Hacker News: prokopton

New comment by prokopton in "The JavaScript Midlife Crisis"

prokopton — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 05:28:36 +0000

I've worked with Vue, React, Qwik, and Svelte over the last 10 years. I have never felt the hate that HN spews out over JavaScript.

New comment by prokopton in "Site Is Closed on Sundays"

prokopton — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 11:13:51 +0000

Well, we all went to this guy's site when we would not have otherwise. He won.

New comment by prokopton in "Taste Is All That's Left"

prokopton — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 02:30:46 +0000

Whenever I see "is doing a lot of work here", I assume it's AI-generated.

New comment by prokopton in "Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)"

prokopton — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:37:01 +0000

Another pretender.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bento_(database)

New comment by prokopton in "Why Vanilla JavaScript"

prokopton — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 04:53:11 +0000

I checked out before getting to that. He even wrote his own HTML variant called EHTML.

https://e-html.org

Well played. You got me to visit your version of the thing you complained about. :clapping-emoji:

New comment by prokopton in "Why Vanilla JavaScript"

prokopton — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 01:47:37 +0000

It’s been a minute since someone ranted about frontend frameworks. Take a shot.

New comment by prokopton in "Fable 5 is Back"

prokopton — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:13:17 +0000

Most likely it'll try to rewrite the whole world's CSS and get the custom properties wrong.

New comment by prokopton in "Show HN: Monolisa v3 – a typeface for developers and creatives"

prokopton — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:09:55 +0000

I bought the first version for far less. I couldn’t believe how much they wanted this time around.

New comment by prokopton in "US court rules Ohio can restrict children's use of social media"

prokopton — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 14:54:14 +0000

On social media?

New comment by prokopton in "US court rules Ohio can restrict children's use of social media"

prokopton — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 14:51:42 +0000

Now direct the teens here instead of TikTok.

New comment by prokopton in "US court rules Ohio can restrict children's use of social media"

prokopton — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 14:43:30 +0000

We bring back Geocities and use the Net like it’s the mid 90s again. No social media required.

New comment by prokopton in "Dusklight – GC Twilight Princess Decompiled"

prokopton — Sun, 31 May 2026 09:12:17 +0000

I remember being greatly annoyed you couldn’t skip the train rides.

New comment by prokopton in "Macsurf, "modern" web browser for macOS 9"

prokopton — Sat, 30 May 2026 15:52:58 +0000

Can hardware became more obsolete?

New comment by prokopton in "Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS"

prokopton — Sun, 17 May 2026 03:27:27 +0000

Adam always did say best practices don’t work.

New comment by prokopton in "Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS"

prokopton — Sun, 17 May 2026 01:07:40 +0000

Always happy to see a Tailwind/no-Tailwind flame war.

New comment by prokopton in "I Bought a “Junk” PSP From Japan"

prokopton — Sat, 16 May 2026 06:52:31 +0000

I sell stuff on Mercari a lot and people buying through Buyee are great.

New comment by prokopton in "I let AI build a tool to help me figure out what was waking me up at night"

prokopton — Tue, 12 May 2026 12:10:26 +0000

I was going to do something like this but turns out it was my baby the whole time.

New comment by prokopton in "Getting arrested in Japan"

prokopton — Sun, 10 May 2026 14:07:34 +0000

Is every video about being arrested in Japan sponsored by SquareSpace?

New comment by prokopton in "Getting arrested in Japan"

prokopton — Sun, 10 May 2026 14:02:45 +0000

The real crime is adding fade ins on scroll for a blog post.

New comment by prokopton in "Meetings are forcing functions"

prokopton — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 08:44:40 +0000

The problem is long-running projects. Projects are too large in scope. They lasts for months to a year with nothing being delivered. Meetings don’t fix that.