Hacker News: sneakymichael

New comment by sneakymichael in "Salesforce to Acquire Fin (formerly Intercom) for $3.6BN"

sneakymichael — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:32:31 +0000

Woof, yes! Though I'm glad Heroku remains, and I ought to also be glad that it has been stable all these years, …it's clearly neglected.

The very first interaction I have with Heroku is a two-factor sign-in, and …it's this horrible page hosted on salesforce.com, which doesn't have retina graphics (i.e. is blurry on screens Apple have used for 15+ years), doesn't work properly with automatic one-time-code generators (because the login form is heroku.com, but the two-factor is salesforce.com), and …gah! What a mess. Thankfully you fall through into the pretty, well thought-out Heroku dashboard of yesteryear.

New comment by sneakymichael in "Apple WWDC 2026"

sneakymichael — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:47:37 +0000

The WWDC keynote is a software, not hardware, announcement…?

New comment by sneakymichael in "Running Tesla Model 3's computer on my desk using parts from crashed cars"

sneakymichael — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 23:59:30 +0000

Interesting take–– I feel the total opposite; I love the UI.

New comment by sneakymichael in "Moving Back to London and 2023 Review"

sneakymichael — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 03:34:27 +0000

“Work has continued apace on my existing projects and client work of course.” (Emphasis mine)

New comment by sneakymichael in "Apple's use of Swift and SwiftUI in iOS 17"

sneakymichael — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 20:55:36 +0000

Oof, hard disagree. I absolutely hated writing Objective-C for years– I felt like I had to write unnecessary 'glue' with header files, handling of 'nil' was always jarring, and square brackets at the start and end of every call felt horrendous, to me at least.

I relished the day Swift was announced, and have been using it ever since.

New comment by sneakymichael in "Show HN: Planlike.pro – New Estimating Tool"

sneakymichael — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 22:20:27 +0000

FYI: I just get redirected to an "Oops" (/not-found) page when I try to sign-up. Tried twice

New comment by sneakymichael in "Threeuk is blocking Tutanota"

sneakymichael — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 12:44:12 +0000

The support chat transcript is so uncomfortable to read– the person on the other end 'at Three' (aka a contact centre on the other side of the world, contracted out at the lowest possible cost) might as well be a bot, but the chat reads as if the person at Tutanota genuinely thought that they were chatting to a logical coherent human.

Having used Three UK on and off for two decades, this support chat lines up exactly with how I remember– 'robot humans' that say any ol' tosh to finish the contact session.

Avoid Three.

FWIW: all UK consumer telecoms services seem to have horrendous contact experiences (Though Three, of the prominent handful of providers, tops the charts in my opinion), but I've used EE for the last few years, and it has been consistently solid and fast, and thus I thankfully haven't /needed/ to contact anybody there. I cannot say the same for Three.

New comment by sneakymichael in "Removal of Heroku free product plans"

sneakymichael — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 00:50:29 +0000

Yeah, this stood out as odd to me also– "these are who you highlight?"

New comment by sneakymichael in "Stripe down for 4 hours (and counting) for all those with Stripe Tax enabled"

sneakymichael — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 00:14:15 +0000

Their offering perfectly fit the bill for what we needed, but they turned us away; citing a requirement of transacting €5M per year, despite us needing a payment handler /for launch/.

New comment by sneakymichael in "Stripe down for 4 hours (and counting) for all those with Stripe Tax enabled"

sneakymichael — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 23:49:34 +0000

Anecdotally: I've been looking to get answers from Stripe, about fees-related questions that either make my proposed use viable or unviable, and I've received nothing but copied & pasted email replies, a week+ later (or not at all), which essentially ignore what I've asked. Incredibly frustrating.

When I mention the experience to friends, they joke that I have Stockholm Syndrome; to want to continue pursuing them, despite their complete disregard.

New comment by sneakymichael in "Unofficial Spotify Client for the Nintendo Switch (PoC)"

sneakymichael — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 20:38:47 +0000

Just some context: Spotify's official iOS library used to serve streaming [unencrypted, 'raw'] PCM data to the app for playback[1]

"The good old days"

[1] Trace of this, from 2013: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20614360/does-the-libspo...

USB-C hubs and my slow descent into madness (2021)

sneakymichael — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 20:29:43 +0000

Article URL: https://overengineer.dev/blog/2021/04/25/usb-c-hub-madness.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30911598

Points: 1144

# Comments: 513

New comment by sneakymichael in "Anyone else feel the constant urge to leave the field and become a plumber?"

sneakymichael — Sun, 13 Feb 2022 18:28:10 +0000

"If you can't write it down you can't do it." - elaborate?

New comment by sneakymichael in "Sex Differences in Friendship Preferences"

sneakymichael — Sun, 23 Jan 2022 22:47:12 +0000

This doesn't work for me FYI; I get the same paywalled page. Fresh browsing session, logged in to Google account.

New comment by sneakymichael in "Why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US?"

sneakymichael — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 22:57:12 +0000

What is 'VMT'?

New comment by sneakymichael in "Moving to London for a Tech Job"

sneakymichael — Fri, 14 May 2021 16:02:25 +0000

Can attest to being bitten by an unexpected tax bill, after a previous employer years before had the wrong tax info for me.

New comment by sneakymichael in "“ISO obstructs adoption of standards by paywalling them”"

sneakymichael — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 23:48:25 +0000

Delusions of grandeur

New comment by sneakymichael in "My 2 Year Journey to $10K MRR"

sneakymichael — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 19:25:31 +0000

I find that a lot of sites seems to be designed on, and looked at internally on, large-screen desk setups (e.g. 27" iMac), so everything looks somewhat huge on smaller laptop-size screens (e.g. 13" MacBook).

New comment by sneakymichael in "Show HN: PSX Party – Online Multiplayer Playstation 1 Emulator Using WebRTC"

sneakymichael — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 17:39:16 +0000

Friends was also shot on film, and cropped to 4:3 for broadcast. Like Firefly, Friends also had unintentional things (crew, microphones, un-dressed sets, etc) appear in the edges in 16:9. While most were probably edited out before the uncropped 1080 re-release; some unintended things remain, which I personally really like seeing.

Additionally, like Firefly's pure VFX, some footage in Friends also appears in SD in the HD release (seemingly either because the original film stock was lost, or it wasn't originally shot on film), with the zoomed 4:3 SD vs 16:9 HD sometimes changing mid-scene, and …that too I find a humbling reminder of the quality of yesteryear.

New comment by sneakymichael in "Don't use third party auth to sign in"

sneakymichael — Sat, 14 Nov 2020 14:17:27 +0000

Ease. If you're already logged into Google, it's essentially a one click process.