FROM BUILDERS, FOR DOERSVOL. 03 / QUALITY-FIRST DISCOVERY

Their experience.
Your next move.✳

Discover hard-earned lessons, useful tools, and business ideas
hidden in the conversations on Hacker News.

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Real experiences, useful perspectives, and things you wish you’d known.

Tool picks

Dagger Python SDK: Develop Your CI/CD Pipelines as Code

Original English

But I've made quite an effort to support both and meet you where you're at.

Tool picks

Modern Java/JVM Build Practices

Original English

I've tried Bazel and it's both faster and infinitely more robust.

Hard lessons

Implementing system-versioned tables in Postgres

Original English

But for the clients I worked with, who had failed to migrate on their own.

Tool picks

Rust's Ugly Syntax (2023)

Original English

I agree that this is a stupid choice. Yet I wrote many reliable and performant programs without using lifetime specifiers once .

Business ideas

Cuban youth build secret computer network despite Wi-Fi ban

Original English

I worked as freelancer in Cuba for over 10 years, so having internet was top priority for me.

Tool picks

Adobe abandons its Creative Suite to focus on Creative Cloud

Original English

the bleeding edge by paying for upgrades every 2-3 years. …

Field notes

Show HN: Gmelius – No Ads and Better User Interface for Gmail

Original English

I tried paying Google but the process of using their $50 a year option is horrible.

Tool picks

Porsche boss faces software woes keeping VW a step behind Tesla

Original English

My salary when I stopped being doing testing directly was $52,000 at 9 years of experience.

Hard lessons

What I've learned from 100s of interviews with candidates at top tech companies

Original English

Startups aren't that special, and I lost a lot of income by doing small startups first as an employee for 4/5 years.

Experience is a head start. The next step is yours.

Stay curious. Think independently. Start small.