Hacker News: vatotemking

New comment by vatotemking in "404 Deno CEO not found"

vatotemking — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 23:54:21 +0000

I get what you mean mate. Could have said the same but you said it better.

New comment by vatotemking in "Why is no Laravel/Rails in JavaScript? Will there be one?"

vatotemking — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 13:00:06 +0000

Heres how I do it. I just use express.js, sequelize (sqlite) for ORM, nunjucks for templating. Then on the frontend I use VueJs 2 which I use like jQuery - no compile step no components. Throw in some Bootstrap 4.5 because I dont need the new features of 5. Deploy on a $5 lightsail server. Done!

New comment by vatotemking in "Only You Can Stop an AI Apocalypse"

vatotemking — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 22:32:16 +0000

please explain some more. what are the specific examples?

New comment by vatotemking in "The teen mental illness epidemic began around 2012"

vatotemking — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 22:36:21 +0000

We didnt know when it happened, but we are now at the mercy of AI. Scary times. Everything we do is controlled by algorithms.

New comment by vatotemking in "I tried replacing Google with TikTok, and it worked better than I thought"

vatotemking — Sun, 25 Sep 2022 01:19:36 +0000

Google search has stopped working for me for a long time.

I usually append "stackexchange", "quora", or "reddit" when searching to get useful answers. If you dont do that, you'll get SEOd garbage.

New comment by vatotemking in "FB feed is 98% suggested pages and barely any friends' posts"

vatotemking — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 22:44:30 +0000

Tip: Use android firefox with ublock and open m.facebook.com

New comment by vatotemking in "Ffmpeg Buddy"

vatotemking — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 07:32:45 +0000

Make video streamable (start playing when usable bits are available). Recently needed this for an auto-playing video background [1]:

"ffmpeg.exe" -i "in.mp4" -c copy -movflags faststart "out.mp4"

[1]https://beta.gsc.edu.ph

New comment by vatotemking in "A portable wind turbine the size of a water bottle"

vatotemking — Sat, 14 May 2022 11:09:25 +0000

A 10watt solar panel and a step-down module that can charge a powerbank is the simplest, cheapest, most portable option I can think of.

New comment by vatotemking in "WordPress’ market share is shrinking"

vatotemking — Thu, 12 May 2022 11:52:24 +0000

WordPress plugins (and themes) are plagued by freemium versions. SEO has been gamed. Gone are the days of finding a non-freemium, single functionality plugin, that just works. You have to be a seasoned WP developer to wade thru all the crap that is the WP ecosystem, or if all else fails, write your own functionality via functions.php.

New comment by vatotemking in "Ask HN: Have you used SQLite as a primary database?"

vatotemking — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 23:03:32 +0000

Im working on something similar. Mine is a RFID scanner kiosk that uses a local db when offline. How do you manage sync conflicts?

New comment by vatotemking in "The Gov.uk Design System is now live"

vatotemking — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 22:48:08 +0000

Its been there ever since nodejs was around. Ive been using it for a long time now. I love it as a template engine.

New comment by vatotemking in "Namecheap: Russia Service Termination"

vatotemking — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 10:41:58 +0000

Some people are getting bombed and invaded.

And you complain about moving domain names.

God I hate web developers...

New comment by vatotemking in "Ask HN: What was better in the past in tech?"

vatotemking — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 11:41:23 +0000

Responsive layouts for varying screen sizes dont exists in the 90s so its not a fair comparison. Responsive Web Design was coined only in 2010. And RAD apps arent tied to the database unlike Retool.

With RAD apps, the barrier to entry is low. You install the IDE from this thing called a CD-ROM, drag some components, add some code to make it reactive (Yes we have reactive components in 1998!). Compile and run.

New comment by vatotemking in "Ask HN: What was better in the past in tech?"

vatotemking — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 10:26:29 +0000

Rapid Application Development, similar to classic Visual Basic and Borland Delphi. I remember being a college student and we can create GUI apps with relative ease.

Today, even electron is reserved for the experienced web dev. See roadmap.sh

I believed we've lost a lot when we transitioned from desktop apps to web and mobile apps and JavaScript won.

Even ActionScript was way ahead of JS during its time!

Ask HN: Recommendation for open source ticketing system other than osTicket?

vatotemking — Sat, 05 Feb 2022 09:30:05 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30219432

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by vatotemking in "Hayao Miyazaki prepares to cast one last spell"

vatotemking — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 14:53:46 +0000

"Weathering With You" is my favorite among his works. Its the closest one to a Ghibli film.

How I wish Satoshi Kon is still around making great films...

New comment by vatotemking in "Ask HN: What are the best-designed things you've ever used?"

vatotemking — Sun, 28 Nov 2021 00:09:22 +0000

That and Macromedia Flash! I love how easy it is to make shapes and curves in Fireworks and Flash. Its an object-oriented UX. You click an object on screen, you'll get its visual and textual properties. You click the screen, you get your canvas properties. You can group, ungroup or do unions on objects. Layers are only secondary to objects, unlike Photoshop with its layer-oriented UX. Illustrator? I dont even know what the UI/UX is supposed to be, its just a mish-mash of tools.

New comment by vatotemking in "Ask HN: What are the best-designed things you've ever used?"

vatotemking — Sat, 27 Nov 2021 23:32:25 +0000

We use to call it "graceful degradation". Now its all just reactjs.

New comment by vatotemking in "Philippine ethnic group has most Denisovan DNA"

vatotemking — Sun, 15 Aug 2021 08:57:37 +0000

Are you sure? Southeast Asia including the Philippines used to be part of Sundaland. Its even taught in the history books of the Philippines - that it was connected with present day Borneo.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundaland]

New comment by vatotemking in "We at $Famous_company switched to $Hyped_technology"

vatotemking — Tue, 12 May 2020 01:30:54 +0000