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New comment by theflyinghorse in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"

theflyinghorse — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:46:28 +0000

It probably has to do with what technology people are used to. There has been a couple of generations of web developers who have only known javascript and its ecosystem for building webapps, and so anything other than pure javascript solution looks foreign.

New comment by theflyinghorse in "Claude Fable 5"

theflyinghorse — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:29:44 +0000

I've seen enough degradation of the models I pay for from Anthropic to not bite. Fable will work fine for the first couple of weeks and then start degrading like previous models did.

New comment by theflyinghorse in "India's surprise baby bust"

theflyinghorse — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:25:28 +0000

Top 1% are too divorced from the real world to have ever seen a cog.

New comment by theflyinghorse in "Does anybody like React?"

theflyinghorse — Tue, 26 May 2026 13:54:31 +0000

Currently rewriting nextjs app into sveltekit. It’s going surprisingly smoothly. Don’t know about svelte vs react yet BUT sveltekit is far more straightforward than nextjs has far better DX and is somehow faster

New comment by theflyinghorse in "Microsoft pulls plug on plans for 244-acre data center in Caledonia (2025)"

theflyinghorse — Mon, 25 May 2026 17:40:47 +0000

I don't understand why cloudflare is loved by tech people. They ARE breaking the web.

New comment by theflyinghorse in "Magnifica Humanitas"

theflyinghorse — Mon, 25 May 2026 17:28:13 +0000

Why should you posses a homestead? What value do you produce that droid can't that would make you deserving of anything at all? Why should corporations that design, manufacture and program the droid not own the land instead?

We need to very rapidly decouple human worth from the economic lens otherwise the economic argument is against humans.

New comment by theflyinghorse in "No More JetBrains Products for Me"

theflyinghorse — Mon, 18 May 2026 22:44:35 +0000

For whatever reason zed takes forever to paste on my m1max MBP. Im talking at least 1.5s for a paste a few characters from clipboard or to duplicate a line.

New comment by theflyinghorse in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

theflyinghorse — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:39:36 +0000

I am afraid to give agents ability to touch git at all and people out there let it know things about their infrastructure. 100% fault on the operator for trusting agents, for not engineering a strong enough guard rails such as “don’t let it near any infrastructure”.

New comment by theflyinghorse in "Zooming UIs in 2026: Prezi, impress.js, and why I built something different"

theflyinghorse — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:55:18 +0000

HA! I Love it! It's a been a while since I felt this sort of joy exploring a new way to navigate

New comment by theflyinghorse in "Spring Boot Done Right: Lessons from a 400-Module Codebase"

theflyinghorse — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:03:41 +0000

It will take some time for Quarkus to become a significant enough presence in the market share. In my experience, for the majority of Java shops Spring Boot does just fine because it worked before and it will probably work in the future.

New comment by theflyinghorse in "Spring Boot Done Right: Lessons from a 400-Module Codebase"

theflyinghorse — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:01:44 +0000

This is still relatively tame! I've seen stuff where there are layers of annotations some of which will spawn docker containers effectively bringing docker compose into java application as part of the set up. Some containers would need to come up, do a quick file change, then die and the the rest of configuration proceeded (this was for an automated test tool). Entirely stupid, could have been written with just couple classes of Java and a docker compose. But it is a culture. It is a culture that I think ultimately will destroy Java.

New comment by theflyinghorse in "Spring Boot Done Right: Lessons from a 400-Module Codebase"

theflyinghorse — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:57:12 +0000

You have worked at some outstanding java shops then! In my experience the article is precisely representative of Java culture even today

New comment by theflyinghorse in "Show HN: QuickBEAM – run JavaScript as supervised Erlang/OTP processes"

theflyinghorse — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 17:42:45 +0000

This is very interest to me because we have accumulated a few node packages containing logic that services simply import. So in theory I could now use those node packages in elixir?

New comment by theflyinghorse in "UK MPs give ministers powers to restrict Internet for under 18s"

theflyinghorse — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:15:31 +0000

UK absolutely needs to be thought of in the same way we think about Russia or Belorussia, or China.

New comment by theflyinghorse in "U.S. jobs disappear at fastest January pace since great recession"

theflyinghorse — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 20:44:09 +0000

Tariffs, forcing capital into 7 very large companies instead of small startups, wage suppression through weird offshoring and immigration schemes so on and so forth. There are seemingly unending number of issues that all contribute to the same outcome we're seeing today.

New comment by theflyinghorse in "Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft"

theflyinghorse — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 18:09:31 +0000

Workflow is this: - I have emacs open for code editing/reviews/git. - Separate terminal emulator with 1-3 claudes - I work on a story by splitting it into small steps ("Let's move this email logic to the email.service.ts", "here's the fields I'd need to add to the request, create a schema validation in a separate file, and update the router and controller") - I mostly watch claude, and occasionally walk through the code in emacs whenever I feel like I want to review code. - I handle external tools like git or db migrations myself not letting LLMs near them.

In essence, this is pretty much how you'd run a group of juniors - you'd sit on slack and jira diving up work and doing code reviews.

New comment by theflyinghorse in "India and EU announce landmark trade deal"

theflyinghorse — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 17:58:28 +0000

Questioning immigration policy is not racism. Anti-Indian sentiment in Canada is relatively recent and happened after a decade of mass immigration that is now widely agreed has contributed to a noticeable decline in the quality of life for all.

New comment by theflyinghorse in "India and EU announce landmark trade deal"

theflyinghorse — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 17:54:55 +0000

India as a whole is diverse. Canada is NOT getting immigrants from all of India but rather from 2 states (mostly one). Please learn about the issue first.

New comment by theflyinghorse in "The C3 Programming Language"

theflyinghorse — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 17:11:42 +0000

I keep thinking about perhaps LLMs would make writing code in these lower-level-but-far-better-performing languages in vogue. Why have claude generate a python service when you could write a rust or C3 service with compiler doing a lot of heavy lifting around memory bugs?

New comment by theflyinghorse in "Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration"

theflyinghorse — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 05:47:47 +0000

What are the chances that Google leadership even seen GCP interface outside of a demo once a never?