Hacker News: vegancap

New comment by vegancap in "Show HN: Gova – The declarative GUI framework for Go"

vegancap — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:32:14 +0000

That's a beautifully designed library, bravo! Will have to give it a go

New comment by vegancap in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Work"

vegancap — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:08:23 +0000

How come this is blocked in the UK? :S

New comment by vegancap in "Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants"

vegancap — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:55:20 +0000

Possibly, deffo would have been a big factor. Anecdotally though, I forgot to take these supplements for a while recently, just got out of the habit, and definitely felt worse again for a bit. But, could have been a coincidence/something else

New comment by vegancap in "Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants"

vegancap — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:53:56 +0000

Possibly, but anecdotally, I went through a period of forgetting to take them again recently, and definitely felt worse again. Sleep started suffering, felt lower energy again. But, could have been a coincidence/something else entirely

New comment by vegancap in "Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants"

vegancap — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:50:10 +0000

Yeah I took that for a while, and did slightly improve things. Only problem I had at the time was those were super expensive in the UK. Maybe that's changed now

New comment by vegancap in "Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants"

vegancap — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:48:43 +0000

My cholesterol improved massively, but over time, a few, such as Omega 3 suffered. But those were ultimately my own fault, wasn't managing it properly. So, I'm absolutely not suggesting there's an issue with veganism, this isn't really why I fell out of it. So I do want to stress I wasn't suggesting people should steer clear of Veganism, just something to be mindful of. Oh, and my cholesterol immediately shot back up again when I stopped being a vegan. So, swings and roundabouts with every diet/lifestyle, I guess!

New comment by vegancap in "Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants"

vegancap — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 11:00:47 +0000

I found this to be the case. Tried Sertraline for a while, gave me headaches and made me feel sick. Then as part of a new gym plan, started taking Omega 3+VitD daily, and I just felt a sense of calm and peace after a few weeks. The massive uptick in exercise probably also helped. I also felt quite an extreme uptick because I was a vegan for 10 years, and found out I had basically zero Omega 3 in my blood. I suspect one of the main reasons my mental health declined was due to the lack of Omega 3.

Disclaimer, not saying vegans should stop being vegans, just make sure you find a good supplement, and make sure you understand the difference between EPA/DHA Omega 3.

New comment by vegancap in "Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright"

vegancap — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 15:46:11 +0000

Yeah I'm in a really low Civic Type-R, so when I'm opposite some kind of SUV, and also at a slight angle, was basically at direct eye height with their LEDs. I definitely don't have the same problem with older bulb based SUVs though

New comment by vegancap in "Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright"

vegancap — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 15:43:37 +0000

Yeah quite possibly actually, I did think at the time if they were angled down slightly, it wouldn't be half as bad. So that checks out. But does show there needs to be some kind of solution for uneven situations like that

New comment by vegancap in "Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright"

vegancap — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 15:38:13 +0000

I was at a junction the other day, there was some new Audi EV at the other side of the junction and I couldn't see a damn thing. I've got perfect 20/20 vision, never had any form of eye problem ever in my life, and I was completely blinded. I'm convinced if they'd turned the full beams on, I'd have disintegrated.

I love AI; I hate AI

vegancap — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 16:22:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ewanvalentine.co.uk/blog/i-love-ai-i-hate-ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45836884

Points: 2

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New comment by vegancap in "Raspberry Pi 500+"

vegancap — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 13:08:17 +0000

Yeah it's the cost as well that's impressive. I've got a Samsung S25 Ultra in my pocket right now, but it cost like... £1200, so I'm less blown away by that somehow

New comment by vegancap in "Ask HN: Is anyone else sick of AI splattered code"

vegancap — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 22:12:24 +0000

It is fantastic for that, I find myself doing the same, as someone who also has a tendency towards rabbit holes

New comment by vegancap in "Raspberry Pi 500+"

vegancap — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 22:11:38 +0000

That's incredible!

New comment by vegancap in "Raspberry Pi 500+"

vegancap — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 21:54:28 +0000

I've been around long enough to find it absolutely astonishing, that you can now fit a computer with 16gb of ram, 265gb of storage and a quad core processor, with no cooling, inside a keyboard.

New comment by vegancap in "Ask HN: Is anyone else sick of AI splattered code"

vegancap — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 17:54:22 +0000

Yeah, I get the feeling. I'm torn to be honest, because I quite enjoy using it, but then I sift through everything line by line, correct things, change the formatting. Alter parts it's gotten wrong. So for me, it's saving me a little bit of time manually writing it all out. My colleagues are either like me, or aren't sold on it. So I think there's a level of trust and recognition that even if we are using it, we're using it cautiously, and wouldn't just YOLO some AI generated code straight into main.

But we're a really small but mature engineering org, I can't imagine the bigger companies with hundreds of less experienced engineers, just using it without car and caution, it must just cause absolutely chaos (or will soon).

New comment by vegancap in "Ask HN: Have you ever regretted open-sourcing something?"

vegancap — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 10:13:18 +0000

Great find, that's the ones! Might modernise and revive them, thanks!

New comment by vegancap in "Car has more than 1.2M km on it – and it's still going strong"

vegancap — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 09:24:00 +0000

Toyota and Honda engines are just ridiculous

New comment by vegancap in "Ask HN: Have you ever regretted open-sourcing something?"

vegancap — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 13:59:29 +0000

Never checked to be honest, could well be on there

New comment by vegancap in "Ask HN: Have you ever regretted open-sourcing something?"

vegancap — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 10:29:44 +0000

Not quite an open-source project, but I did a massive blog post series on Microservices in Golang. It sort of became a bit of a defacto starting point for a while, it was an immense amount of work and effort. But I found my inbox flooded with people asking for advice, and honestly, writing about it all made me realise how ridiculous Microservices often are. I could tell many of the people asking me didn't really need them, and I found myself trying to advise them away from it. So I ended up with loads of work, but with caveats all over the place trying to convince people they didn't need any of it.

Then I accidentally wiped the database powering my blog, lost all the content, and had loads of people asking me to rewrite them all. Most people were polite, but there were a lot of pushy and entitled people as well... It's a bit of a shame because it was by far the most popular thing I ever did, and they ended up being a massive pain and regret