dorfwald's comments

dorfwald | 2 years ago | on: Pure Sh Bible

Creator of neofetch.

dorfwald | 2 years ago | on: Pure Sh Bible

Dylan is a phenomenon. I feel like most people here would know about his projects, though.

dorfwald | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is "At which age did you start coding?” a good data point for hiring?

I don't like the idea that you have to start early to be competent. I've met people in the industry who only got into software development in their late twenties, and were very good at their jobs.

dorfwald | 2 years ago | on: Hyperjumps

Great game! Played until level 6, gets pretty challenging there. The selection mechanism for the placed planets on the bottom row is a little counter-intuitive. Apart from that, a lot of fun.

dorfwald | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: Android is rapidly losing the US market. What can Google do about this?

Do people in the US really use Apple Messages? I've never encountered it here in Europe. It's basically all just WhatsApp or - if you're in more "tech-y" circles - Telegram or Signal.

dorfwald | 2 years ago | on: My product is my garden (2020)

"I want to make things that don’t scale."

In my experience, software built around this mindset is oftentimes better than software built by large corporations anyway. Software usually just gets worse with size.

The platonic ideal is a piece of open-source software that a user-developer can understand completely in an afternoon or less.