Nick Olinger

@thdxr Bro, care less

please shut the fuck up i don't even care about the specific thing you're saying i'm just so tired of hearing predictions one after the other telling me what the future is going to be like just please shut the fuck up

It's hard to believe this AI bot is still generating slop after grabbing the entire internet's attention. Hopefully, @github has something in the works to handle rogue AI nickolinger.com/blog/2026-02-1… news.ycombinator.com/item?id=470086…

@mitchellh I love using ghostty and wouId love to contribute one day. I hope there's a way where low quality PRs could be reduced or auto-closed, but PRs from first-timers who spent the time to learn, test, and work through changes could land

I've been doing open source since I was a teenager (over 20yrs). And for the first time ever, I'm considering closing external PRs to my OSS projects completely. This will throw the baby out with the bathwater and I hate that, but we close auto-opened slop PRs every single day.

@kepano My iOS obsidian hasn’t been functional for a while. It’s probably an iCloud issue, but I wish there was more information on what’s stalled so I could debug

Performance is design, and every millisecond counts. Every update in 2025 trimmed Obsidian's load speed. This is quite complex given the number of different configurations and operating systems Obsidian supports. We employed many different solutions to speed up Obsidian across various syncing methods, operating systems, plugins, vault sizes, etc. Getting into Obsidian should be instantaneous regardless of vault size. It's absolutely necessary so that ideas can flow without friction. Obsidian has always been performance-focused, but one problem area was startup time on mobile. That has radically improved over the last few updates, and it's now down under 500ms for almost all vaults, even my large personal vault with over 17,000 notes. As of Obsidian 1.10 the app becomes usable after initialization and core plugins, the rest loads in the background. In 1.11 we're shaving off a few seconds with widgets so you can open/create directly from the lock screen. You also have the ability to choose how the app opens by default (e.g. new note, existing note). You can even bind Obsidian to your action button. There's still more time we can shave off. Believe me, as someone with a large personal vault, I notice every bit of slowness everywhere it happens, and I won't rest until we shaved it all away.

@mattpocockuk @_devJNS I wouldn’t ignore it. You can spend a lot of time debugging “this” changing scope. Arrow functions are safer for beginners but I personally don’t like how they’re formatted — functions look more consistent across large codebases

@_devJNS Ignore this, just keep shipping

regular functions or arrow functions?

Tooting my own horn. I wrote about this once four years ago nickolinger.com/blog/2021-08-0…

@aarondfrancis The idea that a declarative string can have some implication on how my application runs is wild. I prefer working within the language and not magical semantics

Durable workflows are extremely cool and useful. What I don't understand is why it's denoted via this magic string! It seems so bizarre that such important things are just these random strings hanging out at the top of the function.

Thoughts on making Github PR review better. Lots of cool ideas coming from people answer @jaredpalmer 's question

@jaredpalmer @github @devongovett 5. PR git graph visual I use this extension to visualize git branching in complex git workflows, but I think there's a lot of value in just seeing where a branch branched from. marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName…

@jaredpalmer @github @devongovett 4. AI rebasing AI should be good enough to figure conflicts out and allow me to rebase main/master over my branch.

How can we make @GitHub Pull Request and code review experience better?

If this guy is a meme, the trolling is next level.

@pilcrowonpaper @16kbps I think 120 is the magical line length. Beyond, on smaller screens you have to scroll but is ample enough to not break lines at the thought of a TypeScript type

@16kbps no global print width, only wrap code when it makes sense like multiple (+long) function arguments, array items, object properties, etc

Really wished there was a js formatter that was much more conservative with code wrapping

@ThePrimeagen AI will make this worse

the video is still up

Did you know that Node.js 22 has glob built in? No dependencies needed. #fspromisesglobpattern-options" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">nodejs.org/api/fs.html#fs…

I will say — npx sst remove went without a hitch, so that was cool

The coolest thing about sst, without question, is the `link` feature where you can inject a resource, like a queue into your application and not even think about policies. When it worked, it felt amazing.

So if you're thinking of of using github.com/sst/sst I would encourage you to not. Very short 🧵