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dansult··on Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow?
Will try this out, I'm just running claude in terminal panes stacked on the right hand side. Cheers!
dansult··on Many Small Queries Are Efficient in SQLite
You should update it, it benefits many users.
dansult··on Ask HN: Share your personal website
https://danielms.site
dansult··on Ask HN: Anyone still using RSS feeds?
Miniflux is how I subscribe to much of my tech content via their RSS. Always a little disappointed when no RSS is available for interesting blogs.
dansult··on Ask HN: Does reading HN make you happy?
I agree with you, in general this place doesn't increase my happiness but finding insights from the submissions and more often, well crafted comments, does. This is going into my browser search shortcut - thank you!
dansult··on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell
I'm reading this because of the newsletter! HN is a time sink so the newsletter lifts only items worthy of attention to my email. Been a sub for many years. Thank you!
dansult··on How I use every Claude Code feature
Yes and you can select multiple files to give it focus. It can run anything in your PATH too. Eg it's pretty good at using `gh` and so on
dansult··on Unsafe and Unpredictable: My Volvo EX90 Experience
You've gotta be in Australia because I had a cx-5 2014 2.2 TD and it was a nightmare. I'll never buy a Mazda again. You know its bad when years after the warranty has expired Mazda are fixing head gaskets or outright replacing engines for free.
dansult··on Ask HN: People who work different timezones than your company. How sched?
I work in a global company with people in Asia, Australia, North America and across Europe. My team are all in NA and I'm in Australia. I just get up early to maximise cross over, two morning meetings for me a week. Works pretty well but I do get up/stay up occasionally for 2am meetings. Apart from all hands there's no pressure to do so. Hardest part is arranging a meeting between a European, American and myself - someone is going to be out of normal hours. Fully remote rather than "remote but this timezone" is great.
dansult··on Ask HN: People who work different timezones than your company. How sched?
2am all hands.. but for the most part it's great working with European and American colleagues
dansult··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)
Thats an interesting project. Thanks for sharing.
dansult··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)
Very cool man. Love this!
dansult··on Ask HN: Are AI dev tools lowering the barrier to entry for creating software?
Thats a sombre take. My father in law was a professional photographer for 30 years. His experience was very much that everyone can take a decent photo today. But he saw diminishing opportunities as early as the days of small point and shoot cameras. Today, they're not used as much because commodity DSLRs are relatively cheap and dont require much if any training. Are we in the days of the Nikon Coolpix? Maybe, its definitely something to consider.
dansult··on Ask HN: What is one programming language you would recommend to a new learner?
Python is a good first language. Big community. Easy to start, can start without OOP or even functions - just a script. Large ecosystem from web to AI. Automating the boring stuff type work has real world application and is a decent glide path from learning programming to actually enjoying it.

I want new programmers to learn to enjoy it before trudging through theory and patterns. "Read what you love until you love to read" sings true here.

dansult··on Ask HN: How does JetBrains protect their IDE Java source code?
Accurate. JetBrains IDEs are the only ones I'll use. Webstorm, PyCharm, GoLand - all wonderful.
dansult··on Show HN: A Directory of 500 HN Side Projects
How do you see all the entries? Each option only shows ten items with no way to load more.
dansult··on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
Really cool approach to running a VPN company
dansult··on Excalidraw's AI Tool – useful and underrated
I use mermaid.js a lot but not enough that I an fluent in the DSL. So I pump things into excalidraw's AI and tell it to create the mermaid chart. It gets my 80% of the way and I tweak/extend from there. If nothing else its awesome for that
dansult··on Ask HN: How to Start as Golang Developer?
Thank you for following up with the links, I also made a mistake in my post. It was Let's Go Further but hopefully OP figured that out.
dansult··on Ask HN: How to Start as Golang Developer?
Having experience in other languages it should be fairly easy to pick up. I personally bought the book Let's Go by Alex Edwards. It's a project based book where he teaches you Go by writing an API server. I found it really beneficial as I was familiar with API development but not with Go. After that I used what I learnt to create some side projects and the rest is history.

If you feel you're already past that point of learning then I'd just create little projects. Re-write one of your old ones in Go, and things like that.

dansult··on Ask HN: What terminal recording tools lets you edit/run recordings?
In a previous gig we used <https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs> and kept the "tape" in git. This way it sort of ensured that updates to the CLI were updated. If someone added something and didn't update the the tape, it would be noticed in code review. Worked well enough.
dansult··on Pattern of brain damage is pervasive in Navy SEALs who died by suicide
Different roles. Everyone has a part to play but SF relies upon relative superiority. Assets and ignoring military customs which do not increase effectiveness and lethality are requirements to get the job done. An infantry company is more able to defend its position than a troop of SF without heavy weapons if bogged down. Camouflage works and when you're rolling multicam with a black gun it reduces its effectiveness.

I sense a lot of bitterness.

dansult··on Pattern of brain damage is pervasive in Navy SEALs who died by suicide
Changed maybe but not a whole new person. And its not binary - my experiences will different to yours even if we were in the exact same situations. After two tours I am not so different that I cannot interface with friends or family as I did before. I think the misconception of this statement does more harm then good and shows a rather negative interpretation of combat veterans.
dansult··on Ask HN: Those running K8s in house, can you please explain your architecture?
Absolutely not. We use it extensively.

https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s

dansult··on Ask HN: What are some knowledge gaps you commonly see for web developers?
My sense is that is more and more common especially for the generation entering the workforce now.
dansult··on Mirantis K8s Lens closed its source
I personally use k9s in favor of Lens. Some don't like or can't use k9s but if you can its amazingly robust, feature packed and easy to use.
dansult··on Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episodes of 2023?
The Erik Prince episode was fantastic.
dansult··on Ask HN: How to find a useful dev job?
Sometimes work is just work. This is just my take but I work mostly for the money and that money lets me do things I love. I find most of my software development joy outside of work. I don't let my job define me or my happiness. Otherwise, if that's not helpful advice, I'd try things like the jobs board on here, or other startup-y board because you'll have more impact at those and might find an interesting problem space.
dansult··on Ask HN: How's your job search going in this current economy?
Applied for a few positions so far just to see whats up. Only one gave me a rejection. The rest ghosted. Moving state next year and need to find a new gig before then. Sounds like I'll need to start applying a lot more
dansult··on Tell HN: Flask and Quart have now partially merged
Flask definitely wins the documentation and maintenance department. FastAPI has "shiny" docs. Flask at least has an API reference.
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