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gethly··on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
I don't trust any government clerk with my personal data, let alone Discord. What a joke.
gethly··on The original vi is a product of its time (and its time has passed)
i've been using nano for server stuff since ever. i could never understand why anyone would us vi/m with its bs shortcuts, making BASIC text editing into a complete **.
gethly··on Ask HN: Ideas for small ways to make the world a better place
Draw arrows on the pavement so even the morons among us will understand that side-walk is not a free-for-all to roam as you please.
gethly··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
Editor/IDE in Go. Mainly as a challenge to replace JetBrains.
gethly··on Ask HN: How Did You Validate?
Validating your idea is pointless. There is always someone who will want what you make. Problem for the past 15 years has been advertising. It's all about having a ton of cash to burn on ads. Nothing else matters. Whether you make something unique or better or cheap has lost all its meaning and turned the principles capitalism on its head.
gethly··on Ask HN: Does global decoupling from the USA signal comeback of the desktop app?
No but it will finally allow "free" markets to work properly and spun up competition.
gethly··on Ask HN: Anyone have a "sovereign" solution for phone calls?
Phones are inherently "unsovereignable" as you cannot become a telephone operator and hook into the telephone network the same as you can become a domain owner and smtp provider. Some people use voip providers that provide real numbers but route them over their voip network, like skype used to do, but that's about it. After all, countries where you can own a sim card anonymously are a rarity nowadays, so it is obvious the system does not want you to be sovereign in any way when it comes to this.
gethly··on I miss thinking hard
Skill issue
gethly··on Notepad++ supply chain attack breakdown
I just checked, I'm on version 8.8.8. With TinyWall firewall, it has no access to the internet without my explicit say so. This is why constantly trying to be on the bleeding edge of last updates will more likely bite you in the ass than leave your system/program open to attack with some unpatched vulnerability. Look at Windows 11 updates lately. I bet most users would be gladly behind with their updates right now.
gethly··on Ask HN: Where do all the web devs talk?
Discord channels. Though you have to find them out on your own.
gethly··on How to Scale a System from 0 to 10M+ Users
Just skimming the website, i call bs.
gethly··on Ask HN: How do you force yourself to take breaks while coding?
I just had one of those. Though it is very rare.

I was making a layouting library in Go based on Clay. Took me three weeks. I often woke up at 4 AM because I wanted to work on it. After two weeks I got worried whether it is worth it. Luckily I finished it. It was not a smooth sailing but I got it done. I'd say - don't worry about it and just plough trough. If the excitement and eagerness to get it done dissipates, it will happen naturally. No reason to force it.

gethly··on Data Processing Benchmark Featuring Rust, Go, Swift, Zig, Julia etc.
So far, the best benchmark seems to be the https://plummerssoftwarellc.github.io/PrimeView/

Although it is very single-thread biased test.

gethly··on Ask HN: European alternative to Vercel/Cloudflare for hosting
Also CDN77 from CZ.
gethly··on Ask HN: How do you force yourself to take breaks while coding?
This happens only if i am in the zone or working on something exciting. If that is the case, i absolutely do not want to break that streak for any reason whatsoever. Maybe you're a junior dev, but in time, these periods will become more rare and hard to come by. So enjoy it while you can.
gethly··on Data Processing Benchmark Featuring Rust, Go, Swift, Zig, Julia etc.
Go being beaten by C# in multicore is quite hard to believe. Also Zig and Odin doing so "poorly" in single core is strange.
gethly··on Ask HN: How do you market a side project?
Don't. It's a waste of time.

Spending money on ads is just burning cash. Posting in online communities will get you immediately banned for spam or unpaid advertising. Social platforms will bury your content without promotion(=burning cash). And sites like HN or Product Hunt will just give you a false hope. Reddit will get you two likes and one page view.

So... don't. The internet has change so much, that it makes no sense any more to try and do anything in this regard.

The only way is to slowly keep pushing it where you can, not intentionally but seize an opportunity if you see one. Don't hope for fast progress. It's a marathon, not a sprint.

gethly··on Designing programming languages beyond AI comprehension
Programming language is just a set of rules. Rules are trivial to learn by any LLM. So this entire questions is pointless.
gethly··on Coding is when we're least productive
Coding is the 5 minute result for an hour of thinking.
gethly··on YouTube blocks background video playback on Brave and other browsers
I've noticed yesterday before and after update. So annoying. I so fucking hate Google and what they've become.
gethly··on Starlink updates privacy policy to allow consumer data to train
Banking and internet for sure.
gethly··on Ask HN: European alternative to Vercel/Cloudflare for hosting
that website is quite dead though.
gethly··on Oban, the job processing framework from Elixir, has come to Python
I've looked into it but have not found any mention or a clue.
gethly··on Ask HN: European alternative to Vercel/Cloudflare for hosting
CDN - Bunny CDN is from Slovenia

Hosting - literally gazzilion of choices.

CF pages/workers - i don't know what that is.

gethly··on Ask HN: Where to find cool companies to work for?
"I am tired of using linkedin to find a new job", "Anyone know some sources to search" - totally wrong approach.

If you want to succeed in life, you must be pro-active, not re-active. Instead of browsing job offers, look for companies that interest you and simply contact them directly. Let them know who you are and what you can do and find out whether they might have a job available for you with your skill and experience. Keep it brief, no need to send a whole CV, but have some online version of it that you can share as a link.

PS: but ignore large corporations. Go for small and medium sized businesses. Those are the best to work for, despite lower salaries, and easier to get hired by. Often you can get in touch directly with the CEO or founder without must trouble. And best way to approach it is to seek companies that specifically interest you for one reason or another. People respond way more positively to such contact than just sending a random email.

gethly··on Ask HN: What's the Point Anymore?
Stop consuming mainstream media and you'll feel more sane.
gethly··on Ask HN: What recent UX changes make no sense to you?
1. Sign-up and sign-in forms split into multiple steps.

2. Captcha *** everywhere

3. Websites not loading if you block some google domain because they depend on some 3rd party fonts and scripts. It's more of a UX than UI though.

gethly··on Deep dive into Turso, the “SQLite rewrite in Rust”
let's play a little game known as "count the unsafe"

https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Atursodatabase%2Fturso%20u...

gethly··on Android’s desktop interface leaks
i prefer google to spy on my entire computer instead of microsoft.
gethly··on Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app
web is now so good that mobile apps lost any meaning to exist - unless you need to access some local hw or data on consistent basis(the app must run as daemon or something like that). in other words, if you app is a service, just use web. if it is not a service, then you just sell it as you would a desktop program.
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