Hacker News: szajbus

New comment by szajbus in "Hologram v0.5.0"

szajbus — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 13:38:00 +0000

Well, distribution is the killer feature. More, it's inherent property of the platform (web).

Web devs are in full control of their whole stack (excluding the browser where you occasionally need to account for incompatibilities), have to maintain only one version of the app (no upgrade needed on client-side), are not constrained by the platform owner's policies (app store tax).

Yes, it's more limited than native technologies in other ways, so it's not an answer for every problem.

New comment by szajbus in "Hologram v0.5.0"

szajbus — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 09:40:07 +0000

...and then jump through completely different set of hoops to distribute to multiple platforms

New comment by szajbus in "Show HN: Probly – Spreadsheets, Python, and AI in the browser"

szajbus — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 17:08:10 +0000

Interesting choice of a screenshot in the README... Manchester United in top four, clearly a hallucination produced by the AI.

New comment by szajbus in "Jack Elam and the Fly in 'Once Upon a Time in the West'"

szajbus — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 13:28:35 +0000

I always thought that the movie would be better with another actor in the main role. I just don't buy the character played by Charles Bronson.

New comment by szajbus in "Himalaya: CLI to Manage Emails"

szajbus — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 14:40:00 +0000

After testing many clients I learnt to stop worrying and just use Mail app.

New comment by szajbus in "There's Almost No Gitlab"

szajbus — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 11:28:10 +0000

That's anectdotal.

I'd argue that the risk of your own instance being inaccessible for whatever reason is significantly higher than GitHub or GitLab having a full outage.

New comment by szajbus in "The curious case of the disappearing Polish Ś (2015)"

szajbus — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 10:33:01 +0000

You can call Odra anything but a PC and the author is clearly referring to availability (or lack of) of personal computers.

New comment by szajbus in "Show HN: Every Breath You Take – Heart Rate Variability Training"

szajbus — Sun, 17 Sep 2023 11:00:51 +0000

It's probably good rule of thumb as the fitter you are the lower rest HR you have and your heart rate recovery rate is also higher.

New comment by szajbus in "KPIs for Software Engineers"

szajbus — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 15:15:07 +0000

All good, but without being actionable they're just vanity metrics that only get discussed during performance reviews. They don't provide any meaningful insights on how to improve actual performance in day-to-day work.

New comment by szajbus in "Show HN: Laser, a new game played on a chess board"

szajbus — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 09:52:04 +0000

As fun as the game seems to be, there are bugs that makes it impossible to play.

Clock randomly jumps to zero. I can sometimes make infinite moves. Using laser is a bit unintuitive.

New comment by szajbus in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

szajbus — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 19:06:50 +0000

Blogging about Elixir https://szajbus.dev

Pogo – Distributed Supervisor for Elixir

szajbus — Thu, 25 May 2023 11:01:52 +0000

Article URL: https://szajbus.dev/elixir/2023/05/22/pogo-distributed-supervisor-for-elixir.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36069190

Points: 5

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New comment by szajbus in "Ask HN: Which book can attract anyone towards your field of study?"

szajbus — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 08:52:33 +0000

Do you recommend any alternative or perhaps complementary book?

New comment by szajbus in "Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?"

szajbus — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 18:53:28 +0000

I wrote Elasticsearch CLI just to scratch my own itch, as for certain tasks I just prefer to stay in the terminal. It's written in bash, uses curl under the hood and provides zsh completions for index and alias names.

https://github.com/szajbus/elastic-cli

Understanding and fixing recompilation in Elixir projects

szajbus — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 08:26:31 +0000

Article URL: https://szajbus.dev/elixir/2020/04/14/understanding-and-fixing-recompilation-in-elixir-projects.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22875655

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by szajbus in "Ask HN: How old were the most talented software engineers you've met?"

szajbus — Thu, 03 Jan 2019 10:50:57 +0000

About 10 years ago I attended a small local conference in Poland and met a guy who came there with his ~10yo son. As it turned out, the father was only an escort.

The kid was the most active person from the audience when it came to QA sessions after the talks. He asked genuine and interesting questions and spoke from his own experiences about building web apps and browser extensions.

I've never met anyone like him, even though I worked with some really good engineers in their 20s and 30s.

New comment by szajbus in "Self-driving car on Moscow streets after snowfall [video]"

szajbus — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 08:34:44 +0000

The video should be watched at 0.25 speed to get the realistic impression.

New comment by szajbus in "Apple Says It Slows Older iPhones to Save Their Battery Life"

szajbus — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 21:10:31 +0000

Why doesn't it run on normal speed when connected to the charger?

Fracking

szajbus — Sun, 20 Oct 2013 13:07:01 +0000

Article URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_fracturing

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6579771

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by szajbus in "Ask HN: European Linode / DigitalOcean alternatives"

szajbus — Fri, 05 Jul 2013 09:41:50 +0000

We always go with Hetzner for european based hosting. It is Germany-based.

Never had any problems during our partnership with them, which we started 4 years ago.