Hacker News: tslocum

New comment by tslocum in "Elon Musk's Grok praises Hitler, shares antisemitic tropes in new posts"

tslocum — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 17:24:46 +0000

The linked post got 13 points in 2 hours, and has just been flagged. It was already missing from any front pages before being visibly flagged.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250709152608/https://news.ycom...

https://web.archive.org/web/20250709172615/https://news.ycom...

New comment by tslocum in "Linda Yaccarino is leaving X"

tslocum — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 16:22:13 +0000

With 8 points in an hour, my post drawing attention to this is missing from the front pages.

HN is censoring news about X / Twitter https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44511132

https://web.archive.org/web/20250709152608/https://news.ycom...

https://web.archive.org/web/20250709172615/https://news.ycom...

New comment by tslocum in "Elon Musk's Grok praises Hitler, shares antisemitic tropes in new posts"

tslocum — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 15:03:37 +0000

Why is this still flagged?

Edit: Even though my comment is gaining an increasing amount of votes, it has suddenly moved to the bottom of the comments, as though it were dead.

Edit2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44511132 (blackholed?)

New comment by tslocum in "PHP 8.5 alpha 1 is available for download"

tslocum — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 14:38:27 +0000

Based on the examples given in the blog post, this appears to be a massive step backwards for PHP. The language has been making an effort to clean itself up for years. The author claims that the temporary variable solution "feels icky". If we ultimately care about readability and performance, temporary variables seem ideal even with this change in the language. Modern compilers look for things like temporary variables when performing optimizations. PHP's compiler probably already does this, and if it doesn't, adding support for that would make more sense than adding some new syntax.

New comment by tslocum in "Zorin OS"

tslocum — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 16:58:34 +0000

Just because you can charge for open source software, doesn't make it moral to do so. Concentrating our efforts on making Debian even easier to use seems much more in line with the ethics of the FOSS ecosystem.

New comment by tslocum in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2025)"

tslocum — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 00:43:58 +0000

  Location: Seattle, WA
  Remote: Yes (6 years of WFH experience)
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Go (Golang), Java, PHP, Python, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Linux sysadmin, Docker, Docker Compose
  Email: tslocum@gmail.com

25 year hobbyist software engineer and 10 year professional. Fully self-taught and excited to learn more. Active and passionate open source software author and contributor. Seeking a fully remote position. Please review my extensive portfolio of open source projects and contributions.

Résumé/CV: https://rocket9labs.com/resume.pdf

Portfolios:

* Code: https://code.rocket9labs.com/tslocum (All of my code is here)

* Games: https://rocketnine.itch.io (All open source and written in Go)

New comment by tslocum in "Maintaining an Android app in Google Play Store is a lot of work"

tslocum — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 15:04:32 +0000

It is indeed a lot of work. All of my apps are only available on F-Droid now, after years of playing ball with Google Play. I wrote about my experience here:

https://rocket9labs.com/post/on-the-importance-of-f-droid/

New comment by tslocum in "Ask HN: What's with the repeated job posts on "Who's hiring"?"

tslocum — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 02:46:32 +0000

I've seen the same position posted for a YC-backed company for over a year. I commented on it months ago, it's funny to see this topic come up again. We seriously need some legislation in this area. Finding a job as a tech worker is hard enough.

New comment by tslocum in "(On | No) Syntactic Support for Error Handling"

tslocum — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 19:00:14 +0000

Seems strange that Rust's "?" gets a mention syntax-wise, but nothing is said about sum types coming to Go. Go's verbose error handling and lack of sum types are my only gripes with the language. It would be nice to see both addressed using Rust's Result type as a model.

New comment by tslocum in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2025)"

tslocum — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 18:08:00 +0000

  Location: Seattle, WA
  Remote: Yes (6 years of WFH experience)
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Go (Golang), Java, PHP, Python, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Linux sysadmin, Docker, Docker Compose
  Email: tslocum@gmail.com

Professional software engineer for ten years, hobbyist programmer for many more. Fully self-taught, always excited to learn more. Active and passionate open source software author and contributor. Seeking a fully remote position. Please review my extensive portfolio of open source projects and contributions.

Résumé/CV: https://rocket9labs.com/resume.pdf

Portfolios:

* Code: https://code.rocket9labs.com/tslocum (All of my code is here)

* Games: https://rocketnine.itch.io (All open source and written in Go)

* GitHub: https://github.com/tslocum (Only my contributions to other projects)

New comment by tslocum in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2025)"

tslocum — Fri, 02 May 2025 03:57:49 +0000

  Location: Seattle, WA
  Remote: Yes (6 years of WFH experience)
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Go (Golang), Java, PHP, Python, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Linux sysadmin, Docker, Docker Compose
  Email: tslocum@gmail.com

Résumé/CV: https://rocket9labs.com/resume.pdf

Portfolios:

* Code: https://code.rocket9labs.com/tslocum (All of my code is here)

* Games: https://rocketnine.itch.io (All open source and written in Go)

* GitHub: https://github.com/tslocum (Only my contributions to other projects)

Show HN: Sriracha Imageboard and Forum

tslocum — Thu, 01 May 2025 16:56:02 +0000

A read-only demo[0] of Sriracha's output is available. Screenshots of the management panel are also available in the demo.

Sriracha allows anyone to host an imageboard or forum using Go.

Sriracha has full support for custom templating. Standard .gohtml templates are included, and site owners may specify a directory where any custom templates of the same name will override included templates.

Sriracha makes use of Go's plugin support to implement a plugin system[1]. This allows site owners to customize their installations without making changes to Sriracha itself.

0. https://sriracha.rocket9labs.com/img/

1. https://codeberg.org/tslocum/sriracha/src/branch/main/PLUGIN...

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43860295

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by tslocum in "Google Play sees 47% decline in apps since start of last year"

tslocum — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 20:22:43 +0000

Several FOSS apps of mine were removed from Google Play because of this. I wrote about one solution for other affected developers here:

https://rocket9labs.com/post/on-the-importance-of-f-droid/

New comment by tslocum in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2025)"

tslocum — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 00:09:47 +0000

  Location: Seattle, WA
  Remote: Yes (6 years of WFH experience)
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Go (Golang), Java, PHP, Python, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Linux sysadmin, Docker, Docker Compose
  Email: tslocum@gmail.com

Résumé/CV: https://rocket9labs.com/resume.pdf

Portfolios:

* Code: https://code.rocket9labs.com/tslocum (All of my code is here)

* Games: https://rocketnine.itch.io (All open source and written in Go)

* GitHub: https://github.com/tslocum (Only my contributions to other projects)

New comment by tslocum in "The School Car Pickup Line Is a National Embarrassment"

tslocum — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 17:37:47 +0000

Does this article really need a visual aid of cars waiting in a line, let alone a sloppy AI generated visual aid?

New comment by tslocum in "The DOJ still wants Google to sell off Chrome"

tslocum — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 19:21:20 +0000

I wrote about the situation with Apache Open Office here:

https://rocket9labs.com/post/its-time-to-let-go-apache-softw...

New comment by tslocum in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2025)"

tslocum — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 17:36:26 +0000

  Location: Seattle, WA
  Remote: Yes (6 years of WFH experience)
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Go (Golang), Java, PHP, Python, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Linux sysadmin, Docker, Docker Compose
  Email: tslocum@gmail.com

Résumé/CV: https://rocket9labs.com/resume.pdf

Portfolios:

* Code: https://code.rocket9labs.com/tslocum (All of my code is here)

* Games: https://rocketnine.itch.io (All open source and written in Go)

* GitHub: https://github.com/tslocum (Only my contributions to other projects)

New comment by tslocum in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2025)"

tslocum — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 18:46:10 +0000

  Location: Seattle, WA
  Remote: Yes (6 years of WFH experience)
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Go (Golang), Java, PHP, Python, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Linux sysadmin, Docker, Docker Compose
  Email: tslocum@gmail.com

Résumé/CV: https://rocket9labs.com/resume.pdf

Portfolios:

* Code: https://code.rocket9labs.com/tslocum (All of my code is here)

* GitHub: https://github.com/tslocum (Only my contributions to other projects)

* Games: https://rocketnine.itch.io (All open source and written in Go)

New comment by tslocum in "LibreOffice 400M Downloads, and Counting"

tslocum — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 19:21:13 +0000

Related: It's Time To Let Go, Apache Software Foundation

https://rocket9labs.com/post/its-time-to-let-go-apache-softw...

New comment by tslocum in "Ask HN: Are YC startups actually hiring?"

tslocum — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 19:48:09 +0000

I've seen a YC startup post for the same back-end job for a year now. I admit that I did not apply, but it doesn't look that unappealing.

Hacker News: tslocum

New comment by tslocum in "Elon Musk's Grok praises Hitler, shares antisemitic tropes in new posts"

New comment by tslocum in "Linda Yaccarino is leaving X"

New comment by tslocum in "Elon Musk's Grok praises Hitler, shares antisemitic tropes in new posts"

New comment by tslocum in "PHP 8.5 alpha 1 is available for download"

New comment by tslocum in "Zorin OS"

New comment by tslocum in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2025)"

New comment by tslocum in "Maintaining an Android app in Google Play Store is a lot of work"

New comment by tslocum in "Ask HN: What's with the repeated job posts on "Who's hiring"?"

New comment by tslocum in "(On | No) Syntactic Support for Error Handling"

New comment by tslocum in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2025)"

New comment by tslocum in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2025)"

Show HN: Sriracha Imageboard and Forum

New comment by tslocum in "Google Play sees 47% decline in apps since start of last year"

New comment by tslocum in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2025)"

New comment by tslocum in "The School Car Pickup Line Is a National Embarrassment"

New comment by tslocum in "The DOJ still wants Google to sell off Chrome"

New comment by tslocum in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2025)"

New comment by tslocum in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2025)"

New comment by tslocum in "LibreOffice 400M Downloads, and Counting"

New comment by tslocum in "Ask HN: Are YC startups *actually* hiring?"

New comment by tslocum in "Ask HN: Are YC startups actually hiring?"