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bpiroman

24 karma · joined August 23, 2023

civil engineer and self taught web dev
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bpiroman··on The Birth and Death of JavaScript (2014)
JavaScript is the greatest programming language of all time.
bpiroman··on Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator
It is pretty obvious who wrote the white paper.
bpiroman··on purl: a curl-esque CLI for making HTTP requests that require payment
There is something really cool going on with payment over the wire. But why written in Rust? absolute pain to setup.
bpiroman··on Honda is killing its EVs
What is wrong with the japanese automotive industry shifting to 100% EV!? Seems like some kind of seppuku...
bpiroman··on Temporal: A nine-year journey to fix time in JavaScript
I wish JavaScript held onto the name Mocha :)
bpiroman··on Google Workspace CLI
written in Rust lol
bpiroman··on Hackers (1995) Animated Experience
very cool
bpiroman··on Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales
Cybertruck is the greatest vehicle ever made.
bpiroman··on GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month to fund open source
This is the same rationale for governments raising taxes.
bpiroman··on Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSS
100% agree. If an open source project needs money to run, then isn't that defeating the purpose of being open source? Open source is a gift economy. If the owner can monetise it on the side then that is just a bonus.
bpiroman··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
love this
bpiroman··on Show HN: Sqlit – A lazygit-style TUI for SQL databases
dude, this looks so cool!!!
bpiroman··on Nokia N900 Necromancy
Seeing this makes me wanna get the Blackberry passport!!! And boot linux on it
bpiroman··on A $1k AWS mistake
So happy I don't use AWS
bpiroman··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)
I recently launched this satellite imagery tool.

https://satellitemine.com/

I work as a civil engineer in the mining industry and it can be troublesome to download satellite imagery for a particular date and cloud index. Yes, Google Earth Engine and QGIS plugins exist, but they are slow and confusing to jump back into after a period of time. SatelliteMine is simple to use and any images of your area of interest is saved to your account and can be downloaded as a geotiff.

Currently free to use with a cloud storage capped at 512MB per account. Paid plans for greater storage requirements will be provided if the demand is there. Any feedback is welcomed :)

bpiroman··on The 'Toy Story' You Remember
wtf happened to Simpsons on Disney+? looks like it's zoomed in.
bpiroman··on Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down
just use curl
bpiroman··on Introduction to GrapheneOS
Thanks I'll check them out. Which one do you recommend?
bpiroman··on Introduction to GrapheneOS
There has to be a better open source mobile OS out there.
bpiroman··on I launched 17 side projects. Result? I'm rich in expired domains
For me its when I have to knuckle down and fix up my CSS lol Enjoy my side project unfinished beauties: https://www.adfreetube.com/ https://qmaps.io/ https://propertytracker.net.au/
bpiroman··on MCP-B: A Protocol for AI Browser Automation
Vite ...
bpiroman··on My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Vision OCR Server
this is so cool! Is it possible to boot linux on an old iphone?
bpiroman··on Why Quantum Computers Cannot Work [pdf]
An unpopular opinion but I think an important one, highlighting why quantum computers cannot work.
bpiroman··on Show HN: Canine – A Heroku alternative built on Kubernetes
Just use Kamal and deploy to a Hetzner instance
bpiroman··on CSS Minecraft
that's amazing!!!
bpiroman··on Show HN: I modeled the Voynich Manuscript with SBERT to test for structure
English translation of the manuscript is timestamped below:

https://youtu.be/p6keMgLmFEk?feature=shared&t=559

bpiroman··on Show HN: I modeled the Voynich Manuscript with SBERT to test for structure
I thought it was old turkish?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6keMgLmFEk&t=1s

bpiroman··on Redis is open source again
I still don't understand what Redis does or why we need it as web devs...
bpiroman··on Show HN: Bhvr, a Bun and Hono and Vite and React Starter
I really don't understand why typescript exists...
bpiroman··on CSS Zen Garden
Love this! Would be cool if somebody did a css zen garden 2.0 using modern CSS tools. Oh and tailwind css is not aloud lol
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