madkat's comments

On: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

[madkat]

Styled-Components (now in maintenance mode) in build-time only CSS

https://github.com/DigitecGalaxus/next-yak/

On: Kagi Search – Paywalled articles indicator and improved weather widget

[madkat]

I love kagi. It's the first search product I'm willing to spend money on

On: I hate Hackathons

[madkat]

Yeah this view is extremely negative. I think it depends a lot on the culture when you organize a company internal hackathon. I had good and bad hackathons so far. It depends a lot on the stress that is created. If the stress is too much it gets really quick really bad, but if there is just enough stress to make something and you can leave whenever you want, it's really beneficial.

On: DenoDB

[madkat]

Is there something like this for MongoDB with Typescript?

On: PEP 563, PEP 649 and the future of pydantic and FastAPI

[madkat]

We use SQLAlchemy as the ORM layer, but it's very small and most of the work is done with the Pydantic models. It works quite nicely, despite that we loose change tracking, but SQLAlchemy got us covered with merging models.

On: Stable 1.2 Gigabit/s Internet achieved in moving train in Switzerland

[madkat]

And we even get a cheap health insurance :D