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Cheezmeister

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Same on Microsoft Dev (GitHub) and Microsoft Jobs (LinkedIn), and bsky.social

In meatspace, I'm just Brendan.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Brendan+Luchen

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Cheezmeister··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026)
I imagine it was a mitigation measure against botspam slopping it up in Snout's candidate pool.

Or maybe a typo, still, I'd have left the link unstated.

...Internet courtesy is weird these days :/

Cheezmeister··on Zero-native – Build native desktop apps with web UI
Hypen [sic]. Not the punctuation :)

https://hypen.space

Cheezmeister··on Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS
Have you heard the good gospel of Asahi?

https://asahilinux.org/

Cheezmeister··on The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else
Had been**. Still low, but we aren't laughing anymore. https://www.macrotrends.net/2015/fed-funds-rate-historical-c...

Do high interest rates not, by definition, favor capital over labor?

Cheezmeister··on OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026
False.

The existential risk is in companies smoking the AI crackpipe that sama (begging your pardon) handed them, thinking it feels great and then projecting[1] that every investment will hit like the first, and continuing to buy the <EXPLETIVE> crack that they can't afford, and they investors can't afford, and their clients can't afford, their vendors can't afford, the grid can't afford, the planet can't afford, the American people can't afford, and sama[2] can't afford, _because it's <EXPLETIVE> crack_!

The wise will shut up and take the win on the slop com bubble.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chasing_the_dragon

[2]: For those following along at home, sama is Sam Altman, he was a part of the Y Combinator community a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=sama

Cheezmeister··on Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades
This.

The work/retirement dichotomy is such a weird and peculiar artifact of the 1950s US middle-class nuclear-family milieu.

That's gone.

For the rest of us, it's just...live your life, until you don't.

(viz. Below the fold: "Buffett remains as chair...")

Cheezmeister··on Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades
I don't know the guy, but by all indications he is even-keeled, low-stress, conscientious but come what may. Given his nationality and net-worth, I'd wager that Warren is a centenarian in waiting, unless and until he chooses to invest in the afterlife. Whichever comes first.

Respect.

Cheezmeister··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)
Are you open to hire help on a contract basis?
Cheezmeister··on A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool
For comparison: https://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/radiation/around-us/calculator

In other news, a kitten named millicurie did a really adorable thing.

The only remarkable fact here is that the regulatory structure is strong enough that we commoners are entitled to hear about it. That's a Very Good Thing, and one I wish we enjoyed apropos, say, the corporate veil (looking at you, Chevron, Exxon, Shell, Aramco, Sinopec, Amazon, Oracle, AIPAC, United, The Trump Organization, X Corp, Paramount, Skydance, eMed Population Health, Inc., et. al.).

But the story here is a guy fell into some water, and is following SOP (which is also a Very Good Thing).

Please don't feed the clickbait.

Cheezmeister··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2025)
> I'm the Founder / Chief Chicken Tender

I just have one question... Which came first?

Cheezmeister··on Researchers map where solar energy delivers the biggest climate payoff
I mean it's five basis points, it ain't nothin.

Put another way, if I could grease the right palms to shave commensurate minuscule savings off of the budget of ICE, it'd pay off my mortgage. Twentyfold.

Back to greenhouse gases, I'm no climatologist, but isn't it plausible the difference could, for instance, make or break one catastrophic wildfire across the western seaboard of North America?

Beware of statistic thinking in a stochastic world.

Cheezmeister··on Why young parents should focus on building trust with their kids
Incidentally, Fighting the Dopamine Goblin is the title of my next EP.

For real though, the DG is the perfect personification. Don't overfeed it, it'll only get meaner.

Cheezmeister··on Back to basics: Why we chose long-polling over websockets
Streaming SIMD Extensions?

Server-sent events.

Cheezmeister··on LaTeX.css – Make your website look like a LaTeX document
If only there were some way to adjust for that difference when viewed on a different type of medium, such as a high-DPI LED-backlit liquid crystal display.

Unfortunately, the web wasn't designed that way, which is why every document that you read on a website instead of on paper is illegible.

It's a shame, really. :) /s

Cheezmeister··on Forced to upgrade
Against which threats?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42293962

Cheezmeister··on Forced to upgrade
Fingerprint vs Face shines while (for instance) having a conversation and, because you have manners, want to maintain eye contact while pulling up a photo of that thing you are describing, or to make sure that's just a robocall and not your wife with an emergency.

It also shines first thing in the morning where your hair and eyes are so disheveled that even Siri didn't recognize you. Your thumb is probably still the same shape.

Cheezmeister··on Forced to upgrade
> Because there’s no way a $50-100 coffee machine or printer is lasting a decade.

There absolutely is.

Viz. the no-name drip machine I picked up at Goodwill for $10 and is probably older than me. The heating element makes the water boil, and it trickles over the grounds and becomes my morning salvation.

Viz. the Brother laser printer ca. 2013 for $99 (in, admittedly, 2013 dollars). I had to replace the toner once, it was slightly annoying.

Neither of these items has an app.

Longevity ≈ Quality / Complexity where Quality ≠ Price

Cheezmeister··on The feds are coming for John Deere over the right to repair
In a world where rolling coal[1] is a thing that people do voluntarily, I submit that emissions enforcement (as it stands) is a failed experiment. It's time to rethink it from first principles.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_coal

Cheezmeister··on Ask HN: Did you regret staying at a job for too long?
> HIPPO, highest paid person's opinion. It is often a deciding factor in what decisions and next steps a team takes

TIL.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippo_(disambiguation)#Other

Cheezmeister··on Ask HN: Did you regret staying at a job for too long?
How did you find weathering the growing pains, as your first employer (presumably) went through startup adolescence? Did you remain IC or branch into people-management?

Sound advice, caveat that (for so many reasons) a shop that feels right and _stays that way_ is increasingly rare and precious.

Cheezmeister··on Micro-libraries should never be used
At no point does this article attempt to define the term "micro-library".

Perhaps we should start there.

Cheezmeister··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2024)
Is the typo in domain a preventive measure for spambots, and/or candidates? Either way, I like it. +1
Cheezmeister··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2024)
Location: US Northeast / Greater Boston Remote: Yes, Hybrid preferred

Willing to relocate: For the right fit, NYC or Europe.

Résumé: http://resume.bml.rocks

Linkedin: http://linkedin.com/in/cheezmeister

GitHub: https://github.com/Cheezmeister

Portfolio: www.bml.rocks

Personal: www.luchenlabs.com

Email: Present in the links above, or my username at gmail dotcom and put [HN] in the subject line. Verbatim emails on this thread are routinely harvested for spamming purposes. Don't post yours here.

Technologies: Are listed on my resume and gravitate around fullstack. To get past bad filters, I enumerate TypeScript React Python Scala Elixir Tailwind Linux Node Kotlin Android Docker Git C++ COBOL (just kidding) aaand PostgreSQL. I'm messing with Svelte, ktor.io, DaggerCI and ArgoCD in a current role.

Seeking: Series B -ish, 20-50 headcount-ish, bonus points for work in Health, Education, or Environmental sectors. Hybrid 40% in the Boston metro is ideal, but full onsite to full remote is all fair game, and if you are still reading, have a wonderful day and make a stranger smile.

Statement: Don't hire me for a hard skills match. Hire me for versatility as a polyglot agnostic builder of stuff, mentorship capacity to strengthen your whole team, bulletproof optimism in a fast-paced and uncertain world, a low-maintenance and well-behaved ego, and the occasional classy dad joke (no, I don't have kids).

Cheezmeister··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2024)
Here's my application: http://luchenlabs.com/lp/hello_world_over_http/ || http://resume.bml.rocks
Cheezmeister··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2024)
Cool application process.

Do the team have a name, or at least a code name?

Cheezmeister··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2024)
Just to be crystal clear, US Americans are ineligible?
Cheezmeister··on What UI density means and how to design for it
> It's minimalism gone to seed.

That's a fine way to frame it.

In this horticultural metaphor, I sure hope we'll come to germinate a new and healthy UX maximalism, but so far, with rare exceptions few and far between, I'm not seeing it.

Even Wikipedia, long a bastion of the good old ugly, went ahead and introduced a hamburger menu, replaced the old global sidebar with the article's TOC (collapsed by default with "generous" spacing), and replaced the old right-hand TOC with...whitespace.

Cheezmeister··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2024)
Location: US Northeast / Greater Boston Remote: Yes, Hybrid preferred

Willing to relocate: For the right fit, NYC or Europe.

Résumé: http://resume.bml.rocks

Linkedin: http://linkedin.com/in/cheezmeister

GitHub: https://github.com/Cheezmeister

Portfolio: www.bml.rocks

Personal: www.luchenlabs.com

Email: Present in the links above, or my username at gmail dotcom and put [HN] in the subject line. Verbatim emails on this thread are routinely harvested for spamming purposes. Don't post yours here.

Technologies: Are listed on my resume and gravitate around fullstack/frontend. To get past bad filters, I enumerate TypeScript React Python Scala Elixir Tailwind Linux Node Kotlin Android Docker Git C++ COBOL (just kidding) aaand PostgreSQL. I'm messing with Svelte, ktor.io, DaggerCI and ArgoCD in a current role.

Seeking: Series B -ish, 20-50 headcount-ish, bonus points for work in Health, Education, or Environmental sectors. NO fintech, NO martech, and if you are still reading, have a wonderful day and make a stranger smile.

Cheezmeister··on Ask HN: Freelance website builders/maintainers, what's in your 2024 toolkit?
> VS code with neovim

Do you mean VS code with a plugin that makes it look and feel like neovim, or is there a way to make both clients edit the same buffer at the same time?

Cheezmeister··on Ask HN: What is the current (Apr. 2024) gold standard of running an LLM locally?
RFC: Is there some straightforward way to use a Pi-hole like setup to 302 redirect `reddit.com` to `old.reddit.com`?

I'm sure there are myriad browser extensions that will do it at the DOM level, but that's such a heavy-handed solution, and also lol I'm not putting an extension on the cartesian product of all my browsers on all my machines in the service of dis-enshittifying one once-beloved social network.

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