Hacker News: uxcolumbo

New comment by uxcolumbo in "What being ripped off taught me"

uxcolumbo — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:21:45 +0000

Your blog is a treasure trove - thanks for sharing.

Do you still cut your own hair ;) ?

But yes us folks in the creative world can learn a few things from the corporate world when it comes to contracts and payment schedules. Mike Monteiro's talk 'F*ck you, pay me' comes to mind.

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https://www.mikemonteiro.com/

https://creativemornings.com/talks/mike-monteiro--2/1

New comment by uxcolumbo in "Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work"

uxcolumbo — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:58:18 +0000

How about: LLMs are on a spectrum and this one is on the tiny side?

New comment by uxcolumbo in "The 1987 game “The Last Ninja” was 40 kilobytes"

uxcolumbo — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:22:04 +0000

R.I.P Ben. He was such a positive human being and encouraging you to do great things, even if you doubted yourself.

Here is a little clip of him from Bedroom to Billions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRsLOUYL3mk

New comment by uxcolumbo in "Take better notes, by hand"

uxcolumbo — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:07:46 +0000

Or get an Canon 5d MKI or MKII. Not many features and great kit and can be bought for less than $500.

New comment by uxcolumbo in "Agents that run while I sleep"

uxcolumbo — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 13:00:37 +0000

Thanks for that. I'm new to the applied AI / ML world.

What's your stack and infra setup? Mainly Python, AWS, Databricks?

PS. previous comment typo: 'imokement' should have read 'implement'

New comment by uxcolumbo in "Agents that run while I sleep"

uxcolumbo — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 06:44:34 +0000

Sounds interesting, would like to learn more about this.

How do you imokement the scoring layer and when and how is it invoked?

New comment by uxcolumbo in "[dead]"

uxcolumbo — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 10:18:32 +0000

This article seems to be by a company who wants to sell you this agent coordination layer.

First question: how do they define AGI? Couldn't see it.

Feels like clickbait tbh.

New comment by uxcolumbo in "How the Sriracha guys screwed over their supplier"

uxcolumbo — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 10:08:24 +0000

Which ones would you recommend?

New comment by uxcolumbo in "Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence"

uxcolumbo — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 08:45:10 +0000

Advertisement is not that effective in general or just for certain channels, i.e. TV?

Also what are you existing to?

New comment by uxcolumbo in "Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies’"

uxcolumbo — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 09:36:00 +0000

Trump sees many Americans as adversaries (i.e. the 'radical left' like Alex Pretti an ER nurse and Renee Nicole Good - a mother). In his first term he asked whether protestors can be shot in the legs.

So in short it doesn't matter what the Pentagon thinks as Trump is the commander in chief and as far as I know the Pentagon has to follow his orders.

New comment by uxcolumbo in "Show HN: I built a self-hosted course platform in Clojure"

uxcolumbo — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 17:41:03 +0000

How about detecting which country you're viewing this from or letting the user to change it?

New comment by uxcolumbo in "Show HN: I built a self-hosted course platform in Clojure"

uxcolumbo — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 12:09:54 +0000

Congrats. Always wanted to get into Clojure.

Did you use AI to help code the site?

Some feedback:

- Scrolling is slow. I'm on Firefox. It might be the background image or some other effects?

- Pricing isn't shown in USD but instead in CHF. Not sure whether users would want to go the extra step and do another search to do fx conversion.

New comment by uxcolumbo in "Clay Christensen's Milkshake Marketing (2011)"

uxcolumbo — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 14:48:02 +0000

Which reading material would you recommend to get up to speed with outcome-driven innovation and JTBD.

And why didn't your clients see value in this? Was it because these insights didn't make its way to their service or product?

What's the current demand for JTBD and ODI consulting?

New comment by uxcolumbo in "Babylon 5 is now free to watch on YouTube"

uxcolumbo — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 14:01:10 +0000

What's the evidence? Star Trek came out before B5 and in the ST universe there were several deep space stations. Do you mean they copied characters or story lines?

And how is DS9 a soap opera? I associate soap operas with sh!t acting and not really exploring deeper philosophical topics.

DS9 had amazing actors, character development and story lines. Take Garak for example, amazing character.

New comment by uxcolumbo in "I'm not worried about AI job loss"

uxcolumbo — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 22:56:04 +0000

I wouldn’t call plumbing and other trades low skill.

New comment by uxcolumbo in "The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling"

uxcolumbo — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 21:36:48 +0000

What exactly is dystopian about protecting developing minds of children and teens from detrimental effects and social media addiction caused by companies like Meta and Bytedance. These companies profit immensely from being quasi unregulated.

New comment by uxcolumbo in "Show HN: I saw this cool navigation reveal, so I made a simple HTML+CSS version"

uxcolumbo — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 12:25:56 +0000

I tried to use it yesterday on my iPad. Some kind of element was blocking the menu.

Tried it today on my PC (big screen) - the intro animation is slow - 6-10 FPS and clicking on the menu item to reveal the items is slow as well. I could hear my fan spinning up.

Not everyone uses the latest greatest Mx chipset.

This tells me they haven't done any testing. Basically 'this looks cool' and 'works on my machine'.

New comment by uxcolumbo in "Show HN: I saw this cool navigation reveal, so I made a simple HTML+CSS version"

uxcolumbo — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 12:05:06 +0000

Not presumptuous. All based on doing enough usability testing to understand that time and time again people get confused if you try to reinvent the wheel or trying to be fancy when it comes to navigating around your site. Stick to best practices.

That's all.

New comment by uxcolumbo in "Show HN: I saw this cool navigation reveal, so I made a simple HTML+CSS version"

uxcolumbo — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 00:09:15 +0000

Neat experiment, but this is not good design.

Design is about solving problems.

A menu is suppose to help you to quickly find and get to a specific section of your site.

Why do I have to click on a thing to reveal the menu even though on my laptop there is enough space to show it all? And then I have to move my mouse all to the other side of the screen?

Who is this for?

Nothing wrong with experimenting with CSS, but avoid ‘dribbblizing’ your designs if you intend to ship it to users who use your site for information or to get a job done.

Edit: commenting more on the iventions.com website where this effect is in use.

New comment by uxcolumbo in "An Update on Heroku"

uxcolumbo — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 20:44:35 +0000

What are some good alternatives?

Anyone any experience with https://sevalla.com/ ?