Hacker News: robertoandred

New comment by robertoandred in "Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?"

robertoandred — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 02:38:24 +0000

Hezbollah attacks nursing homes and football games. How is that justified?

New comment by robertoandred in "Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?"

robertoandred — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:06:47 +0000

So you’re paying attention to the last few weeks instead of the last several decades.

New comment by robertoandred in "Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?"

robertoandred — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 21:18:39 +0000

Where was this outcry? Hezbollah made northern Israel uninhabitable for years.

New comment by robertoandred in "Bring Back Idiomatic Design"

robertoandred — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 21:17:14 +0000

Now we’re blaming React for bad UX?

New comment by robertoandred in "Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?"

robertoandred — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 21:07:38 +0000

Since when has war not been awful? I don’t remember anyone complaining when Hezbollah attacks Israel though.

New comment by robertoandred in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

robertoandred — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:15:37 +0000

You swipe backward. Been that way for twenty years.

New comment by robertoandred in "Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs"

robertoandred — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 02:58:02 +0000

No, Apple has one built-in messaging app: Messages. It switches between SMS, RCS, and iMessage automatically depending on the capabilities of the devices.

New comment by robertoandred in "New Apple Silicon M4 and M5 HiDPI Limitation on 4K External Displays"

robertoandred — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 03:37:11 +0000

Don’t think I’d call 4K at 32” high dpi.

New comment by robertoandred in "The Oxford Comma – Why and Why Not"

robertoandred — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 20:43:53 +0000

If JFK and Stalin were strippers, there’d be a comma after Stalin to denote the parenthetical clause.

New comment by robertoandred in "macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses"

robertoandred — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 13:46:42 +0000

It’s actually the opposite. The corner radii are defined by the window type and the concentricity of its elements.

People who lack attention to detail just think things are randomly different.

New comment by robertoandred in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

robertoandred — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 09:03:28 +0000

Harris had all sorts of good things planned at home. It’s baffling to me that some voters thought it was more important to lose the election.

New comment by robertoandred in "How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week"

robertoandred — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 23:41:35 +0000

That was a React vulnerability, not a Next one.

New comment by robertoandred in "Why is Claude an Electron app?"

robertoandred — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 23:20:44 +0000

I really hope React Native’s support for Mac and Windows apps takes off. The benefits of Electron without Chromium, plus native controls/functions.

New comment by robertoandred in "JavaScript-heavy approaches are not compatible with long-term performance goals"

robertoandred — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 03:24:02 +0000

Eh, this argument falls apart for many reasons:

- His main example of bloated client-side dependencies is moment.js, which has been deprecated for five years in favor of smaller libraries and native APIs, and whose principal functionality (the manipulation and display of the user's date/time) isn't possible on the server anyway.

- There's an underlying assumption that server-side code is inherently good, performant, and well crafted. There are footguns in every single language and framework and library ever (he works for WordPress, he should know).

- He's right to point out the pain of React memoization, but the Compiler now does this for you and better than you ever could manually

- Larger bundle sizes are unfortunate, but they're not the main cause of performance issues. That'd be images and video sizes, especially if poorly optimized, which easily and immediately dwarf bundle downloads; and slow database queries, which affect server-side code just as much as browser-side code.

New comment by robertoandred in "Oat – Ultra-lightweight, zero dependency, semantic HTML, CSS, JS UI library"

robertoandred — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 22:10:42 +0000

React sites are easily static.

New comment by robertoandred in "Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015"

robertoandred — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 22:08:50 +0000

This problem was solved a long time ago with CSS Modules.

New comment by robertoandred in "Why E cores make Apple silicon fast"

robertoandred — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 18:31:34 +0000

Fortunately, short CPU bursts are most of what most people do. Race to idle!

New comment by robertoandred in "Second Win11 emergency out of band update to address disastrous Patch Tuesday"

robertoandred — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 05:34:43 +0000

Hyphens please.

New comment by robertoandred in "JPEG XL Test Page"

robertoandred — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 09:42:09 +0000

Safari started supporting it over two years ago.

New comment by robertoandred in "NASA announces unprecedented return of sick ISS astronaut and crew"

robertoandred — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 22:01:37 +0000

It's not that the entire crew is compromised medically, it's that logistically if one goes home they all have to.