Hacker News: turtlebits

New comment by turtlebits in "Almost no skill required to cook a steak"

turtlebits — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:53:00 +0000

The problem is that not everyone can afford/wants to spend on a high quality cut. A good cook can make a cheap cut of meat taste great. There's no single right way of cooking a steak and that can include spices/herbs/marinades/oils/etc.

New comment by turtlebits in "Removing React.js from the codebase and adapting Htmx for UI interactivity (2023)"

turtlebits — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 20:55:52 +0000

Unless there's a material change to the form, why not just update the changed parts?

I'd also question architectural decisions if you need to send 100kb+ of html down the wire for a partial.

New comment by turtlebits in "Should you wash your solar panels?"

turtlebits — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:04:14 +0000

It totally depends on your area. In the PNW I get sap and conifer tree pollen all over my panels and have to wash them at least twice a year.

New comment by turtlebits in "Ruff v0.16.0 – Significant new updates – 413 default rules up from 59"

turtlebits — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 13:55:48 +0000

The one day, your chef leaves, the food goes to shit and productivity/output/morale drops. When the new chef arrives, then everyone has to relearn everything.

Software shouldn't be bespoke and "artisan".

New comment by turtlebits in "Why Sony can't bring back its classic Walkman models"

turtlebits — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 22:41:11 +0000

Why can't somebody take simple smartphone hardware and make a modern media player that is not a phone?

Because you can do that with any phone and just not use the phone part?

New comment by turtlebits in "Hologram Works. Sponsor What Comes Next"

turtlebits — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 19:54:49 +0000

I'm on the opposite side of this. With LLMs, I no longer feel the need to use crazy frontend frameworks and abstractions. I'm back to building static HTML with minimal JS (and ideally no build step). Instead of using Tauri/Wails for GUI apps, I just use Swift.

I no longer try to build everything around my choice of language.

New comment by turtlebits in "Primate Is the Last Great Web Framework"

turtlebits — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:40:35 +0000

Great frameworks have great CLI tooling and just work. Be opinionated and consistent. The fact that this supports multiple frontends and multiple runtimes is a hard no for me, already know that it's going to be a massive headache to debug.

New comment by turtlebits in "Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)"

turtlebits — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:05:29 +0000

I use the tampermonkey extension (formerly greasemonkey). AI is fairly good for writing scripts.

New comment by turtlebits in "Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke"

turtlebits — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 23:16:10 +0000

I appreciate having an opinion vs a bunch of safe words saying nothing. Most CEO communication probably isn't even written by them and has a person-less touch.

It's totally fine to get a negative reaction and avoid the project. It's called having human emotions, which is actually healthy. Getting feedback is how you learn and grow as a person.

New comment by turtlebits in "Former NOAA employees built Climate.us to preserve climate data and resources"

turtlebits — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:29:42 +0000

I care that the data is out there and helps with weather forecasting. My taxes pay for that.

Do you care about roads, schools, fire stations and police too? Please donate to those please.

New comment by turtlebits in "Building and Shipping Mac and iOS Apps Without Ever Opening Xcode"

turtlebits — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:20:27 +0000

Testing != Distribution. You can run directly on a connected iOS device, without setting up anything related to the app store.

New comment by turtlebits in "Former NOAA employees built Climate.us to preserve climate data and resources"

turtlebits — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:17:28 +0000

Who is going to pay for the data collection? If we can't trust the government, what are we paying taxes for?

New comment by turtlebits in "Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds"

turtlebits — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 03:22:57 +0000

Why does early education need to be productive? At that age, I'd much rather my kids learn life skills, socialize, play, etc than any kind of "curriculum" learning.

There are a lot of studies showing that emotional intelligence is a better predictor of happiness than early academics.

They'll have plenty of time to be addicated to screens later on in life /s

New comment by turtlebits in "Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds"

turtlebits — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 02:45:20 +0000

Sorry, but 5 year olds don't need a tutor, let alone solo screen time. If you're giving your young child screen time, it should be with a parent, and then you might as well spend it offline.

IMO, tutoring is for when a kid is behind in curriculum and you don't see that until late grade school, if not middle school.

New comment by turtlebits in "Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig"

turtlebits — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:37:33 +0000

Petty? It's just a tool, people have opinions, rational or not.

The stupid thing is getting up in arms because someone said something you don't like.

New comment by turtlebits in "Buried Apple feature turns an iPhone into the perfect kids' dumb phone"

turtlebits — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 20:50:59 +0000

It's still a smartphone.

The perfect dumb phone is just a dumb phone. (Bonus, they're an order of magnitude cheaper than a decent smartphone).

New comment by turtlebits in "Chatto is now open source"

turtlebits — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 01:36:59 +0000

Then don't use it? I don't get the hate just because it doesn't fit people's use cases.

New comment by turtlebits in "Cloudflare Drop"

turtlebits — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 20:39:47 +0000

Or you could do some of your own troubleshooting? Uploading a git repo is different than uploading a zipped/folder, especially if your index.htm/l isn't at the root.

New comment by turtlebits in "Monetization Gateway: Charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402"

turtlebits — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:35:59 +0000

As the saying goes, there's no such thing as a free lunch. Servers cost money.

Users pay for it with their privacy/data. Intrusive ads. Dark patterns.

The increasing eyeballs on screen time is a net negative for society. I would say consuming content should come with some friction.

My screentime would drastically decrease if even it was partial cents per video.

New comment by turtlebits in "Open Source Low Tech"

turtlebits — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:53:25 +0000

IMO, the wind turbine is way too complex to be actually useful. It's definitely not reproducible for $30 unless you have access to a junkyard.

The power drill required for it isn't especially low tech. A cheap used solar panel is a better solution in 95% of situations.