Hacker News: valtism

New comment by valtism in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)"

valtism — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 18:32:56 +0000

Location: Sydney, Australia

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: React, JavaScript, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Next.js, React Server Components, Vite, Astro, React Native, TanStack Start, Storybook, Zod, Figma, VisX / D3, AWS, Lambda, Cloudflare Workers, Durable Objects, GraphQL, REST, Ruby, Rails, Redis

Résumé/CV: https://www.valtism.com/cv.pdf

Github: https://github.com/valtism

Email: morphs63.cleat@icloud.com

Remote-first Staff/Principal Front-End Engineer in Sydney, Australia. I’m strongest in Front-End, complex UI, performance, data visualisation, with full-stack experience across GraphQL, Rails, Redis, AWS, serverless, and React Native.

I helped take Pry (YC W23) from pre-launch to ~30% MoM growth and a $90M Brex acquisition.

I’m looking for a high-trust IC role where I can stay hands-on, own hard product surfaces, raise codebase quality, mentor engineers, and write quality, maintainable software.

New comment by valtism in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)"

valtism — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:53:33 +0000

Location: Sydney, Australia

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Résumé/CV: https://www.valtism.com/cv.pdf

Github: https://github.com/valtism

Email: morphs63.cleat@icloud.com

Remote-first Staff/Principal Front-End Engineer in Sydney, Australia. I’m strongest in Front-End, complex UI, performance, data visualization, with full-stack experience across GraphQL, Rails, Redis, AWS, serverless, and React Native.

I helped take Pry (YC W23) from pre-launch to ~30% MoM growth and a $90M Brex acquisition.

I’m looking for a high-trust IC role where I can stay hands-on, own hard product surfaces, raise codebase quality, mentor engineers, and write quality, maintainable software.

New comment by valtism in "Logging sucks"

valtism — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 14:09:52 +0000

Wow, I didn't think this was badly written at all! I certainly don't think it smells like AI. Are you conflating lists with AI written prose?

New comment by valtism in "Gemini 3"

valtism — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:54:36 +0000

Parakeet TDT v3 would be really good at that

New comment by valtism in "Zed is our office"

valtism — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 01:17:34 +0000

VSCode has good performance, especially for how feature complete it is, but it really has nothing on the boot speed of Zed

New comment by valtism in "Behind the scenes of Bun Install"

valtism — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 04:17:10 +0000

I had no idea Lydia was working for Bun now. Her technical writing is absolutely top notch

New comment by valtism in "Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed"

valtism — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 21:33:05 +0000

Same age:

commit b400449a58507cca1fa007197929c2cfd6beabbe

Author: Nathan Sobo

Date: Sat Feb 20 10:02:34 2021 -0700

    Start rebuilding with a cleanly-separated UI framework

New comment by valtism in "DeepSeek-v3.1"

valtism — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 02:33:13 +0000

Was that true for GPT-5? They claim it is much better at not hallucinating

New comment by valtism in "How we built Bluey’s world"

valtism — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 13:27:27 +0000

As someone who has lived in Brisbane, I can attest that it does a really good job of capturing the colour of the city. There is a unique golden hour shade there like no other city I have lived in.

New comment by valtism in "Anthropic revokes OpenAI's access to Claude"

valtism — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 23:03:16 +0000

Would something like that hold up in court?

New comment by valtism in "Grok 4 Launch [video]"

valtism — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 22:41:48 +0000

I'd assume that it's because they devolve into politics and Elon-bashing, rather than constructive discussion

New comment by valtism in "Show HN: OffChess – Offline chess puzzles app"

valtism — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 00:18:40 +0000

I'm just about to leave for a long international flight, so this is absolutely perfect for me!

Glad I saw the comment about it being paid so I could get to the purchase screen before I lost internet. (As a side note, it says "Buy now for $3.99" but it's really $5.99 in my currency. Not sure if you can make the button match to the price in the locale)

New comment by valtism in "What methylene blue can (and can’t) do for the brain"

valtism — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 00:40:18 +0000

I don't believe it's just that. I'm pretty sure he's taking testosterone as well

New comment by valtism in "VVVVVV Source Code"

valtism — Wed, 07 May 2025 04:05:57 +0000

It was originally written in flash, then ported to C++ which would explain some (not all) of the badness.

New comment by valtism in "JSX over the Wire"

valtism — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 02:08:25 +0000

Really appreciate the quality you put into expressing these things. It was nice just to see a well laid-out justification of how trying to tie a frontend to a backend can get messy quickly. I'm definitely going to remember the "ungrounded abstraction" as a useful concept here.

New comment by valtism in "Bill to block OpenAI's for-profit conversion gets mysteriously gutted"

valtism — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 05:48:39 +0000

I really don't see the issue with OpenAI becoming for-profit. They started as a research group with no intention of creating a marketable product, and stumbled onto one. I think it would make sense for them to become for-profit.

New comment by valtism in "What ketamine does to the human brain"

valtism — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 01:55:25 +0000

Funnily enough, PCP is a drug that is very similar to Ketamine, but has a very different reputation.

Whenever someone sees someone in full-blown psychosis walking stark naked on the side of the road, PCP immediately gets the blame. In reality, both drugs have the same psychosis potential.

It's not an immediate thing. Heavy users will just start feeling confident and motivated. Little need for sleep and a spring in their step like they are light as a feather. As the heavy use continues, this can spiral into mania, delusions of grandeur, detachment from reality and paranoia.

I have no way of knowing how much Elon uses, but it would not surprise me if he is treating himself with consistent low doses of ketamine. I wonder how his memory is, that would be a pretty good tell.

The Delirious, Violent, Impossible True Story of the Zizians

valtism — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 07:40:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/delirious-violent-impossible-true-story-zizians/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43147488

Points: 8

# Comments: 2

PEGI gives Balatro an 18 rating

valtism — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 04:00:33 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/LocalThunk/status/1868142749108797590

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42427913

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

New comment by valtism in "Text Editing Hates You Too (2019)"

valtism — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 21:04:56 +0000

Even "simple" interfaces–popovers, date pickers–inevitably become spiralling fractals of complexity, each layer folding into another the longer you look at them. Text editing would be crazier, even more so than what is described here.