I just use Quickbooks. Takes a little getting used to but I can just give my accountant access and they can get what they need to prepare the end of year accounts for filing.
Readit Newsjarl-ragnar commented on Ask HN: SaaS Bookkeeping and Accounting · Posted by u/sp3ktrum
There was a similar project in the UK back in the 90’s aimed at using remote sensing to detect mass graves in Bosnia.
jarl-ragnar commented on Ask HN: How are you using LLMs while coding or everyday work · Posted by u/mraza007
A mix of cursor and claude. I’ve just used cursor to help me write a radar data visualisation tool using SwiftUI and Metal. Never used either before.
In essence I treated it like a junior dev who already knew the tech stack. So tell it what I wanted to achieve then pair program to get it working. Then iterate to add functionality. Once a feature is working, I could then ask it to help me understand how the tech stack was being used. Lots of fun, and very productive.
jarl-ragnar commented on Smaller Satellite Images tech.marksblogg.com/plane... · Posted by u/marklit
I followed a similar approach recently to create map layers with Sentinel-2 imagery.
Webp encoded tiles extracted from the CoGs available on AWS then embedded within a pmtiles file.
I was seeing almost an order of magnitude reduction in file size compared to the CoGs with no visible image degradation.
jarl-ragnar commented on Ask HN: What are the best resources for SWE to PM transition? · Posted by u/justchad
I’d recommend listening to Lenny’s podcast.
jarl-ragnar commented on Ask HN: What is a programming language that you don't use at work but enjoy? · Posted by u/dondraper36
Clojurescript. I used it to build an MVP proof of concept for work and now have to watch a small team re-write it using Typescript and Angular
They’re still not at feature parity with 2x the team, 2x the time and 3x the lines of code.
I quit Spotify a few years ago as well.
They kept changing stuff, breaking my work flow, with every change it felt like there was more friction to listen to the music and podcasts I wanted, and less friction to listen to algorithmically selected slop I didn't want to listen to. Eventually I just said fuck it. I don't need this source of stress and frustration in my life. I've never looked back.
I'm on youtube music now. In many ways it's a worse product, but it at least stays the same and doesn't keep trying to make me change my listening behavior.
I suspect Spotify's problem is that they have (or had) too many developers, so you get this pressure to look busy "improving" the product, with endless lateral change as a result instead.
Sounds as much a problem of too many Product Managers all trying to make a mark so they can progress their career. Hence features keep getting added or re-designed.
the best reason to learn clojure is reagent[1], by far the best way to use react.
shadow-cljs[2] makes using npm libraries easy.
i’ve settled on go backends and reagent frontends as my default setup[3].
1. https://reagent-project.github.io/
Completely agree. Though I’ve also found an Elixir backend works well because of the power of the Beam VM.
jarl-ragnar commented on Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software development crazy · Posted by u/tracker1
> Over time you start realizing that there are no silver bullets
I hate to be that guy, but there is 1 silver bullet. Erlang. Whether you are writing code for a cluster of machines or a single node, the developer experience is the same.
That’s pretty much the destination I’ve arrived at though in my case via the Elixir route.
jarl-ragnar commented on Elixir – Your entire web stack [video] youtube.com/watch?v=wWRDy... · Posted by u/lawik
I’ve been impressed with Elixir. At my current gig it’s easily replaced a bunch of java microservices using RabbitMQ as the messaging backbone that struggled to handle the workload. To try and handle the load we kept upping the hardware spec.
I thought that Elixir could do better and created a replacement Elixir monolith. The replacement happily handles the workload while running on my MacBook Pro.