Yes, I just added my email to my profile. If you click on my name, it's in "about".

Yes, although it didn't differ much from regular, full-time work. Basically only for tax reasons.

It's very impressive what AI can do for developers to help us code.

Imagine pair programming with an intern who memorized your database schema. You don't need to go back and forth between schema and your code, you can keep your focus at the cursor. It's great for automating the boring stuff.

I would love if Github provided an API for Copilot. Imagine integrating Copilot with your shell.

I wish meetings were held in textual form (like a Slack channel). Reading the history and being able to search through it would make it a lot easier to understand context.

Unfortunately, that doesn't seem the way WASM is going. It's been 5 years and we still can't access the DOM without going through JS.

There isn't the political will-power to make it happen and force all the browser vendors to agree and implement. Hence status-quo remains.

Which is ironic as the DOM interface was designed as an abstract interface (the IDL used in the spec is more interested in compatibility with Java than JS).

In practice though the main reason is that to have decent DOM bindings you need to stabilize many other specs first (unless you do a ultra-specific DOM-only extension, but nobody wants that)

WASM can access the DOM by its foreign functions interface. It still needs some data conversion, but it's not through JS.

Rust, for example, has a huge package with interfaces for every DOM function.

I prefer to find my joy in things that are not food or clothes.

Yes, HN does seem to skew heavily towards a sort of performative rejection of simple pleasures.

Personally I don't think it's zero sum, enjoying your meals won't make your immaterial pursuits less worthy, for example.

You can self-host a Github Actions Runner, you will be able to access the host machine's network from your workflows.

yes we have one self hosted runner right now to bypass a few of the problems we had. Going through the corporate bureaucracy to get the runner running in the first place was a nightmare, and it didn't solve all our problems, and now we're also responsible for patching and doing all the paperwork for that runner. Which was the same problem we had with Jenkins in the first place, just without all the other headaches. If I have to patch and secure it anyways with the security team breathing down our necks every other week I rather stick with Jenkins.

I haven't ditched my phone, but ever since I started using a Macbook, I have been only using my iPhone maybe 10 minutes a day (mostly in the bathroom). I read/write SMS, browse photos, toggle hotspot etc. from the Macbook.

In most countries in the world, $4K charge is absolutely not negligible.

I doubt this is true. If you're operating a tech company anywhere in the world, I'm guessing $4K is pretty close to negligible. In whatever case, indexing by country is misleading, "tech companies" in general is more interesting, if there are a handful of tech companies in the third world for which this doesn't hold, it doesn't invalidate the generalization.

In SMB companies around the world "an occasional $4K charge" is definitely not negliable.

Again, we’re not talking about SMBs, we’re talking about tech companies generally. (What share of SMBs are there doing serverless or with any cloud footprint at all?)

This post seems very disingenuous, it could even be a FUD. I can't help but think the author has some ulterior motive.

Anyway, my advice: Treat your current username and your real name as if they were the same. Make a new username and don't connect it to your real name again if you wanna be anonymous.