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neop1x commented on Go is still not good blog.habets.se/2025/07/Go... · Posted by u/ustad

neop1x · a day ago

This is OP's second article of hating Go.

In the meantime he also wrote about Rust: "I’ve not found anything frustrating or stupid in Rust yet."

So he can just use Rust and stop using Go completely. Problem solved. No need to write those hates. Go lang is cleary not good for him and it's ok.

neop1x commented on Go is still not good blog.habets.se/2025/07/Go... · Posted by u/ustad

Insanity · 4 days ago

I wrote a book on Go, so I'm biased. But when I started using Go more than a decado ago, it really felt like a breath of fresh air. It made coding _fun_ again, less boilerplate heavy than Java, simple enough to pick up, and performance was generally good.

There's no single 'best language', and it depends on what your use-cases are. But I'd say that for many typical backend tasks, Go is a choice you won't really regret, even if you have some gripes with the language.

neop1x · a day ago

Exactly this! I have been programming in Go for many years and it basically made programming enjoyable for me again. No crazy abstractions, no overcomplicated syntax, hidden constructors, forgotten exception handling, etc. And it crosscompiles easily and is fast at runtime. I love it. No other language achived this for me.

neop1x commented on I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file al3rez.com/todo-txt-journ... · Posted by u/al3rez

neop1x · 14 days ago

I have tried multiple of those mentioned in the article and also text files. Ended uo with Tasks.org foss android app which syncs over webdav with nextcloud and similar. Works wonderfully even offline and in my opinionnis more convenient than a text file.

neop1x commented on A receipt printer cured my procrastination laurieherault.com/article... · Posted by u/laurieherault

laurieherault · 2 months ago

Author here. It’s my first article. I’m a bit nervous but excited to get your feedback. If you deal with procrastination too, I hope this method helps you like it helped me.

neop1x · 2 months ago

Hi, thanks for the nice idea and writeup. Just a newsletter tech tip from my experience - be careful with the subscription form. There are bots looking for email fields on websites and filling them with emails from credential leaks or bad-quality emails and spam traps. You may easily end up with a mixed subscription list which will be unusable / resulting in lots of spam reports, your domain reputation might get hurt. To solve, use a captcha or an invisible "honey-pot" subscription form before the real one, use services for checking emails, etc.

neop1x commented on Self-hosting your own media considered harmful according to YouTube jeffgeerling.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/DavideNL

ivanjermakov · 3 months ago

Cooking at home is considered harmful according to restaurant owners.

neop1x · 3 months ago

Yes, a great analogy. And actually most of the time the food we cook at home is better than what we can get in restaurants. Sadly. Cooking decent food at home takes time, it should have been a restaurant job, but the reality is what it is...

neop1x commented on My AI skeptic friends are all nuts fly.io/blog/youre-all-nut... · Posted by u/tabletcorry

imhoguy · 3 months ago

Even FOSS-based development depends on walled gardens, it is evident every time when GitHub is down.

neop1x · 3 months ago

IMO Github doesn't matter for FOSS because you have a lot of local clones, it won't disappear forever if Github goes down or deletes the repo there. Self-hosted alts are not 100% up either. And I actually find collaboration functions / easy PR contribution on Github highly beneficial. At the same time I hate the friction of all those private Gitlabs, Giteas or, God forbid, gitweb.

neop1x commented on Root shell on a credit card terminal stefan-gloor.ch/yomani-ha... · Posted by u/stgl

ttkari · 3 months ago

Reading about all the tamper detection on the device makes me wonder what would be the easiest way to trigger the tamper mode. After all, being able to do that on just a handful of devices would be an efficient denial of service attack on a retail location when the majority - and sometimes all - of payments go through these things.

neop1x · 3 months ago

Dropping it on the floor or pouring water on it.

neop1x commented on Ditching Obsidian and building my own amberwilliams.io/blogs/bu... · Posted by u/williamsss

vunderba · 3 months ago

Good article but as a heavy user of Obsidian (and previously Evernote), I would offer some counterpoints:

> After some mental gymnastics weighing if I should continue with Obsidian, I found solace when asking myself "Can I see myself using this in 20 years?". I couldn't. The thought of cyclically migrating notes from one PKMS to another every 5 years, as I had done from Evernote to Notion to Obsidian, made me feel tired.

In point of fact this is actually an argument IN FAVOR of Obsidian. While the editor might be proprietary - the notes themselves are just standard markdown. If somehow all the copies of Obsidian magically disappeared off the earth tomorrow, I could easily switch over to Emacs org mode, VS Code, or literally anything else.

> Obsidian was a great tool for me personally for a long time. But I felt frustrated when I wanted to access my notes on my phone while on-the-go and saw that I had to pay for this feature.

Again, a little bit odd considering that the author is technically savvy enough to write an entire PKMS but didn't seem to consider that you can just check your markdown notes into a git repository and sync with the native android/iOS Obsidian app on a mobile device. All my notes sync up to Gitea hosted on my VPS and it works relatively seamlessly.

I'm glad the author had fun. Personally, I'm very happy with Obsidian and the plugin architecture has made it easy for me to extend it where necessary.

neop1x · 3 months ago

There is also LogSeq which is open-source and very similar to Obsidian. I use it with Syncthing to sync notes across devices. I would rather see more effort put there, to improve table management, for example...

neop1x commented on OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/minimaxir

DocTomoe · 3 months ago

Recently, I've been moving back to 'dedicated items' instead of 'everything on the phone'.

It might be an old guy finding a love for vinyl, but having a dedicated camera, a dedicated notebook, a dedicated music player ... makes making photos, writing down notes or listening to music somehow more ... meaningful to me. Maybe because I do not get distracted by the other 999 functionalities of the phone while I am trying to take photos, listen to music, or writing something down.

neop1x · 3 months ago

Dedicated devices are often mediocre because they have to be cheap and have crappy HW and a small battery. Look at Rabbit R or Humane AI Pin. You already have a high quality expensive phone, no need to buy another crappy electronic-waste-since-manufactured device

neop1x commented on Show HN: I built an AI that turns GitHub codebases into easy tutorials github.com/The-Pocket/Tut... · Posted by u/zh2408

bilalq · 4 months ago

This is actually really cool. I just tried it out using an AI studio API key and was pretty impressed. One issue I noticed was that the output was a little too much "for dummies". Spending paragraphs to explain what an API is through restaurant analogies is a little unnecessary. And then followed up with more paragraphs on what GraphQL is. Every chapter seems to suffer from this. The generated documentation seems more suited for a slightly technical PM moreso than a software engineer. This can probably be mitigated by refining the prompt.

The prompt would also maybe be better if it encouraged variety in diagrams. For somethings, a flow chart would fit better than a sequence diagram (e.g., a durable state machine workflow written using AWS Step Functions).

neop1x · 4 months ago

>> This can probably be mitigated by refining the prompt

Sometimes it explains things like I am a child and sometimes it doesn't explain things well enough. I think fixing this just by a simple prompt change won't work - it may fix it in one part and make things worse in the other part. This is a problem which I have with LLM: you can fine-tune the prompt for a specific case but I find it difficult to write a universally-working prompt. The problem seems to be LLM "does not understand my intents", like it can't deduce what I need and "proactively" help. It follows requirements from the prompt but the prompt has to (and can't) handle all situations. I am getting tired of LLM.