Hacker News: rightofcourse

New comment by rightofcourse in "Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block"

rightofcourse — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:44:45 +0000

The LaLiga post seem to accuse Cloudflare of unlawful activity directly by protecting criminals, not just the illegal streamers. At least my reading (of Google translation) is that they target Cloudflare here and it works "as expected" since Cloudflare is the bad guys.

New comment by rightofcourse in "Bring Back Idiomatic Design"

rightofcourse — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:37:33 +0000

For Slack at least you have the option to change that back to use Enter for new line (which is what I do), but other software is not that generous. I think Grafana introduced yet another way, Shift-Enter to submit, that I alway mix up.

New comment by rightofcourse in "Claude mixes up who said what"

rightofcourse — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:54:58 +0000

haha, you are not wrong, just when a dev gets a tool to automate the _boring_ parts usually tests get the first hit

New comment by rightofcourse in "Git commands I run before reading any code"

rightofcourse — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 08:27:12 +0000

It works until you migrate to a new system. In 5 years we are on our 3rd. I saw that at FAANG and startup alike. Then someone might dump the contents in JSON or just PDF for archival but much easier to have the commit msg have the relevant info - only relevant, losts of small details can be still on the issue and if someone really needs them can search those archives.

New comment by rightofcourse in "Git commands I run before reading any code"

rightofcourse — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 08:18:57 +0000

> The focus of the CTO is on the big picture stuff. Like staying on top of technical debt and correcting people when they keep on adding more of it. And making sure people learn from their mistakes, focus on the important things first, etc.

sound like something maybe good commit messages could help with

New comment by rightofcourse in "Git commands I run before reading any code"

rightofcourse — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 08:14:04 +0000

Yes, we are on our third ticketing system on our team with dead refs to old issues. PR without a commit documenting why you need a change does not normally get approved and helps a lot also at present and future review time. Lots of value for new devs to see how thinking went and why something exist and not something else etc.

Documenting it also forces people to think why they are adding a change in the first place. Code added without purpose becomes dead weight and tech debt.

New comment by rightofcourse in "Show HN: European alternatives to Google, Apple, Dropbox and 120 US apps"

rightofcourse — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 11:14:35 +0000

"only-EU.EU" indicates me their definition of Europe is EU, which is how is used sometimes casually, it's not about political or geographical correctness, just like America First does not mean Mexico First when it comes from the mouth of current POTUS.