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pestaa··on Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns
What are you talking about. Cory literally coined the term to describe this phenomena. He is not confused by the idea of cheaper products with wider appeal. He takes issue with vendor lock-in that is weaponized first against the end-user, then against paying customers, and finally against investors themselves. This is first and foremost a criticism of online products and platforms, not mass-produced gadgets from China.
pestaa··on Mullvad VPN: Banned TV Ad in the Streets of London [video]
I have a use for them too, but unlikely to happen. Too powerful to abuse.

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/removing-the-support-for-forward...

pestaa··on Stripe valued at $159B, 2025 annual letter
dewey was joking.
pestaa··on “Nothing” is the secret to structuring your work
Happens to me too. Especially when a secret token or API key is on the clipboard, then all senses are heightened until I replace it with something non-sensitive.
pestaa··on Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud
Managing product data on the cloud does not mean public internet access, unless someone messes something up big time.
pestaa··on Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2026?
Facebook is already like this. People didn't stop watching. In fact, they mostly stopped caring if it's fake. And no point in debunking the obvious BS: they scroll faster than you can say AI.
pestaa··on Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions
On the heavy side, but TeamCity is full of goodies.
pestaa··on Practical Tips for Gemini 3
Is "preserve nuance" the latest incantantion that solves all chatbot mistakes?

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/12/05/google-ai-mangles-news-he...

pestaa··on Tell HN: Even LinkedIn is running on Cloudflare and not Azure
They are customers of the CDN too.

Briefly yesterday, linkedin.com was down with Cloudflare's internal server error page.

I don't think that's necessarily a bad review for Azure services, there are other explanations, like organizational inertia, contractual agreements, team preference.

You can feel the pain of GitHub migrating to Azure from afar. With a beast that LinkedIn is, there's got to be a good prize for someone at the end of the road before they pull the trigger.

pestaa··on State of AI: An Empirical 100T Token Study with OpenRouter
I used it for a couple of days and was very impressed. Definitely a hidden gem, and super cheap.
pestaa··on GitHub to Codeberg: my experience
This seems to have been written in good spirit, addressing FLOSS maintainers.
pestaa··on Kubernetes Ingress Nginx is retiring
They are not retiring the API. Nginx Ingress is one of the many projects that implements this API, and you are free to migrate to another implementation.
pestaa··on Who needs Graphviz when you can build it yourself?
I dabbled in this area, there are poster layout generation attempts that use gen ai to come up with an initial layout plan, and even feed the visualization back into the llm for iterative fine-tuning.

I was intrigued, but couldn't make it work reliably. Perhaps I forgot to add "make it look nice" to my prompts.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.04237v3

https://haoyuchen.com/POSTA

https://github.com/microsoft/LayoutGeneration/blob/main/Layo...

pestaa··on We saved $500k per year by rolling our own "S3"
Why nobody should use Apache? I rediscovered it to be great in many use cases. And there's llms to help with the config syntax.
pestaa··on Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available
I've been putting off a cloud to cloud migration, but apparently it can be done in hours?
pestaa··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2025)
Location: EU

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: PHP, Laravel, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes

Résumé/CV: https://pestaa.com

Email: pestaa@pestaa.com

I'm a full stack developer with 10+ years of experience finding absurd amount of enjoyment in B2B web applications.

Especially happy to work on internal tooling, and being the go-to developer for non-technical coworkers.

pestaa··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2025)
SEEKING WORK | REMOTE | EU | PHP full-stack developer

Technologies: PHP, Laravel, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes

I'm a full stack developer with 10+ years of experience finding absurd amount of enjoyment in B2B web applications.

Especially happy to work on internal tooling, and being the go-to developer for non-technical coworkers.

CV: https://pestaa.com

pestaa··on Show HN: Fecusio – Feature flagging and release management tool
Clean and solid, congrats on launching! Any unique features that may differentiate you from other feature flagging tools?
pestaa··on I don't read your email threads
I'm sure this is a problem in large corporations, but on some days I'd give an arm and leg to receive an actual email instead of the random slack messages with zero context and a builtin social pressure for low latency responses.
pestaa··on Broadcom to discontinue free Bitnami Helm charts
If you use the kustomize controller from the FluxCD project, you can set it to prune unmanaged objects.

In true GitOps, I think it's should be default on.

pestaa··on Why is AI so slow to spread?
In contrast to the Economist blaming inefficient workers sabotaging the spread of this wonderful technology, make sure to check out https://pivot-to-ai.com/ where David Gerard has been questioning whether people are prompting it wrong or AI is just not that smart.
pestaa··on Ask HN: Who Is the Best Paid Email Provider? Why?
Google Workspace. If you're willing to depend on Google, nothing comes even close to what you get per dollar.
pestaa··on Show HN: Tikt.com – Remove the "OK" from TikTok URL's to Download as MP3 or MP4
A 4 letter dotcom registered in 2002. Curious what it was used for, how you got it for this project, and what it's worth on the market if you were to sell it. I feel a sense of awe like it's an old statue.
pestaa··on BYD Beats Tesla in Europe for First Time with 169% Sales Surge
Not sure why this is downvoted. Even if you dispute if that have gesture was a Nazi salute, or think that people shouldn't consider the behavior of a CEO when making a purchase, this is the reality.
pestaa··on Ask HN: What's the best email newsletter tool for a software engineer
Listmonk is a modern take, self-hostable and open source. You can hook it up to AWS SES to keep it both cheap and reliable. In the new version they just released there's even an email template composer.
pestaa··on Open source and self hostable/private file converter
WHAT!? Unbelievable productivity. I'm in awe (and a renewed impostor syndrome).
pestaa··on Tailscale has raised $160M
I do in fact care about the nth developer when I visit about us pages.

Maybe a slight bias on my part as I'm a developer and not an investor.

And not that funding or advising is less important, but it's a nice feeling connecting a product I like to faces who make it happen.

pestaa··on Ask HN: What Is the Ideal Keyboard / Layout for Programming
Navigating in Blender is also a pain without a numpad.
pestaa··on Tell HN: SaaS Is the New SEO
I think you make good observations already well captured in Dead Internet Theory.

High craftsmanship however has always been a niche as any given problem will only find a small subset of customers willing to pay extra for higher than average quality.

SaaS may face the same fate as SEO only in the sense that it's hard to acquire relevant traffic at scale. As the industry matured, it slowly became harder to do it for new founders anyway.

With the open internet turning into botfest, people will turn to personal recommendations to solve their technical problems.

In my opinion, the personal network is the new true search engine.

pestaa··on Ask HN: Best Windows/Linux developer laptop in 2025
I've seen ANSI layout being available on many Tuxedo models. I got my Aura 15 with it 4 years ago.
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