Hacker News: rochak

New comment by rochak in "Biology is a Burrito: A text- and visual-based journey through a living cell"

rochak — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 06:52:48 +0000

Life is amazing. Can anyone recommend good modern starting points to someone who would want to learn more about how living beings work (from bottom up)? It has been a while since I actively delved into Biology (my school days).

New comment by rochak in "Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies"

rochak — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 10:41:06 +0000

Based

New comment by rochak in "Show HN: Nogic – VS Code extension that visualizes your codebase as a graph"

rochak — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 08:13:25 +0000

Man am I glad I don't have to work with Ruby anymore

New comment by rochak in "Thin desires are eating life"

rochak — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 05:29:34 +0000

Doesn’t “tanha” mean “by yourself” in Hindi?

New comment by rochak in "The Pragmatic Programmer: 20th Anniversary Edition (2023)"

rochak — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 08:08:47 +0000

I'd say learning things on your own, even if they take time, is still better as you don't have to actively force yourself to develop that mindset. We often rush towards our goal without realizing how important the journey (small steps) is. Isn't reaching the goal more worthwhile if you have enjoyed the journey along the way? Isn't that what it means to be human?

New comment by rochak in "Microsoft's lack of quality control is out of control"

rochak — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 10:40:20 +0000

Microsoft has gone so deep down the gutter, it is almost unbelievable. I am waiting for the day their profits start taking a hit due to a collective boycott.

New comment by rochak in "Show HN: Shadcn/UI theme editor – Design and share Shadcn themes"

rochak — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 05:03:52 +0000

Gotta love the JS ecosystem where devs move faster than users.

New comment by rochak in "Microsoft to force install the Microsoft 365 Copilot app in October"

rochak — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 11:40:05 +0000

Preach. I’m also more of a balcony enjoyer.

New comment by rochak in "Show HN: Term.everything – Run any GUI app in the terminal"

rochak — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 18:14:50 +0000

Wow this is incredible

New comment by rochak in "The elegance of movement in Silksong"

rochak — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 07:33:16 +0000

Ehh, not interested in HK or similar games with such a high difficulty bar. Life is too short to be playing games that are not fun to play (for me).

New comment by rochak in "VIM Master"

rochak — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 05:30:41 +0000

For me, it is close to perfect.

New comment by rochak in "Show HN: Base, an SQLite database editor for macOS"

rochak — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 07:03:43 +0000

That’s one of my many reasons for sticking with Mac. I know the bar is higher and I just enjoy the consistency between first party and third party applications.

New comment by rochak in "“Dynamic Programming” is not referring to “computer programming”"

rochak — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 08:06:10 +0000

Yup. I don’t mind it though as this field is riddled with names that convey absolutely nothing about the actual thing.

New comment by rochak in "US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel"

rochak — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 16:14:12 +0000

Absolutely! I’m at a stage where I prefer to buy a subscription via Apple. It’s so simple to cancel. Not to mention how quick Apple is in general refunding any of the wrong/unsatisfactory purchases.

New comment by rochak in "Show HN: An Alfred workflow to open GCP services and browse resources within"

rochak — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 06:18:31 +0000

Nice. Looks awesome. I had been thinking of building something similar for AWS. Definitely gonna reference some of the source to build that. Thanks!

New comment by rochak in "Swift at Apple: Migrating the Password Monitoring Service from Java"

rochak — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 03:52:59 +0000

By now, everyone and their family knows that can get lot of updates just by including Rust in the title. It is what it is.

New comment by rochak in "Show HN: I wrote a modern Command Line Handbook"

rochak — Thu, 29 May 2025 19:08:28 +0000

Good resource to couple this resource with: https://linuxjourney.com.

New comment by rochak in "Kotlin-Lsp: Kotlin Language Server and Plugin for Visual Studio Code"

rochak — Thu, 22 May 2025 19:35:02 +0000

Microsoft/Windows’s ecosystem. As an example, any general guide on the Internet or on Microsoft’s end is written assuming you are developing on and for Windows. I want to stay away from Windows as much as I possibly can but it just isn’t possible. That’s not the case with the other languages/ecosystems I mentioned.

New comment by rochak in "Kotlin-Lsp: Kotlin Language Server and Plugin for Visual Studio Code"

rochak — Thu, 22 May 2025 07:40:59 +0000

I work on backend (distributed systems) leveraging languages like Java, Python, Go, Ruby and TypeScript.

New comment by rochak in "Kotlin-Lsp: Kotlin Language Server and Plugin for Visual Studio Code"

rochak — Thu, 22 May 2025 06:29:50 +0000

I (and countless others I know) simply refuse to learn/use a language that locks you in an ecosystem. I haven’t taken Kotlin, C# or any of the Apple proprietary tech jobs and never will.