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axelthegerman commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)    · Posted by u/david927
SunshineTheCat · 6 days ago
https://beyondwp.io

After around 15 years working with clients and helping them wrangle their WordPress sites, I stopped working with WordPress as a primary platform for building sites.

A while back I've switched to a more modern stack and have fully abandoned WordPress.

Having that background, however, I've come to know (way too well) many of the frustrations and security problems with the WordPress ecosystem. As a result, I started a service to help business owners break free from WordPress on to a more modern Next.js-powered stack that's faster, lighter weight, and easier for them to manage.

Brand new but should be fun!

axelthegerman · 6 days ago
Gotta say this is pretty cool. Love some of the nostalgia on the homepage.

Personally not a nextjs fan but finding a modern alternative to WP will pay off for many businesses

axelthegerman commented on Claude Opus 4.6   anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/HellsMaddy
scwoodal · 9 days ago
Tell it what git commands to explicitly run and in what order for your desired outcome instead of “commit everything in the worktree”

This prompt will work better across any/all models.

axelthegerman · 9 days ago
> Tell it what git commands to explicitly run and in what order

Why don't run the commands yourself then?

axelthegerman commented on Apple testing new App Store design that blurs the line between ads and results   9to5mac.com/2026/01/16/ip... · Posted by u/ksec
abustamam · a month ago
There are ways to have full featured smartphones without Google, like Graphene OS.

I am not aware of any alternatives that exist for Apple devices though

axelthegerman · a month ago
This! Sure you might need a Google account for your android but you don't HAVE to use all their services.

First just don't use Gmail, docs, search, chrome and co. But even better get a Pixel with Graphene and Google's invasive tactics are even more limited.

However it is sad that a company like Apple that used to produce superior hardware with superior UX is falling apart on all fronts - hardware (especially pricing), UX (hello glass design), software (macos just getting worse every release without adding ANYTHING of value)

And now introducing more and more ads while keep selling you "pro" laptops with 512GB SSD :-/

axelthegerman commented on I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per year   zeitgeistofbytes.com/p/by... · Posted by u/alexcos
littlecranky67 · 2 months ago
Valid points. For me the no search is feature (due to everything being encrypted), not a bug. But this is an individual decision. I have a similar list after 2 years of using (and managing) my personal M365 subscription (Onedrive on macOS sucks, search on iOS is very slow, spotlight integration doesn't work etc.). I just wonder what you use now as an alternative, because it seems the perfect solution will not exist. For M365, they also just price hiked my subscription after one year to over 40% (and what would I do, migration takes day) and I just felt Microsoft holds me hostage. This is not solved in any way by moving to just another lock-in platform, but I trust proton more to value customers and not squeeze money out of me with that lock-in. At least I trust them more than Microsoft or Google.
axelthegerman · 2 months ago
E2EE is definitely nice, however if you communicate with many people using other email providers your emails still end up there unencrypted
axelthegerman commented on Google is dead. Where do we go now?   circusscientist.com/2025/... · Posted by u/tomjuggler
axelthegerman · 2 months ago
It never really worked. Most businesses just paid for customers that were going to or already found them anyways.

Not saying ads don't work at all, they definitely increase awareness.

axelthegerman commented on I'm returning my Framework 16   yorickpeterse.com/article... · Posted by u/YorickPeterse
zamadatix · 2 months ago
I think the bigger problem is Framework doesn't actually offer as much in upgradeability as it sounds. While it can be compared to laptops without modular RAM, SSDs, or Wi-Fi cards, the real comparison is to laptops with modular ones of those for significantly less and suddenly the amount of upgradeability value drops significantly. Unofficially, many of the laptops I've had I've been able to upgrade even the screen on as well. The value prop for replacing the mainboard+CPU while keeping the same generation RAM and SSD is really not that high in terms of upgradeability - especially with the breadth of selection so far. In the meantime, you're paying significantly more for less quality to have said ability.

To me, the core value proposition of the Framework is actually more in customization than about upgradeability. That's just a lot less valuable overall. I.e. you can place your port layouts in any order you want, you can customize the keyboard style and layout, your order builds up without really assuming you want a charger, RAM, and SSD to be included. If you don't particularly care about those things or you can find a laptop which matches what you want up front then it just leaves you questioning the massive price increase to do it the Framework way instead.

I'd really like to enjoy the idea of fully upgradeable laptops, but I think trying out a Framework laptop just made me realize how much it doesn't work out like I'd hoped rather than making me more excited for it. I ended up returning it and, ironically, getting a 395 laptop with soldered RAM (in my defense, Framework sells a desktop with this as well).

axelthegerman · 2 months ago
I don't see why upgrading a motherboard to one with a newer generation CPU is not valuable. Or why going 16 to 32 GB RAM a few years after buying it first isn't.

Yes full upgradability of each component would be pretty nice but now we have a desktop and factors like compactness and "premium feel" would be even worse

axelthegerman commented on Be Careful with GIDs in Rails   blog.julik.nl/2025/12/a-t... · Posted by u/julik
axelthegerman · 2 months ago
Or more like "be careful with the power you give your LLMs"
axelthegerman commented on Why Twilio Segment moved from microservices back to a monolith   twilio.com/en-us/blog/dev... · Posted by u/birdculture
axelthegerman · 2 months ago
> we had to spend time fixing the broken test even if the changes had nothing to do with the initial change. In response to this problem, it was decided to break out the code for each destination into their own repos.

One could also change the way tests are run or selected. Or allow manual overrides to still deploy. Separating repos doesn't sound like the only logical solution

axelthegerman commented on Why frozen test fixtures are a problem on large projects and how to avoid them   radanskoric.com/articles/... · Posted by u/amalinovic
matsemann · 2 months ago
To me, fixtures are a code smell. If you need so much common setup to test your application, the code under testing is doing too much. It's unfortunately quite common in Rails or Django projects. You need to pass the Foo model to your function, but it will lookup foo.bar.baz, so you need to wire up these as well, which again need further models. Of course everything also talks with the database.

Instead, if you're able to decouple the ORM from your application, with a separate layer, and instead pass plain objects around (not fat db backed models), one is much freer to write code that's "pure". This input gives that output. For tests like these one only needs to create whatever data structure the function desires, and then verify the output. Worst case verify that it called some mocks with x,y,z.

axelthegerman · 2 months ago
Right let's add more layers that always solves everything.

No language or abstraction is perfect but if someone prefers pure functional coding, Rails and Django are just not it, don't try to make them. Others like em just as they are

axelthegerman commented on GrapheneOS is the only Android OS providing full security patches   grapheneos.social/@Graphe... · Posted by u/akyuu
walterbell · 2 months ago
https://tbot.substack.com/p/grapheneos-new-oem-partnership

> GrapheneOS has officially confirmed a major new hardware partnership—one that marks the end of its long-standing Pixel exclusivity. According to the team, work with a major Android OEM began in June and is now moving toward the development of a next-generation smartphone built to meet GrapheneOS’ strict privacy and security standards.

axelthegerman · 2 months ago
Oh that's one of the best news in the smartphone world in a long time.

It's impossible to escape the Apple/Google duopoly but at least GrapheneOS makes the most out of Android regarding privacy.

I still wish we could get some kind of low resource, stable and mature Android clone instead of Google needlessly increasing complexity but this will over time break app compatibility (Google will make sure of it)

Edit: I do think Pixel devices used to be one of the best but still I'd like to choose my hardware and software separately interoperating via standards

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