Hacker News: styeco

Costs of Refactoring

styeco — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 11:31:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.vogt.io/hidden-costs/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38161200

Points: 3

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New comment by styeco in "The Sourdough Framework"

styeco — Tue, 16 May 2023 16:50:54 +0000

Check out his Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/thebreadcode I've been watching his videos for years now, he genuinely cares about his subject, and doesn't compromise for views. He's an engineer at heart, admits when he's wrong and updates and shares his knowledge. Thanks Hendrik!

Ask HN: How do your find your itch to scratch?

styeco — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 15:21:54 +0000

After being a user of open source software for many years (with a sporadic contibution here and there), I have the urge to start my own project. I have always read about "finding an itch to scratch", which I am having trouble with. For the most part, I'm pretty happy with the software I use and I don't frequently have complaints that need solving. Its very possible that I have too much tunnel vision and don't even see the things that could be better anymore.

How do I break through this, or are there any general approaches to finding a need that many users have and aren't solved a dozen times over?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35262423

Points: 1

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New comment by styeco in "Nim Version 1.6.6 Released"

styeco — Thu, 05 May 2022 13:04:35 +0000

I hope I didn't come off as too aggressive in my original post, I'm not trying to demand anything, or trying to act like I know anything they don't, I most certainly do not. I just love the language so much, I wish I could use it more. The linked issue doesn't show any traction, and other languages used for malware don't have this problem, so I (probably incorrectly) presumed there was a lack of interest to solve this. I apologize if I came off as demanding.

New comment by styeco in "Nim Version 1.6.6 Released"

styeco — Thu, 05 May 2022 12:25:29 +0000

I wish they would take the antivirus issue on Windows more seriously https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/17820

This issue alone means I can't use it at work, and I haven't put much time and thought into Nim as a whole because I could only use it in private toy projects.

I understand it's mostly the AV vendors fault and the devs shouldn't have to worry about a problem they haven't caused, but for me, this grinds real-life adoption of the whole thing to a halt.

New comment by styeco in "The Unreasonable Math of Type 1 Diabetes"

styeco — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 10:34:56 +0000

What a great article. Like many commenters here, I was completely oblivious to the struggle and I appreciate it a lot more now.

New comment by styeco in "UK launches “No Place To Hide” propaganda campaign to ban E2EE"

styeco — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 12:29:41 +0000

Sorry for the choice words, but shit like this makes my blood boil. You're not trying to "keep our children safe" motherfucker, and you know it. You're trying to prevent people from being able to have private conversations, so your secret agencies can harvest all the data from everyone easily. To phrase it as "but think of the children" is instrumentalizing the actual victims of child abuse and you should be ashamed.

New comment by styeco in "Make Front End Shit Again (2018)"

styeco — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 07:53:22 +0000

And it's all done in Nuxt.js/Vue

New comment by styeco in "Humble subscription service is dumping Mac, Linux access in 18 days"

styeco — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 13:25:07 +0000

I've canceled my Humble Monthly a while ago. It's just another online game store at this point, there's nothing of the original spirit left. The amount they give to charity is tiny these days, and there haven't been any games I'm interested in in a long time. I'll buy at GOG tyvm.

New comment by styeco in "Ask HN: Firefox connection problems after enabling DoH?"

styeco — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 08:33:32 +0000

I really hope the auto-update component doesn't have the same issue, otherwise Firefox is essentially dead on millions of computers owned by non-techies.

New comment by styeco in "AWS on track to be bigger than IBM by Christmas"

styeco — Fri, 30 Apr 2021 12:56:10 +0000

Wait, it isn't already? That's absolutely wild to me. It's probably just my biases talking, but I've never had a single employer or client who used anything by IBM, but nearly everyone uses AWS for something.

It's those megacorp whales, isn't it?

New comment by styeco in "“Our infrastructure to deploy a single Docker container on AWS.”"

styeco — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 18:20:37 +0000

This is quite a bit more than "a single Docker container" though, isn't it? This is networking, SSL cert, traffic routing, secret management and a whole CI pipleline.

Of course it's looking complicated "for a single container", but if you wanted to deploy your app in a traditional server setup, the graph would look the same, if not worse.

New comment by styeco in "NPM Was Down"

styeco — Thu, 06 Aug 2020 09:38:31 +0000

Our builds are also still failing with multiple 404ing packages.

Ask HN: Mobile phone for pragmatists

styeco — Sun, 06 Nov 2016 10:25:57 +0000

My Samsung S4 LTE recently died, I'm looking for a new phone and find it hard to cut through all the marketing speak.

All I really need is a phone for light to medium use. I'm a developer, so it's sitting on my desk most of the day, no heavy duty features needed. I don't play games, I don't do anything special with it, mostly messaging and taking the occasional picture.

So what I'm looking for is an affordable, just all around solid phone without bells and whistles and without a 200 € markup for a brand name.

If you could point me in any direction, thanks.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12884440

Points: 3

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