Hacker News: samldev

New comment by samldev in "Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row"

samldev — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 04:04:19 +0000

Your math adds up to 525,600,000 iOS devices per year. That can't possibly be right

New comment by samldev in "A study on how turtles navigate using the Earth’s magnetic field"

samldev — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 03:47:49 +0000

Go Heels!

New comment by samldev in "Inertia.js – Build React, Vue, or Svelte apps with server-side routing"

samldev — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 23:12:25 +0000

I switched from Svelte/SvelteKit to Svelte/Laravel and my productivity went through the roof. Same would apply with Rails or probably other batteries included backends. SvelteKit gives you SSR but that’s it. Laravel/Rails/etc gives you database, queues, real time support, authentication, authorization, the list goes on.

I plan to make my next YouTube video making my case for why Laravel is better with Svelte than SvelteKit is https://youtube.com/@samldev

New comment by samldev in "Freetube is the best way to watch YouTube"

samldev — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 00:42:44 +0000

In this scenario you’d also have to pay for bandwidth since that’s the variable cost here. The more views you get, the more you pay. And obviously you wouldn’t get any money from YouTube for views since they aren’t making money from your videos.

Genuinely curious, would you still go for it?

New comment by samldev in "Reduct: Transcript-Based Video Editing"

samldev — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 12:47:17 +0000

Cool idea!

It’s strange to list “Up to 10 customers, free” as “free” when it’s one of the features of a paid tier. It’s not free it’s part of what you’re paying for.

New comment by samldev in "Is a 'slow' swimming pool impeding world records?"

samldev — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 11:14:42 +0000

I was a college swimmer, qualified for Olympic Trials in 2012 and 2016. There are absolutely slow and fast pools. It basically comes down to two things:

1. The depth - which is only 7ft in Paris, unusually shallow for a competition pool.

2. The sides. Does the water spill over the sides into the gutters, or smash into a wall and bounce back, creating more chop.

A trained eye can see all the swimmers in Paris struggling in their last 10-20 meters (heck, an untrained eye can spot some of these). Bummer that it makes the meet feel slow but at least it generally affects all the swimmers equally

Laravel vs. Rails for JavaScript Developers

samldev — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 22:51:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjB6UOZuKO0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41096585

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Buckets – control your spending and build your wealth

samldev — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 15:13:07 +0000

Hey HN, this is my first side project launch that I've actually seen through to the finish line.

My wife and I have used "buckets" to track/budget our spending for a few years. This was the first method to really stick for us after trying multiple other budgeting apps that made the process too overwhelming. We just used a spreadsheet to track it for a while, but the mobile experience of spreadsheets isn't great.

So I decided to write up the method we use[1] and create a web app that makes it easy to use. I recommend reading the method page linked below to see if Buckets might be a good fit for you! It's a short read, just a few minutes.

I hope it helps out some other people as much as it helped us. We now feel more in control of our spending and spend our money guilt free, because we rarely make impulse purchases anymore so we know our money goes towards the things we really want.

You can try Buckets for free, no credit card required. I'll hang around this post for a bit to discuss with you all!

P.S. this is my first app with the concept of "Specific Software" in mind, which I wrote about here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40905398

[1] https://buckets.money/method

Sam

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40906132

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Specific Software

samldev — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 13:46:21 +0000

Article URL: https://saml.dev/blog/specific-software

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40905398

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by samldev in "Not an iPad Pro Review: Why iPadOS Still Doesn't Get the Basics Right"

samldev — Tue, 14 May 2024 07:22:46 +0000

FWIW I use 3 and 4 on iOS all the time for fixing typos etc

New comment by samldev in "Latency numbers every programmer should know"

samldev — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 14:09:33 +0000

I’m on iOS and can’t see the bottom of any of the bars. They’re hidden behind the Safari controls at the bottom of the screen.

New comment by samldev in "Home Assistant 2023.11"

samldev — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 17:01:45 +0000

Shameless plug of my Go library for writing Home Assistant automations - for any HA users out there that want to be able to just write code instead of fussing with UI (built-in automations, Node Red, etc)

https://github.com/saml-dev/gome-assistant

New comment by samldev in "Imba – A friendly full-stack language"

samldev — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 18:22:39 +0000

Thanks for sharing, this is cool to see. Do you use electron to wrap an Imba app for desktop?

New comment by samldev in "Monetal – Free Expense Tracker"

samldev — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 19:12:21 +0000

Do you actually run a backend for the syncing? I imagine you’d have to find a way to monetize with enough users if so.

New comment by samldev in "Monetal – Free Expense Tracker"

samldev — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 15:54:03 +0000

Is there no way to delete transactions?

New comment by samldev in "Cooking Air Quality"

samldev — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 23:01:09 +0000

Matthias Wandel made a great video showing how it's better to place the fan a meter or two away from the window to get more air flow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L2ef1CP-yw

New comment by samldev in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

samldev — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 15:59:25 +0000

https://saml.dev

So far I’ve only got a few posts related to local-first home automation, which for me is Home Assistant and my open source library gome-assistant for writing automations in Go.

I plan to add some write ups for my woodworking projects as well when I get around to it. It exists for me to share things with friends/family and any others that are interested, and I don’t intend to force myself to write on any particular cadence.

New comment by samldev in "Cooklang – Recipe Markup Language"

samldev — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 17:26:39 +0000

Umami looks great, I just sent it to my wife who just uses Apple notes for recipes right now. I’m curious, how can you offer it for free while having server side processing / syncing etc?

New comment by samldev in "I wrote my own smart home software"

samldev — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 20:35:32 +0000

Shameless plug, I wrote a Golang library for writing Home Assistant automations called gome-assistant [0]. The API looks sorta similar to this C# one, I only briefly glanced at netdaemon though.

[0]: https://github.com/saml-dev/gome-assistant

New comment by samldev in "Motion Canvas – Visualize Complex Ideas Programmatically"

samldev — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 14:05:34 +0000

This is one of those tools that’s so clever that I wish I had a use case for it. It looks really well done, and the creators YouTube Chanel is filled with high quality videos that were made using it. Really cool.