Hacker News: robertlfhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=robertlfHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Mon, 27 Apr 2026 08:30:29 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by robertlf in "Artificial intelligence is losing hype"]]>Why post an article that's behind a paywall? How many of us can read it?

]]>Wed, 21 Aug 2024 00:03:23 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41305371robertlfhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41305371https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41305371<![CDATA[New comment by robertlf in "Leaving Neovim for Zed"]]>A good article, but you really can't see the screenshots at all.

]]>Sun, 18 Aug 2024 21:48:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41285797robertlfhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41285797https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41285797<![CDATA[New comment by robertlf in "The big lie about sleep"]]>Why post an article that's behind a firewall that only subscribers can read?

]]>Sat, 01 Jun 2024 18:25:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40547948robertlfhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40547948https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40547948<![CDATA[New comment by robertlf in "Show HN: I learned to code and built a crypto analytics platform"]]>Nice job!

]]>Tue, 10 Oct 2023 21:01:56 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37837412robertlfhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37837412https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37837412<![CDATA[New comment by robertlf in "Portable Django"]]>Are people still using Django?

]]>Thu, 23 Feb 2023 21:20:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34916621robertlfhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34916621https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34916621<![CDATA[New comment by robertlf in "Why is the JavaScript ecosystem like this?"]]>This pretty much sums up why I've switched to "low-code" platforms. I can still do about 95% of what I was doing before and I don't have to put up with this nonsense.

]]>Wed, 04 Jan 2023 21:20:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34251844robertlfhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34251844https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34251844<![CDATA[New comment by robertlf in "Unbundling Tools for Thought"]]>Why's the font so big? hahaha

]]>Mon, 26 Dec 2022 21:04:17 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34141858robertlfhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34141858https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34141858<![CDATA[New comment by robertlf in "2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop?"]]>This is utterly ridiculous. Unless you're a long-time Unix hacker or system administrator (I was the latter for ten years), trying to do anything in Linux is time-consuming, difficult, and ultimately very frustrating. Desktop Linux was always be a backwater for techies and it has absolutely no hope of widespread adoption like Windows or macOS.

]]>Sun, 25 Dec 2022 21:37:02 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34131616robertlfhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34131616https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34131616<![CDATA[New comment by robertlf in "Show HN: Portable Secret – How I store my secrets and communicate privately"]]>Why would I use this? I don't know this guy from Adam. (laughing)

]]>Wed, 21 Dec 2022 21:55:36 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34086903robertlfhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34086903https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34086903<![CDATA[New comment by robertlf in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2022)"]]>Location: Los Angeles, California, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Webflow, Airtable, Memberstack

Website: https://orthogonal.agency

Email: hello@orthogonal dot agency

]]>Tue, 01 Nov 2022 20:34:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33427102robertlfhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33427102https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33427102<![CDATA[New comment by robertlf in "What to read to become a better writer"]]>What's the point of linking to an article behind a paywall that all of us probably can't read?

]]>Mon, 26 Sep 2022 04:23:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32979396robertlfhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32979396https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32979396<![CDATA[New comment by robertlf in "I Love My PinePhone"]]>(ROFLMAO) Given how dismally user-unfriendly most Linux versions are, you couldn't pay me to have a phone that runs on Linux.

]]>Fri, 26 Aug 2022 21:26:09 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32612948robertlfhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32612948https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32612948<![CDATA[New comment by robertlf in "I made a virtual bookshelf"]]>Nice idea but the vertical titles are too hard to read. Why not just stack the books one on top of the other for the sake of usability?

]]>Sat, 07 May 2022 19:16:23 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31297619robertlfhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31297619https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31297619<![CDATA[New comment by robertlf in "A report on exercise and sleep (2021)"]]>That's interesting. I definitely think there's a cyclical aspect to it because my fatigue usually goes away in the evening around 6 p.m. or later.

]]>Sun, 06 Mar 2022 19:50:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30580579robertlfhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30580579https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30580579<![CDATA[New comment by robertlf in "A report on exercise and sleep (2021)"]]>I find that if I get eight hours of sleep at night, I can move mountains. But if I only get 7.75 hours of sleep or less, my eyes feel tired all day and I'm only half as productive. I've never understood why there is such a marked difference between eight hours of sleep and almost anything less than eight hours. There's something chemically going on inside that I don't understand. The problem I'm having now is that I can get a good five or six hours but I wake up after that fifth or sixth hour and can't get back to sleep long enough to get that ideal eight. This problem is seriously affecting my career and I don't know what to do. I do do moderate to vigorous exercise five times a week but that doesn't always help.

]]>Sat, 05 Mar 2022 21:11:47 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30571921robertlfhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30571921https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30571921<![CDATA[New comment by robertlf in "My MacBook Pro had over 10k USD in repairs"]]>As long as we're having a big bitch-fest here, I'll throw in my $.02. Other than expanding batteries, my laptops have generally been trouble-free. But the problem I do have is that the older my MBP, the slower it becomes when I upgrade the OS. When I upgraded my 2015 to Big Sur last year, it essentially became unusable because it ran so slowly. It now sits in my closet. Apple should stop nagging you to upgrade the OS if your hardware wasn't built to support the newer versions. Just give us security updates and leave the rest alone. I think that would make a lot of users happy.

]]>Wed, 25 Aug 2021 18:45:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28305337robertlfhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28305337https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28305337<![CDATA[New comment by robertlf in "Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and chef Jose Andres"]]>I suspect Bezos's PR person came up with this after that stupid you all paid for this comment he made.

]]>Wed, 21 Jul 2021 21:54:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27912693robertlfhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27912693https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27912693<![CDATA[New comment by robertlf in "Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B"]]>Top 3%er here and I rarely use Stack Overflow anymore. I got so tired of the snarky answers to questions (both mine and others) and peoples' ability to downvote you without giving any justification. I've been there for 12 years but fortunately, in that time, I've become a good enough developer that I can generally figure out my own problems. And if I get stuck, I'll go to the relevant Google group or to a sub Reddit. Stack Overflow is no longer relevant to me.

]]>Wed, 02 Jun 2021 21:04:47 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27374010robertlfhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27374010https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27374010<![CDATA[New comment by robertlf in "Show HN: Easier, Free Webflow"]]>While I'm new to Webflow, I get a feeling that some people try to push it too far. It seems to me that it's mostly a no-code tool meant for basic "brochure" sites with some modest CMS capabilities built in. And for many, many businesses, that's sufficient. It provides additional design flexibility for those who understand HTML and CSS. If you're making a site that's so complex that you need version control, you should probably be using a web application framework. But, in a pinch, you can always export your code and do VC on that. Just my $.02.

]]>Wed, 05 May 2021 04:29:30 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27046189robertlfhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27046189https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27046189<![CDATA[New comment by robertlf in "Show HN: Easier, Free Webflow"]]>Is this a layer on top of Webflow or did you copy its functionality and add a simpler UI on top?

]]>Tue, 04 May 2021 19:43:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27042000robertlfhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27042000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27042000