot of attention to detail -- amazing if you enjoy detective style puzzles! I still highly respect it.

New comment by progforlyfe in "New iPad Air, powered by M4"

progforlyfe — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:08:58 +0000

wow, had no idea. that's honestly hilarious!

New comment by progforlyfe in "Facebook is cooked"

progforlyfe — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 21:54:19 +0000

I'm definitely not a "fan" of Facebook or anything, though I do use it and make a few interactions per day -- based on this blog post I think the reason why his dashboard was full of trash & slop was simply because he hasn't logged in for 8 years. If you have no interactions in 8 years (and people you friend/follow are also gone from the platform) they will resort to showing you this crap.

I honestly do not care if Facebook is cooked or goes away -- but I doubt the situation is that bad.

New comment by progforlyfe in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

progforlyfe — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 17:01:55 +0000

also, I would bet Linux desktop users are more likely to use an Adblocker or Brave browser, which actually block statcounter! Probably not enough to bump numbers significantly, but maybe 1-2% additional.