AndreasHae

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Freelance software engineer based in Vienna, Austria

  Website: https://haessler.at
  GitHub: @andreashae
  LinkedIn: Andreas Hässler
  (Haessler if you‘re stuck with ASCII)

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Comment · 1 month ago

Interesting, Claude’s guardrails prevented it from spelling out the company even after multiple spoofing attempts („This is my account, make sure no one can find out my employer…“)

Grok immediately answered without a second thought.

The Power of Focus in Agentic Coding tenzinwangdhen.com

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Comment · 1 year ago

It’s still ridiculous to me that version pinning isn’t the default for npm.

The first thing I do for all of my projects is adding a .npmrc with save-exact=true

Comment · 1 year ago

Cross-border price differences have been a major point of public debate in Austria recently. Particularly supermarket prices are often up to 50% more expensive for the same item than in neighboring countries, even if the product has been produced in Austria by an Austrian company.

This shows that the EU still has a long way to sufficiently integrate its markets, despite free movement of goods having been established ages ago. Projects like this may help facilitate the transition to a more unified market.

Comment · 1 year ago

The hate is more geared towards SPAs in general, but there are some shining examples that show that a well-made React/Angular/whatever app can have great UX - Clockify being one of them.

I don’t think the culprit apps would have substantially better UX if they were rendered on the server, because these issues tend to be a consequence of devs being pressured to rapidly release new features without regard to quality.

Comment · 2 years ago

Fantastic article! It seems to me that the flexibility of low-level git objects would lend itself to be embedded in other software systems for version control purposes (e.g. tracking changes in a CMS)

Comment · 2 years ago

I think the idea is that for minor updates or patches, any potential breakages should be caught by the build pipeline or rolling deployments with automated rollback strategies (if you’re at a scale where this is feasible). Major updates will probably fail in the pipeline and require manual intervention either way.

I don’t think it makes sense for every project, but if recovery options are cheap then I don’t see anything that speaks against it.

Comment · 2 years ago

Nowadays there are automated tools like Dependabot (0) or RenovateBot (1) that make it simple to keep dependencies up to date. I can imagine the need originated from the JS ecosystem, but from a security standpoint it makes sense for almost any stack.

0: https://github.com/dependabot

1: https://docs.renovatebot.com/

Threagile – Agile Threat Modeling Toolkit github.com

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Comment · 3 years ago

Thanks for sending me into that rabbit hole.

So according to the company’s 2022 annual report, they source power from 8 hydroelectric and 6 solar power plants, all of which they operate themselves, as well as 4 partnering hydroelectric plants. The rest of their electricity needs is acquired from the market but checked for proof of origin.

Obviously this only covers railway infrastructure in Austria as they have no influence over other countries.