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New comment by schonfinkel in "Blogging with Gleam, Org-Mode and Pandoc"

schonfinkel — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 21:02:22 +0000

I mentioned org-publish late in the post, I do have my own personal blog built atop of it (and nix as well), this current setup with Gleam is more like an experiment and I get a lot of stuff for free that took me a while to get it working in my personal blog (like syntax highlighting, rss, etc), and I'd still argue that my templating system in pure elisp + crappy html sucks.

Blogging with Gleam, Org-Mode and Pandoc

schonfinkel — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 11:34:28 +0000

Article URL: https://byzantine-systems.github.io/blogging-with-gleam-org-mode-and-pandoc/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49932340

Points: 47

# Comments: 9

New comment by schonfinkel in "Emacs Bedrock 2.0"

schonfinkel — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 17:31:39 +0000

Emacs is also bloated (if want it to be), but in this case, it's good bloat, the kind that you naturally gravitate towards, eventually it might take your notes, emails, agenda and so on...

New comment by schonfinkel in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026)"

schonfinkel — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:16:44 +0000

  Location: Brazil (UTC-4)
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Erlang, F#, Gleam, Nix, NixOS, Linux, OCaml, Python, SQL, AWS, Azure, Bash, PostgreSQL, Docker, DevOps, Terraform / Tofu
  Résumé/CV: https://schonfinkel.github.io/static/cv.pdf
  Email: marcos [dot] schonfinkel [at] gmail.com

Software engineer with over 8 years of experience focused on functional programming and declarative infrastructure. I like to solve hard/bizarre problems and my skills often shine when integrating niche tech. I'm looking for Backend Engineering (especially functional programming) or DevOps/SRE opportunities.

New comment by schonfinkel in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)"

schonfinkel — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:14:00 +0000

  Location: Brazil (UTC-4)
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Erlang, F#, Gleam, Nix, NixOS, Linux, OCaml, Python, SQL, AWS, Azure, Bash, PostgreSQL, Docker, DevOps, Terraform / Tofu
  Résumé/CV: https://schonfinkel.github.io/static/cv.pdf
  Email: marcos [dot] schonfinkel [at] gmail.com

I'm looking for Backend Engineering (especially functional programming) or DevOps/SRE opportunities.

New comment by schonfinkel in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)"

schonfinkel — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:05:16 +0000

  Location: Brazil (UTC-4)
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Erlang, F#, Gleam, Nix, NixOS, Linux, OCaml, Python, SQL, AWS, Azure, Bash, PostgreSQL, Docker, DevOps, Terraform / Tofu
  Résumé/CV: https://schonfinkel.github.io/static/cv.pdf
  Email: marcos [dot] schonfinkel [at] gmail.com

I'm looking for Backend Engineering (especially functional programming) or DevOps/SRE opportunities.

All you need is PostgreSQL

schonfinkel — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 10:58:23 +0000

Article URL: https://ebellani.github.io/blog/2026/all-you-need-is-postgresql/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48730878

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by schonfinkel in "Arch Linux AUR Hit by Another Wave of Now More Sophisticated Malware Attack"

schonfinkel — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:36:04 +0000

Kinda, you'd have to go through the whole review process and also get your stuff to successfully be part of (at least) an unstable build.

What really worries me is that on Nix we have a strong habit of patching packages to work around problems caused by the fact that NixOS doesn't use FHS. So, in theory, someone could submit an obscure patch to systemd and get everyone affected by it, if it through the approval process.

The solution so far has been a very rigorous process to even get a commit bit into nixpkgs: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-committers

New comment by schonfinkel in "Compile and Run iOS Apps on Linux"

schonfinkel — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:47:19 +0000

The premise looks nice, but the project being full of random .tmp-*/.log files does not bring much confidence to it.

New comment by schonfinkel in "My thoughts after using Clojure for about a month"

schonfinkel — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:32:01 +0000

> I personally find OOP to be the most intuitive for large scale systems design, but that's just me.

Once you're more comfortable with it and want to try a typed functional programming language, I highly recommend checking OCaml (or SML, if you're into old school tech) and see how the Module Functors are applied, most software will look extremely over-engineered after you write a few functors. It's the feature I miss the most when coding in F# or Gleam, for instance.

New comment by schonfinkel in "Malicious npm packages detected across Red Hat Cloud Services"

schonfinkel — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:56:57 +0000

or you can throw all of this into the trash and just use Nix.

New comment by schonfinkel in "Michael Burry says neither SpaceX nor Anthropic is worth $1T"

schonfinkel — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 11:41:46 +0000

Are you trying to be sane and rational in a market that has turned into a casino? U crazy or something?

New comment by schonfinkel in "Michael Burry says neither SpaceX nor Anthropic is worth $1T"

schonfinkel — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 11:09:33 +0000

And this time the boooom has a larger blast radius than all the previous booooms combined.

New comment by schonfinkel in "Corporate America Is Starting to Ration AI as Cost Skyrockets"

schonfinkel — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 10:40:59 +0000

The worst part is that techies can still work around the insanity if they keep their opinions private. For the serious average Joe the AI mandates must be feeling like hell on earth.

I once worked in a company that had soviet-level efforts to push LLMs into everything, someone eventually made the classic "Natural Language -> SQL Query -> Magic Result in webpage" and got promoted, the tool got mandated for every non-tech employee as part of an AI-boosting effort (people pushing metrics up).

One day I wake up with a product person in despair because the tool couldn't handle what looked like a very simple aggregation, I stopped what I was doing, crafted a 30-line SQL query over HORRIBLE TABLES, a couple CTEs and window functions here and there got him what he wanted. I found out later that single query that took 30 minutes to make saved him from inheriting a 6-month effort to create a microservice dedicated to patching said tool.

New comment by schonfinkel in "SICP Video Lectures (1986)"

schonfinkel — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 10:20:34 +0000

If you come from a pure FP or embedded systems background you are exposed to a much better version of "sofware engineering" than your average React dev out there. The bar created by webdev is so low it made the whole industry look like a joke.

New comment by schonfinkel in "Show HN: Atomic Editor – Obsidian-style live preview for CodeMirror 6"

schonfinkel — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 10:16:09 +0000

I regret to inform you that, despite your best intentions, you have built an Emacs + Orgmode.

New comment by schonfinkel in "Malicious npm packages detected across Red Hat Cloud Services"

schonfinkel — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 10:11:46 +0000

I once worked in a project that vendored most of its third-party dependencies, it was a culture shock at first, but damn, after a while it was so nice being able to work just by building from local source, with normal tooling like `make`, instead of pulling a shitton of deps from the outside world. Made me realize how much "webdev culture" did a disservice to software engineering as a whole.

New comment by schonfinkel in "Strace-ui, Bonsai_term, and the TUI renaissance"

schonfinkel — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 09:57:01 +0000

> But I think we will swing back to using GUIs when we find a performant way of making them

I like this new TUI renaissance as well, but if you wanna see what a symbiotic relationship between GUIs x TUIs could look like you need to see what Emacs does with Orgmode and the whole Org ecosystem of org-agenda, org-roam, etc. Lot's of these TUIs from the awesome are somewhat already inside Emacs.

https://orgmode.org/ https://orgmode.org/manual/Agenda-Views.html

New comment by schonfinkel in "Hackers Used Meta's AI Support Bot to Seize Instagram Accounts"

schonfinkel — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 09:50:41 +0000

It's all about moving fast and breaking things ;)

New comment by schonfinkel in "Alphabet announces $80B equity capital raise to expand AI infra and compute"

schonfinkel — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 09:49:45 +0000

And it's not just AI, we're riding atop a previous finance + crypto bubble that didn't properly pop up.