Hacker News: sandermvanvliet

New comment by sandermvanvliet in "Disruption with Some GitHub Services – Resolved"

sandermvanvliet — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 20:03:16 +0000

As a joke I built an extension to the GitHub CLI called “omens” so you can run “gh omens” before you’re planning to use GitHub and it’ll tell you if it’s likely to work in idiomatic Aussie.

As an example:

$> gh omens

reckon github's about to go full bin chicken

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You can find it here: https://github.com/sandermvanvliet-stack/gh-omens

New comment by sandermvanvliet in "Gh omens: will GitHub go down?"

sandermvanvliet — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 08:30:52 +0000

If you've been hit with Github going down at the worst time like when you're just trying to get your PR merged I've got something for you.

Before you start work you can check for omens that tell you if Github is likely to work or go down.

(Yes this is a joke, it's comic relief more than anything else)

Gh omens: will GitHub go down?

sandermvanvliet — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 08:30:52 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/sandermvanvliet-stack/gh-omens/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49445672

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by sandermvanvliet in "TLS certificates for internal services done right"

sandermvanvliet — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:08:58 +0000

I run a reverse proxy that handles the TLS termination for that reason.

Services themselves are constrained to the server, bound to listen on 127.0.0.1 only.

Key is only available to the reverse proxy.

New comment by sandermvanvliet in "Windows UI evolution: Clicking an unassociated file"

sandermvanvliet — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 11:46:23 +0000

I’ve been buying the same model of Brooks (the Ghost one) for _years_ because they fit well for me and while they release a refresh every other year or so they feel the same to me when I buy a new pair.

Sure hope they keep producing them because finding a different model that works for me would be kind of shit

New comment by sandermvanvliet in "Making Claude a Chemist"

sandermvanvliet — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 09:36:09 +0000

Waiting for Claude to end up on Derek Lowe’s list of things he won’t work with

New comment by sandermvanvliet in "Principles for agent-native CLIs"

sandermvanvliet — Thu, 07 May 2026 19:39:48 +0000

Is it me or are all these articles about using AI effectively and building for AI just, you know, things that we should have been doing all along?

It feels like most of the “rules” are “don’t be an ass to your consumer”.

New comment by sandermvanvliet in "Document poisoning in RAG systems: How attackers corrupt AI's sources"

sandermvanvliet — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 21:51:45 +0000

If you think about this in the context of systems that ingest content from third party systems then this attack becomes more feasible.

But then, if you’re inside the network you’ve already overcome many of the boundaries

New comment by sandermvanvliet in "The Windows 95 user interface: A case study in usability engineering (1996)"

sandermvanvliet — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 08:47:50 +0000

Let me introduce you to the world of _devices for keeping small kids asleep_.

For whatever reason they won’t work when hooked up to a charger and of course the moment you need them most the batteries have gone dead so you must charge…

At this point I can’t help but think that the people who design these things really hate parents

New comment by sandermvanvliet in "X-Clacks-Overhead"

sandermvanvliet — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 19:41:42 +0000

stackoverflow.com and all stack exchange sites also include X-Clacks-Overhead in the response thanks to yours truly

New comment by sandermvanvliet in "Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers (2022)"

sandermvanvliet — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 19:11:22 +0000

Not very likely

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/a/54400

New comment by sandermvanvliet in "You can make PS2 games in JavaScript"

sandermvanvliet — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 15:17:09 +0000

1. I heard about nano banana and wanted to try it 2. I’m on my phone so no photoshop or whatever

New comment by sandermvanvliet in "You can make PS2 games in JavaScript"

sandermvanvliet — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 19:00:18 +0000

Nano Banana to the rescue https://box2.codenizer.nl/cloud/index.php/s/ZYHdsYZ9rdRNM2B

New comment by sandermvanvliet in "Give Your Metrics an Expiry Date"

sandermvanvliet — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 10:55:14 +0000

I think this should be true for many things, or at least have a fixed future date at which you re-evaluate $thing

For example with Architecture Decision Records, put a 6 or 12 month expiry on them and evaluate to see if they can be renewed, should be changed or replaced with something that covers new insights.

Unfortunately that seems a very unpopular thing to do so I’ve never seen it work and companies end up with “we have always done it like this” type practices

New comment by sandermvanvliet in "Building my childhood dream PC"

sandermvanvliet — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 09:17:37 +0000

Looking at those pictures made me realise I could _smell_ it…

Got kicked right in the nostalgia I guess

New comment by sandermvanvliet in "Our European search index goes live"

sandermvanvliet — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 12:03:33 +0000

Most are constitutional monarchies in which the monarch is a head of state with no or very limited political power.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchies_in_Europe

New comment by sandermvanvliet in "ChatGPT now performs well at GeoGuesser"

sandermvanvliet — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 10:18:51 +0000

“This is the gradient of Senegal”

New comment by sandermvanvliet in "How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia?"

sandermvanvliet — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 19:08:28 +0000

Isn’t this simply taking advantage of what the market is willing to pay?

New comment by sandermvanvliet in "Egg prices are soaring. Are backyard chickens the answer?"

sandermvanvliet — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 10:04:09 +0000

Netherlands indeed. We live downriver from known contamination in Dordrecht and around heavy industry in Rotterdam area

New comment by sandermvanvliet in "Egg prices are soaring. Are backyard chickens the answer?"

sandermvanvliet — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 07:50:28 +0000

Some other downsides:

- The smell… Chicken crap is horrible. Our neighbour has chickens, we have flies. Lots of black flies.

- Bye bye garden… My dad has two chickens (did I mention the smell?) that free roam and absolutely tear up everything looking for a tasty bite.

- Can’t eat the eggs This isn’t necessarily a chicken problem but mostly a problem with chemical industry. We’ve had a lot of PFOA/PFAS contamination and public health advise says to not eat eggs from backyard chickens