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Re:Show HN: tale.fyi, we deserve a home for fiction on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @02:48AM (#49094159)
Really nice, listened to a bit of Dracula and didn't expect to be so hooked :)

Apart from that, on mobile I'm having some troubles:

- scrolling at any time stops the audio and the audio will only start again at the paragraph start, not where it left off - the paragraph doesn't scroll automatically if it's longer than the screen height. I can't scroll down because of issue 1 (I like to read+listen) - I can't seem to click into a paragraph/sentence to continue reading from there.

Again, well done! I love these kinds of projects.

Re:In retrospect, DevOps was a bad idea on Friday July 25, 2025 @11:21AM (#44684166)
> The idea of a single entity being responsible for development, operations, observability, and support is flawed from the start.

Why? I have seen this done successfully at my work time and again. I've just switched to a company that has this separated out and the chaos is unimaginable. what's even worse is that everything is a finger-pointing exercise. devs can't ship their features because they have to fight (or wait) for DevOps to set up things. SRE is trying to add observability and is swamped with 18 teams having services in different tech stacks. Service health is basically non-existent. If someone tries to set a standardized process, then 'how dare you suggest anything outside of your domain?'. Everyone seems to focus on what they think is right and are rarely convinced by others. Worst, not even a tiny bit taking seniority into consideration. not saying seniors know it all better, but the one or two things they have seen are fully disregarded.

At FAANG at least, each team has full ownership AND responsibility across all dimensions. But the good thing was that the people knew that and if anything went wrong, then business was asking hard questions and service teams (product, ux, engineer, sometimes science) had to explain and potentially pivot their processes. which was easy, because everyone was pulling on one string together.

> That’s not a one-person job Correct, that's why you are working as a team on all these things together.

Re:Iterated Log Coding on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @10:35AM (#43184614)
Agree, I had to ask ChatGPT to explain this to me with an example number and then I was able to understand the approach.
Re:Why I Chose Common Lisp on Sunday January 12, 2025 @01:09AM (#42671636)
Wondering whether a dialect like Jank [1] may be worth a shot?

[1] https://jank-lang.org/