Hacker News: slipwalker

New comment by slipwalker in "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing"

slipwalker — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:26:25 +0000

i like opencode's zen https://opencode.ai/en/zen with opencode's TUI.

New comment by slipwalker in "Ask HN: Find a Claude skill is so hard"

slipwalker — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:12:12 +0000

maybe this: https://www.skillsdirectory.com/ ?

New comment by slipwalker in "Ask HN: How are you actively keeping your thinking sharp while using LLMs daily?"

slipwalker — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:28:46 +0000

I set my "personal instructions"/customization for any LLM tool to highly adversarial mode. Explicitly confront and question every word i type.

New comment by slipwalker in "Ask HN: Who is your favourite Entrepreneur/Visionary?"

slipwalker — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:23:46 +0000

Thomas Edison. He was gangsta ! Stole, cheated and lied everytime he could. If we are limited to recent personalities, then John Mcaffe, same reasons.

New comment by slipwalker in "Ask HN: Getting depressed day by day, how to cope?"

slipwalker — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:15:48 +0000

focus on your paycheck, it's the one single thing you take home with you, not the "whatever you are building this week". Then save some for the winter days to come, and spend the rest on your vices and pleasures. It's my sure cure for work-related depression

New comment by slipwalker in "Ask HN: Should I leave the company I co-founded?"

slipwalker — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 20:24:35 +0000

yes. Take the money and watch them crash&burn from a safe distance.

You might even be able to rebuilt it with the extra cash and the ashes of their doom afterwards.....

New comment by slipwalker in "Ask HN: What's the best book you've read regarding software development?"

slipwalker — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 18:34:23 +0000

Programming Perl, by Larry Wall.

just the preaching of "the three great virtues of a programmer" makes it the most influential book in my entire ( 25+ years and counting ) carrer.

New comment by slipwalker in "Ask HN: RFS: Modern SQL/db editor"

slipwalker — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 13:31:14 +0000

since i have a full jetbrains subscription ( for many years ) i use the DataGrip db client, and it serves me very well... before that ( looong before ) i used AquaDataStudio, and it was very nice too although not cheap at all.

New comment by slipwalker in "Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend?"

slipwalker — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 22:57:46 +0000

- homebrew

- 1clipboard

- kitty terminal

- raycast

- yabai tiling WM ( i still prefer it over magnet or rectangle )

- icemenubar ( i prefer it over bartender )

- busycalendar ( expensive, but so good )

- trillium notes

- iina video player

- bitwarden

- speedcrunch

- firefox

- jetbrains IDEs

New comment by slipwalker in "Ask HN: Looking for a simple note taking tool"

slipwalker — Tue, 28 May 2024 22:05:14 +0000

i have been very impressed with trillium notes https://github.com/zadam/trilium

New comment by slipwalker in "Ask HN: How do I make a website in 2023?"

slipwalker — Tue, 16 May 2023 19:41:44 +0000

my current go-to stack for webdev is svelte on the frontend with a golang api on postgres database. Deploy behind an openresty ( nginx's fork ) server. Usually quite performant, easy on cloud resources and even fun to work with... ( also "modern" enough so i would not have to explain to others what a perl-cgi script is )

New comment by slipwalker in "Ask HN: How would you build copy and paste across computers?"

slipwalker — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 19:23:09 +0000

i have a NFS drive shared on my LAN which rsync to GoogleDrive.... works as a charm.

New comment by slipwalker in "Ask HN: How do I get back into the tech industry after 4 years of unemployment?"

slipwalker — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 18:55:08 +0000

my 2c: i would suggest to make sure you have a decent portfolio online ( github/gitlab/bitbucket/whatever ) to include the link in your CV.

since your focus is web-backend, a nice "as original as possible" project following some design patterns of a REST API with microservices, JWS tokens, with unit-tests and automated integration/load testing on a rather modern architecture like Clean/Onion/Hexagonal that you can explain on a technical interview the hows && whys of your choices... then it's a numbers' game: send CVs to every open position you can find.

New comment by slipwalker in "Tell HN: Windows 11 update erases Linux boot entries"

slipwalker — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 23:46:14 +0000

and why anyone would allow windows to touch their hardware directly ?! it belongs ( at best ) inside a QEMU/KVM vm.

New comment by slipwalker in "Godot 4.0 will discontinue visual scripting"

slipwalker — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:20:13 +0000

https://youtu.be/jAAkD827ubc?t=379

this is a fair comparison of GDScript, C# and Visual Script, and the conclusion was "visual script is good for no one"

New comment by slipwalker in "Ask HN: I'm burnt out: frustrated, distracted, pessimistic. How do I fix this?"

slipwalker — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 21:04:55 +0000

look for professional help, period. Your symptoms sound like you might be developing depression.

New comment by slipwalker in "Ask HN: How far could you get Coding without Google?"

slipwalker — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 12:11:24 +0000

that's exactly how i worked for 10+ years at the beginning of my career... with a bunch of ( Oreilly's ) books on my desk.

New comment by slipwalker in "Ask HN: Is there any replacement to Ansible? I hate the DSL"

slipwalker — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 14:26:19 +0000

there are "transpilers" for the damn DSL, for instance: https://github.com/brthanmathwoag/jancy

New comment by slipwalker in "Ask HN: What are the hardest things in starting a tech consulting business?"

slipwalker — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 14:22:04 +0000

find and keep recurring paying customers; with a healthy profit margin.

New comment by slipwalker in "Ask HN: What is your reason leaving the previous company?"

slipwalker — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 14:20:37 +0000

my (new) direct boss