Hacker News: thejoeflow

PHP's Oddities

thejoeflow — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:41:48 +0000

Article URL: https://flowtwo.io/post/php%27s-oddities

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48199314

Points: 128

# Comments: 165

New comment by thejoeflow in "Proton spam and the AI consent problem"

thejoeflow — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 16:59:01 +0000

Isn't the search bad because they can't search email contents? As long as the term is somewhere in the metadata (title, sender email, sender name) it seems to work ok.

I agree though that the user experience isn't great because of this limitation. You kind of have to remember what the title of the email was for what you're looking for. Searching for "flight ticket" results in mixed success

New comment by thejoeflow in "10 years of writing a blog nobody reads"

thejoeflow — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 17:06:06 +0000

100%. I didn't mean this to be a "woe is me" piece, despite the clickbait-y title. I just wanted to talk about the merits of publishing your writing without any actual readers. And some lessons on writing I've picked up.

New comment by thejoeflow in "10 years of writing a blog nobody reads"

thejoeflow — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 17:04:07 +0000

completely agree

New comment by thejoeflow in "10 years of writing a blog nobody reads"

thejoeflow — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 17:03:20 +0000

yea, I'm not saying there's no place for that phrase ever. But overusing it was a bad habit of mine and it ends up being unnecessary filler. My wording there was a bit exaggerated.

10 years of writing a blog nobody reads

thejoeflow — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 16:39:35 +0000

Article URL: https://flowtwo.io/post/on-10-years-of-writing-a-blog-nobody-reads

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46070883

Points: 356

# Comments: 183

I got an LLM to solve the daily Quordle

thejoeflow — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 14:48:14 +0000

Article URL: https://flowtwo.io/post/automating-quordle-with-an-llm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46005093

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

A Comparative Analysis of 'The Alchemist' vs. 'Siddhartha'

thejoeflow — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 15:05:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.flowtwo.io/post/the-alchemist-and-siddhartha

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45426446

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Automated daily Quordle solver using an LLM

thejoeflow — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 13:33:58 +0000

Article URL: https://flowtwo.io/daily-quordle-solver.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45211456

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Is Solo Bitcoin Mining a Good Investment?

thejoeflow — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 14:45:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.flowtwo.io/post/is-solo-bitcoin-mining-a-good-investment%3F

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43622399

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by thejoeflow in "Shopify Is Illegal in Germany"

thejoeflow — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 17:14:15 +0000

TG;DR?

New comment by thejoeflow in "The handshake emoji is more complicated than you might think"

thejoeflow — Wed, 05 May 2021 15:54:29 +0000

*Homer Sapiens

New comment by thejoeflow in "Epic will pay off class-action loot-box settlement with in-game currency"

thejoeflow — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 15:26:21 +0000

I thought this was an Onion article. Wow.

New comment by thejoeflow in "Spotify Optimized the Largest Dataflow Job Ever for Wrapped 2020"

thejoeflow — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 14:21:38 +0000

this. They don't even do an exact string match of the artist name, the reason why I can't fathom. I could make a new artist account named "drake" (lowercase d) today and probably show up in a million Release Radar playlists by next week.

New comment by thejoeflow in "Testosterone levels show steady decrease among young US men"

thejoeflow — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 21:41:39 +0000

it's a reference point? The article isn't comparing to some platonic ideal of what men's testosterone levels should be...it's just pointing out a statistically significant decrease in those levels over a period of 20 years

New comment by thejoeflow in "Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?"

thejoeflow — Tue, 07 Apr 2020 20:46:20 +0000

That's a nice feature. I would also have to start tagging my posts I guess haha.

New comment by thejoeflow in "Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?"

thejoeflow — Tue, 07 Apr 2020 15:55:37 +0000

No - unfortunately you can only do so by clicking on the "Archive" dropdown and browsing through the years/months...something I will add soon though!

Appreciate the feedback

New comment by thejoeflow in "Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?"

thejoeflow — Tue, 07 Apr 2020 13:16:14 +0000

https://thejoeflow.com/blog

I write about...books. I don't think there's much point to reading it unless you've already read the book I'm talking about.

I mostly do it because I found I use to read books and then never talk about them or think about them afterwards so I would just forget about the book after a little while. I figured that writing something down about the book would help clarify my thoughts on it and I could remember it better.

I also wanted to build something with spring boot and kotlin so this was it.

New comment by thejoeflow in "Show HN: Discover and listen to artists performing in your city this week"

thejoeflow — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 19:15:34 +0000

Songkick, and spotify for that matter, already do that

New comment by thejoeflow in "404 Found"

thejoeflow — Thu, 22 Aug 2019 15:33:35 +0000

and then????????