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tslocumon Elon Musk's Grok praises Hitler, shares antisemitic tropes in new posts

The linked post got 13 points in 2 hours, and has just been flagged. It was already missing from any front pages before being visibly flagged.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250709152608/https://news.ycom...

https://web.archive.org/web/20250709172615/https://news.ycom...

tslocumon Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

With 8 points in an hour, my post drawing attention to this is missing from the front pages.

HN is censoring news about X / Twitter https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44511132

https://web.archive.org/web/20250709152608/https://news.ycom...

https://web.archive.org/web/20250709172615/https://news.ycom...

tslocumon Elon Musk's Grok praises Hitler, shares antisemitic tropes in new posts

Why is this still flagged?

Edit: Even though my comment is gaining an increasing amount of votes, it has suddenly moved to the bottom of the comments, as though it were dead.

Edit2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44511132 (blackholed?)

tslocumon PHP 8.5 alpha 1 is available for download

Based on the examples given in the blog post, this appears to be a massive step backwards for PHP. The language has been making an effort to clean itself up for years. The author claims that the temporary variable solution "feels icky". If we ultimately care about readability and performance, temporary variables seem ideal even with this change in the language. Modern compilers look for things like temporary variables when performing optimizations. PHP's compiler probably already does this, and if it doesn't, adding support for that would make more sense than adding some new syntax.

tslocumon Zorin OS

Just because you can charge for open source software, doesn't make it moral to do so. Concentrating our efforts on making Debian even easier to use seems much more in line with the ethics of the FOSS ecosystem.

tslocumon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2025)

  Location: Seattle, WA
  Remote: Yes (6 years of WFH experience)
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Go (Golang), Java, PHP, Python, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Linux sysadmin, Docker, Docker Compose
  Email: tslocum@gmail.com

25 year hobbyist software engineer and 10 year professional. Fully self-taught and excited to learn more. Active and passionate open source software author and contributor. Seeking a fully remote position. Please review my extensive portfolio of open source projects and contributions.

Résumé/CV: https://rocket9labs.com/resume.pdf

Portfolios:

* Code: https://code.rocket9labs.com/tslocum (All of my code is here)

* Games: https://rocketnine.itch.io (All open source and written in Go)

tslocumon Maintaining an Android app in Google Play Store is a lot of work

It is indeed a lot of work. All of my apps are only available on F-Droid now, after years of playing ball with Google Play. I wrote about my experience here:

https://rocket9labs.com/post/on-the-importance-of-f-droid/

tslocumon Ask HN: What's with the repeated job posts on "Who's hiring"?

I've seen the same position posted for a YC-backed company for over a year. I commented on it months ago, it's funny to see this topic come up again. We seriously need some legislation in this area. Finding a job as a tech worker is hard enough.

tslocumon (On | No) Syntactic Support for Error Handling

Seems strange that Rust's "?" gets a mention syntax-wise, but nothing is said about sum types coming to Go. Go's verbose error handling and lack of sum types are my only gripes with the language. It would be nice to see both addressed using Rust's Result type as a model.

tslocumon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2025)

  Location: Seattle, WA
  Remote: Yes (6 years of WFH experience)
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Go (Golang), Java, PHP, Python, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Linux sysadmin, Docker, Docker Compose
  Email: tslocum@gmail.com

Professional software engineer for ten years, hobbyist programmer for many more. Fully self-taught, always excited to learn more. Active and passionate open source software author and contributor. Seeking a fully remote position. Please review my extensive portfolio of open source projects and contributions.

Résumé/CV: https://rocket9labs.com/resume.pdf

Portfolios:

* Code: https://code.rocket9labs.com/tslocum (All of my code is here)

* Games: https://rocketnine.itch.io (All open source and written in Go)

* GitHub: https://github.com/tslocum (Only my contributions to other projects)

tslocumon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2025)

  Location: Seattle, WA
  Remote: Yes (6 years of WFH experience)
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Go (Golang), Java, PHP, Python, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Linux sysadmin, Docker, Docker Compose
  Email: tslocum@gmail.com

Professional software engineer for ten years, hobbyist programmer for many more. Fully self-taught, always excited to learn more. Active and passionate open source software author and contributor. Seeking a fully remote position. Please review my extensive portfolio of open source projects and contributions.

Résumé/CV: https://rocket9labs.com/resume.pdf

Portfolios:

* Code: https://code.rocket9labs.com/tslocum (All of my code is here)

* Games: https://rocketnine.itch.io (All open source and written in Go)

* GitHub: https://github.com/tslocum (Only my contributions to other projects)

tslocumon Google Play sees 47% decline in apps since start of last year

Several FOSS apps of mine were removed from Google Play because of this. I wrote about one solution for other affected developers here:

https://rocket9labs.com/post/on-the-importance-of-f-droid/

tslocumon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2025)

  Location: Seattle, WA
  Remote: Yes (6 years of WFH experience)
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Go (Golang), Java, PHP, Python, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Linux sysadmin, Docker, Docker Compose
  Email: tslocum@gmail.com

Professional software engineer for ten years, hobbyist programmer for many more. Fully self-taught, always excited to learn more. Active and passionate open source software author and contributor. Seeking a fully remote position. Please review my extensive portfolio of open source projects and contributions.

Résumé/CV: https://rocket9labs.com/resume.pdf

Portfolios:

* Code: https://code.rocket9labs.com/tslocum (All of my code is here)

* Games: https://rocketnine.itch.io (All open source and written in Go)

* GitHub: https://github.com/tslocum (Only my contributions to other projects)

tslocumon The School Car Pickup Line Is a National Embarrassment

Does this article really need a visual aid of cars waiting in a line, let alone a sloppy AI generated visual aid?

tslocumon The DOJ still wants Google to sell off Chrome

I wrote about the situation with Apache Open Office here:

https://rocket9labs.com/post/its-time-to-let-go-apache-softw...

tslocumon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2025)

  Location: Seattle, WA
  Remote: Yes (6 years of WFH experience)
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Go (Golang), Java, PHP, Python, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Linux sysadmin, Docker, Docker Compose
  Email: tslocum@gmail.com

Professional software engineer for ten years, hobbyist programmer for many more. Fully self-taught, always excited to learn more. Active and passionate open source software author and contributor. Seeking a fully remote position. Please review my extensive portfolio of open source projects and contributions.

Résumé/CV: https://rocket9labs.com/resume.pdf

Portfolios:

* Code: https://code.rocket9labs.com/tslocum (All of my code is here)

* Games: https://rocketnine.itch.io (All open source and written in Go)

* GitHub: https://github.com/tslocum (Only my contributions to other projects)

tslocumon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2025)

  Location: Seattle, WA
  Remote: Yes (6 years of WFH experience)
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Go (Golang), Java, PHP, Python, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Linux sysadmin, Docker, Docker Compose
  Email: tslocum@gmail.com

Professional software engineer for ten years, hobbyist programmer for many more. Fully self-taught, always excited to learn more. Active and passionate open source software author and contributor. Seeking a fully remote position. Please review my extensive portfolio of open source projects and contributions.

Résumé/CV: https://rocket9labs.com/resume.pdf

Portfolios:

* Code: https://code.rocket9labs.com/tslocum (All of my code is here)

* GitHub: https://github.com/tslocum (Only my contributions to other projects)

* Games: https://rocketnine.itch.io (All open source and written in Go)

tslocumon LibreOffice 400M Downloads, and Counting

Related: It's Time To Let Go, Apache Software Foundation

https://rocket9labs.com/post/its-time-to-let-go-apache-softw...

tslocumon Ask HN: Are YC startups *actually* hiring?

I've seen a YC startup post for the same back-end job for a year now. I admit that I did not apply, but it doesn't look that unappealing.

tslocumon Luck Be a Landlord Might Be Banned from Google Play

Agreed. I wrote about this issue and others in "On the Importance of F-Droid" https://rocket9labs.com/post/on-the-importance-of-f-droid/

tslocumon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2025)

  Location: Seattle, WA
  Remote: Yes (6 years of WFH experience)
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Go (Golang), Java, PHP, Python, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Linux sysadmin, Docker, Docker Compose
  Résumé/CV: Full résumé available upon request
  Email: tslocum@gmail.com

Professional software engineer for ten years, hobbyist programmer for many more. Active and passionate open source software author and contributor. Fully self-taught, always excited to learn more. Seeking a fully remote position. Please review my extensive portfolio of open source works.

Portfolios:

Code: https://code.rocket9labs.com/tslocum (All of my code is here)

GitHub: https://github.com/tslocum (Only my contributions to other projects)

Games: https://rocketnine.itch.io (All open source and written in Go)

tslocumon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2024)

  Location: Seattle, WA
  Remote: Yes (6 years of WFH experience)
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Go (Golang), Java, PHP, Python, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Linux sysadmin, Docker, Docker Compose
  Résumé/CV: Full résumé available upon request
  Email: tslocum@gmail.com

Professional software engineer for ten years, hobbyist programmer for many more. Active and passionate open source software author and contributor. Fully self-taught, always excited to learn more, and I love teaching and pairing with others. Seeking a fully remote position. Please review my extensive portfolio of open source works.

Portfolios:

Code: https://code.rocket9labs.com/tslocum (All of my code is here)

GitHub: https://github.com/tslocum (Only my contributions to other projects)

Games: https://rocketnine.itch.io (All open source and written in Go)

tslocumon Exploring and having fun with rotary telephones

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308

tslocumon Starship's Sixth Flight Test

Considering how long those videos have been allowed on YouTube, you have to wonder...

https://mashable.com/article/fake-elon-musk-crypto-scam-yout...

tslocumon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2024)

To apply for either of these positions you must record a 30 second video of yourself.

tslocumon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2024)

  Location: Seattle, WA
  Remote: Yes (6 years of WFH experience)
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Go (Golang), Java, PHP, Python, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Linux sysadmin, Docker, Docker Compose
  Résumé/CV: Full résumé available upon request
  Email: tslocum@gmail.com

Professional software engineer for ten years, hobbyist programmer for many more. Active and passionate open source software author and contributor. Fully self-taught, always excited to learn more, and I love teaching and pairing with others. Seeking a fully remote position. Please review my extensive portfolio of open source works.

  Portfolios:
    - Code: https://code.rocket9labs.com/tslocum
    - GitHub: https://github.com/tslocum
    - Games: https://rocketnine.itch.io (All open source and written in Go)

tslocumon Thunderbird for Android Now Available

Why is a transitional package necessary? Surely all of this isn't just to change the package name, which 99% of users won't see or care about.

tslocumon Google Play killed my game and won't tell me why

Problems like this show why publishing outside of Google Play is necessary. I wrote about why I think F-Droid is the best alternative app store to use.

https://rocket9labs.com/post/on-the-importance-of-f-droid/

tslocumon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2024)

  Location: Seattle, WA
  Remote: Yes (6 years of WFH experience)
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Go (Golang for Ctrl+F), Java, PHP, Python, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Linux sysadmin, Docker, Docker Compose
  Résumé/CV: Full résumé available upon request
  Email: tslocum@gmail.com

Professional software engineer for ten years, hobbyist programmer for many more. Active and passionate open source software author and contributor. Fully self-taught, and always excited to learn more. Seeking a fully remote position.

  Portfolios:
    - Code: https://code.rocket9labs.com/tslocum
    - GitHub: https://github.com/tslocum
    - Games: https://rocketnine.itch.io (All open source and written in Go)

tslocumon Matrix-Libera IRC Bridge Temporary Shutdown, a Retrospective (2023)

I use matterbridge to do that. It works well.

https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge