Hacker News: rramon

New comment by rramon in "How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs"

rramon — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 16:35:23 +0000

They're fanning Brexit-like situations all over the EU though. Those parties (e.g. the far right Afd in Germany) are EU critic and would rather have their own version of the EU with like minded countries. Or Varoufakis (far left, previously at Valve) in Greece for example, also EU critic.

New comment by rramon in "How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs"

rramon — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 14:45:12 +0000

They'll get adequate feedback in the next elections If this doesn't get stopped, otherwise every business and their peers will likely vote for EU critic parties which means far left or far right.

New comment by rramon in "Omacom Foundation launches with $8M"

rramon — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:47:19 +0000

Was about to sell the parts of my old Haswell Hackintosh which I did replace with a M1 Mac Mini a couple of years ago after 10 years in use, but now I might just dust off my old Lian Li case build it back together for Omarchy as my dev and tinker machine. Still has double the RAM of my Mini..

New comment by rramon in "Lovable raises $400M Series C"

rramon — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:20:02 +0000

> The best answer I can come up with is that they're betting on people building apps without knowing how to code—that this alone will be enough to leverage LLMs and turn a profit, capturing a market that's scared away from tools like Claude Code.

With Claude Code etc. you still have to decide on a tech stack, frameworks or libraries to build on. Lovable is basically an agentic harness with Tanstack Start and Supabase setup for you + quick integrations for services online businesses typically use.

Basically like a JS dev boilerplate + agent in a box.

Their main advantage is they were kind of a first mover in that space before harnesses or agents etc. were even discussed.

New comment by rramon in "The front end framework for correctness: built on Effect, architected like Elm"

rramon — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 06:33:20 +0000

Thanks, looks interesting!

New comment by rramon in "The front end framework for correctness: built on Effect, architected like Elm"

rramon — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 06:32:45 +0000

Maybe a bit late to ask but how would an EffectTS backend integrate seamlessly? Im looking for a full stack agent driven workflow including domain modeling, designing state machines (with Xstate or SCXML?) etc.

New comment by rramon in "The front end framework for correctness: built on Effect, architected like Elm"

rramon — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 16:12:42 +0000

Just wondering how a matching backend framework for correctness would look like. Ideally something that doesn't repeat the React mess with two routers but fits right in Inertia style.

New comment by rramon in "Apple has decided to compete for creativity app users"

rramon — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 20:37:25 +0000

They bought "Play" recently, it was an UI design app dedicated to SwiftUI.

New comment by rramon in "The engine of Germany's wealth is blocking its future"

rramon — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:08:13 +0000

Germany could turn it around with laxer laws about permanent residency and new infrastructure. Allow people to live permanently in mobile homes, vans and caravans which they can rent to won from automobile makers, invest in campsites. The good future imo isn't megacities but distributed cities with families and social circles congregating.

New comment by rramon in "Show HN: Rails UI"

rramon — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 10:43:04 +0000

Wow, didn't realize that you're the one behind the Webcrunch channel. Never got into Rails but I loved your Affinity videos back in the day, you're also one of the functional CSS/Tailwind early adopters on YT.

That's where I discovered TW back in 2018 I think. It was even before the Refactoring UI book and videos and the first official version of TW.

New comment by rramon in "Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn"

rramon — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 16:36:43 +0000

No accessible emergency brakes?

New comment by rramon in "X210Ai is a new motherboard to upgrade ThinkPad X201/200"

rramon — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 07:32:06 +0000

Is the X200s (s = low power variant) chassis too different or is it compatible as well?

New comment by rramon in "OpenAI acquires Sky.app"

rramon — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 07:23:32 +0000

It almost seems like OpenAI being a stealth operation by Apple with Altman becoming the new Jobs in an Nextstep like aquisition move.

Ive/Altman.jpg, the focus on Macs, Apples unexplainable AI strategy and getting devs snatched by Meta. Why put up a fight if you already own the biggest player..

New comment by rramon in "Now open for building: Introducing Gemini CLI extensions"

rramon — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 06:17:48 +0000

Do they have a single plan yet for te CLI, assistant and image stuff?

New comment by rramon in "A board member's perspective of the RubyGems controversy"

rramon — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 17:47:32 +0000

Ethnic features = things you can nothing for, same category as skin color.

I was talking about the culture you chose and the stereotypes that go along with it. Stereotypes override ethnic features unless you actually deal with real racists.

DHH might not be street smart enough (like most people in tech) to see through those stereotypes on the streets of London.

New comment by rramon in "A board member's perspective of the RubyGems controversy"

rramon — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 09:12:58 +0000

Tekin, what makes a Turk less white than a Greek or Spaniard?

If it's cultural (religion, music/sports related subcultures and codes) then it's chosen. Nobody can force you into a subculture in the West. As soon as you turn 18 you can essentially do what you want, most likely even way before that.

You can chose your subculture, how you dress, style your hair, talk and are read by the mainstream society. Actual racists go by skin color and ignore your cultural choices, fuck them.

New comment by rramon in "The Sagrada Família takes its final shape"

rramon — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 08:40:39 +0000

The Cologne cathedral took over 600 years to finish because the original plans got lost along the way. it was paused after 300 years! For the following centuries, many generations only saw the same unfinished state with the crane on top.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cologne_Cathedral

New comment by rramon in "I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers"

rramon — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 08:56:51 +0000

He makes the point that the thinness and lightness have no effect because it's not really pocket friendly because of the size, so you won't get the advantage where it matters most, in your pocket.

New comment by rramon in "macOS Tahoe"

rramon — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 18:13:26 +0000

They went way too far with the corner radii and pill shapes imo, looks like a Fisher Price toy. Some inner buttons retained the old radii and don't match the outer window radii anymore.

New comment by rramon in "The Framework Desktop is a beast"

rramon — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 08:28:20 +0000

Now, but after listening to podcasts with him I think he's someone who would tackle hard stuff like drivers or DSP, so called math genius level coding as soon as it becomes more accessible for him through AI assisted coding.

There is a chance to build a real MacOS/iOS alternatives without a JVM abstraction layer on top like Android. The reason it didn't happen yet is the GPL firewall around the Linux kernel imo.