Hacker News: wmichelin

New comment by wmichelin in "JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025"

wmichelin — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 14:49:49 +0000

I just look at my own diffs in a draft GHE PR and iterate with my agent on Github. This is often a much better UX than trying to make sure every single linter or thing is consistent between my machine and the CI machine. We do use Docker but it's still just easier to do it all on the CI box / Github.

New comment by wmichelin in "Find the flattest route between any two points in SF"

wmichelin — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:58:12 +0000

It’s all just the wiggle lol

New comment by wmichelin in "GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price"

wmichelin — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 20:23:46 +0000

yes, each of these things are larger than the other

New comment by wmichelin in "iPhone Duo"

wmichelin — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:37:39 +0000

Very brave take about Apple /s

New comment by wmichelin in "Fastpotify"

wmichelin — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 11:33:26 +0000

This debate is irrelevant. It doesn't matter. Having the idea and the skills to dictate a stable piece of software are all that matter.

There is no point in taking pride in typing out lines of code by hand. The entire world is moving on.

New comment by wmichelin in "Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO"

wmichelin — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 21:56:50 +0000

Probably FF lol

New comment by wmichelin in "Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO"

wmichelin — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 21:56:37 +0000

Safari is fantastic for me. Passwords app integration alone is a killer feature.

New comment by wmichelin in "France reaches 94.9% fiber coverage in 2026"

wmichelin — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:58:24 +0000

Damn! We had it in the sunset when I lived there back in 2017

New comment by wmichelin in "How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots"

wmichelin — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 02:39:11 +0000

I know of social media sites who have kept an untracked version of the link in the dom of the A tag, but replace it with their in-house link tracker copy of it as you're clicking, that way the destination looks correct when you hover over the link.

New comment by wmichelin in "Pixel Watch 5"

wmichelin — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:56:25 +0000

Apple Watch has never lasted the full night for me. I'm super happy with my Garmin Instinct 3. A full blown iOS device on my wrist was too stimulating anyways. I'll take charging once every ~25 days-ish over the color + capacitive touch screen.

The Garmin Instinct 3 is my favorite tech purchase I have made in a very very long time.

New comment by wmichelin in "AI is a bad tool"

wmichelin — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:58:26 +0000

The finished product alone does not have to be the reward. The reward can still be building a great tool, a great application, etc. With AI we can build it 100x faster, freeing us up to think deeper about our test coverage, our design, our scaling, our observability.

There is no excuse for lazy execution using AI, that is, IMO, equivalent to shoddy software engineering. it's just faster and more accessible now. "AI slop" is just poor execution delivered more quickly.

The onus is still on the human in the drivers seat to deliver quality outcomes.

New comment by wmichelin in "AI is a bad tool"

wmichelin — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:52:05 +0000

I enjoy building things. I do not enjoy the act typing out code by hand.

> Do you not enjoy coding? I'm not trying to be snarky, just a genuine question

To follow this debate through, to maximize coding enjoyment, shouldn't we be avoiding compilers? They take away a lot of the code we need to write. Frameworks as well?

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

wmichelin — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 15:06:53 +0000

This is frankly disgusting and I hope you do not deploy this to any children. The classroom is the last place where we should be deploying AI.

Look where smartphones not being used in the classroom got us. Imagine how this would harm us.

New comment by wmichelin in "Show HN: HackerNows – Native iOS HN Client"

wmichelin — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:04:36 +0000

Honestly? Why does it matter? This isn’t going away so we can all focus our energy on helping this workflow improve, or just ignoring it.

New comment by wmichelin in "Linux for the Sega MegaDrive"

wmichelin — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:01:32 +0000

and everybody clapped

New comment by wmichelin in "The iPhone explains 33–52% of fertility decline among women aged 15–44"

wmichelin — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:01:09 +0000

Well, it was for many. MySpace, and then BBM, Facebook, and Twitter were absolutely huge at that time for the folks using them.

New comment by wmichelin in "Cursor Introduces Composer 2.5"

wmichelin — Wed, 20 May 2026 04:44:13 +0000

Not a cursor shill by any means, I do use it at work but that's because it's what they pay for.

But Cursor has a CLI harness.

New comment by wmichelin in "Show HN: We missed Winamp, so we built an audio player for macOS"

wmichelin — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:37:05 +0000

I also hate the idea of streaming, but I have been super lazy in the past

I have listened to 44,000 songs on Spotify over the last 13 years. It has brought me a ton of value, but I would love to move back to owning my music as files. I've been getting fancier with managing self-hosted infra at home, especially using AI to help me out.

Maybe I'll get back there, but I also can't imagine only listening to 500 songs!!!!

New comment by wmichelin in "I switched from Mac to a Lenovo Chromebook"

wmichelin — Thu, 07 May 2026 16:37:09 +0000

Framework has always been appealing to me as a Mac competitor

New comment by wmichelin in "Wikipedia was in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise"

wmichelin — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 14:05:13 +0000

At my job, I would just say they are in the ear of engineering leadership, but are not part of it.