niels_bom's comments

On: Statement on planned protests during the upcoming FOSDEM 2025

[niels_bom]

Here’s the talk description: https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4507-infu...

On: Ask HN: Books about people who did hard things

[niels_bom]

I think most people don’t have access to supermarkets tho.

[bwb → niels_bom]

I actually think more people have access than don't...

Even in rural and developing regions, there are grocery stores, just not as fancy. I tried to find numbers, but it was hard to find the right source for that.

Anyone living in an urban area would have access and that is 60% of the global population. Plus, rural areas in the USA, Canada, Europe, Mexico, etc etc have access to one.

Only about 25% of the population are engaged in subsistence farming at this point.

[llamaimperative → niels_bom]

Most people on this forum do

On: Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases

[niels_bom]

And that’s why you talk about it and agree on stuff. I call that being a professional.

On: Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases

[niels_bom]

The need is quite widely interpretable though.

I worked on a Drupal site once where somebody had put business logic and database querying inside of template files.

Just because you can implement something without touching any other part of the codebase doesn’t mean that’s a good decision.

On: Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases

[niels_bom]

Expecting a developer with 4 YoE to be able to handle a messy legacy codebase by themselves is a suboptimal business decision I’d say.

On: Title drops in movies

[niels_bom]

Referenced strongly in 2024’s The Substance.

[rurban → niels_bom]

Yes, exactly! Good catch

On: Show HN: Rust Web Framework

[niels_bom]

The biggest reasons for me to use the clean architecture are faster testing (most logic is in functional code) and most changes having impact in a small number of files only.

On: Deno 2 Commercial [video]

[niels_bom]

Quite a funny commercial imo. I do wonder if getting commercials for big software releases is gonna be a thing from now on.

[1oooqooq → niels_bom]

If by software you mean a corporation product financed by sequoia et al...

On: Hoodmaps: Publicly Annotated City Maps

[niels_bom]

In Amsterdam close to Sloterplas (lake in the West) “aggressive Moroccans”.

On: Classifying all of the pdfs on the internet

[niels_bom]

Typo: “meats the eye”