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I think you are thinking g of Boris Yeltsin - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_visit_by_Boris_Yeltsin_to...

My solution for that is to use skills and add a omnibus shell script in each particular skill folder that does all the deterministic steps and then write the skill markdown to only…

I've been building these same personal apps but on Firebase. They have a generous free tier that includes hosting and you can add real user auth, again all for free.

I have my own review skill (I think it predates when Claude added theirs) and one thing I'd add to your description is tell it to examine all the code and then, based on the change…

I'm curious what it is going to find in my 10 year old Elixir codebase (still in active production use).

I've found a mix of peppered in upper case words where you are effectively yelling at the LLM also gives it a strong signal. It is also a bit cathartic.

I miss pre-COVID prices. Our local diner is now $20+ for a simple breakfast (eggs, toast, bacon, coffee/tea) for two people. Pre-COVID is was ~$10 with tip.

I've heard the rule of thumb in a well run restaurant business is 30/30/30/10: 1. 30% food costs 2. 30% labor costs 3. 30% overhead 4. 10% profit margin

Its hard to express what it was like in the early/mid-80s (before I had my drivers licence) to bike a few miles to the bookstore at the start of every month and see all the new com…

JWZ is still blocking traffic from HN so you can't click to read this but you can copy/paste it into a new tab or open it in a incognito window: https://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-be…

It is available here: https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/acli/guides/introducti... It has a pretty discoverable cli syntax (at least for Claude). I use it in my custom skills to…

No, it was just there were no PM filters.

I grew up in small town Midwest and have now lived in tiny town New England for 20+ years. It still bothers me that folks here in New England won’t even acknowledge you on the side…

Eons ago I developed a site+Windows app called 24Link (I know, horrible name) that let you run a tiny ~50KB web server in your taskbar and point it as a folder on your machine. If …

You should look up the Jallianwala Bagh massacre. (Full disclosure - I had to look up the name after remembering it portrayed in the movie Gandhi)

I need Claude to review my HN comments.

I have 30+ years of industry experience and I've been leaning heavily into spec driven development at work and it is a game changer. I love programming and now I get to program at …

We have a small local company that takes bulk book (and cds, dvds, video games, vinyl records) donations. That company has couple of retail used bookstores and also sells both reta…

I think as ai tools actually learn languages that functional languages will win out as they are much easier to reason about.

They got it for cheap. AOL paid $165 billion for Time Warner in 2000. Is Netflix the next AOL?

Remember the old Bjarne Stroustrup quote: "There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses."

I forgot where I read it (Steve McConnell?) but the best analogy I've heard for a boss/project leader is to think of your job is moving a house and the bosses job is to be a few st…

I agree. There are lots of free AstroJS themes for restaurants that generate static html that you can host somewhere like Firebase hosting for free. - https://astro.build/themes/de…

Not biblical references but rather Elmer Fudd. Bugs Bunny called Elmer Fudd "Nimrod" in a 1940's cartoon to sarcastically refer to Elmer as a great hunter. At that time I think mos…