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winrid

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I manage databases "at scale", and also run some services:

fastcomments.com sidewaysdata.com watch.ly dirtforever.net govscent.org

https://github.com/winrid

Chat with me: winrid aaattt gmail

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blog.fastcomments.com 3mo ago

FastComments Automatic Routing Transport System

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blog.fastcomments.com 3mo ago

FastComments Is Ready for Space

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blog.fastcomments.com 10mo ago

FastComments is Now Globally Distributed (and more rusty)

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github.com 1y ago

Show HN: First NetPanzer Release since 2017

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support.google.com 3y ago

Google Album Archive Is Shutting Down

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blog.winricklabs.com 3y ago

Reverse Engineering Netpanzer and Extracting Assets

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netpanzer.com 3y ago

Show HN: NetPanzer Is Back Online

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govscent.org 3y ago

Bill to Repeal Section 230 Analyzed by ChatGPT

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govscent.org 3y ago

Show HN: Govscent.org

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watch.ly 3y ago

Show HN: Watch.ly

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blog.fastcomments.com 4y ago

Show HN: Add Commenting to a Site Without JavaScript

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blog.fastcomments.com 4y ago

Show HN: Adding Comments to Notion.so Pages

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blog.fastcomments.com 5y ago

Show HN: FastComments Redesign

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www.youtube.com 5y ago

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blog.fastcomments.com 6y ago

Show HN: Code Snippets in Comments with FastComments

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blog.winricklabs.com 6y ago

Just How Fast Is EJS?

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blog.winricklabs.com 6y ago

Adventures in Building an MMO Game Back End in Java (Part 1)

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blog.winricklabs.com 6y ago

Efficient Data Structures for MMO Game Back-Ends in Java

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blog.winricklabs.com 6y ago

Fixng Nginx 502 Gateway Timeout with proxy_pass During Deployments

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blog.winricklabs.com 6y ago

How We Localized FastComments Without Slowing It Down

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blog.winricklabs.com 6y ago

Show HN: How Optimized Threaded Pagination Works

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fastcomments.com 6y ago

Show HN: FastComments

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Show HN: Launched My First SaaS Product in a Month: Fastcomments.com

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I'm not sure I'd say "React Bad", I'd rather say "React Not Really Super Necessary and More Often Than Not Leads to a Worst Experience at Maybe a Slightly Lower Initial Cost" :)

I did an experiment recently, I actually wanted to launch a dashboard and picked React because I knew I could throw React + Tailwind + popular_component_and_charts_frameworks at Opus and get a decent result. But actually, I realized a lot of fairly simple button clicks had like a 100ms-200ms delay, and I just did not like it. I ported it to Java/Javalin with J2HTML and kept tailwind, and it's very snappy and works great. It's currently 96k lines of java ^_^

To write good React you have to follow conventions, too. You can't get away from conventions.

People keep touting react etc but I swear every mobile ordering app I use lags like hell, just from recent example, and these can easily be built and maintained without a huge framework to "manage state" or "connect state to the view".

you just agree on a set of conventions for components and state management, it's not that hard. This is basically how Rails works...

yes it's still a framework, duh. it's just less abstraction than react etc.

My fun ancedotal story about US healthcare:

Kaiser transported me 4hrs in a ambulance to get surgery and I think I just paid the $200 ER fee

But then they would never cover an MRI for an issue with the same leg.

It's like we're almost done with this project guys, come on.

GPT-5.6 13 days ago

oh for sure! I think in some ways LLMs have raised the bar in terms of what you an expect from software (once we get past the hurdle of increased bugs, but that seems to be getting better)

GPT-5.6 13 days ago

Yes, because now your competitors do the same. The winners: inference providers

Claude Sonnet 5 22 days ago

Today I tested GLM 5.2 by giving it an example stylesheet and told it to change the background color of a submit button.

It then hallucinated the submit button class...

At the end of the day it's a battle of competence of who runs your company.

Sure you might be able to have PMs deal with the easy stuff for a short while.

But will the company that can hire more competent people pull ahead? Probably.

I can tell you one thing: I haven't worked with a PM for like 5 years.

Working on sidewaysdata.com a lot :)

Coming soon is a full automated training system to "certify" people to time events.

It'll spin up a VM with our timing software and an emulator of the hardware of your chosing and you kind of play a game to get certified (you deal with real radio traffic, real world like scenarios where shit goes wrong)... This way we don't have to train people AT events from zero.