Hacker News: zdware

New comment by zdware in "Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension"

zdware — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:15:33 +0000

Sadly same here. firefox ran FoundryVTT poorly in the browser, like 12 fps, on Linux. Chromium had 0 issues with it, 60 no problem.

New comment by zdware in "I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii"

zdware — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:43:10 +0000

Fun post.

Always great when your debugging feedback is via a led xD

New comment by zdware in "Desk for people who work at home with a cat"

zdware — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:57:59 +0000

Same habit here!

New comment by zdware in "Show HN: Moongate – Ultima Online server emulator in .NET 10 with Lua scripting"

zdware — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:01:38 +0000

Ahhh this takes me back to playing on various private UO and DAoC servers. Part of that experience is why I am a developer today. Cool name for a project like this along with the art!

New comment by zdware in "Tailscale state file encryption no longer enabled by default"

zdware — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 04:10:59 +0000

i just started using tailscale and responses like this make me believe in the product. awesome!

New comment by zdware in "Ask HN: Any example of successful vibe-coded product?"

zdware — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 04:30:52 +0000

I agree with your assessment, as a full stack dev with CS degree that just kinda waltzed into Salesforce for the last 5 years. Claude is more capable at delivering the customizability that Salesforce tried to offer with it's "clicks not code" approach. the only thing these CRMs have going for them is enterprise entrenchment.

I also work at Stripe and will be recommending that we migrate our CPQ off of Salesforce for various reasons (agent force is butt, platform limits are silly in 2025 - 6 meg max heap size for a backend transaction?????).

New comment by zdware in "Mesa shuts down credit card that rewarded cardholders for paying their mortgages"

zdware — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 14:51:15 +0000

Right, there's always room for the "exception" in startup land. But majority will fail right? For me personally, it just wasn't worth the risk to jump, especially given this surge of AI right now. Also, already working at a fintech company has shown me that margins can be razor thin/tiny at times, depending on the product. For Mesa, I am guessing they relied upon interchange fees, partnership/commissions, and interest income.

New comment by zdware in "Mesa shuts down credit card that rewarded cardholders for paying their mortgages"

zdware — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 03:02:33 +0000

I had an interview request from this company, which I declined after taking a look at the premise. Somewhat glad I did now

New comment by zdware in "The unexpected effectiveness of one-shot decompilation with Claude"

zdware — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 18:27:11 +0000

That's fair, I've had similar experiences working in other stacks with it. And with some niche stacks, it seems to struggle more. Definitely agree the more narrow the context/problem statement, higher chance of success.

For this project, it described its reasoning well, and knowing my own skillset, and surface level info on how one would start this, it had many good points that made the project not realistic for me.

New comment by zdware in "The unexpected effectiveness of one-shot decompilation with Claude"

zdware — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 17:48:54 +0000

Agree with this. I'm a software engineer that has mostly not had to manage memory for most of my career.

I asked Opus how hard it would be to port the script extender for Baldurs Gate 3 from Windows to the native Linux Build. It outlined that it would be very difficult for someone without reverse engineering experience, and correctly pointed out they are using different compilers, so it's not a simple mapping exercise. It's recommendation was not to try unless I was a Ghrida master and had lots of time in my hands.

New comment by zdware in "FileZilla Pro "Perpetual License" – A Warning to All Users"

zdware — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:35:24 +0000

It's 2025, not 1995 or even 2005. Installers for apps like this are tiny for cloud storage today. Cloudfront's recent flat tier pricing would even probably do the trick. free tier is 100gb data transfer a month, 1m requests. If that doesn't work, Pro is 50 tb, 10m requests, that's 15 bucks a month.

New comment by zdware in "FSF announces Librephone project"

zdware — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 10:57:49 +0000

Yes - why are these adjectives even coming up at all? There are alternatives that would probably make your point in a succinct manner without being sexist.

New comment by zdware in "Ask HN: What's the best hackable smart TV?"

zdware — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 20:13:33 +0000

Moonlight is great, but be careful about overestimating how fast video decoding is. I would get 10-40ms additional latency, jitter doing moonlight from tv, vs running it on Linux on my mini PC homelab hooked up to the TV, my decoding/network latency was like 1-2ms for a frame

New comment by zdware in "Ask HN: What's the best hackable smart TV?"

zdware — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 20:10:30 +0000

++ for the LG homebrew community. The homebrew store literally has an app now that will auto refresh your dev token so your TV doesn't go out of devmode and uninstall all of your home brew. Used to have to setup a cron job to renew/refresh dev mode.

New comment by zdware in "Ask HN: Have you ever been hired because of open-source contributions?"

zdware — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 02:46:29 +0000

All my random open source contributions/projects I think have helped. Especially since I've been working in a niche like Salesforce, it really gives me a leg up to show that I've built stuff in nodejs, c#, etc.

The other gain is that I learned a lot from those, and that will show through in an interview regardless of whether they looked at my GitHub or not.

New comment by zdware in "Ask HN: How do you have effective 1:1s with your manager?"

zdware — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 21:35:38 +0000

I dunno, I feel like I can be transparent with my manager when we ask each other that. I think it depends on your relationship with them and the company culture.

New comment by zdware in "Ask HN: Proofpoint is blocking our emails. Any recourse?"

zdware — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 21:38:08 +0000

I worked at a company that used Proofpoint. Often had to reach out to get emails out of quarantine, etc.

Have you tried contacting the customer and asking them to have their IT team allowlist you?

Had similar issues with Yahoo/AOL.

New comment by zdware in "Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff blasts Microsoft's Copilot: 'It just doesn't work'"

zdware — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 14:43:31 +0000

Yeah it's basically java 1.5...

New comment by zdware in "Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff blasts Microsoft's Copilot: 'It just doesn't work'"

zdware — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 23:55:00 +0000

This is the same company that put out a local dev server for their frontend stack and let it rot into an unusable buggy mess 2 years later. They are planning to re-introduce it in 2025.

Ive been using MS copilot successfully for Apex (Salesforce's backend language) and JavaScript. I would trust Microsoft over Salesforce any day for dev tools.

New comment by zdware in "Microsoft formally deprecates the Windows Control Panel"

zdware — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 20:18:21 +0000

Maybe it's time to finally try the Linux desktop. I mostly game hobby wise, and proton is in great shape nowadays.