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martinbaun

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Developer and software house owner.

Building a Loom alternative without signup needed or app.

Just press Record in your browser.

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Musings about software and project management on my blog:

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  1. Ask HN: Terminal Inside the Browser?

    Do you guys know of any plugins/extensions or systems where you could use (locally) your terminal inside the browser - especially for development with vim/neovim? I am doing almost everything in the browser or terminal,…

    4 points 2
  2. Ask HN: Show your non-AI project

    Every new project seems to be an AI project that's a wrapper ontop of ChatGPT or some library. What are cool non-ai projects you're working on and why? And what tech is behind? Cheers!

    8 points 21
  3. Ask HN: Do you use Nginx in production? or have you switched

    What are you using infront of your webapp? and more importantly why? I used NGINX for many years, but around 1.5 year ago I switched to Caddyserver as the SSL certificates are just so nice getting them autohandled. I…

    5 points 19
  4. Polyfill exploit would never happen if you do this [video] (youtube.com)
    1 points 1
  5. Ask HN: What's the weirdest bug you ever had?

    What's the weirdest bug you have encountered? For me, it occurred during university on an assignment. We were supposed to create a SOAP C# integration, and I kept receiving the same error. I spent three days trying to…

    26 points 41
  6. Ask HN: Why did 3D Printing buildings never became big?

    I have been thinking about this recently as prices of houses just keep inflating up and being so hard to purchase for an average family. Why didn't 3D Printing buildings became big? It seems like a perfect tech to help…

    6 points 14
  7. Ask HN: Who Went Mac –> Linux?

    A lot of people do the switch from Something -> Mac, but who's going the other way? and why? I personally just bought a Macbook, worked like a charm for 3 months but then I figured out Apple hardware do not like tea,…

    22 points 52
  8. DRY makes you CRY [video] (youtube.com)
    1 points 0
  9. PHP Sucks, but [video] (youtube.com)
    2 points 0
  10. Hiring Great Software Developers from lesser-known areas (martinbaun.com)
    1 points 0
  11. Happy Developers. It Is Possible (martinbaun.com)
    3 points 2
  12. Ask HN: Why Htmx So Controversial?

    It seems like people either hate it or love it? Personally I love it, so I can't really see why you would hate it. What are the great arguments against it?

    5 points 11
  13. Dead Simple Drawing Program – ExcaliDraw Simplified (copypastedesign.com)
    1 points 2
  14. Securing Your Server in 2024 (martinbaun.com)
    5 points 0
  15. Private Empty S3 Bucket Cost Me $1300 [video] (youtube.com)
    5 points 3
  16. Ask HN: Caddy modules, do you use them and how?

    They seem pretty neat, but at the same time I haven't had a use case for them Do you use them?

    2 points 0
  17. Ask HN: How did you fall in love with Programming?

    I fell in love with programming when I was playing games and I figured out that I could cheat using memory editors and assembly. How did you fall in love with programming?

    1 points 4
  18. SQLite Is Enough [video] (youtube.com)
    5 points 0
  19. Ask HN: Shadcn-Like for Astro?

    Do any of you guys know of any shadcn-like UI libraries for Astro? Particularly I am looking for something that I can just copy/paste in and it looks amazing without too much work.

    1 points 0
  20. Action Breeds Clarity (martinbaun.com)
    4 points 0
  21. Ask HN: Unbiased Search Engines?

    What are the state of 2024 search engines? I have used DuckDuckGo for a long time, but the results seem to follow an agenda instead of just showing "what is" on the web, and leave me to use my own judgement. What do you…

    4 points 11
  22. Ask HN: SQLite in Production?

    I am using it for a small app, and the latency is so low that it feels like the app is like 10x faster than if it was running Postgresql. Now of course scaling will not be the same, but still. Are any of using SQLite in…

    111 points 59
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  24. Ask HN: What are your to-go web framework and uncommon why so?

    Right now I work with Go, Django, Bottlepy and they both have their pros and cons Django, best admin interface and std structure. Pain to deploy Go, super simple and fast. Easy to deploy and just a binary. But a lot…

    1 points 0
  25. Why IT Is the Best Sector to Work In (martinbaun.com)
    2 points 0