Hacker News: sdotdev

New comment by sdotdev in "Free software hasn't won"

sdotdev — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 22:40:17 +0000

Blog styling is a bit weird and for the actual copy I kind of don't get its direction

New comment by sdotdev in "The current status of 8K movies"

sdotdev — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 22:57:34 +0000

I feel like anything above 4k is impractical. thats 8,294,400 million pixels and 8k is 33 million. sure thats a near 4x increase, but visually its the exact same. all 8k movies do is allow a higher charge because they can label the movies to be better with their "higher and better" number

New comment by sdotdev in "The least amount of CSS for a decent looking site (2023)"

sdotdev — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 22:52:00 +0000

I mean, that is in your comment. According to the usability research, more people prefer the other approach. You SHOULD adapt your default style to something more universally applicable.

And, no, I do not want the text I am reading to be full-width on my 32-inch monitor. I'm jumping between a lot of other sites that need to take up the entire space.

I mean, newspapers have a smaller columnar style than any website and have been around for generations.

New comment by sdotdev in "Show HN: I built a local-first podcast app"

sdotdev — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 22:44:04 +0000

love how frictionless the site is, really good ux other devs should take note

New comment by sdotdev in "Show HN: Interactive Map on GitHub Profile – Say Hello with GitHub Actions"

sdotdev — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 23:31:50 +0000

This is a cool idea but surely you can use the (I think its) octo API to send the issues automatically instead of making me open github?

New comment by sdotdev in "Ask HN: Career Burnout Looking for Options"

sdotdev — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 21:24:43 +0000

I'd recommend (if you can afford it of course) to take some time off and see if you can work on something for yourself without a deadline or someone in your ear, just peace and building. Like a structured hobby.

New comment by sdotdev in "Show HN: FizzBee – Formal Model based autonomous testing"

sdotdev — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 21:23:26 +0000

Interesting read. I’ve tried Alloy and Dafny for verification before. Seeing how this integrates with real code would be useful. Does it handle concurrency or just sequential logic?

New comment by sdotdev in "Show HN: Timelinize – Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally"

sdotdev — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 21:19:58 +0000

Nice work. I’ve been frustrated with how closed off location history tools have become lately. This looks like a solid step toward giving people real ownership of their data again. Definitely checking this out.

New comment by sdotdev in "Doing Rails Wrong"

sdotdev — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 18:21:31 +0000

what’s interesting is how every few years we circle back to the same conversation with new names for old problems. the industry keeps rebranding the same complexity as innovation, but it’s mostly the same tension between abstraction and control. every new framework promises to simplify things, but each simplification hides an entire new layer of assumptions that developers eventually have to learn anyway. maybe that’s just the cost of building software at scale now: we’re layering human preferences and historical context into the codebase as much as we are logic. in that sense, modern stacks aren’t complicated because of bad design choices, they’re complicated because they’re living artifacts of collective compromise.

New comment by sdotdev in "Ask HN: Are AI filters becoming stricter than society itself?"

sdotdev — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 18:16:30 +0000

I think in some places AI's arent strict enough, its all an imbalance

New comment by sdotdev in "Show HN: Bizcardz.ai – Custom metal business cards"

sdotdev — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 18:11:16 +0000

Exporting as a 3d model would be cool

New comment by sdotdev in "Show HN: What country you would hit if you went straight where you're pointing"

sdotdev — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 18:06:54 +0000

AI icon might throw people off but its a good concept i like it

New comment by sdotdev in "Show HN: Nestable.dev – local whiteboard app with nestable canvases, deep links"

sdotdev — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 16:24:50 +0000

Its really responsive and I like how its easy to get to the whiteboard, no signup or popups, well done

New comment by sdotdev in "Show HN: Run AI models directly in the browser – no server or internet required"

sdotdev — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 16:21:43 +0000

nice tool, can see this actually being useful especially in those times where sites go down for no reason

New comment by sdotdev in "Show HN: Publish Markdown – A tool to publish Markdown file in one click"

sdotdev — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 16:18:13 +0000

I like this alot, a good feature to add could be an "insert table" button that i can selected height and width on, because typing out the whole |----| syntax can be annoying

New comment by sdotdev in "Show HN: Port Kill – A lightweight macOS status bar development port monitor"

sdotdev — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 16:15:21 +0000

If only I was on mac, something like this probably exists on windows I just need to find it. great idea however

New comment by sdotdev in "We're making GPT-5 warmer and friendlier based on feedback that it felt formal"

sdotdev — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 21:11:52 +0000

Make it stop saying "Nice - " at the start of every prompt that's annoying.

New comment by sdotdev in "Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 can now end a rare subset of conversations"

sdotdev — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 21:07:02 +0000

Yeah this will end poorly

New comment by sdotdev in "Ask HN: How do you tune your personality to get better at interviews?"

sdotdev — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 18:39:14 +0000

Treat it like a conversation with a mutual friend. You aren't close and dying of laugher but you have that familiarity with each other which lightens the mood.

They are a person after all.

New comment by sdotdev in "Research: The Penalty of Using AI at Work"

sdotdev — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 18:37:55 +0000

That social switch will probably take so long for certain groups or might not just happen at all.