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masylum··on Hedonism and Entrepreneurship in Barcelona
Loool. I'm indeed not serious people, the piece is meant to be humorous. I was just experimenting with a gonzo journalism style (hence the title) and drew on my own experiences.
masylum··on Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?
We are building https://fika.bar precisely for that. Niche experts that would love to write, but they don't know how, or don't have time to.
masylum··on Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?
We are building https://fika.bar for that! Niche experts that like to write!
masylum··on AI Is Eating the Internet
The last two decades of the Internet have been an age of abundance. Creators, advertisers, and consumers benefited from a balance of incentives and a mostly open web. Now, with the rise of consumer AI, that balance is breaking. I explore what comes next in my latest essay.
masylum··on Ask HN: What Pocket alternatives did you move to?
Good catch!
masylum··on Ask HN: What Pocket alternatives did you move to?
Checking!
masylum··on Ask HN: What Pocket alternatives did you move to?
Hey, this is Pao, the guy building https://fika.bar.

Fika is a place to save, discover and share content built upon 3 products:

- A local-first bookmark manager (Works 100% offline) - A feed reader: With feed discovery from your bookmarks. - A blog/newsletter platform

The only thing it currently does not have is e-reader integration yet. But you get the other 2 products bundled together which make a lot of sense.

masylum··on Building a Web Game in 2025
Hey! I'm the author of the post, it looks like someone has posted this before me :)
masylum··on LiveStore launch – reactive local-first state w synced SQLite
finally! I've been following Johannes Schickling project since Riffle!
masylum··on Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot
I've been building a pocket alternative that also bundles an RSS editor (RIP google reader) and a light blogging platform.

The idea is basically to bundle the saving, discovering and sharing content through the same product. I've been using it for a year and it works beautifully.

https://fika.bar

And you can see my bookmarks/posts here: https://fika.bar/blogs/paoramen

masylum··on How to build a game without spending euros and hours
What do cellular automata, chaos theory, and Mahjong have in common? In this post, I break down how I built Whatajong: a game created in under 200 hours with zero budget—by tapping into the power of emergence. If you're curious how simple rules can create deep, addictive gameplay, read on.
masylum··on Show HN: Latitude Agents, the first autonomous agent platform built for the MCP
Congratulations for the launch! Looks great!
masylum··on Show HN: PromptL, a templating language designed for LLM prompting
it would be great to integrate with zod, along the lines of python's instructor
masylum··on Why is everybody talking about sync engines?
I don't shit on anything, the first part is just a parody.
masylum··on Show HN: Handinger – API to extract data from the Internet
I did a lot of optimizations with a tiered approach: starting from cheap (and egress-free) and then fallbacking into more expensive ones.
masylum··on I won't be renewing my Pinboard subscription
good advice! I will try recording something :)
masylum··on I won't be renewing my Pinboard subscription
there are plenty of good alternatives nowadays:

- https://raindrop.io/: Also a one-man show, but probably the best bookmarking tool out there.

- https://omnivore.app: Open source and support for newsletters.

For my use case though (I like to curate and share), I ended up building an app (https://fika.bar) to bundle bookmarking + RSS Reader + Blogging.

masylum··on Cheer-reader a cheerio port of readability.js
This library is a port of the readability.js library that uses cheerio instead of native DOM APIs. The goal for this library was to avoid using JSDOM which is pretty slow and a memory hog.
masylum··on Sneak Peek Behind the Scenes of MobX
Awesome!
masylum··on The N+1 Dilemma – Bullet or Prosopite?
Awesome! Didn't know about Prosopite.
masylum··on Hooks Considered Harmful
The point is that "a prop changed" can't be reasoned within a component. If I receive an object as a prop, I can only reason if that pointer in memory will be the same, not wether it has changed. The allocation can happen up in the component hierarchy making this a subtle for even the most senior developers.
masylum··on Hooks Considered Harmful
yes, it was a wink/homage to historic discussions on anti-patterns :)
masylum··on Hooks Considered Harmful
Maybe I expressed it incorrectly. When the code is incorrect, it fails in the future. So the user will notice it. This happens when your code relies on some context to work (for instance, if it relies on how the data structure was allocated somewhere up the component hierarchy). When the context changes, then that piece of code starts failing, therefore impacting users.
masylum··on Hooks Considered Harmful
I agree, but the problem is that when you refer an object inside a hook, the eslint exhaustive deps will tell you to add that object as a dependency. In that example, it's easily solved with destructuring `const teamId = params`, but a lot of developers will blindly follow the eslint complaint.
masylum··on Show HN: EverydayCheck – minimalist app to form new habits – feedback welcome
Looks like someone got "inspired" by http://factorialhr.com ;)
masylum··on Show HN: Cerebro – productivity booster with a brain
Awesome! HTML5 all the things!
masylum··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2014)
Redbooth is looking for senior Rails developers.

Join one of the best teams in town and have an impact to the thousands of customers that are using our product.

We are looking for people that have production experience with high traffic websites and are able to learn new technologies. Finding solutions out of the comfort zone is part of our daily routine.

The challenges you will face will be to keep the fast-paced development cycle without sacrificing quality, stability nor performance. To achieve that we successfully architected the application moving away from the classic monolithic default Rails approach.

Our stack includes: Ruby/Rails, Rspec, MySQL, Redis, Erlang/Ejabberd, Javascript/Backbone/Marionette, Travis, Nodejs, Puppet, AWS...

The conditions are exceptional (really good salary and stock!) and we have a strong culture of collaboration and quality work. One example can be our cleaning fridays: developers dedicate time to reduce technical debt, improve tooling and testing coverage.

If you want to grow and be part of one of the most successful startups in Barcelona don't hesitate to apply!

What should I do?

Contact us at jobs@redbooth.com :)

masylum··on Convert your Vine videos to animated GIFs Weekend open-source project (node.js)
Cool! Time to do the same for instagram :)
masylum··on Ask HN: Your favorite to-do list or task manager?
I (ab)use Teambox. You can plug it with incoming email so its great for ticketing and also for defining custom processes within your team (hashtags? love them!).
masylum··on Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (November 2012)
Teambox:

We are hiring!

- Senior Fullstack developer with strong js and ruby skills (Backbone, RoR, nodejs)

- Junior support engineer with experience in js or ruby and some testing tools.

Join our amazing team in Barcelona and help us build an amazing product! :)

http://teambox.com/jobs/

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