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ctxc commented on Show HN: I spent 4 years building a UI design tool with only the features I use   vecti.com... · Posted by u/vecti
crazygringo · 3 days ago
How about less snark?

Especially when, who the heck has time for trying out a dozen products? That's at least a full day of work, which probably costs more than the software itself.

No, you just read a few reviews to find the best full price option and best budget option and figure out if the budget does what you need or not. And often go for full price just because you don't even know what features you'll need in 6 months which you don't need now, so safer to just learn the option that is the most future-proof.

ctxc · 3 days ago
You're right. Even across stuff I _really_ use it's hard to bring myself to try.

Anecdotally I haven't tried Codex and use Claude Code. The day I try Codex will be when I hear from my friends/communities that it's much better. Same for IDEs, STT tools, etc

ctxc commented on Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation tracking   marginlab.ai/trackers/cla... · Posted by u/qwesr123
Dowwie · 12 days ago
Simply search user prompts for curse words and then measure hostility sentiment. User hostility rises as agents fail to meet expectations.
ctxc · 12 days ago
I feel bad about it but sometimes it's so daft, I can't even xD

It's not my fault, they set high standards!

ctxc commented on Many Small Queries Are Efficient in SQLite   sqlite.org/np1queryprob.h... · Posted by u/tosh
63stack · 17 days ago
I don't see how anyone would design a system that executes 200 queries per page. I understand having a system that is ín use for many many years and accumulates a lot of legacy code eventually ends up there, but designing? Never. That's not design, that's doing a bad job at design.
ctxc · 17 days ago
Sounds a bit like me, reading the comments before the article!
ctxc commented on Design Thinking Books (2024)   designorate.com/design-th... · Posted by u/rrm1977
elicash · 19 days ago
Like you say, it's old and I'm nostalgic for the time that I associate reading it with. I think that explains some of the love folks (or at least me) have for it.

I've never revisited the book and thanks to your comment I might not ever now ha

ctxc · 18 days ago
Tangentially, happens to me with music. Some songs aren't _great_, but I still like listening to them for the associations it has.
ctxc commented on Your app subscription is now my weekend project   rselbach.com/your-sub-is-... · Posted by u/robteix
Bishonen88 · 19 days ago
$20 claude code subscription for a month can replace the $15 + $10 for each month. How is that 3x more espensive? The user just saved $280 per year, on just two subscriptions alone.

Hardly doubt that this was the 'most waste of ones time'. For one, it's not like most of us can decide to "work" for 3-5 hours on a Saturday and get any money. I play games on my pc while claude codes for me. I alt tab each few minutes and see if it needs any input. Then I can (not that I do it), read and perhaps learn from the code.

ctxc · 19 days ago
Hey, CC has a way to trigger a notification chime on completion.

(How? Idk, I just asked it to guide me through the short hook process)

ctxc commented on The challenges of soft delete   atlas9.dev/blog/soft-dele... · Posted by u/buchanae
MarginalGainz · 20 days ago
The hidden cost we battle in e-commerce isn't just DB storage/performance, it's Search Index Pollution. We treat 'availability' as a complex state machine (In Stock, Backorder, Discontinued-but-visible, Soft Deleted). Trying to map this logic directly into a Postgres query with WHERE deleted_at IS NULL works for CRUD, but it creates massive friction for discovery.

We found that strict CQRS/Decoupling is the only way to scale this. Let the operational DB keep the soft-deletes for audit/integrity (as mentioned by others), but the Search Index must be a clean, ephemeral projection of only what is currently purchasable.

Trying to filter soft-deletes at query time inside the search engine is a recipe for latency spikes.

ctxc · 20 days ago
And why would one do that? For marginal gainz?
ctxc commented on Training my smartwatch to track intelligence   dmvaldman.github.io/rookl... · Posted by u/dmvaldman
echoangle · a month ago
> Often, it would also contradict how I was internally feeling. I’d wake up feeling rested, see my stats are low, and play a game of chess out of algorithmic rebellion, only to feel my mind up against a barrier and handedly lose.

It would be better to only look at the stats after playing if you want to verify it, this could easily be a self-fulfilling prophecy.

ctxc · 24 days ago
My thoughts exactly! The barrier could be mental, induced _by_ the app
ctxc commented on GitHub Incident   githubstatus.com/incident... · Posted by u/aggrrrh
postexitus · a month ago
I believe it is an Azure outage or some type of MS service - everything on Azure is down.
ctxc · a month ago
My az services seem to be up.
ctxc commented on Ask HN: Share your personal website    · Posted by u/susam
ctxc · a month ago
https://dvsj.in

Weird, but I like to call it whimsical ;)

ctxc commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)    · Posted by u/david927
another_twist · a month ago
buddy, don't be so modest, this is an ambitious project and I hope you succeed ! This is tough work, I tried to build a Webflow-ish editor myself and it nearly destroyed my sanity.
ctxc · a month ago
Haha, thank you! I just checked Mantine out thanks to you. Going to use it on my next side project :D

u/ctxc

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