Hacker News: rsaz

New comment by rsaz in "The Junior Hiring Crisis"

rsaz — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 18:50:00 +0000

- share your work online (twitter used to be the far-and-away best place for getting eyes, but this is a bit less clear now. youtube can work well, maybe also tiktok or sites like medium?)

- go to events/conventions/join clubs related to programming (need to be located near a large city for this)

- talk to other students/self-learners and wait for them to get to the next step

I’ve been unemployed a long time and have been thinking of improving at networking. These are what I came up with.

New comment by rsaz in "I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla"

rsaz — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 17:22:26 +0000

Have you considered Raycast? I don’t use it for those features myself, but it is extensible and has a large community, so even if it can’t do those things by default, I’m sure you could configure it to.

New comment by rsaz in "Work after work: Notes from an unemployed new grad watching the job market break"

rsaz — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 05:44:44 +0000

I’ve been wanting to try starting something simple and sustainable for a while now, this is seems like great advice for doing so. Thank you.

New comment by rsaz in "Work after work: Notes from an unemployed new grad watching the job market break"

rsaz — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 05:41:03 +0000

From my own searching, blue collar jobs are hiring in the same way tech jobs are hiring: they’re happy to hire experienced folks, but not to train. It’s likely this isn’t the case elsewhere of course, but I am struggling with it.

New comment by rsaz in "Work after work: Notes from an unemployed new grad watching the job market break"

rsaz — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 01:18:14 +0000

I was laid off some time ago and made an earnest effort to break into the trades. I have some experience in framing and general handiwork, but it is extremely difficult to find an apprenticeship/get on a track to certification. I’ve heard unions are extremely selective to ensure their current union members can find consistent work.

As with most things, getting into it seems to be primarily about knowing someone to get you in.

I’d love to hear more ideas/advice on finding alternative employment if anyone has any. I’m worried I won’t be able to find a normal job again.

New comment by rsaz in "Feed me up, Scotty – custom RSS feed generation using CSS selectors"

rsaz — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 18:40:29 +0000

Love the logo, very smart. I wonder if this would be useful for people with hand-coded websites to easily provide an RSS feed. Right now I'm actually maintaining one manually, so I might look into setting this up.

New comment by rsaz in "Show HN: Notepad.exe – macOS editor for Swift and Python (now Linux runtime)"

rsaz — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 18:33:50 +0000

Looks really good and I'll definitely be trying it out. Is there anywhere laying out what features are paywalled? "Free Ride" says "Core functionality", but I can't find what that means specifically.

Also does this support having a plugged-in device as a Run target like Xcode does? Or is it only simulator?

New comment by rsaz in "More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 the Movie' Wallet Ad"

rsaz — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 16:28:13 +0000

what are the answers?

New comment by rsaz in "Engineered Addictions"

rsaz — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 05:40:06 +0000

Social media is relied on by a lot of people for official notifications. When I was in high school, my only use for Twitter was checking if my school was closed or not on snow days. I'm sure there are lots of valid reasons for schools, hospitals, emergency services, garbage collection, official media networks etc. to have social media accounts, and for regular people to follow them.

I've always thought it would be a good idea for governments to run their own mastodon servers for this, but something else with accounts (not publicly) tied to real identities could be interesting.

New comment by rsaz in "Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot"

rsaz — Fri, 23 May 2025 04:50:16 +0000

Your app looks great, I love when apps make good use of iCloud syncing.

If you don't mind me asking, what's your plan for monetization? I'm considering moving over from Raindrop.io, but am a bit worried about basic features ending up behind a subscription.

New comment by rsaz in "Show HN: I vibecoded a 35k LoC recipe app"

rsaz — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 02:18:43 +0000

Is the key feature here just the voice control? I’m wondering what you feel is missing from other popular recipe websites/trackers, and why I would choose to use this over something with more care put into it.

Or, was this mostly just an exercise in engineering/testing AI?

New comment by rsaz in "Taking a $15 Casio F91W 5km underwater"

rsaz — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 16:37:43 +0000

n-o-d-e has what he calls a data runner mod which includes simply swapping the stock green light with a brighter white one. I’ve had one for years now, and its still not ideal, but definitely better than the original:

https://n-o-d-e.net/datarunner.html

New comment by rsaz in "Taking a $15 Casio F91W 5km underwater"

rsaz — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 16:31:06 +0000

Casio has a few watches with tide functionality in their G-Shock line. Bit more expensive than the F91W, but still great watches. They’re marketed to surfers, often under the G-LIDE name. Here’s a thread about some of them: https://www.reddit.com/r/gshock/comments/18jpgq5/casio_gshoc...

Open Fire Cooking – Mechanical Spit Jack [video]

rsaz — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 01:48:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0Nxpve927g

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42037696

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Tim's Vermeer (2013) [video]

rsaz — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 03:42:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPL7D0Ha1kQ

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41422404

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Video to CSS

rsaz — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 02:24:03 +0000

Article URL: https://dgerrells.com/blog/video-to-css

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41306204

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by rsaz in "How actors remember their lines"

rsaz — Thu, 30 May 2024 16:00:13 +0000

The Guru Granth Sahib Ji (GGSJ) has also been memorized by some people. It’s much rarer than in Islam, but the GGSJ being written in verse with defined melodies/meter helps with memorization. It is much longer than the Quran though, and there isn’t as much emphasis on memorizing the whole thing (the daily prayers are commonly known though).

New comment by rsaz in "Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?"

rsaz — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 13:05:10 +0000

I made a fun clicking test [1] based on my favourite typing test website [2]. It wasn’t exactly a weekend, but I was recently laid off and everything feels like the weekend now lol.

Not very mobile friendly btw (sorry)

1: https://rsazra.com/clickings

2: https://typings.gg/

New comment by rsaz in "House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner or ban the app"

rsaz — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 17:43:26 +0000

That seems possible, but that might just have to do with the state of the culture before TikTok anyways. Maybe the doom and gloom among young people in North America is because of other factors and content relating to it just happens to get more popular. China might have a more positive population right now, that makes and supports more positive content.

New comment by rsaz in "Shave and a Haircut"

rsaz — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 21:45:48 +0000

I am from North America actually, I’m curious where your association with it comes from. I just spend a lot of time on youtube/listening to hip hop so have heard Nardwuar do it many times. I’m vaguely familiar with it otherwise too, but wouldn’t be able to place it anywhere.