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jebraaton Talking with the inventor of C++ [video]

IMO C/C++ are great languages if you learn how memory and pointers etc. work. The tooling on the other hand is horrendous when you compare it to other languages like Rust.

jebraaton Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

Thanks for the recommendations! Will have a look

jebraaton Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

Love Charlie, love his insights, love listening to the little nuggets he has to say in the shareholder meetings.

But holy moly, this book has been a drag for me to read. I actually stopped about half way through. This is 100% on me, of course. I highly recommend reading a sample before buying.

jebraaton Show HN: I made a feature rich alternative to OneTab. Supatabs

Features I use the most:

- Global shortcut keys

- Chrome Tab Group support

- Mega fast fuzzy search through tabs

- Auto-suspension of open tabs with a custom timer to reduce Chrome RAM usage

You can also import your tab list from OneTab, or create backup files for Supatabs

jebraaton Dealing with the perfectionism trap as a developer

I like this comment so much, I'm tempted to add a quote to the article

jebraaton Dealing with the perfectionism trap as a developer

What if the requirements change?

jebraaton Dealing with the perfectionism trap as a developer

I get where you are coming from. I don't think anybody wants to use bug riddled software. I also think some companies take it too far with releasing software to the general public (not alpha/beta) that isn't refined enough. I suppose corporate pressure to release things on arbitrary deadlines also doesn't help.

IMO the beautiful thing about software is, that we can push updates and improvements pretty much instantaneously. Whether that is adding features to a working product, or fixing bugs that slipped through during development.

jebraaton Dealing with the perfectionism trap as a developer

Thanks for the comment Michael!

I 100% understand the "it's really hard to leave working but ugly code alone" sentiment", as I get the same feeling a lot of the time. That is one of the reasons I wrote this article.

I often have to fight myself to move on to do work on other things.

jebraaton Show HN: Typed React useStorage hook for Chrome extensions

Thanks for telling me, will look into that!

jebraaton Show HN: Chrome extension template repo

Uses manifest v3

Tech: Vite for building, React, Tailwindcss, Typescript and nodemon for fast development

jebraaton Free Chrome extension to reduce RAM

Hey, I'm currently working on a small Chrome extension as a passion project to reduce my Chrome RAM usage.

It's basically like OneTab on steroids (some extra functionality) with a minimalistic UI dark/light skin.

Working on an auto-suspend functionality to automatically unload tabs from memory after a variable time, but leave the tabs in the tabs strip.

Currently in beta, completely free. Feedback appreciated!