hmmdog's comments

On: Incident with Actions and Pages

[hmmdog]

Tell Claude to fix it, simple.

On: Cucumber: BDD Testing and Collaboration Tools

[hmmdog]

Poorly done BDD has made me detest bdd and all of the tools, especially when cucumber is used as a testing tool and not as a collaborative tool.

I would say most companies use cucumber as a testing tool and say they doing bdd. I would actually like to see a company doing true bdd I have not seen one.

Didn’t the founder post here and said something along the lines of hating bdd now?

Edit: oh I see cucumber was bought by smartbear and then they fired the last cofounder https://mattwynne.net/new-beginning

On: Ask HN: What is your proudest little invention or discovery?

[hmmdog]

When I was learning to code I figured out a difficult problem using recursion without any knowledge of what recursion was, I remember being happy and thought I was a genius for a short time. Whenever something ‘clicks’ and you get that dopamine the best part of coding.

[JohnFen → hmmdog]

I don't know what counts as "genius", but coming up with that on your own, with little development experience, is at least brilliant.

[qup → hmmdog]

The first recursion I put into production is a good memory for me. I wore a big smile that day.

It was a routine to discover all the ancestors of a category, to create a breadcrumb navigation for a web directory.

I believe it's still in production, although the site has been re-skinned so it's hard to say for sure.

On: Creating a TikTok bot with Microsoft playwright

[hmmdog]

Author here:Using playwright is a breeze. Twas pretty easy to get passed TikToks captcha

On: How I automated my Instagram account using Machine Learning and Python

[hmmdog]

You can decompile the app and copy what the app is doing to send requests to post using the Instagram private api

[knicholes → hmmdog]

Or just watch network traffic, right? Decompiling sounds a little heavy-handed.