Hacker News: robador

New comment by robador in "Thoughts on having SSH allow password authentication from the Internet"

robador — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 09:11:15 +0000

I was just playing around with this problem. I ended up firewalling the SSH port for all but my personal IP, then have wireguard set up so I can use it from within my wireguard network. Works perfectly so far as long as I have my clients set up.

New comment by robador in ""Twelfth Night Till Candlemas" – A 40-year book-quest"

robador — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 18:14:54 +0000

I've this issue but with a painting I once saw in a (school?) art book 30, 35 years ago. I'm pretty sure it was painted during the Renaissance, by an Italian painter. It shows a portrait of Jesus at the cross (so a closeup of his face), who's hollering in pain. Usually he was depicted all serene, but his expression in this painting is terror. Always stuck with me, but haven't seen it since, and occasionally I try to find it.

New comment by robador in "Are Immutable Linux Distros right for you?"

robador — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 11:19:57 +0000

After a couple years of running manjaro I ended up switching to bazzite, a fedora silverblue based distro. For the past years, I stopped being a tinkerer, and started turning on my personal laptop less and less. But when I did, I'd find that doing an update would break things, and lead to hours of figuring out what broke, or why an update wouldn't install. It was so incredibly frustrating. My personal circumstances just changed so that I don't have the time to spend on those shenanigans anymore. I looked at Nixos for a long time, but the steep learning curve always held me back. And a fedora atomic desktop started to look pretty good, but it took me to get so fed up with the not being able to do an update after a couple months without things breaking again that I got over the fact that I would probably need to switch to GNOME or KDE to run a well supported atomic desktop. I got over that and settled on bazzite with gnome, because it's promise of setting up my hardware for casual gaming without effort. I've changed a couple months ago and honestly, it's made Linux fun for me again. The things I don't want to have to tinker with, the ui, desktop, software, it all just works and seems very stable. Software is installed with flatpaks, appimages, or in distrobox. If I want to tinker, I do what I always used to do; use docker (podman and distrobox on fedora). Its been an absolute pleasure so far, with hardly a learning curve for me (based on previous experience and practices I suppose). Highly recommend.

New comment by robador in "Klarna CEO: Company stopped hiring because AI 'can do all of the jobs'"

robador — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 06:40:03 +0000

Sounds like a great company to work at and a great boss to work for (/s)

New comment by robador in "Principles for product velocity"

robador — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 08:18:36 +0000

I'm in a large corp as bridge between development and the business. What i do is minimize process on the dev side, and maximize it on the org side. On the dev side my only ask is predictability, which is hard enough already, but is so important for communication. On the org side, i overengineered process. It focusses on value, and helps to keep chaos away from the developers.

New comment by robador in "Drupal 11 Released"

robador — Sun, 04 Aug 2024 08:05:23 +0000

After 15 years of working with Drupal, for the past 2 years I've moved to a company that uses a jamstack. I still get excited when there's a new release of Drupal. Having now spent time outside of the ecosystem, I'm starting to feel that the editor experience, and really also the developer experience, of a well configured Drupal site is unparalleled.

New comment by robador in "What is the significance of the character "j" at the end of a Roman Numeral? (2013)"

robador — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 10:53:26 +0000

I'm pretty sure I was taught the letter y (I-grec) as part of the alfabet and not the ij (I'm Dutch as well). The other day I was surprised to see that an alfabet song that my kid was watching used the ij instead of the y. And I thought you were talking about IJsselstein, but saw there's indeed also Ysselsteyn, and they're not the same town (though pronounced the same). Interestingly we've then 3 ways to write the same sound (though y can also be pronounced as 'ee', e.g. Yvonne); y, ij, ei, oh, and I suppose 'ey' should be counted as well though that's not used in modern spelling. Cool

New comment by robador in "Aya: A minimalist version control system with fewer than 6 commands"

robador — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 13:25:22 +0000

> also still aya push and pull they are in work when we finish it we going to puplish it

This seems rather alpha.

Also, versioning with only numbers and dots seems a little basic or prescriptive to me, at least comparability with semver would make a little more sense to me.

New comment by robador in "Ask HN: Anyone here burnt out of the AI hype?"

robador — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 06:31:35 +0000

Yes and no. Yes, I believe it is overhyped and in many cases it causes more problems than it solves. For instance, it's easier to create content now, but the quality is usually mediocre at best. I think that's because whatever it's used for still depends on humans for its quality. You get average Joe using ai to code or write, the output is still going to be mediocre. It's just gotten easier and faster to produce it. To me that's a net loss. Companies now sprinkling AI features on everything is more likely to make me roll my eyes, it's become a gimmick.

At the same time I do think it's an incredible tool, and I personally do use it, as a sparring partner, to do quick experiments, to explore ideas or technology I don't have experience with. For example, in my current position I found myself constantly hitting limits with excel. AI enabled me to use Python, Pandas, Sklearn and other libraries to great effect. All stuff I didn't have prior experience with. So I understand the excitement.

New comment by robador in "Show HN: I created this land use visualisation for the Netherlands"

robador — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 13:02:35 +0000

Zeg ken jij de mosselman? (Dit hoor ik nu de hele dag op Spotify, mijn peuter is er dol op).)

I wasn't aware of the numbers you mentioned, that really puts things in perspective (and makes that upside down flag even more annoying to me).

New comment by robador in "270GB of source code from The New York Times leaked to 4Chan"

robador — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 19:00:58 +0000

Are you implying that using any GPL licensed software forces you to publish everything you create that touches it must also be published under GPL? That's not how it works.

New comment by robador in "'Russia now is like 1984': Inside a Russian dystopian library"

robador — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 06:23:57 +0000

To add to your comment:

> For a fact, more people in the UK get visits from the police over social media posts than they do in Russia.

Any sources for this 'fact'?

New comment by robador in "Study shows banning false info traffickers online can improve public discourse"

robador — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 18:28:44 +0000

And as a private company they had the right to do so. Freedom!

New comment by robador in "How the new head of one of the oldest universities organized a citation cartel"

robador — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 15:50:07 +0000

> Salamanca stated that there were “20 or 30” false online accounts dedicated to citing him and, in just two minutes, he offered two contradictory explanations: that they had been created by former disgruntled workers to harm him, and that “a young man” had created them to demonstrate that ResearchGate could be rigged. Next, Corchado assured that he had deleted those profiles thanks to his knowledge in cybersecurity. A ResearchGate spokesperson, however, explained that they are not aware of any computer attack and that only the creator of a profile can delete it with their password. ( emphasis mine) I laughed so hard at this. Also, him going out claiming that it's all baseless and just check Scopus to see how awesome he is, to then have el pais do exactly that to find more obvious fraud is just priceless. If it wasn't real it could be comedy.

New comment by robador in "Drone footage of fledging penguins jumping off cliff"

robador — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 13:17:31 +0000

I'd add to the other responses that this footage was the result of technical progress and wouldn't have been possible to achieve otherwise.

New comment by robador in "It's not what the world needs right now"

robador — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 18:56:49 +0000

This was a great read and reminiscent of Kerouac (to me). It also makes me think of a life a consciously decided I didn't want after I finished art academy. I've seen others who did and got out after decades of trying and failing. I was lucky to figure out that going to art school to become an artist is a pipe dream.

New comment by robador in "The curse of the senior software engineer"

robador — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 08:02:22 +0000

I was in a similar position, founder/business owner of about 20 years turned employee about 5 years ago. I went on to (technical) product management and that's worked out really well for me, being promoted twice in 3 years. My experience is really beneficial, with little effort I feel like I'm running circles around peers and even higher-ups who lack experience. I'm fortunate to be in a company which values this.

New comment by robador in "Gallery of Simple Websites"

robador — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 15:53:40 +0000

I greatly enjoyed this, there's some real gems and creativity in there if you're into minimalistic design. I particularly enjoyed the Norma graphic design studio website [1], which is not only aesthetically appealing to me, but also has some thought provoking content on design aesthetics itself.

[1] https://normadesign.it/en/

New comment by robador in "Gallery of Simple Websites"

robador — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 15:47:43 +0000

I nearly skipped this site because of your comment, but I'm glad I didn't. Indeed very cynical.

New comment by robador in "No CMS? Writing Our Blog in React (2023)"

robador — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 06:35:18 +0000

I think it's great they did what works for them. Personally though, I am starting to believe React, or indeed any reactive framework, is extremely ill suited for most websites. It adds a layer of complexity on many levels that IMHO is not worth the tradeoff. Not only the amount of tooling required (node_modules), also the fact that you're expected to write all your own elements (components) and override default browser functionality, and expect all of that to work perfectly (forever) is baffling to me. React is an extremely complex layer that abstracts away a quite simple and well understood concept: markup. If your content is mostly static, just use markup and sprinkle a bit of js on top of you must. Your visitors will be grateful. If you're building a web based application, which you're probably not, use React.