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New comment by zanderwohl in "Htmx 4.0"

zanderwohl — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 18:27:32 +0000

Carson! FYI:

"let us rething how extensions can and should work,"

I think you meant rethink here.

New comment by zanderwohl in "There's no reason for software to be slow anymore"

zanderwohl — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 07:46:49 +0000

McMaster Carr website prefetches _all_ links upon hover. Saves you like half a second in many cases.

New comment by zanderwohl in "There's no reason for software to be slow anymore"

zanderwohl — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 07:45:19 +0000

This is why my most recent website does its server-side rendering on the client. I'm not even being that sarcastic. We stream a subset of the user's data (1 mb at most) in the background and have a WASM client that has the exact same server views. On SPA events, the WASM blob intercepts a lot of requests and can instantly render. Makes a laggy connection feel pretty quick.

New comment by zanderwohl in "Go 1.27"

zanderwohl — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 22:06:30 +0000

Welcome to Go as a project.

New comment by zanderwohl in "Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again"

zanderwohl — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 01:49:08 +0000

It's much the same in other countries.

New comment by zanderwohl in "Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)"

zanderwohl — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 04:54:46 +0000

It's not backwards. Which of the two makes a profit? Which of the two comes away richer? Which of the two actually takes business away from the original copyright holder?

New comment by zanderwohl in "Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)"

zanderwohl — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 04:29:05 +0000

This is a disingenuous argument.

Constant payment into perpetuity for the replication of digital information is just a form of rent-seeking. Except, unlike a landlord, you're not obligated to correct defects.

New comment by zanderwohl in "Mystery identity of 'Green Boots' climber is finally solved after DNA test"

zanderwohl — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 02:09:16 +0000

Well, rest in peace. If they do remove him, I hope nobody else loses their lives in the process. I understand they often don't bring people down because of the difficulty and danger of carrying something has heavy as a person at that altitude.

"Rainbow Valley" is a region near the top with many bodies, so-called because of the variety of coats and other gear. Most photos on Google are AI-generated, though.

New comment by zanderwohl in "PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform"

zanderwohl — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 01:33:45 +0000

That's fine if that's your goal, but don't expect anyone to adopt it then. 99% of people aren't flocking to video platforms for ideological nor technical reasons.

New comment by zanderwohl in "Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court"

zanderwohl — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 19:56:13 +0000

The economy is not spectacular by any means. It's about average on paper, and without AI growth (which will surely slow down like the .com crash) and increased healthcare spending, it's been mildly slumping.

New comment by zanderwohl in "Coding a new BASIC interpreter in 2025 to replace a slow one"

zanderwohl — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 23:49:37 +0000

Yes, meet Visual Basic 6. It has many OO features stapled on.

New comment by zanderwohl in "CubeSats are fascinating learning tools for space"

zanderwohl — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 16:39:03 +0000

Why would it be difficult? Amateurs talk to the ISS all the time. You're only going 200 miles, and it's line-of-sight at all times while above the horizon since it's in the sky. You mostly have to just wait for a good window.

New comment by zanderwohl in "An engineer's perspective on hiring"

zanderwohl — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 04:28:58 +0000

> In serious professions, people take exams early in their careers for being certified. Sometimes they take additional exams to renew their certificates. And that's all.

The field of programming emerged from mathematics, not engineering unfortunately. So we lack any useful certification processes.

New comment by zanderwohl in "An engineer's perspective on hiring"

zanderwohl — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 04:26:16 +0000

> but many of the other questions should be things like "explain why this doesn't work", "why did you start with this approach?" and "are you sure that is the best name for that function?"

This is important and something more interviewers should do. The blind adherence to leetcode doesn't tell you much, especially if you're silent during the interview instead of having a short back-and-forth every 15 minutes or so. The problem solving process is more important than the problem solved.

New comment by zanderwohl in "Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers"

zanderwohl — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 20:20:50 +0000

> “The truth is, if you want a job, you’re gonna go through this thing,” Adam Jackson, CEO and founder of Braintrust, a company that distributes AI interviewers, tells Fortune. “If there were a large portion of the job-seeking community that were wholesale rejecting this, our clients wouldn’t find the tool useful… This thing would be chronically underperforming for our clients. And we’re just not seeing that—we’re seeing the opposite.”

Person selling a product informs you that the product they're selling is good despite counter claims.

> They're seeing the opposite because people are desperate.

I hope, wish, pray we get back to the 2021 market in a few years so we don't have to humor HR persons anymore. I was very polite and reasonable when I switched jobs in 2021 but when the cycle comes around I am going to string along HR folks and recruiters as a hobby. I will try to get them to cry on the phone.

New comment by zanderwohl in "Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers"

zanderwohl — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 20:14:35 +0000

> Your job is also nothing very special. Have some humility. Very few companies need to be hiring the top 1% type of person, and your company is almost certainly of no interest to those people anyway.

Right now, every company thinks that because times are uncertain, they only want to hire the best of the best, so they can be sure of their choice. Of course, everyone else has the same idea and the "best of the best" already got hired somewhere better. I'm not really sure why employers are taking so long to realize this.

New comment by zanderwohl in "Microsoft extends free Windows 10 security updates into 2026"

zanderwohl — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 16:38:50 +0000

> a free upgrade to Windows 11

My very expensive tower PC can't "up"grade because it doesn't have a TPM 2.0 module. So unless Microsoft plans to give me a new CPU (and new mobo) it's not free for many users.

New comment by zanderwohl in "Veloren – Voxel action-adventure role-playing"

zanderwohl — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 22:44:59 +0000

And minecraft started as an Infiniminer clone intended to have Dwarf Fortress elements. Inspiration all the way down.

New comment by zanderwohl in "The Wright brothers invented the airplane, right? Not if you're in Brazil"

zanderwohl — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 01:26:26 +0000

That's not really the full story. The US didn't come up with the moon goal. It was the Soviets' plan already, which is why JFK publicly announced it in a speech: to force them into a public prestige battle. The Soviets had the habit of repeated private failure. If they achieved something, they'd announce it afterwards; if they failed, they kept quiet. The US broadcast launches on TV and pre-announced goals, which was a major propaganda effort and much more effective than post-flight releases.

New comment by zanderwohl in "macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)"

zanderwohl — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 12:52:35 +0000

Anyone who thinks finder is the worst file browser hasn't used Windows for 25+ years. Explorer can't even search files on the hard drive of the computer it's running on.

Explorer has its thumbnail processor on the same thread as the UI so if you have a lot of pictures in a directory it'll just hang indefinitely. Sometimes if you have too many files it won't display any at all.

If explorer crashes, it's the same process as your desktop and taskbar, so that disappears too.