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j1436goon PGSimCity - How PostgreSQL Works

Because it reduces my trust in the truthfulness of the represented information.

j1436goon Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation

That's what GOG offers. And I'd advise anyone to use GOG over Steam for their principles alone. Every game you purchase through their platform is DRM free and they go to a lot of effort to preserve retro titles that would be difficult to play nowadays without a lot of tinkering. They also put no limitation on how many family members you can share your games with.

j1436goon Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements

I switched to LibreWolf, use uBlock Origin and have modified the web search so it uses noai.duckduckgo.com and appends -ai to every Google search query. I'm rather happy with this setup.

j1436goon Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back

Happy for everyone who enjoys it. For me it's the opposite: AI everywhere sucks the joy out of it and I'm seriously starting to consider a career shift after roughly 10 years of writing code for a living.

j1436goon End of Japanese community

Me and my GF had plenty of laughs in the beginning. Now it's become just annoying.

j1436goon End of Japanese community

Same for German. It's horrible.

j1436goon Apps SDK

Extrapolating from my experience testing it for coding tasks the result is not reliable even if it was right a couple of times. A risk I'm not willing to take. And I can't say that AI powered chat assistants on web pages have been much help either.

j1436goon Show HN: The text disappears when you screenshot it

Had the same in LibreWolf under Manjaro Linux. Worked in Chrome.

j1436goon React is winning by default and slowing innovation

I've stopped being interested in frontend frameworks after Vue/React but I agree. I find JSX with its mix of JS and HTML rather weird. I prefer Vue's abstractions and the readability of its template syntax. It's also rather easy to add it without a compilation step for some interactivity or app-like behaviour on a web page. More complex applications using a bundler work as well as our company is developing and maintaining a 100k LOC webapp too. In the end I'd prefer it if browser would provide a native API for two-way binding, components or templating and maybe state management as well.

j1436goon Reshaped is now open source

Looks very clean! Kudos for creating it. Switching tabs and navigating on the documentation page freezes the site for a couple of ms though. I'm on Manjaro Linux using LibreWolf v135.

j1436goon How I program with agents

As a personal anecdote I've tried to create Shell scripts for the testing of a public HTTP API that had pretty good documentation and in both cases the requests did not work. In one case it even hallucinated an endpoint.

j1436goon Avoiding AI is hard – but our freedom to opt out must be protected

Looking at the current state of AI models that assist in software engineering I don't have much faith in it being any better, quite the contrary.

j1436goon Lovefield, a relational database for web apps, works cross-browser

I'm using it in production and are very happy with it.

j1436goon 2D game art for programmers

I miss the days of pixel art and 90s anime. I just can't appreciate contemporary game art.

j1436goon Dart in 2016: Fastest growing language at Google, 2nd fastest in TIOBE

I'm missing autocompletion for vim.

j1436goon Show HN: Read Hacker News Like Pinterest – Built with Vuejs

Your decryption/encryption secret (key) is stored on the server side only and if a client requests a thumbnail, you can validate the URL value by successfully decrypting it with this secret and probably do a simple HTTP URL validation check of the decrypted value. And you have to encrypt all thumbnail URLs with this secret before passing them to the client.

j1436goon Vue in 2016

Another very happy customer. After doing React and Angular 2 for a while I'm very happy with Vue. And it would be really nice to see Weex reach production maturity someday (regarding docs as well). Thanks, Evan!

j1436goon Why we chose Vue.js

And how long until the next "modern React" will land? That's what drove me away from React.

j1436goon Insomnia 3.0 – A simple and beautiful REST API client

A small nitpick: The generated Go code omits error handling and doesn't escape quotation marks when adding a header value containing a space.

j1436goon Relax – A New Generation CMS on Top of React, Redux, and GraphQL

Throwing "Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property '_currentElement' of null" on the page edit view. UA: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/50.0.2661.86 Safari/537.36. Just saying ...

j1436goon Cash: a cross-platform implementation of Unix shell commands in JavaScript

Would be a good idea to write those in Go and just ship the runtime together with the binary IMO.

j1436goon Go Lang: Comments Are Not Directives

Well, I get quite the opposite impression of condescending with them hanging around HN and golang nuts discussing language issues. And I'm actually fine with them making the decisions in the end. Go wouldnt be as clear and productive as it is today if every request for a feature would find it's way into the language in some half-hearted manner.