Hacker News: woutersf

New comment by woutersf in "Drupal launches community-funded AI Initiative"

woutersf — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 14:50:17 +0000

And the announcement: https://new.drupal.org/ai/announcement

New comment by woutersf in "Drupal launches community-funded AI Initiative"

woutersf — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 14:50:01 +0000

Drupal launches community-funded AI Initiative

woutersf — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 14:39:00 +0000

Article URL: https://new.drupal.org/ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44224961

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by woutersf in "We identified a North Korean hacker who tried to get a job"

woutersf — Thu, 01 May 2025 19:52:10 +0000

What do you mean by this (genuinely curious).

New comment by woutersf in "Obituary for a quiet life (2023)"

woutersf — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 13:36:42 +0000

Yep and they did not have insulation obligations and what not. A house was much simpler back then too (i think). European here so i could be biased.

New comment by woutersf in "A disgruntled federal employee's 1980s desk calendar (2018)"

woutersf — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 14:33:38 +0000

About the drawing: i draw like this on everything too. Agendas, todo lists. Its not like i want to do this. Its to keep my fingers busy. I can attest that some people’s paper is filled with drawings ugly and nice. I cant speak about the authenticity of this document.

New comment by woutersf in "Deleting Software I Wrote Upon Leaving Employment of a Company"

woutersf — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 05:27:15 +0000

I agree. Put a modal in it, the trial period is over, contact x for renewall.

New comment by woutersf in "Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]"

woutersf — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 22:51:39 +0000

I call these problems ticking time bombs. This way business has a catchy name to use for the thing they dont understand, its also very clear this needs to be looked at.

New comment by woutersf in "My PHP Problems"

woutersf — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 07:18:52 +0000

This sentence does not make sense and still I understood it perfectly. It's the reason I love PHP over JS.

New comment by woutersf in "How Group Chats Rule the World"

woutersf — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 15:22:59 +0000

That would be awesome

New comment by woutersf in "Get ready to hear more about "pre-internet" times"

woutersf — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 19:56:11 +0000

Before internet times I had a girlfiend that i often called. That was our main connection. After our breakup(dont remember how that happened) I lost her number and forgot her last name. She could be dead and I wouldn’t know.

New comment by woutersf in "Fixing annoying blue standby lights"

woutersf — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 03:11:52 +0000

Only mildly related but just as annoying; old cars would have a dimmer button to reduce the backlight in the dashboard.

With all the screens in midern cars, even the minimum brightness is too bright for me driving in the night.it wont let your eyes adapt to the dark.

My last Hyundai had a moon button to turn off screen but that was an exception ithink.

I have driven hours with a cloth over the screen of my skoda octavia in the night.

Please let me turn off the screen for dark night driving, thank you.

New comment by woutersf in "What happens when a reservoir goes dry"

woutersf — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 21:07:19 +0000

Roman aquaducts come to mind

New comment by woutersf in "Blue Zones, where people reach age 100 at 10 times greater rates"

woutersf — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 17:42:22 +0000

Recently there was a study on here that said the sun is good for you. And its effects were underrated.it threw a shadow over big pharma because 1 in very many gets skin cancer.

New comment by woutersf in "Found: The ‘how to draw’ books Pablo Picasso created for his daughter"

woutersf — Sun, 12 Jun 2022 12:28:57 +0000

In some sports it is also a saying that you improve your game drastically the moment you start teaching. I think in some way in tech this is also true. Be a mentor !

Create sequence diagrams with ease.

woutersf — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 08:28:51 +0000

Article URL: https://sequencediagram.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30357574

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by woutersf in "The House That Vanished"

woutersf — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 11:40:57 +0000

Maybe everybody got their share. The materials had to go somewhere.

New comment by woutersf in "Ask HN: Best “I brought down production” story?"

woutersf — Sat, 26 Jun 2021 21:13:12 +0000

I have some of these.

Does self DDOS count?

We worked for Flanders radio and television (site was one of Flanders biggest radio stations). The site was a angularjs Frontend with a CMS backend.

The 40x and 80x pages fetched content from the backend to show the relevant message (so editors can tweak it). The morning they started selling tickets for Tomorrowland I deploy the frontend breaking the js fetching a non existing 5x page, looping to doing this constantly. in a matter of seconds the servers were on fire and I was sitting sweating next to the operations people. Luckily they were very capable and were able to restore the peace quite quickly.

And also (other radio station) deleting the DB in production. And also (on a Bank DB2) my coworker changing the AMOUNT in all rows of cash plans in stead of in 1 row (and OR and braquets and trust you know).

“success secrets” from Dave Kekich for insight, clarity and positive effects [pdf]

woutersf — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 19:10:07 +0000

Article URL: https://referralfw.com/resource/pdf/Kekich%27s%20Credo.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25992283

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by woutersf in "Ask HN: I am PHP developer who want to contribute to open source projects"

woutersf — Sat, 09 May 2020 06:26:03 +0000

Contributing to Drupal modules or underlying (symfony and other) libraries is very fulfilling. And the conferences are really nice (and big) with lots of interesting people there with all sorts of problems. There is all kinds of difficult there if you like difficult.