Hacker News: thepra

New comment by thepra in "Is my blue your blue?"

thepra — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 07:05:51 +0000

that's green! whoever invented the name of the colour had a different vision

New comment by thepra in "Is my blue your blue?"

thepra — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 07:02:37 +0000

hue 174, "true median" .-.

New comment by thepra in "I am leaving the AI party after one drink"

thepra — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:24:12 +0000

That's true for new projects, I've found that as a bootstrap mechanism it is not ideal, takes away your hard earned preferences/know-how abs leaves you barely engaged on the technical path. On the other side I already have quite big codebases, some legacy and inherited, there exist vast amount of context to work on and figure out stuff/fixes/bugs/improvements and Claude Code excels 95% of the time in figuring the existing flows and functionality, if a vague or precise issue is known that's facing some files elaborations or user work flows it can do a good job in pointing out what are, with a high chance, the issues.

New comment by thepra in "Copyparty, the FOSS file server [video]"

thepra — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 15:00:15 +0000

I can't find an alternative to nextcloud keepass file open and manage in browser :/

New comment by thepra in "Show HN: We built an open source, zero webhooks payment processor"

thepra — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 12:07:50 +0000

what would look like a Blazor integration?

I'm 3.5 webapps deep into nothingness

thepra — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 18:59:43 +0000

And this is how you don't do business:

In the past 6-7 years I've built 3.5 webapps, all now running in 1 superapp at https://collanon.app and I can't get away from supporting my family(me and my wife(Cinese school owner, but barely profiting)), my (inflicted fraud + debts) + mortgage and working as a Software Engineer Consultant in Italy to support as much as 85-90% of the household.

My contract at my current client is due at the end of the year with less and lesser hope of renewal at my new rate.

I'm writing to gamble it all and ask if any of those built "ideas" has any toilet paper sheet of being business worthy.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45983570

Points: 1

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New comment by thepra in "Ask HN: Magic links are bad UX and make people's lives worse. Change my mind"

thepra — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 22:19:13 +0000

You're not, foreshadowing my Claude subscription with email only login... I want a password everyday.

New comment by thepra in "The 'Return to Office' Lies"

thepra — Sat, 23 Nov 2024 18:01:30 +0000

I arrived at this conclusion too after 3 years of smart working, it's unreasonable to have today an obliged/implicit sacrifice of time and money that's commuting to the work place.

New comment by thepra in "Syncthing Android App Discontinued"

thepra — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 05:29:04 +0000

I would have to disagree, so far the new file API has been the most buggy experience for many apps that have to use files every time that the app is running or is in background, and this is from a user experience perspective alone.

I can understand why the developers can't be bothered with a badly thought out new system.

New comment by thepra in "Syncthing Android App Discontinued"

thepra — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 05:20:46 +0000

I'm in the same boats, I have an app on play store but that dev verification thing will cost me around 90 euros where its not making me money even though its commercially driven still, I just can't be bothered to spend extra money for Google for their company verification requirements

(ps: I tried to get support about it and was willing to provide the company info just to keep getting on the platform, but the only answers that I got were "you must use this (non free) system to have your company verified" and then I tacitly said "screw this")

New comment by thepra in "Why GitHub won"

thepra — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 03:58:08 +0000

I don't know about that, it was a dead platform for my projects by the time that the US government policies went and blocked accounts and projects of some middle east developers.

Since then I'm happy self hosting Gitea. GitHub is still a decent place to contribute to others projects.

New comment by thepra in "The "email is authentication" pattern"

thepra — Sun, 08 Sep 2024 09:39:33 +0000

at least for my privacy conscious web apps I don't even expect email for login, just a username and password.

And if people really want to enable password recovery then they add their email into their profile and that data point is only used for that.

It might bother some, but I don't really want to require emails for privacy related services. My two cents.

New comment by thepra in "How can Firefox create the best support for web apps on the desktop?"

thepra — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 07:45:17 +0000

as a pwa developer, that's a continuous concern, lately I was thinking of notifying the users after certain actions to go and save locally the data that's withing the web app(it's all JSON btw) and restore it later when in need, but that's too cumbersome as a solution for many... ¯ \ _ ( ツ ) _ / ¯

New comment by thepra in "Stop Killing Games"

thepra — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 18:13:58 +0000

Signed, from Italy ;D

New comment by thepra in "Belenios: Verifiable online voting system"

thepra — Sun, 04 Aug 2024 15:10:03 +0000

Please forget about showing up physically, it's noble to think of "you really care" but in places with organized crime they have ways to count if those that depend on them come and vote for their "right" choice. It has been estimated that around 20-30% of IRL votes in Italy follow the organized crimes choice.

New comment by thepra in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2024)"

thepra — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 05:42:01 +0000

Location: Italy

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: C# Fullstack + Web(JS, HTML & CSS)

Résumé/CV: On request

Email: work.yevheniy@hvozdikov.me

New comment by thepra in "Show HN: I made tool that let's you see everything about any website"

thepra — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 07:22:07 +0000

In the tech-stack it gives me "Chromium not found"...

New comment by thepra in "Ask HN: Who has had a successful PWA product?"

thepra — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 06:10:09 +0000

Even IndexedDb? Having a PWA based on webassembly(Blazor) that I test on an updated iPhone 6 I have to say that I didn't ever run in such issues, the experience is good even though the device is old.

New comment by thepra in "WebKit fix: Quirk news.ycombinator to skip TextAutoSizing"

thepra — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 09:18:26 +0000

That's messed up, why should I put up with CORS when others have a special treatment...

New comment by thepra in "Show HN: I built a calendar designed for tiny habits"

thepra — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 14:17:22 +0000

So much whitespace, I'm at a loss of what's where.