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About gregsadetsky
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Cofounder of a web mapping startup acquired by Apple.
Received awards from the US Coast Guard and the Governor General of Canada for creating a map that helped rescue 1,700 people during Hurricane Harvey.
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Currently refurbishing laptops with robots! https://www.reviserobotics.com/ (YC W25).
Also worked on Disco, an open source self-hosting software: https://disco.cloud/
See my talk about it at the Recurse Center: https://youtu.be/z2lP7C8VT6M
And this (slightly less chaotic) Devtools FM episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr3JJpbCRP0
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And even more stuff that's wildly out of date - https://greg.technology
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Tell HN: Tally Data Breach
Received a notice from tally.so notifying that someone accessed their user database. I asked which “hash” they used and whether passwords were salted. I have not heard back yet. — …
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I’m extremely grateful for your informative answer, thanks a lot! I may have been wrong about everything I thought I knew, but at least I was not wrong about the interesting conver…
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(I'm the OP) I got interested in PCBA, one thing lead to another, and I ended up posting this document which hopefully can provoke some good discussions :-) I was also specifically…
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Comment #49165468
Also posting this as I helped organize the showing of two documentary movies about “extreme” musical genres at Low Cinema in NYC. One is about the early 2000s breakcore scene, and …
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hey, just curious - would you consider using or recommending https://pgbackrest.org/ (in non massive postgres backup scenarios) And do you think PlanetScale would consider supporti…
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Comment #49162771
Also see this classic: https://github.com/alex/what-happens-when "What happens when you type google.com into your browser's address box and press enter?"
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Comment #49158803
I enjoy and use AI a lot both for personal projects, but also at work. I think that feeling of “we’ve become claude code babysitters” is a lot more prevalent in larger teams and/or…
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On social media, I saw the much more vulgar “Learned engineering just to become the condom between Claude Code and prod” And that (re)framing helped as well to think about the “wha…
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Comment #49126626
We refurbish laptops and hence distribute .iso / ipsw images to various refurbishing stations. (or also, think of PXE/network boot situations). More images x more laptops refurbish…
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