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dielllon Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)

I will explore the Mosaic idea and implement it. Thank you for the feeback and hope to get more and implement

dielllon Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)

A small game called Colorhunt to play with my friends https://colorhunt.lol You get assigned a random colour and have 24 hours to go out and take photos matching it. The game then generates a photo grid from everything you captured.

Modes:

- Solo → 9 photos by yourself - 1v1 → compete against a friend, combined grid at the end - Squad → everyone contributes to a 20-photo grid

No accounts, no app install, no personal data stored. Photos and generated grids auto-delete after 24 hours from Cloudflare R2 storage.

Made it for fun to find a way to do a shared a activity with my girlfriend and also to challenge my friends over the weekends.

Currently redesigning the frontend flow but I am kinda poor at design

Would genuinely appreciate feedback, ideas or anything

dielllon OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe

My first OnePlus was 12R when it came out. Used it till last month when I got 15 because work was paying for it. In terms of performance, I dont see a difference, guess flagships have matured. However the 15 is a beat when it comes to battery life. I literally get 2-3 days of battery life. Never worry about battery life when going out or at anytime. Pkus it's the flagship Snapdragon soc so it runs anything. Money well spent. Too sad that they are closing shop

dielllon Ask HN: What Are You Working On?

https://www.swiftbook.dev/

Added a code runner to the SwiftBook documentation to help me learn Swift concepts in the browser without switching back and forth to an IDE

dielllon Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

https://www.swiftbook.dev/

Added a code runner to the SwiftBook documentation to help me run Swift in the browser without switching back to IDE

dielllon Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)

Saw a post on Twitter of someone doing it with their spouse and I though lt about creating a web app to help me with colour generation and also grid generation.

The first version was the 1v1 mode and I tried it with a few friends. Later added the squad mode.

A few weeks ago, there was a viral tweet of a colorhunt and in the comments there were several people who said that they would love to participate but they cant because they travel alone, that gave me an idea to create the solo mode. Funny enough it's now the most popular mode in the game.

I do this for fun and also to help me develop my Product Manager skills(would one day love to shift from engineering to product however yet to get an opportunity at my current company). Main reason is just a way to keep InTouch with my friends and just explore colours with them.

Glad you like it.

dielllon Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)

A small game called Colorhunt to play with my friends https://colorhunt.lol

You get assigned a random colour and have 24 hours to go out and take photos matching it. The game then generates a photo grid from everything you captured.

Modes:

- Solo → 9 photos by yourself - 1v1 → compete against a friend, combined grid at the end - Squad → everyone contributes to a 20-photo grid

No accounts, no app install, no personal data stored. Photos and generated grids auto-delete after 24 hours from Cloudflare R2 storage.

Made it for fun to find a way to do a shared a activity with my girlfriend and also to challenge my friends over the weekends.

Currently redesigning the frontend flow but I am kinda poor at design

Would genuinely appreciate feedback, ideas or anything

dielllon The 100 hour gap between a vibecoded prototype and a working product

I have had the experience with creating https://swiftbook.dev/learn

Used Codex for the whole project. At first I used claude for the architect of the backend since thats where I usually work and got experience in. The code runner and API endpoints were easy to create for the first prototype. But then it got to the UI and here's where sh1t got real. The first UI was in react though I had specifically told it to use Vue. The code editor and output window were a mess in terms of height, there was too much space between the editor and the output window and no matter how much time I spent prompting it and explaining to it, it just never got it right. Got tired and opened figma, used it to refine it to what I wanted. Shared the code it generated to github, cloned the code locally then told codex to copy the design and finally it got it right.

Then came the hosting where I wanted the code runner endpoint to be in a docker container for security purpose since someone could execute malicious code that took over the server if I just hosted it without some protection and here it kept selecting out of date docker images. Had to manually guide it again on what I needed. Finally deployed and got it working especially with a domain name. Shared it with a few friends and they suggested some UI fixes which took some time.

For the runner security hardening I used Deepseek and claude to generate a list of code that I could run to show potential issues and despite codex showing all was fine, was able to uncover a number of issues then here is where it got weird, it started arguing with me despite showing all the issues present. So I compiled all the issues in one document, shared the dockerfile and linux secomp config tile with claude and the also issues document. It gave me a list of fixes for the docker file to help with security hardening which I shared back with codex and that's when it fixed them.

Currently most of the issues were resolved but the whole process took me a whole week and I am still not yet done, was working most evenings. So I agree that you cannot create a usable product used by lots of users in 30 minutes not unless it's some static website. It's too much work of constant testing and iteration.

dielllon Hegseth gives Anthropic until Friday to back down on AI safeguards

Cwn someone explain to me like I'm 5 how the government would invoke defense act and force the company to tailor its model to the military's needs?

For physical goods, I understand, but for software how exactly Is this possible? Like will the government force them to provide API access for free? It's confusing

dielllon Infrastructure decisions I endorse or regret after 4 years at a startup (2024)

One day, you will need support and when you do, you will realise why every week there's a top voted post on HN on someone complaining about not reaching Google Support

dielllon Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back

I built a fun colour hunt game that I play with my friends. Never knew that there are lots of purple objects in plain sight

https://colorhunt.lol/

dielllon Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?

Thank you David. Definitely going to reach out. Hoping to learn a lot from you

dielllon Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?

Kotlin and Golang. I know it6not advisable to learn 2 languages at the same time but I want Kotlin for android apps and Go for backend. Been working alot with python and I want to shift to a different stack and hopefully get a change of careers from Test Automation/ QA to a more coding focused role(backend, android)

dielllon Migrating from AWS to Hetzner

Only problem with Hetzner is that they don't seem to accept Accounts created from African countries. Tried creating an account with them twice from Kenya, and in both instances my account got blocked 5 minutes after creation with zero explanation. tried reaching out to support and got zero reply.

I get it's their business and they can do as they please with it, however, maybe tell me before I create an account that you don't accept accounts from my continent

dielllon What sets great managers apart

Currently experiencing the same. I am the lowest paid in the team, the people I am expected to mentor are paid higher and my applications for promotions keep getting rejected yet I am told I need ro mentor the others who earn more than me. Spending most of my evenings preparing for interviews

dielllon What sets great managers apart

Had 1 on 1's with my manager for a whole year and everytime they told me how I was doing such a great job as compared to others in the team. There was no zero bad feedback. At the end of the year we had the yearly review and they praised me. However on the review document they placed me on PIP. It was such a shock because why tell me everyday how I am doing such a great job only to put me on PIP? Raised the issue with the skip and he admitted the reason they did that was because HR forced them, claiming not everyone can do well, someone must be on Pip, so they settled on me.

These days our 1 on 1's barely last 5 minutes, it's like we do it as a formality. She is even afraid of talking to me and the worst bit is that I cannot change teams because of the PIP. Plus it's a bad job market. never been this dammned

dielllon Grok Has Been Suspended

Maybe due to refering to a black person in a video as Chimpanzee

https://x.com/grok/status/1954845180286382344

dielllon Grok Has Been Suspended

It called a black person chimpanzee

https://x.com/grok/status/1954845180286382344

dielllon Basic Social Skills Guide

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dielllon MacBook Pro Insomnia

I have the exact model as my work device and I have had this problem since like October 2024. On my personal M4 Pro, none of this. At some point I thought it might be the corporate spyware software. Let me try this solution and see if it fixes it

dielllon The best programmers I know

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

Location: Nairobi, Kenya Remote: yes, open to the idea Willing to relocate: Yes, but will need a Visa Sponsorship Technologies: Python, Pytest, Robot Framework, AWS, Docker

Résumé/CV: Available on request

Email:rob{@}robah.dev

Looking for either QA test automation roles or DevOps roles. I have 4 years of experience doing both manual and automated Testing on web apps, USSD and Mobile apps.

I am not restricted to Python, I can learn any language needed for a particular role.

dielllon DeepSeek-R1

On Android use Termux.

It's a terminal emulator

dielllon I've acquired a new superpower

A kenyan politician once wrote about it. They even thought their phone had an issue because when they were in office they would receive an average of 30 phone calls an hour, once they left it was zero in a day till they though the phone had gotten spoilt

https://nation.africa/kenya/blogs-opinion/blogs/dot9/ndemo/t...

dielllon Meta Wants More AI Bots on Facebook and Instagram

Ashley Madison did it and it became a scandal

dielllon Has anyone used Proton Business Suite rather than Google's for a startup?

I use Zoho, cheap and has more services. In Africa they even give us localised prices.

dielllon Hell Freezes Over as AMD and Intel Come Together for x86

Here rooting for Risc-V

dielllon Flappy Bird for Android, only C, under 100KB

Add it to Fdroid

dielllon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2024)

Location: Nairobi, Kenya Remote: yes, open to the idea Willing to relocate: Yes, but will need a Visa Sponsorship

Technologies: Python, Pytest, Robot Framework, AWS, Docker

Résumé/CV: Available on request

Email:rob{@}robah.dev

Looking for either QA test automation roles or DevOps roles. I have 4 years of experience doing both manual and automated Testing on web apps, USSD and Mobile apps.

I am not restricted to Python, I can learn any language needed for a particular role.

dielllon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2024)

Location: Nairobi, Kenya Remote: yes, open to the idea

Willing to relocate: Yes, but will need a Visa Sponsorship

Technologies: Python, Pytest, Robot Framework, AWS, Docker

Résumé/CV: Available on request

Email:rob{@}robah.dev

Looking for either QA test automation roles or DevOps roles. I have 4 years of experience doing both manual and automated Testing on web apps, USSD and Mobile apps.

I am not restricted to Python, I can learn any language needed for a particular role.