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ammmir

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About ammmir

business problem solver, product engineer, systems architect.

available for hire.

email: amir@amirmalik.net

web: https://amirmalik.net / https://www.pilvy.com

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    It's trivial to build a wrapper script to emulate `claude -p` with full PTY without Claude knowing. Good old screen scraping to the rescue. This new cat and mouse game is perhaps a…

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    staring at a wall is basically the zen practice of shikantaza [1], except you’re not staring, it’s more of an eyes half closed yet alert gaze. you don’t do anything, not even count…

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    Comment #47790804

    > Securely runs root-level commands via a dedicated macOS Launch Daemon lovely.

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    Comment #47622801

    you know how we have the showdead ? how about adding a couple of new ones: hidekarma : hide accounts below certain karma threshold hideage : hide accounts newer than 1 week/1 month…

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    Comment #47587177

    honest question: what use case requires cold starts below 100ms, considering TTFT of major LLMs are in the 300+ms range? presumably sandbox will be driven by an agentic loop, so.. …

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    Comment #47420882

    I don't get it. You mention being able to choose your own JS engine, so it's not using Wasmer's WebAssembly implementation but that of the chosen JS engine's? In other words, can E…

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    Comment #47308149

    > I'm also finding it difficult to think of things to do Why do you need things to do? Meditate on this. Everything else is noise.

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    Comment #46805004

    > # WRONG: Elixir has no elsif How much context is eaten up by skills that rehash what a SOTA model should already know? Maybe token-wise, it's a wash: Elixir/OTP does a lot withou…

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    Comment #46700509

    When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Ad nauseam. AI has made it possible for me to build several one-off personal tools in the matter of a couple of hours and has …

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    Comment #46656686

    https://amirmalik.net - I haven't blogged in a while, but have been experimenting with single-file build-step-free HTML tools (inspired by simonw's tool catalog) at https://amirmal…

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    Comment #46460436

    I've built the same thing twice, first with Firecracker microVM, and second time using containers (gVisor). While the microVM route is more secure, it's more complicated and ops ar…

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    Comment #45727978

    what is the connection with SCSI?

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    Comment #44460970

    SEEKING WORK | Bangkok, Thailand | REMOTE (APAC timezone) Hi, I'm a seasoned software professional with 15+ years of experience across the stack, from low-level systems and protoco…

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    Comment #44166471

    Location: Bangkok, Thailand Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust, Lua, JavaScript, Next.js, OpenResty, Nginx, PHP, Docker, Podman, CRIU, L…

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    Comment #43915023

    I was using Zed up until a few months ago. I got fed up with the entire AI panel being an editable area, so sometimes I ended up clobbering it. I switched to Cursor, but now I don'…

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    Comment #43912648

    Two months ago, I started exploring how LLMs can securely run arbitrary code. Since then, we've seen Manus and others build code inside sandboxes and I believe there are some YC st…

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    Comment #43870857

    Location: Bangkok, Thailand Remote: Yes (unless local to BKK, or somewhere nearby like Singapore) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust, Lua, JavaScrip…

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    Comment #43822887

    Last month, I started playing around with code sandboxes and how LLMs might interface with them and wrote a little blog post about it [1]. I then took the code and vibe coded my wa…

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    Yeah, I always thought MCP was a bit verbose. It reminds me of the WSDL and SOAP mess of the 2000s. Model tool calls are just RPCs into some other service, so JSON-RPC makes sense.…

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    thanks for the link, Sydbox seems like a super cool project, but there's something weird about it: too many links in the README. not on GitHub, and the project that's on GitHub wit…

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