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New comment by strickjb9 in "Claude Design"

strickjb9 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:31:21 +0000

First NanoBanana came for the artists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not an artist.

Then Claude came for the designers with Claude Design, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a designer.

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New comment by strickjb9 in "Local Stack Archived their GitHub repo and requires an account to run"

strickjb9 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:13:20 +0000

MinIO is a drop in replacement for S3. I plan on switching to this as soon as I can. For now, I just pinned localstack to 4.14.0

New comment by strickjb9 in "Run NanoClaw in Docker Sandboxes"

strickjb9 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:24:55 +0000

The non-answer is anything you want.

For me, it's my diet and workout buddy. It knows my goals, keeps me on track, does meal planning for me, gives me grocery lists, logs what I eat, when I exercise... anything I want so I don't slack off.

I've enhanced Nanoclaw quite a bit. Moved it to Apple containers (shipped with this Skill already). Then I wrote an API for Nanoclaw to use (food log, workouts, etc), then implemented long-term memory using LanceDB (because I was tired of repeating myself!).

New comment by strickjb9 in "Nobody gets promoted for simplicity"

strickjb9 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 13:26:14 +0000

This reminds me of this post from 2013 -- https://mikehadlow.blogspot.com/2013/12/are-your-programmers...

Essentially, there are two parallel teams, one is seen constantly huddling together, working late, fixing their (broken) service. The other team is quiet, leaves on time, their service never has serious issues. Which do you think looks better from the outside?

New comment by strickjb9 in "Running Claude Code dangerously (safely)"

strickjb9 — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 14:33:26 +0000

Real question - are you not worried about access to /mnt/c ?

New comment by strickjb9 in "The Junior Hiring Crisis"

strickjb9 — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 19:08:21 +0000

Adding to this: it's not just that the apprenticeship ladder is gone—it's that nobody wants to deal with juniors who spit out AI code they don't really understand.

In the past, a junior would write bad code and you'd work with them to make it better. Now I just assume they're taking my feedback and feeding it right back to the LLM. Ends up taking more of my time than if I'd done it myself. The whole mentorship thing breaks down when you're basically collaborating with a model through a proxy.

I think highly motivated juniors who actually want to learn are still valuable. But it's hard to get past "why bother mentoring when I could just use AI directly?"

I don't have answers here. Just thinking maybe we're not seeing the end of software engineering for those of us already in it—but the door might be closing for anyone trying to come up behind us.

New comment by strickjb9 in "The kind of company I want to be a part of"

strickjb9 — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 14:32:23 +0000

I know this is besides the point but translation libraries are perfect for this even if you aren't creating a multilingual site. You define your singular/plural forms in one place.

New comment by strickjb9 in "Why are so many pedestrians killed by cars in the US?"

strickjb9 — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 12:39:24 +0000

I hung onto a Blackberry way longer than I should have simply because I wanted physical keys. I'm trying to hang onto cars with physical controls as well. It seems like automakers are finally get the hint that people want physical controls again.

New comment by strickjb9 in "Why are so many pedestrians killed by cars in the US?"

strickjb9 — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 12:35:37 +0000

Great analysis - though I can't help but notice that 2009 is right when smartphones really took off (iPhone in 2007, Android in 2008, then mass adoption). The data showing accidents getting more deadly rather than more frequent actually makes sense if you combine two factors: phones causing more distracted driving incidents, plus our bigger American vehicles turning what would be injuries elsewhere into deaths. That could explain why it's US-specific - other countries probably have the same phone distraction problem, but their smaller cars mean less fatal outcomes. The distraction data might be weak simply because people don't admit they were on their phone after killing someone, but sometimes the obvious answer deserves more weight than we give it.

New comment by strickjb9 in "Claude Is Down"

strickjb9 — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 16:25:45 +0000

US East - it's down here

New comment by strickjb9 in "Next.js is infuriating"

strickjb9 — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 13:01:44 +0000

Completely agree. Nuxt is intuitive - convention-over-configuration and auto-imports remove a ton of boilerplate. The key is treating it as an app framework, not a backend solution - within that scope, it handles modern SSR/SPA complexity.

New comment by strickjb9 in "NuxtLabs is joining Vercel"

strickjb9 — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 20:01:39 +0000

I'm baffled by the doom-and-gloom reactions here. Nuxt remains what it's always been: the best convention-over-configuration framework in existence. It's built on Vue which is opinionated as hell, and you get all the benefits of that. The "vendor lock-in" concerns are frankly overblown. At the end of the day Nuxt produces artifacts you can deploy anywhere - AWS, Cloudflare, your own infrastructure, or yes, Vercel. The alternatives (underfunded OSS maintainers burning out) are way worse than having a well-funded team with aligned incentives. If anything this validates that Nuxt is valuable enough for a major platform company to invest in. I'll take that over watching great tools die from lack of resources.

New comment by strickjb9 in "FTC sues Adobe for hiding fees and inhibiting cancellations"

strickjb9 — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 16:42:39 +0000

Don't trust cancelling your card either. I closed my account at Capital One, paid the final balance, and six months later I noticed a steep drop in my credit score. I had a $3 monthly charge that kept recurring even though I had closed my account.

Also, because my account was "closed," I didn't receive any statements notifying me that I was being charged. I only discovered this issue when my credit score dropped by 100 points.

New comment by strickjb9 in "Passwordless: a different kind of hell?"

strickjb9 — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 15:26:02 +0000

Can we talk about having your account locked from a website because a bot attempted to login using someone's email address?

New comment by strickjb9 in "Show HN: A Covid-19 testing location site that a group of us are building"

strickjb9 — Sat, 21 Mar 2020 23:56:06 +0000

Agreed. Please get screened first. In Virginia, there are hotlines that you can call first and I'm assuming it is the same in every other state.

New comment by strickjb9 in "He Has 17,700 Bottles of Hand Sanitizer and Nowhere to Sell Them"

strickjb9 — Sat, 14 Mar 2020 12:42:46 +0000

NY Times is giving free access to articles re: Coronavirus. You just have to sign up -- even via Social sign-in, it's two clicks.

New comment by strickjb9 in "Rare warming over Antarctica reveals power of stratospheric models"

strickjb9 — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 12:30:45 +0000

I'm from the US, specifically Richmond, VA and we've been hoarding your warm air. We broke multiple heat records last week with 98F highs.

New comment by strickjb9 in "Ask HN: Why Haven't GUI Front End Editors Caught On?"

strickjb9 — Fri, 10 Feb 2017 21:02:30 +0000

I'm not sure if this is a troll post. The "un"adoption of GUI frontend tools has nothing to do with job security. At best, it is a poor conspiracy theory.

There are great answers in these comments that provide good insight. This comment is not one of them.

New comment by strickjb9 in "People suck at technical interviews (2014)"

strickjb9 — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 14:03:48 +0000

As an interviewer, I don't ask this question but if I did then you could impress me by asking what a binary search tree is, then I would tell you, then you explain or write how you would do it.

Most of these interview questions aren't designed to be trivia. It's designed because your job IS implementation of technical and business problems.

New comment by strickjb9 in "Etsy CTO: We Need Software Engineers, Not Developers"

strickjb9 — Thu, 03 Mar 2016 21:24:48 +0000

I can relate to your last paragraph. I used to (and still) source dive to find good workarounds to library issues. But I never asked for permission, I just did it. I also delivered on time.

Nowadays, I'm a team lead and I am guilty of telling people "not to go there" (about half the time). It's funny because it actually conflicts with my opinion that I want people to dig in! The choice to "dig in" is a personal risk/reward. It's a risk that an engineer must take while practicing good time management. Asking your manager is akin to making them take that risk for you (the risk of wasted time, passing deadlines, etc).

My crappy advice is... ask for forgiveness, not for permission. If you're a good engineer, you'll come out on top!