Hacker News: rsoto

New comment by rsoto in "The worst job interview I ever had"

rsoto — Tue, 26 May 2026 23:19:17 +0000

Yeah, OP just unwinded himself, no filter. You can be truthful and open with friends and family, close people to you. You absolutely shouldn't when talking with strangers.

New comment by rsoto in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

rsoto — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:48:04 +0000

https://www.therror.com/

New comment by rsoto in "I tried every top email marketing tool"

rsoto — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 14:49:45 +0000

Great article, it must have been a lot of work (I've been on the very same road), so I'd do the same with some affiliate links.

I ran away from Mailchimp more than 5 years ago when they started with their shenanigans and arrived at the same conclusion: Mailerlite is great. I used to have lots of respect for Mailchimp for being a bootstrapped business and never taking investor money but once they sold their soul, it was game over. One thing the article doesn't mention is the fact that Mailchimp has been moving from an email marketing SaaS to a marketing platform SaaS. From a quick glance at their services, they now offer a website builder, a CRM, ads retargeting, social media integrations---and as a customer, you end up paying for every single feature, regardless of if you want it or not.

New comment by rsoto in "As Firefox turns 20, Mozilla ponders how to restore it to its former glory"

rsoto — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 00:59:37 +0000

With the manifest v3 debacle they have a golden opportunity in their hands. They can promoting the fact that they work for you rather than advertisers, they could explain what true privacy looks like, regardless of what device you're using.

Firefox on Android used to be a really good product--it supported basically every popular extension there was for desktop, then in 2018-2019 they appeared to start a new revamped project for some reason. I downloaded the beta for it--it was rough around the corners, it had a quite short whitelist of extensions, most of the functionalities were absent, but there were a few improvements here and there. And out of nowhere, a few weeks later they made it the default.

It's been way too long and the app still feels unfinished. It crashes way too much and I can't even move around the icons for the websites in the start page. They've enabled the list of extensions recently but it's a mess. I only use it since it's where I can have uBlock origin.

It feels that every couple of years they have a golden opportunity, but somehow they never seem to know what to do.

New comment by rsoto in "Transformers for Ruby"

rsoto — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 14:49:49 +0000

Ankane's Onnx runtime for ruby is so easy to use that makes you wonder why the official repo for js is so difficult to understand. This guy's a hero, although I'm only scratching the surface for what he has done.

New comment by rsoto in "Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?"

rsoto — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 14:24:09 +0000

I have a quite big userscript that fixes all the little annoyances I've been finding on the sites I often visit. Is the click area too small? I fixed it. Is there a really big form that when I select a specific value some other elements need to be at a specific state? It's fixed now. Did we get a new business lead and we need to enter all their information to our CRM? I can now paste that info and the form will be automatically filled.

I find usescripts way more easy to update than an extension, so that's what I've been sticking with for quite a few years now.

New comment by rsoto in "Never* use Git pull [video]"

rsoto — Tue, 07 May 2024 20:03:19 +0000

Great explanation, just last week I was explaining these concepts to a new dev in our team. The visuals are really helpful to get the point across.

New comment by rsoto in "Caniemail.com – like caniuse but for email content"

rsoto — Tue, 07 May 2024 01:05:56 +0000

Best tool I've found is Testi@[1]. It's really affordable and it supports basically everything out there.

* Disclaimer: Not affiliated, just a happy customer.

- [1] https://testi.at/

New comment by rsoto in "Show HN: I made a CLI tool to create web extensions with no build configuration"

rsoto — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 17:56:54 +0000

IMO MutationObserver's API is a bit difficult to grasp. For simpler cases for getting a callback when an element is created, I use spect[1] or sentinel[2].

1: https://github.com/dy/spect 2: https://github.com/kubetail-org/sentineljs

New comment by rsoto in "Kagi Changelog 2/13: Faster and more accurate instant answers and Wikipedia page"

rsoto — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 13:31:06 +0000

I feel like you're arguing against yourself.

New comment by rsoto in "What Web Can Do Today?"

rsoto — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 19:48:23 +0000

I'm on the fence. While I think some of these features should be absolutely not part of a browser's scope, I think there will always be legitimate use cases.

What I'm absolutely convinced of is for better controls. A little more than a year ago, our government required the banking industry to know their users' locations for some reason. So now the banks ask for my location, otherwise I can't login.

While on a mobile device it would be quite hard to give them a fake location without rooting/jailbreaking, in my browser I could find a reputable, open source extension [1] that helps me protect my privacy.

These kind of controls should be part of each of these features, without risking installing an extension with nefarious intent.

1: https://github.com/chatziko/location-guard

New comment by rsoto in "Don't use NameCheap for the .fr TLD"

rsoto — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 14:22:21 +0000

So you got sold a subdomain? That's a new one for me.

New comment by rsoto in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2024)"

rsoto — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 16:09:52 +0000

SEEKING WORK | Mexico | Remote Only

4-person team comprised of multidisciplinary roles in development, design, UI/UX and marketing that can bring an MVP to production in just a few weeks. Most of the team has worked in startups for +10 years.

Languages: English and Spanish.

Hourly rates: $54-$64 USD

Our services: https://osom.so/development

Technologies:

- Ruby on Rails

- PHP, Laravel

- JS, Node, Vue, React, Svelte

Services:

- MVP/Prototype development

- Startup rescue mission/scaling up

- UX consulting

- Branding and marketing strategy

Email: development [at] osom [dot] so

New comment by rsoto in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2023)"

rsoto — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 20:12:46 +0000

SEEKING WORK | Mexico | Remote Only

Languages: English and Spanish.

Hourly rates: $54-$64 USD

Our services: https://osom.so/development

Technologies:

- Ruby on Rails

- PHP, Laravel

- JS, Node, Vue, React, Svelte

Services:

- MVP/Prototype development

- Startup rescue mission/scaling up

- UX consulting

- Branding and marketing strategy

Email: development [at] osom [dot] so

Tell HN: Gitlab Is Down

rsoto — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 13:41:08 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38276484

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by rsoto in "Bard is getting better at logic and reasoning"

rsoto — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 17:25:53 +0000

It's really weird how it just assumes that the question should be answered as a code snippet in Python.

It's weirder that Google thinks that this is a good showcase of better logic and reasoning.

New comment by rsoto in "Ask HN: What has your personal website/blog done for you?"

rsoto — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 22:04:42 +0000

I've been blogging for 20+ years on my personal website [1] (disclaimer: it's in spanish). I started it when I was a teenager as a way to teach myself discipline. I used to write every single day. Now it's a bit of a monthly occurrance but it has done quite a few things for me.

1. Landed me a job, and a few gigs 2. Started new friendships 3. Inadvertently taught me SEO 4. Did a bunch of side projects 5. Gave me my 15 minutes of fame

I only wished I could write more often, but it's been a great journey. I want it to keep going.

1: https://www.therror.com/

New comment by rsoto in "Circadian lighting with Home Assistant: Like f.lux, but for your house"

rsoto — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 19:35:26 +0000

I wish something like this existed for TVs. Since I got my eyesight procedure 10+ years ago, I soon noticed I was quite sensitive to lights that didn't affect me at all (maybe my vision was too bad to even notice, don't know). That extreme sensitivity faded off in the first six months, but I still get annoyed by some lights and the first thing I do with a new PC/Phone is setting up Redshift[1] or Twilight[2], and although I'm not a big TV consumer, the times I do watch it, I wonder if there's a market for this kind of features.

1: https://github.com/jonls/redshift

2: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.urbandroid...

New comment by rsoto in "Color fonts on Google Fonts"

rsoto — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 15:29:33 +0000

They're multi-color. For example, you could have a font with a 3D-effect, its shadow and lighting could be different from the actual block. Look at the first image of the post to see what I mean, the big "Color Fonts" text.

New comment by rsoto in "Removal of Heroku free product plans"

rsoto — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 16:26:31 +0000

> Why does the feedback link on the blog post go to a personal LinkedIn page?

That's how you know they really don't want to hear from you.