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sdotdev

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Young Saas developer bringing useful services to solve problems.
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sdotdev··on Free software hasn't won
Blog styling is a bit weird and for the actual copy I kind of don't get its direction
sdotdev··on The current status of 8K movies
I feel like anything above 4k is impractical. thats 8,294,400 million pixels and 8k is 33 million. sure thats a near 4x increase, but visually its the exact same. all 8k movies do is allow a higher charge because they can label the movies to be better with their "higher and better" number
sdotdev··on The least amount of CSS for a decent looking site (2023)
I mean, that is in your comment. According to the usability research, more people prefer the other approach. You SHOULD adapt your default style to something more universally applicable.

And, no, I do not want the text I am reading to be full-width on my 32-inch monitor. I'm jumping between a lot of other sites that need to take up the entire space.

I mean, newspapers have a smaller columnar style than any website and have been around for generations.

sdotdev··on Show HN: I built a local-first podcast app
love how frictionless the site is, really good ux other devs should take note
sdotdev··on Show HN: Interactive Map on GitHub Profile – Say Hello with GitHub Actions
This is a cool idea but surely you can use the (I think its) octo API to send the issues automatically instead of making me open github?
sdotdev··on Ask HN: Career Burnout Looking for Options
I'd recommend (if you can afford it of course) to take some time off and see if you can work on something for yourself without a deadline or someone in your ear, just peace and building. Like a structured hobby.
sdotdev··on Show HN: FizzBee – Formal Model based autonomous testing
Interesting read. I’ve tried Alloy and Dafny for verification before. Seeing how this integrates with real code would be useful. Does it handle concurrency or just sequential logic?
sdotdev··on Show HN: Timelinize – Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally
Nice work. I’ve been frustrated with how closed off location history tools have become lately. This looks like a solid step toward giving people real ownership of their data again. Definitely checking this out.
sdotdev··on Doing Rails Wrong
what’s interesting is how every few years we circle back to the same conversation with new names for old problems. the industry keeps rebranding the same complexity as innovation, but it’s mostly the same tension between abstraction and control. every new framework promises to simplify things, but each simplification hides an entire new layer of assumptions that developers eventually have to learn anyway. maybe that’s just the cost of building software at scale now: we’re layering human preferences and historical context into the codebase as much as we are logic. in that sense, modern stacks aren’t complicated because of bad design choices, they’re complicated because they’re living artifacts of collective compromise.
sdotdev··on Ask HN: Are AI filters becoming stricter than society itself?
I think in some places AI's arent strict enough, its all an imbalance
sdotdev··on Show HN: Bizcardz.ai – Custom metal business cards
Exporting as a 3d model would be cool
sdotdev··on Show HN: What country you would hit if you went straight where you're pointing
AI icon might throw people off but its a good concept i like it
sdotdev··on Show HN: Nestable.dev – local whiteboard app with nestable canvases, deep links
Its really responsive and I like how its easy to get to the whiteboard, no signup or popups, well done
sdotdev··on Show HN: Run AI models directly in the browser – no server or internet required
nice tool, can see this actually being useful especially in those times where sites go down for no reason
sdotdev··on Show HN: Publish Markdown – A tool to publish Markdown file in one click
I like this alot, a good feature to add could be an "insert table" button that i can selected height and width on, because typing out the whole |----| syntax can be annoying
sdotdev··on Show HN: Port Kill – A lightweight macOS status bar development port monitor
If only I was on mac, something like this probably exists on windows I just need to find it. great idea however
sdotdev··on We're making GPT-5 warmer and friendlier based on feedback that it felt formal
Make it stop saying "Nice - " at the start of every prompt that's annoying.
sdotdev··on Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 can now end a rare subset of conversations
Yeah this will end poorly
sdotdev··on Ask HN: How do you tune your personality to get better at interviews?
Treat it like a conversation with a mutual friend. You aren't close and dying of laugher but you have that familiarity with each other which lightens the mood.

They are a person after all.

sdotdev··on Research: The Penalty of Using AI at Work
That social switch will probably take so long for certain groups or might not just happen at all.
sdotdev··on Do Things That Don't Scale (2013)
I really agree with this.

I used to live with the mindset and if I didn't elevate far in a week I would just give up.

Things really take time.

sdotdev··on Ask HN: Are there software engineering areas that are safe from LLMs invasion?
Embedded systems in infrastructure systems should be save as they not only need to be specific but are just important and dangerous but you never know.
sdotdev··on Show HN: Building a web search engine from scratch with 3B neural embeddings
Search engines are really fascinating in how they work, this is impressive
sdotdev··on Show HN: Mock Interviews for Software Engineers
This looks like a great concept but the landing page is a bit cluttered and if there was an image/video preview of what the actual interview/features look like that would be good too.
sdotdev··on Ask HN: Is the rise of AI tools going to be the next 'dot com' bust?
I don't think it will burst but more likely deflate.

Year on year people will be disappointed that AI isn't consistently improving and that it will eventually plateau, and other things will be hyped up excessively.

I can imagine quantum being the next big craze but at the same time, I doubt that can even get to consumer considering it needs near 0 kelvin temperatures.

But who knows

sdotdev··on Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across police forces in England
Its all very dystopian.

People say we need to fight back against this but realistically how?

sdotdev··on Launch HN: Golpo (YC S25) – AI-generated explainer videos
I'll try the 1 free generation soon, but the way the text appears randomly in that landing page demo video is really weird. I keep loosing track of where I'm reading too as the audio sometimes is not perfectly synced. The sync is not that bad however, but it could be better.
sdotdev··on PYX: The next step in Python packaging
When this releases it will be crazy, Ive always wondered why something like this didn't already exist.

Really useful concept especially for school.

sdotdev··on Study mode
the product itself seems really useful but I doubt the average student that knows they can either walk through with study mode or just get the answer with normal prompting would choose the one that takes longer, especially with deadlines. As a student I would be 50/50, but its a good feature for sure
sdotdev··on Show HN: I made a website that makes you cry
although I didnt cry the video I watched opened my eyes and just made me feel happy which is cool
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