Hacker News: rektomatic

New comment by rektomatic in "Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app"

rektomatic — Fri, 01 May 2026 15:15:10 +0000

You're describing project-level shared resources, there are local versions of that like CLAUDE.local.md which should be gitignored

Does Gas Town 'steal' usage from users' LLM credits to improve itself?

rektomatic — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:49:48 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/gastownhall/gastown/issues/3649

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47785053

Points: 253

# Comments: 127

New comment by rektomatic in "The economics of software teams: Why most engineering orgs are flying blind"

rektomatic — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:54:04 +0000

Does anyone really believe that Slawk is a "replica of approximately 95% of Slack’s core product"??

New comment by rektomatic in "Welcome to the Wasteland: A Thousand Gas Towns"

rektomatic — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:49:58 +0000

I legitametly thought it was Dolt until you pointed it out

New comment by rektomatic in "Good Riddance, 4o"

rektomatic — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 17:36:46 +0000

this is so so sad on many levels

New comment by rektomatic in "The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday"

rektomatic — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 20:24:26 +0000

If i have to read one more "It isn't this. It's this" My head will explode. That phrase is the real singularity

New comment by rektomatic in "TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe"

rektomatic — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 15:06:04 +0000

are hard-drugs a design pattern?

New comment by rektomatic in "Two Amazon delivery drones crash into crane in commercial area of Tolleson, AZ"

rektomatic — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 20:01:40 +0000

China is way ahead on what exactly? Regulation?

New comment by rektomatic in "The story of DOGE, as told by federal workers"

rektomatic — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 23:13:17 +0000

Not saying anything about the actions themselves just pointing out what’s objectively true.

New comment by rektomatic in "The story of DOGE, as told by federal workers"

rektomatic — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 20:49:57 +0000

> A private citizen given a power to destroy organisations that overlook that citizens businesses?

Except he had no power to do this? In the end the executive branch had to authorize anything coming out of DOGE. Like it or not, elected officials (Trump) rubber stamped the cuts.

New comment by rektomatic in "The story of DOGE, as told by federal workers"

rektomatic — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 20:46:05 +0000

>you'll need to privatize the tasks / services which government agencies used to provide

Most of what DOGE cut was stuff no one wanted or needed in the first place. Just scroll their twitter feed, cutting this stuff shouldn't be termed as "smaller government".

New comment by rektomatic in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

rektomatic — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 14:28:20 +0000

> likely contributed to the Gen Z turnout that helped win in 2024

This is way over-estimated. There's a number of talking heads on the right that Gen Z listens to. For every Charlie Kirk, there's five others.

New comment by rektomatic in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

rektomatic — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 14:14:56 +0000

Quit it with the fear mongering

New comment by rektomatic in "The Insanity of Being a Software Engineer"

rektomatic — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 11:23:44 +0000

For a profession that has improved the world so much, we are a pessimistic lot aren’t we?

New comment by rektomatic in "Product vs. Engineering"

rektomatic — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 18:59:08 +0000

>very likely your technical people are smarter than your product people

I'm guessing you work in the technical side of things?

New comment by rektomatic in "Is it my impression or are things devolving?"

rektomatic — Thu, 26 May 2022 23:07:59 +0000

Quit social media and news for a week and then see how you feel

Reflecting on 5 years of software development

rektomatic — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 13:33:15 +0000

Article URL: http://yourdomain.com/career/2021/10/09/reflecting-on-five-plus-years.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28828123

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by rektomatic in "Facebook banned me for life because I help people use it less"

rektomatic — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 21:42:26 +0000

Just put the code out in open source, I don’t see how that could be subject to a cease and desist

New comment by rektomatic in "Facebook banned me for life because I help people use it less"

rektomatic — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 21:41:57 +0000

I wish he would put the code out on github, does tht break laws if its not actively doing it?

New comment by rektomatic in "Choose Boring Technology"

rektomatic — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 14:34:14 +0000

At the end of his shpeel he talks about how to adopt new technologies intelligently. He's not saying that no one ever should but that you need to go about it a certain way to reduce risk.