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New comment by yarekt in "Simplenote is no longer in active development"

yarekt — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 14:03:33 +0000

That’s a shame, though I do see that it is difficult to make any money from what it is. I’m glad they didn’t sell it to someone big for all the user’s data, though it is still early

New comment by yarekt in "LED lighting undermines visual performance unless supplemented by wider spectra"

yarekt — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 14:33:29 +0000

In the UK I've not been able to find high wattage (10-20W) LED lightbulbs with high CRI, some don't even mention it in listings, let alone SSI, which I have never seen.

Where are you seeing these? Is this industrial/commercial suppliers?

New comment by yarekt in "AI is a horse (2024)"

yarekt — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 07:51:39 +0000

except chess is a solved problem given enough compute power. This caused people to split into two camps, those that knew it was inevitable, and those that were shocked

New comment by yarekt in "The Napoleon Technique: Postponing things to increase productivity"

yarekt — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 13:53:57 +0000

Since no-one mentioned the Cynefin framework yet: Notice that there's a little fold at the bottom centre of the diagram: Chaotic (unknowable unknowns, etc) things will always resolve themselves to simple states.

Fires will eventually burn out, the result will be simple to understand. Simply your business won't exist anymore.

There are more nuanced examples but I believe the above explains the principle.

The Key is to handle things early, before the most probable/default resolution, if its one you're not happy with.

New comment by yarekt in "Show HN: Terminal UI for AWS"

yarekt — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 22:29:07 +0000

Nice, download a random binary off the internet and give it your AWS credentials.

Please people, inspect the source to your tools, or don't use them on production accounts.

New comment by yarekt in "OOP: The worst thing that happened to programming"

yarekt — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 00:01:35 +0000

No-one uses that original OOP at all, no-one sane anyway. The way its used now is for dependency injection. All your logic is in services that are injectable and unit tested. All your data is in simple immutable DTOs.

All the OOP tricks, classes, instances, interfaces, polymorphism, its all good for wiring up your logic, replacing bits at runtime. No-one actually models their domain with pure OOP. Urgh, that would be awful.

But also to echo other commenters, this isn't interesting insight...

New comment by yarekt in "My stages of learning to be a socially normal person"

yarekt — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 23:37:44 +0000

not original commenter, but I have. Either through their manipulation, or just being in the same place, doing the same things. Didn't like them as a person, but they were decent to me, so some sort of reciprocation happened, didn't last though.

New comment by yarekt in "My stages of learning to be a socially normal person"

yarekt — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 23:35:04 +0000

It's almost the same argument, but backwards: You think they are a good person, so you want them to do well. Because they are good, they also want you to do well. Same result, but intentions are backwards.

New comment by yarekt in "Chrome's SSL Bypass Cheatcode"

yarekt — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 20:33:18 +0000

Err what? That certificate may well have been leaked, but because it expired the bank doesn’t not consider it an issue, no need to revoke it.

Certificate validity is binary. either it all is, or it isn’t. this included “not before”

New comment by yarekt in "WhatsApp introduces ads in its app"

yarekt — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 07:41:06 +0000

Pay for services that you use instead of forcing companies to rely on ad revenue to run their useful service?

I get it though, no one wants to pay for 100s of little free marginally useful things we use every day, but if you look back at what whatsapp did in the beginning, the £3 a year they were asking is so worth it

New comment by yarekt in "Successful people set constraints rather than chasing goals"

yarekt — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 08:46:46 +0000

Yea I also spotted that. Never liked the format of “Successful people do X. You should do it too”.

Interesting article though, somehow I found goal setting never worked for me well, but I find clarity in constraints.

New comment by yarekt in "I gave up on self-hosted Sentry (2024)"

yarekt — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 10:25:06 +0000

Despite my earlier comment, the way Sentry approaches open source is at least a little better than the majority, so its good that you at least provide an escape hatch that means heavy integration with Sentry isn't a complete vendor lock.

On your second point, you're right that self-hosting is cost cutting, but I found that when a business is growing, the features that sentry offers are more of a nice to have along the way, not quite critical to its success (No point capturing errors if no-one's using your bloody thing). Its easy to rack up that monthly bill with nothing but nice to have hosted services.

What I'd love to have is dumb versions of tools to self host initially when the requirements (and traffic) is very low. Kibana for example is a pig to self host, at one point it was taking up 25% of our production capacity. I found Loki is much better for simple cases in the beginning.

Good example that strikes a balance is Grafana / Prometheus. Its practically impossible to run a software shop without them, and everywhere I worked went through the same phases: Chuck a set of random containers in prod -> Deploy helm chart -> Migrate to Thanos -> Move to hosted Grafana when user/teams management gets out of hand.

Benefit is that absolutely everyone is familiar (and even likes) your tooling, I hope that's enough of a reason to give away a simpler offering.

New comment by yarekt in "I gave up on self-hosted Sentry (2024)"

yarekt — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 08:29:15 +0000

Well done! I came to the same conclusion (with the exact same bewilderment steps) as I do love Sentry myself. I will definitely try Bugsink, it’s something i’ve been looking for ages.

Feedback on competition bashing: sometimes they deserve it, they should really just come out and say it: “open sourcing our stuff isn’t working for us, we want to keep making money on the hosting”, and that would be ok

New comment by yarekt in "[dead]"

yarekt — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 09:32:09 +0000

The summary doesn't say anything about availability zones. Does this mean all AZs are experiencing issues? So even if you have HA services spread across all AZs that won't save you?

Edit: Of course the sharable link is not sharable at all. They will have to post it on their public service status page eventually

New comment by yarekt in "Most AI value will come from broad automation, not from R & D"

yarekt — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 13:14:20 +0000

That’s a very narrow view of humanity and morality. Only psychopaths (in a clinical sense, not derogatory) model their actions strictly by what’s legal.

Many things are moral, but have no legal coverage, some things are moral but illegal, and some immoral but legal.

New comment by yarekt in "Most AI value will come from broad automation, not from R & D"

yarekt — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 13:10:28 +0000

Hmm, I see where you’re coming from. Monetary fines impact corporations “where it hurts”, i.e. the bottom line.

But yea, that’s the only language that a corporate entity understands, unfortunately.

New comment by yarekt in "NixOS and reproducible builds could have detected the xz backdoor"

yarekt — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 09:36:22 +0000

Your comment doesn’t quite make sense: Building from source lets you (and everyone else) inspect the source, while building from provided tarballs means if you compare it to source it’ll be inherently different, as the autoconf process makes changes to the files.

If you’re downloading and executing a binary from github releases, then you’re completely at the mercy of the maintainer (nix only does that with closed source packages)

New comment by yarekt in "Most AI value will come from broad automation, not from R & D"

yarekt — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 21:10:46 +0000

Regulation is violence? sorry for putting my socialist hat on, but free market is efficient, so efficient that without regulation it’ll optimise away human happiness and find a way to turn tears into profits. Regulation is basically saying that you can make money in ways that benefits the humanity also, at least in theory. Lobbying and corrupt regulators muddy the waters

New comment by yarekt in "Ask HN: A question about mentoring a junior developer"

yarekt — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 08:29:31 +0000

Mentoring is making sure the person feels supported and knows you have their back in what they are doing. it’s “it might cause an outage, but I’ll help you fix it if that happens”

edit: but yea, 100% agreeing with you

New comment by yarekt in "Ask HN: A question about mentoring a junior developer"

yarekt — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 08:23:04 +0000

“Hi, I see you’re using , I can give you some background information on it and help you get more productive with it”

For anything you/team create that is used by someone else, you have a responsibility in making sure it can be used effectively. There’s no excuse to drop a cryptic magic solution in the code base when you know no one else will understand it (not that you have done, just example)

At first its hands on help, after you know what people need to get working with it, pop the common things into a doc and point people at it when they ask for help. adjust doc if insufficient.

lastly always ask people you’re mentoring what their preferred way of learning is: some people learn by being shown and explained, some by guided “doing”, some by solitary exploration. Ask them how best you can support them. (some really Juniors won’t even know this, you may have to let them introspect about this first). it’s as simple as “before we get into this, how do you like to learn?”