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New comment by tegiddrone in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

tegiddrone — Sat, 23 May 2026 21:08:28 +0000

My H1B coworker has paid $180k more in taxes than I have. We are the same age. He has fewer years working in USA than I have as a citizen. We calculated this by the data exposed by the mySocialSecurity website.

I get to vote and he does not.

Edit: s/green card/H1B/

New comment by tegiddrone in "Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs"

tegiddrone — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:47:36 +0000

Oh, I WISH that was the case but I'd estimate only 10% of SWE would fit your model of minimum competence... and yeah a lot of that 10% are browsing HN. I recall in 2016 asking coworkers why they voted trump. "My 401k" was a frequent answer.

Vibe coding existed long before AI, especially in web/startup/enterprise information systems. You don't need to be a critical thinker to make a successful RoR app.

New comment by tegiddrone in "Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs"

tegiddrone — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:08:01 +0000

Yeah, it is an interesting bubble to be in. I worked with a company that could not keep up with the rising SWE salaries and thus attracted a different kind of SWE. I definitely felt the difference in education with the new hires. Reading comprehension/attention was weak. AI will easily replace them, I guess.

Finding the data on this would be convenient but its still unclear to me. I'm not a fan of how that article from NU cites its sources loosely, including lazily citing Wikipedia.

New comment by tegiddrone in "Why consumer choice is stripped away and how the tech industry profits from it"

tegiddrone — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 13:34:45 +0000

Let us all reflect on AI with a core point this article is trying to make: that we build habits around a product. The industry goal is to have our dependency. What a fabulous position to be in where we can’t think or code without a subscription their LLM assets.

New comment by tegiddrone in "Open source is not about you (2018)"

tegiddrone — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 21:57:37 +0000

A tiresome sysadmin I've been talking to is under the impression of: "well, if stagnates or otherwise shifts focus away from our interests then someone will just fork it, duh!" .. when glancing thru Discord successors

New comment by tegiddrone in "In praise of –dry-run"

tegiddrone — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 03:00:08 +0000

I’m interested to know the etymology and history of the term. Somehow I imagine an inked printing press as the “wet run.”

New comment by tegiddrone in "YouTube Playlist Downloader"

tegiddrone — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 21:03:42 +0000

I've been glancing at ytdl-sub, which does the same thing but with interesting options to rate limit.

https://ytdl-sub.readthedocs.io

New comment by tegiddrone in "PeerTube is recognized as a digital public good by Digital Public Goods Alliance"

tegiddrone — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 12:26:20 +0000

I have seen organizers get stuck in the dopamine loop of focusing on inspiring content that "increases engagement" and getting fixated on moderating trolls that it actually gets in the way of doing impactful work. I definitely on the depression train on this front. It's far worse than digital versions of flyers, people aren't incentivized to focus show up when they can just keep scrolling for their fix.

New comment by tegiddrone in "Nostr"

tegiddrone — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 15:46:13 +0000

I concur and "apolitical" is probably not the best word. I think it is an attempt to convey that the platform can't ban people. It is resistant from infrastructure censorship. Here is an example specific use case:

https://how-nostr-works.pages.dev/

I find that example pretty humorous... Damn, what kind of controversy is Pamela spreading?

I like it but feel nervous that there is synergy with the bitcoin space. Hype and validation is thick in that space

New comment by tegiddrone in "What about using rel="share-url" to expose sharing intents?"

tegiddrone — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 16:06:30 +0000

I agree. Except we aren't there with web literacy and having that integrated UX is significant.

New comment by tegiddrone in "A Practical Guide to Running Local LLMs"

tegiddrone — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 15:06:35 +0000

Is there a spreadsheet out there benchmarking local LLM and hardware configs? I want to know if I should even bother with my coffeelake xeon server or if it is something to consider for my next gaming rig.

New comment by tegiddrone in "Phyllis Fong, who was investigating Neuralink, "forcefully removed ""

tegiddrone — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 23:36:30 +0000

Thanks for shedding some light on this element of the story. I like to keep references like this when mustering support for action.

What does bipartisan even mean? I've seen my state lose a republican congressperson who, while I disagreed with, called out trump on disrespecting branches of gov during first term and since been replaced with a pro-trump congressperson. The checks and balances are eroding and the citizen response has to be strong.

New comment by tegiddrone in "Show HN: BunkerWeb – The Open-Source Web Application Firewall (WAF)"

tegiddrone — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 14:47:42 +0000

thanks for the tip! At a glance, the SafeLine looks very opaque.. not clear why it starts up so many docker containers and how they are built. I can appreciate that bunkerweb illustrated its architecture a bit more with their docs and descriptive image names.... E.g. `bunkerweb-scheduler` vs `safeline-luigi`

New comment by tegiddrone in "Show HN: BunkerWeb – The Open-Source Web Application Firewall (WAF)"

tegiddrone — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 20:09:33 +0000

I'll have to check it out! The popular option for homelab or other indie scale is to just use the cloudflare's free-tier setup, which includes WAF, but I see a privacy hole where cloudflare needs to see your unencrypted HTTP traffic so that they can apply their WAF rules.

I've also been checking out CrowdSec. I appreciate it's modular architecture but it definitely deviates away from the folks that just wants to expose an HTTP service and get on with their lives. I've enjoyed the Caddy server for this reason, but yeah, not as secure-as-default when it comes to attacks a WAF would mitigate.

New comment by tegiddrone in "Good Software Development Habits"

tegiddrone — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 22:27:24 +0000

> 5. If a particular function doesn't fit anywhere, create a new module (or class or component) for it and you'll find a home for it later.

I worked at a place that did this with their frontend app. Devs rarely knew where anything should go and so for any given Component/Module, there was usually some accompanying `MyComponent.fns.ts` file. Homes were NEVER found for it later. Code duplication through the nose and lots of spaghetti coupling.

Edit: i'm definitely blowing off some steam. That said, I think there is good virtue in this "habit" so long as there is good reason that it "doesn't fit anywhere" ... and when another module starts referencing the temporary home module, it is a smell that the time is now to give it a proper home.

New comment by tegiddrone in "Show HN: A CLI tool I made to self-host any app with two commands on a VPS"

tegiddrone — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 19:45:29 +0000

Looks nice! Something I'd want in front is some sort of basic app firewall like fail2ban or CrowdSec to ban vuln scanners and other intrusion attempts. It is a nice thing about Cloudflare since they provide some of this protection.

New comment by tegiddrone in "Ask HN: Tired of software career. What now?"

tegiddrone — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 01:04:14 +0000

A lot of value to this wisdom. That said, individuals can have a different kind of brain and carrot/stick equation. For me, the only time I felt whole was when I was only working 20 hrs a week as a freelance dev and I took a lot of breaks/vacation. Made half of what I could be making as a salaried employee but I had the space to build the rest of my life to feel whole. Kept my dream space nice, not dreaming about code or work.

I doubt such thing is sustainable in average software dev gigs but I'll keep trying.

New comment by tegiddrone in "Ask HN: Tired of software career. What now?"

tegiddrone — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 00:48:24 +0000

Ya, I'm in a similar situation. I burn out every 1-2 years. This time I'm finding that I may be autistic/neurodivergent. The equation is very different for me and I have to start approaching it a bit differently what I look for in a (dev) job. The advice I've read in these sort of threads don't always resonate with me; we are all different kinds of people. Some people are much more tolerant of the vast sea of grindy dev jobs. There's gotta be something more interesting out there, the harder "more interesting" problems that are worth spending 30+hrs a week on. Leave the basic stuff for the basic people and everybody can be happy.

Joining a neurodivergent support group has been great; meet some similar minds.

New comment by tegiddrone in "The workers have spoken: They're staying home"

tegiddrone — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 18:52:46 +0000

At least in my experience, while I am good at text/email communication: my co workers were not. I feel like being a full remote company crippled us in terms of engineering quality. We have more of a license to be left alone and that sucks when we actually do need to coordinate with our coworkers. Easier to just not coordinate and tune out the notifications.

All said, maybe it is a larger issue and working from the office is just addressing symptoms that are more apparent when going remote. Are we really missing out on those water cooler talks or is there a missing information/management role. I think of how I've had the conversations with other teams around the occasional virtual water cooler "oh, you're building a microservice to do that... so are we.... why are we building the same microservice?"

New comment by tegiddrone in "Simplified Technical English"

tegiddrone — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 23:05:32 +0000

I like the idea and want a software tool that helps me write STE as a hobbyist. It's not the first time I've found friction with ESL folks with some of my vocabulary.

Looks like there are some here https://www.techscribe.co.uk/techw/asd-simplified-technical-...