Hacker News: thepancake

New comment by thepancake in "Why is Claude an Electron app?"

thepancake — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 22:48:59 +0000

Nailed it.

New comment by thepancake in "I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over"

thepancake — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 14:06:33 +0000

Here's where you went wrong: you're on LinkedIn. Since it's your first time, this one is free, I'll be collecting micropayments for future advice, rest assured.

New comment by thepancake in "Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun"

thepancake — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 08:30:37 +0000

One of their job ads (https://careers.epicompany.eu/jobs/7187954-backend-engineer-...) lists AWS among the tech stack, which you just gotta love considering that the whole project is about moving away from US infrastructure.

New comment by thepancake in "Tree-sitter vs. Language Servers"

thepancake — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 20:50:25 +0000

Damn the end of your blog post really touched me. I'm high AF, but I think this is still valid. Thanks for the lovely post!

New comment by thepancake in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)"

thepancake — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 07:15:56 +0000

My apologies - I realize this was also impolite, not just off topic.

New comment by thepancake in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)"

thepancake — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 20:38:26 +0000

Not gonna lie, this is the kind of work that makes the internet the hostile place that it is today :(

New comment by thepancake in "Recall for Linux"

thepancake — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 14:45:04 +0000

Not the hero we need, but the one we deserve.

New comment by thepancake in "Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year"

thepancake — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 06:54:19 +0000

Nothing to see here, only yet another case of vendor lock in and the unfortunate decision to use anything but FOSS.

New comment by thepancake in "My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website"

thepancake — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 08:52:42 +0000

I actually learned something about cats from her page. Thanks!