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joshdavham

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joshdavham··on Zed DeltaDB
I’m curious, are many people using Zed as their daily driver in their professional work? (Not just in side projects)
joshdavham··on Helsinki Hacker News Meetup
Any meetups in Vancouver, Canada?
joshdavham··on How the words we teach English language learners changed
It's interesting reading the comments criticising this page's scroll behaviour. I didn't realize how many people scroll webpages without a mouse... This is good to know!
joshdavham··on How the words we teach English language learners changed
Interesting! I didn't know about the 'pool' section of HN.

Would you mind explaining to us how it works?

joshdavham··on After the AI Crash
What implications might an AI crash have on the software developer job market? It’s likely that many AI software companies would fold and thus have to layoff their employees, but what would be the implications for the rest of the tech job market?

I often see developers giddy about the idea of AI being a bubble and waiting for the crash, but I suspect this event could actually be particularly terrible for us.

joshdavham··on Show HN: I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript
Makes sense. You can also iterate faster without the hassle of getting your extension approved on the chrome store, etc.
joshdavham··on Show HN: I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript
I think the amount of upvotes you’re getting here suggests that it might be worth building a proper browser extension for this!

Would you be interested in making one?

joshdavham··on Ask HN: What do you watch during lunch or dinner, if you're by yourself?
Whether I watch anything while eating usually depends on how mentally-spent I feel.

For example, if I'm eating breakfast alone in the morning, I'm usually feeling pretty energetic and have a bigger appetite for stimulation. I might watch a podcast interview.

Now if I'm eating lunch in the middle of my workday and I'm alone, I usually don't watch anything. My brain usually feels way too saturated and overstimulated so I might just eat and stare out the window.

After the workday is done and I'm eating dinner, it can be a toss-up haha. If I'm super exhausted, I won't watch anything, but if I'm feeling energetic, I might watch something similar to when I eat breakfast.

joshdavham··on The Dark Night of Mathematics
What made you realize you'd never amount to a decent mathematician?

For me, it was a course in Real Analysis haha

joshdavham··on Ollama: All Aboard Open Models
I actually like Docker Desktop a lot, but then again, I've never tried any alternatives. Perhaps I'll give Podman a shot one of these days!
joshdavham··on Ask HN: What are your favorite blogs not about AI?
OP is asking about “blogs not about AI”.
joshdavham··on Ollama: All Aboard Open Models
Cool to learn that the founders also had a hand in developing Docker Desktop in the past!
joshdavham··on The 2026 Developer Survey is Live
It's funny, I was curious about a past SO survey and then just so happened to notice that their 2026 was live.

I thought it'd be worth sharing :)

joshdavham··on Over 10k people shared what they love about GPT-5.6
The site doesn't appear to be working for me.

When I click "Founders" for example, it says "Showing Founders posts" but doesn't ultimately render anything.

joshdavham··on Ask HN: Claude Code for Ordinary User
I guess a more concise question might be "what would a Claude Code for non-technical users look like?"

Do you have any ideas for what that could look like? It's interesting to think about.

joshdavham··on Show HN: IKEA Complexity Index
Where did you pull this data from?
joshdavham··on A software engineering interview question I like: computing the median
I also like this question.

A fun follow up is asking a candidate how to compute the 25th and 75th percentiles or more broadly, the n-th percentile.

joshdavham··on New York to require social media platforms to display mental health warnings
That's a good point.

Would you personally be in favor of HN being regulated though? I'm not sure if I would.

joshdavham··on New York to require social media platforms to display mental health warnings
HN is social media and I think most people recognize that.

It's just that HN is a social media that respects your time and doesn't try to get you addicted. For example, HN has a very useful 'noprocrast' feature and one of the co-founders, pg, has openly worried about HN's addictiveness in the past [0].

So while HN is social media, I feel like it's qualitatively different than other platforms.

[0] https://paulgraham.com/hackernews.html

joshdavham··on I'm just having fun
What has been causing you stress? (If you don’t mind me asking?)
joshdavham··on Show HN: Books mentioned on Hacker News in 2025
The top 3 programming books mentioned this year were

1. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs 2. Clean Code 3. Crafting Interpreters

Also, it’s quite fascinating how often fiction books were recommended! I wouldn’t’ve expected that on HN.

joshdavham··on Show HN: RenderCV – Open-source CV/resume generator, YAML to PDF
Favorited for next time I make a resume - thanks for making this! Hopefully I’ll never have to touch LaTeX ever again.
joshdavham··on We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack
Thanks for this comment tick_tock :)

After reading this, I did some research and learned a lot. I never really considered that, by including many things under the same domain, that you're increasing your blast radius w.r.t security vulernabilites. Thanks for that

joshdavham··on Coursera to combine with Udemy
Was also news to me!
joshdavham··on Coursera to combine with Udemy
I get so much decision fatigue when choosing a course series on YouTube. On every technical topic, there are like 15 people making courses anywhere from 10 minutes to 10 hours.
joshdavham··on Coursera to combine with Udemy
I recently bought a course on the Spring Boot from codewithmosh. Despite spring boot being a dry subject, it was probably the best intro backend course I’d ever taken!
joshdavham··on Canada's Carney called out for 'utilizing' British spelling
Reminds me of the legendary flow chart "How to measure things like a Canadian": https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/18xbabx/...
joshdavham··on Canada's Carney called out for 'utilizing' British spelling
> For example, the "Headingley Gaol" near Winnipeg.

Fellow Winnipeger here! I remember driving by that sign as a kid and being baffled by that word.

joshdavham··on Denial of service and source code exposure in React Server Components
Haha don’t sweat it dude. Happens to literally everyone on HN.
joshdavham··on Denial of service and source code exposure in React Server Components
I'm no javascript framework expert, but how vulnerable do people estimate other frameworks like Angular, Sveltekit and Nuxt to be to this sort of thing? Is React more disposed to be at risk? Is it just because there are more eyes on React due to its popularity?
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