I feel like I'm slow reading through the docs. I really tried.
Is this just curl with a simpler syntax? This is advertising CLI integration, so what's the VSCode feature people seem excited about?
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JOnAgain commented on Trying out Zed after more than a decade of Vim/Neovim sgoel.dev/posts/trying-ou... · Posted by u/siddhant
> It's only been a day since I really started using Zed instead of Neovim
Please update in 1 year
JOnAgain commented on Moving on from React, a year later kellysutton.com/2025/01/1... · Posted by u/yakshaving_jgt
My experience with very highly paid frontend developers is they like to spend hours and hours (and thousands and thousands of dollars) building out little libraries and components and frameworks that will enable other teams to be faster. Except this never eventuates because things rarely turn out to be reusable along the right axis so a new component or library or framework is developed to solve the problem.
On top of this UI developer propellor-heads love to spend time (and money) pontificating on abstract theories about functional programming and homomorphisms and endofunctors so they can render some text inside a <b> tag. It's how we wound up with utterly ridiculous pieces of code like the "hooks" API in React.
Can’t get promoted pumping out 10 great pages. But a library that you can claim will enhance the productivity of 100 other engineers? Now that’s IMPACT!!
Except you’re at a company where everyone has figured this out so now you have 4 competing libraries with their own teams which are all 1/2 done making every engineer less productive cause they all have bugs and slightly different priorities.
JOnAgain commented on Some homes withstood the LA fires – architects explain why bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross
JOnAgain commented on Why we use our own hardware fastmail.com/blog/why-we-... · Posted by u/nmjenkins
The whole push to the cloud has always fascinated me. I get it - most people aren't interested in babysitting their own hardware. On the other hand, a business of just about any size that has any reasonable amount of hosting is better off with their own systems when it comes purely to cost.
All the pro-cloud talking points are just that - talking points that don't persuade anyone with any real technical understanding, but serve to introduce doubt to non-technical people and to trick people who don't examine what they're told.
What's particularly fascinating to me, though, is how some people are so pro-cloud that they'd argue with a writeup like this with silly cloud talking points. They don't seem to care much about data or facts, just that they love cloud and want everyone else to be in cloud, too. This happens much more often on sites like Reddit (r/sysadmin, even), but I wouldn't be surprised to see a little of it here.
It makes me wonder: how do people get so sold on a thing that they'll go online and fight about it, even when they lack facts or often even basic understanding?
I can clearly state why I advocate for avoiding cloud: cost, privacy, security, a desire to not centralize the Internet. The reason people advocate for cloud for others? It puzzles me. "You'll save money," "you can't secure your own machines," "it's simpler" all have worlds of assumptions that those people can't possibly know are correct.
So when I read something like this from Fastmail which was written without taking an emotional stance, I respect it. If I didn't already self-host email, I'd consider using Fastmail.
There used to be so much push for cloud everything that an article like this would get fanatical responses. I hope that it's a sign of progress that that fanaticism is waning and people aren't afraid to openly discuss how cloud isn't right for many things.
As someone who ran a startup with 100’s of hosts. As soon as I start to count the salaries, hiring, desk space, etc of the people needed to manage the hosts AWS would look cheap again. Yea, hardware costs they are aggressively expensive. But TCO wise, they’re cheap for any decent sized company.
Add in compliance, auditing, etc. all things that you can set up out of the box (PCI, HIPPA, lawsuit retention). Gets even cheaper.
I _love_ articles like this. Hacker News peeps, please make more!
JOnAgain commented on Creating a Git Commit: The Hard Way avestura.dev/blog/creatin... · Posted by u/avestura
I love blog posts like this. Content like this is what I come to hacker news for.
Thank you.
Started running my own email server about 10 years ago for essentially this use case. Every entity I need to give an address to gets a unique, randomly-generated one. I figured this would let me spot the leaks.
After roughly 1000 addresses handed out, surpisingly only two sources end up receiving spam: 1) addresses that I've posted on public forums, and 2) the address I use for patches to GNU software.
The real value of this, IMHO, is that it makes it much harder to match you against services and in ad platforms. Hashing email addresses is the primary way user data is exchanged.
I buy gaming laptops because they're the only powerful laptops and their size has never bothered me when traveling