Hacker News: xdanger

New comment by xdanger in "Postgraphile v5 Released"

xdanger — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:00:37 +0000

Almost all my client projects are using Postgraphile. What an awesome project and the best maintainer (benjie) ever!

New comment by xdanger in "Show HN: I replaced Beads with a faster, simpler Markdown-based task tracker"

xdanger — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 09:57:05 +0000

I've found Backlog.md quite nice

https://github.com/MrLesk/Backlog.md

has a nice tui/webui for me, and mcp for the agent.

New comment by xdanger in "Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts via POP"

xdanger — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 08:26:16 +0000

Oh no, I have to go and setup my family's emails again. We have a domain and I used to forward to some gmail accounts (few don't want to use multiple email programs/accounts), but so much mail got lost (not even in spam folder) that I just had to switch everyone to pop3 fetch to gmail.com. Now at least email get's there, even if it's 30-60mins late (really annoying for logins/verifications/etc.).

Maybe it's time to switch everyone out of gmail and make gmail forward the email to out hosted accounts.

New comment by xdanger in "Next.js is infuriating"

xdanger — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 14:49:26 +0000

Mess ups are not framework dependant.

New comment by xdanger in "Next.js is infuriating"

xdanger — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 10:26:03 +0000

You should really try Nuxt (a vue framework, like Next.js but better).

New comment by xdanger in "ExectOS – brand new operating system which derives from NT architecture"

xdanger — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 19:46:45 +0000

mach is the kernel he mentioned from 1985. NextSTEP userland was BSD4.something, and macos modernized somebits to freebsd userland.

New comment by xdanger in "Most 16-year-olds don't have servers in their rooms"

xdanger — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 10:00:15 +0000

When I was a teenager I had a bbs running on my computer. When I wanted to play, I just opened the line with a phone so it would be busy if someone wanted to call. Oh the memories.

New comment by xdanger in "Choose Postgres queue technology"

xdanger — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 21:16:36 +0000

I do enjoy using https://github.com/graphile/worker for my postgresql queuing needs. Very scalable, the next release 0.14 even more so, and easy to use.

New comment by xdanger in "Ask HN: It's 2023, how do you choose between MySQL and Postgres?"

xdanger — Fri, 12 May 2023 11:10:55 +0000

It's PostgreSQL protocol compatible, it's not PostgreSQL compatible. There are many differences. For more compatibility, check out YugabyteDB.

New comment by xdanger in "Using a Raspberry Pi to add a second HDMI port to a laptop"

xdanger — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 16:43:28 +0000

Just to let people know how to get the latency down with uxplay:

    Upgrade the debian to bookworm (uxplay is in the repos for that one)
    apt install uxplay
    
    in in /boot/config.txt
    change doverlay to:
    dtoverlay=vc4-kms-v3d
    force hdmi: (i had some problems with kms)
    hdmi_force_hotplug=1
    add gpu mem:
    gpu_mem=256

    then run: (-a disables audio)
    uxplay -vs kmssink -a

and now you have and airplay monitor that can mirror or extend your desktop.

New comment by xdanger in "Using a Raspberry Pi to add a second HDMI port to a laptop"

xdanger — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 16:05:48 +0000

I did something similar for my macbook with uxplay: https://github.com/FDH2/UxPlay

I ran it in console directly rendering to framebuffer and it has hardware-accelerated video decoding. On Raspberry pi 3, hooked to lan and my macbook on wifi the lag is ok. It's about the same as ssh over slow cellular. I mainly run my terminals watching the logs/builds etc. on that display.

New comment by xdanger in "Partitioning in Postgres, 2022 Edition"

xdanger — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 22:41:46 +0000

It's just an extension. You can build the Apache 2.0 part of the extension and ignore the Timescale License parts. Those parts are mainly about multinode, compression and continuous aggregates.

TSL is mainly about not competing with their cloud offerings. So you can't run a database-as-a-service for time series data with it.

More about the license: https://www.timescale.com/blog/building-open-source-business...

Comparison about the open source and community editions: https://docs.timescale.com/timescaledb/latest/timescaledb-ed...

New comment by xdanger in "Ask HN: Solo Dev Stack of 2022?"

xdanger — Sat, 01 Oct 2022 15:19:46 +0000

I've been enjoying developing on top of PostGraphile. https://www.graphile.org/

Good starter: https://github.com/graphile/starter

I can add a column the the db, and my frontend gets that autimagically (in dev mode, it generates a graphql schema out of the db, and from that it creates composables for my frontend wiht graphql-codegen). On the frontend I use Vue 3, the starter is build with nextjs/react.

New comment by xdanger in "Show HN: Appwrite – Open-Source and Self Hosted Firebase Alternative"

xdanger — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 09:18:30 +0000

I learned so much about postgresql and RLS from postgraphile starter project: https://github.com/graphile/starter/blob/main/%40app/db/migr...

also the project is worth checking out ;)

New comment by xdanger in "Squabble.me – Multiplayer Wordle Royale"

xdanger — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 13:18:24 +0000

Already someone cheating? On reply, they write the same four words (reply, might, found, backs), then there is a pause (while inputing the results on a solver?) and then the right answer. Why bother?

New comment by xdanger in "PostgREST 9.0"

xdanger — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 12:46:50 +0000

Someone called it: "hasura for adults”

It's highly customisable, works directly with postgresql row levels security and the performance is quite good. It has a custom GraphiQL gui to work on queries/mutations.

To really see how it all works together checkout the starter project: https://github.com/graphile/starter it has migrations, job queue, graphql-codegen etc.

Benjie (https://github.com/benjie) is one of the greatest maintainers I've ever seen!

New comment by xdanger in "PostgREST 9.0"

xdanger — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 10:27:07 +0000

Checkout postgraphile at https://www.graphile.org/ , they have a whole ecosystem build around postgresql, typescript, graphql.

New comment by xdanger in "Angular 13"

xdanger — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 11:58:23 +0000

I just love vue3 with vite ecosystem. For example: https://github.com/antfu/vitesse/ is a good template to start "modern" webdev. DX is very good.

you can integrate it to a server with ssr: https://github.com/frandiox/vite-ssr

New comment by xdanger in "Partitioning GitHub’s relational databases to handle scale"

xdanger — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 13:39:54 +0000

Also Microsoft owns Citus, which is scalable sharding for postgresql.

New comment by xdanger in "Partitioning GitHub’s relational databases to handle scale"

xdanger — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 13:38:55 +0000

And Microsoft owns Citus and Github.