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MarcelOlsz

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olsz.me

^ new portfolio site!

marcel dot olszewski [gmail]

building browsertest.ai and other defunkt projects

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MarcelOlsz··on I sell onions on the Internet (2019)
This is good. I was thinking of this but with things like comparing savings accounts, mortgages, and adding different financial products over time.
MarcelOlsz··on I sell onions on the Internet (2019)
Hey this is a great idea. If you want to talk more about it my contacts in my profile. Would love to hear more.
MarcelOlsz··on I sell onions on the Internet (2019)
Hahahaha I didn't even see the irony until I read this, that's hilarious. That's a great idea, I'll do that this weekend.
MarcelOlsz··on I sell onions on the Internet (2019)
I still have no fucking idea what to do with saving.cash and it's costing me $500/year which is financially ruining me lol but I'd rather starve and keep the domain name. I'd never forgive myself for selling it. It's literally saving cash. It can't be anything other than what it is.
MarcelOlsz··on Handheld PC Community Forums
It truly was. It just felt good. The UI brings me such positive nostalgia. I was obsessed playing solitaire on that thing.
MarcelOlsz··on Handheld PC Community Forums
I should fire up my HP Jornada and join this forum from it.
MarcelOlsz··on Show HN: Jmail – Google Suite for Epstein files
>I decided to get the Max 20x plan, and prompting 4 projects with each 2 to 3 running 'conversations' , never hit the limit anymore.

Can you expand on this please? Really cool btw.

MarcelOlsz··on Backing up Spotify
email me please
MarcelOlsz··on Show HN: HN Wrapped 2025 - an LLM reviews your year on HN
This might be a goofy solution but it works: I'm on mac and used BetterDisplay to create a virtual inverted monitor that I throw things to.
MarcelOlsz··on Show HN: HN Wrapped 2025 - an LLM reviews your year on HN
Mine on the other hand could not be more accurate: https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/MarcelOlsz
MarcelOlsz··on Graphite is joining Cursor
This is the comment that did it for me. I love chocolate. I'm in.
MarcelOlsz··on Size of Life
>Music & SFX by Aleix Ramon >Cello performance by Iratxe Ibaibarriaga

Got a link to the music?

MarcelOlsz··on Confessions of a Software Developer: No More Self-Censorship
I'm still trying to replicate my favourite working condition: being on a laptop in the middle of a concert. Pure focus.
MarcelOlsz··on Confessions of a Software Developer: No More Self-Censorship
No offence to everyone else in this thread but the holy grail is truly The Art Of Problem Solving textbooks + mathacademy [0].

[0] https://www.mathacademy.com/

MarcelOlsz··on Confessions of a Software Developer: No More Self-Censorship
This usually applies to Big Bank.
MarcelOlsz··on Confessions of a Software Developer: No More Self-Censorship
We had such incredibly heinous group chats on our Slack that if an admin perused through the logs we'd be instantly fired and the company shut down right then and there lol. The paranoia drove everyone nuts which made it more fun.
MarcelOlsz··on Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg
I think it's a breath of fresh air. Don't want to be called out like this then stop fucking up.
MarcelOlsz··on Trillions spent and big software projects are still failing
I think this is a downstream of effect of there being no real regulation or professional designations in software which leads to every company and team being wildly different leading to no standards leaving no time for anything but crunching since there are no barriers restricting your time, so nobody spends time doing much besides shipping constantly.
MarcelOlsz··on Whole Earth Index
Lol right on, your grandkids will probably still be using it. But just in case check out https://moonlit.market. No affiliation.
MarcelOlsz··on Whole Earth Index
I know this is a razz but I must have you know I use a frankenstein-d iPod classic with rockbox, bluetooth mod, and an SSD. Don't hate on Zunes those things ruled too. Nothing beats a sansa clip though.
MarcelOlsz··on Whole Earth Index
I Live in a Techno-Dystopian Surveillance Nightmare and All I Got Was This Shitty MP3 Player
MarcelOlsz··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2025)
I'm a full-stack designer/engineer with a focus on design and frontend working with early to mid-stage startups my entire career taking products from 0 to 1.

  Location: Toronto  
  Remote: yes  
  Willing to relocate: yes  
  Technologies: react,vue,svelte,node.js,python,go,firebase,gcp,figma,postgres,nosql,aws,docker,mysql,etc 
  Résumé/CV: https://olsz.me/resume.pdf  
  Email: in my resume above  marcel[dot]olszewski[/at/]gmail.com
MarcelOlsz··on Attention lapses due to sleep deprivation due to flushing fluid from brain
What happened? Did they pass or something or just stop posting or what?
MarcelOlsz··on Taking money off the table
Maintenance is great. I've only had to do minor things to it. Since I'm 6'5 I did have to re-weld all my stalks to be 30 degrees back and do a bunch of work on the steering column and wheel to bring it forward 8 inches and up 2, some stuff on the throttle body from coolant leaks, but other than that it's been great. I've put 100k+ km on it in just the past two winters since I live up in the boonies. I'm alerted of oil changes by the lights in the centre of the dash as well. I haven't done much of any work at all except what I mentioned since buying it and it's been smooth sailing for multiple winters now. The M20B25 is built like a tank. I have it sitting on B8's on H&R sports springs so the handling couldn't be better, and I did some minor ECU tuning on it to give me a little more power on the low end. The idle has remained at a perfect 750 as well, and I can get it down to 6.8L/100KM if I baby it. It's the perfect car [0]. I've even binned it a few times and it's still going strong.

I've also got a period correct radio in there from bmwradios.com (radio wizard from estonia) who gave it bluetooth functionality along with a period correct panel in the console for a microphone, so I can talk hands free while I'm driving. He also modified the radio for me to read out the different GTA 3/4/5 radio stations and I can switch them around as I only listen to GTA radio and commercials when driving [1]. Besides it being 900kg with no airbags, it's the perfect car.

Between e30zone, the bentley manual, and realOEM [3] amongst the other infinite amount of resources it's impossible not to do your own work on it and it's usually easy. It really is a thinkpad in car form. Most parts are still produced and if they aren't you can get any number of things from third party shops like e30garage.no [4] if it's not on FCPEuro. Lot's of parts are also plug'n'play between different BMW models like steering racks which are quite easily swappable.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/kjt2ATf.jpeg

[1] https://i.imgur.com/uenzzLq.mp4

[2] bonus winter video: https://i.imgur.com/KG2IlgN.mp4

[3] https://www.realoem.com/

[4] http://e30garage.no/

MarcelOlsz··on Taking money off the table
This is why I love old tech like my 40 year old car (bmw e30 325is) and analog camera and whatnot. You have way more control because of less external dependencies and simplicity, and the prices are still decent compared to what you'd get now for vastly more money. $70k dogshit unwrenchable SUV or $10k 80's car that works like a dream and is built like a thinkpad? It's so relaxing working with older things. Hearing old peoples stories are wild, like just crossing the border with a 6 pack of beer no passport no nothing and having a good time on the weekend. Now my asshole is getting scanned down to the submillimeter and sitting in a palantir database just so I can go on a vacation.
MarcelOlsz··on Dithering – Part 1
Great links. I just did my portfolio in a retro-ish style and started getting into making retro shaders. Check it out: https://olsz.me.
MarcelOlsz··on I built the same app 10 times: Evaluating frameworks for mobile performance
Apologies for not submitting a paper to an academic journal about why I hate React.
MarcelOlsz··on How the brain's activity, energy use and blood flow change as people fall asleep
Yes. I have no off switch.
MarcelOlsz··on I built the same app 10 times: Evaluating frameworks for mobile performance
Hilarious its come full circle again. React was a breath of fresh air for fe's back in the day, and now we're back at jQuery! Why the switch from React to Laravel/Blade/JQuery?

>I liked being a solo React Typescript developer.

Being a solo FE rocks. Everyone thinks you're a magician. The worst is FE-by-committee where you get 'full-stack' devs but really they're 99% postgres and 1% html.

MarcelOlsz··on Show HN: A Visual No-Code Game Engine – 50x Easier Than Unity
Never ask a woman her age, and never ask a founder where his numbers are from.
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