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Keeping it simple at some canadian fintech. I like your posts.

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A screenshot of an email GitHub sent stating they're going to start metering and charging customers for self-hosted GitHub Actions runners.

A screenshot of an email GitHub sent stating they're going to start metering and charging customers for self-hosted GitHub Actions runners.

Charge people who do your job for you

16.12.2025 18:44 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I have one trick and it is speaking with regular words instead of domain-driven design jargon. Ironic given it's the core lesson of the book.

17.11.2025 20:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

`less` has both `--raw-control-chars` and `--RAW-CONTROL-CHARS`. The manual warns against using the lower-cased flag. Peak interface design.

31.10.2025 14:12 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Using `jj describe` with empty commits to plan and define dependencies between tasks for Claude Code. Working suspiciously well so far...

22.10.2025 19:12 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

@crawshaw.io is there any place I can go to learn more about the tradeoffs of the (frankly weird) all-columns-generated-from-a-single-JSON-column technique?

07.10.2025 19:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

*learn

04.10.2025 21:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Fixing five β€œtwo-year” bugs per day β€” The BugBash Podcast Some bugs are so rare, they can take years to track down and fix. What if you could find and fix five of them per day? For Joran Dirk Greef, the creator of the TigerBeetle database, that's not a wild ...

I leant so much every time I listen to @joran.tigerbeetle.com or the folks at @antithesis.com so this is a treat overcast.fm/+ABQilWvYIxk

04.10.2025 21:14 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Is there a way to add many actions at once? i.e. I'd like to "select all" and "unfollow"

01.10.2025 18:19 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I hate working from home but at least I can blast the new Big Thief

12.09.2025 15:55 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

On the flip-side, they do a good job of translating well-written commit messages and a diff into whatever bureaucratic PR template may be inflicted on you.

[ ] Did you write tests?
[ ] From 1 to 7 how important is this?
[ ] Is it the magic hour?
[ ] Do you have any allergies or medications?

12.09.2025 14:45 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Look at you, all hoity toity, wanting programmers to demonstrate an attention to detail. To read their own diffs before asking you.

12.09.2025 14:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Typos in prose – a commit message, pull request description, comments – really tank my confidence in the surrounding code.

12.09.2025 14:15 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

@mitchellh.com I'm reading the blog post thinking "oh no why would you blog about this" and then

> Memory safety seems to... erm... activate certain conversations

Did an actual spit-take

14.08.2025 21:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Senior ICs:

13.08.2025 22:01 πŸ‘ 37 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2

All you see is DRY but all I see is shared mutable state

12.08.2025 19:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The four year old will ask β€œDad, what do you do after I go to bed?” And my answer is always something like β€œI scrub pans and fold laundry”

Truth is I stay up late eating girl guide cookies laughing at funny videos. His worst nightmare

27.07.2025 01:59 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s very good! I know of one I think - @tangled.sh - but not the second. Care to spill the beans?

24.07.2025 01:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I don't know how it's different than Agent2Agent other than it doesn't have the worst conceivable acronym.

22.07.2025 15:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A new protocol is about to drop, "Agentic Coding Protocol". It's going allow tools like Gemini CLI and Claude Code to interoperate.

22.07.2025 15:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Standards

Only drop this xkcd in discussions about new standards, not new things. It is not a joke about building new things. Building new things is cool. Encourage it. xkcd.com/927/

16.07.2025 18:07 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Never say engineers don't like process; many of them love a process that helps them avoid having conversations (especially disagreements) with other people!

07.07.2025 22:59 πŸ‘ 74 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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GitHub - dagger/container-use: Development environments for coding agents. Enable multiple agents to work safely and independently with your preferred stack. Development environments for coding agents. Enable multiple agents to work safely and independently with your preferred stack. - dagger/container-use

github.com/dagger/conta... you can see a demo www.youtube.com/live/U-fMsbY... but it's early days

11.06.2025 01:42 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, Siri still sucks. No, that isn't why Apple's researchers published research on the limitations of reasoning models.

10.06.2025 20:06 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Just gave advice to the boss β€œdo X for sure, probably” so you could say I’m consigliere

08.06.2025 00:29 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You didn’t β€œsolve the problem” or β€œmake progress” by increasing the timeout

06.06.2025 22:32 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œYou don’t even have bone marrow” is the brain worm that always comes up for me

29.05.2025 23:41 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Wow, a comment on HN I actually agree with!

28.05.2025 04:18 πŸ‘ 644 πŸ” 76 πŸ’¬ 44 πŸ“Œ 32

There’s two new digital prophets in town

22.05.2025 22:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This whole Sam & Jony business is objectively hilarious

22.05.2025 01:57 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Future post

26.04.2025 00:52 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0