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speff commented on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)    · Posted by u/david927
krlx · a day ago
The "what should we eat" problem was a big source of tension in our household since the arrival of our first child. Too much time-consuming, too much planning effort. What changed our life (and I really mean it) is the app https://jow.com: it suggests you a list of meals for the week suited to your family and equipment, and it creates a shopping list for your preferred delivery provider. I only have good things to say about it and could go on for hours.
speff · a day ago
We're actually in a unique situation where the planning+buying isn't the hard part, but the deciding is. We're within walking distance of a super-cheap grocery store and I'm able to cook a wide variety of dishes - many of which I can make quickly. The hard part is my wife doesn't do well with open-ended questions like "what would you like to eat"? Seeing a discrete list of things I can make and her just picking/submitting the options would solve the problem.

Though that only holds while we have free time. If we have a kid, then I can see a great amount of value in that app.

speff commented on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)    · Posted by u/david927
krlx · 2 days ago
https://mytinycafe.com/

An PWA primarily for my wife and my daughter. They can order their hot chocolate and their coffee as if they were going to grab something at a fancy café downtown, but instead it's at home and I'm the barista. It is quite nice to have for when my wife comes back from work and want something specific, or when we are waiting for the visit of a few friend, they can order exactly the available beverages and everything is ready when they're here.

It was also a good playground for me to implement Web Push notifications (to never miss new orders).

It's a basic Nuxt 3 app with Appwrite as the backend with rough edges, but much enough for our household use !

If you want to spam my phone with notifications, please visit my café : https://mytinycafe.com/alix

speff · a day ago
Very cool concept - thank you for sharing it! I think would be a great solution to the near-daily "what should we eat" problem.

If I could make a (not-important) suggestion, I think being able to re-arrange / categorize menu items would be useful. Something that lets you group together drinks apart from snacks as an example.

speff commented on Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices   office365itpros.com/2025/... · Posted by u/taubek
noosphr · 8 days ago
Do you know anyone who does serious financial work in Excel?

I know plenty of people who think they do. I know a few that cost the world economy about a trillion dollars: https://inthesetimes.com/article/the-excel-spreadsheet-error...

speff · 8 days ago
Going by what my accounting buddy says - everyone in accounting in the US.
speff commented on DIY NAS: 2026 Edition   blog.briancmoses.com/2025... · Posted by u/sashk
loloquwowndueo · 20 days ago
Caching files in ram means they can be moved to the network faster - right?
speff · 20 days ago
Makes sense. I didn't know if the FS used RAM for this purpose without some specialized software. PikachuEXE and Mewse mentioned ZFS. Looks like it has native support for caching frequent reads [0]. Good to know

[0]: https://www.truenas.com/docs/references/l2arc/

speff commented on DIY NAS: 2026 Edition   blog.briancmoses.com/2025... · Posted by u/sashk
speff · 20 days ago
Q - assuming the NAS was strictly used as NAS and not as a server with VMs, is there a point in having a large amount of RAM? (large as in >8GB)

I'm not sure what the benefit would be since all it's doing is moving information from the drives over to the network.

speff commented on Implications of AI to schools   twitter.com/karpathy/stat... · Posted by u/bilsbie
renewiltord · 22 days ago
This couldn’t have happened at a better time. When I was young my parents found a schooling system that had minimal homework so I could play around and live my life. I’ve moved to a country with a lot less flexibility. Now when my kids will soon be going to school, compulsory homework will be obsolete.

Zero homework grades will be ideal. Looking forward to this.

speff · 22 days ago
Most of what I learned in college was only because I did homework and struggled to figure it out myself. Classroom time was essentially just a heads up to what I'll actually be learning myself later.

Granted, this was much less the case in grade school - but if students are going to see homework for the first time in college, I can see problems coming up.

If you got rid of homework throughout all of the "standard" education path (grade school + undergrad), I would bet a lot of money that I'd be much dumber for it.

speff commented on Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?   disassociated.com/persona... · Posted by u/gnabgib
doublerabbit · 25 days ago
How I miss my script kiddie days of being 15, downloading "nulled" versions of vBulletin off of Limewire and throwing them up on pocket money paid cPanel web hosting account waiting for it to upload on my parents 56K.

Exploit ridden PHPNuke & e107 CMS too.

speff · 25 days ago
We had similar childhoods - though I did phpBB. Never had an audience for the forum, but it was cool just having and styling it. Good times.
speff commented on Laptops with Stickers   stickertop.art/main/... · Posted by u/z303
imiric · a month ago
How am I stopping anyone's enjoyment? Why can't you let me voice my opinion?
speff · a month ago
It's got the same vibe as going into a circle of people having fun and telling them they're trying too hard. What's the effect you're going for?

You're not being stopped from having an opinion - your comment is visible - but sharing one that'll only serve to bring down people's moods makes everything a little bit worse I think.

speff commented on I Want You to Understand Chicago   aphyr.com/posts/397-i-wan... · Posted by u/tonyg
fujigawa · a month ago
One of the more egregious stories that made national news and captured the zeitgeist of this situation was the alleged illegal immigrant that was working as a sworn police officer in suburban Chicago:

https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-arrests-illegal-alien-...

So given that this was allowed to happen, you want me to believe it's impossible for an illegal immigrant to cast a vote in an election? In Chicago? Where the dead people vote?

https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/2-investigators-chicago...

> In all, the analysis showed 119 dead people have voted a total of 229 times in Chicago in the last decade.

speff · a month ago
So there aren't any stats for illegal immigrants voting then I take it.

I would expect they don't check for citizenship when becoming a police officer. I do expect them to check when a voter is registered. Frankly, given the amount of hubbub about illegals voting, I would expect there to at least be a notable amount of it happening that can be pointed to.

Please do not make these sorts of claims based on vibes. They have wider consequences on the amount of hate towards foreigners - illegal or not - that is completely undeserved.

speff commented on I Want You to Understand Chicago   aphyr.com/posts/397-i-wan... · Posted by u/tonyg
speff · a month ago
Are you claiming that the detainees - assumedly primarily illegal immigrants - are taking part in the voting process and that's why the governor is "grandstanding"?

That's the story I hear from certain folks and as far as I can tell, it has no merit. I'd be interested in any actual stats here.

u/speff

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