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I really wanted to like Zed, but the tab complete was just unusable compared to Cursor's. Be forewarned. https://x.com/MatthewTse_/status/2042680214187315683 If they can fix tab co…

Can I curl this file to a linux machine easily? I was just the other day looking for a tool to easily move a non-sensitive file from my macbook, to my network-locked production mac…

Hey everyone, I and the team have been hard at work improving ImprovMX since the acquisition at the start of this year. It was slow going at first, with lots of tech debt getting i…

100% agree I spend 90% of my tax/regulation effort on handling EU VAT, which is It really makes the IRS seem like Google in comparison to EU revenue services.

wow good tip I was handling an incident due to this outage. I ended up adding Google DNS resolvers using systemd-resolved, but I didn't think to interleave them!

I did a cross-country account migration for ImprovMX in January 2025. It was a total nightmare, and definitely the vast majority of the acquisition migration work. We ended up with…

Amazing blog post. I'm new to entrepreneurship and just signed my first few corporate legal agreements. I was also deeply aware that anything agreed to was basically a gentleman's …

Hey pul! I did actually find nslookup.io while researching whether I should build this or not, and based some of my user interface choices off what I saw there. I ultimately decide…

Hey HN, Last weekend I vibe-coded a cool website that lets you do easy DNS record lookups. I know you can just use dig or nslookup, but oftentimes I'm too lazy to remember the synt…

A few blogs mentioned that as an external US entity, you probably want to do VAT with Ireland (basically you deal only with Ireland for paying VAT, and what you pay gets forwarded …

I recently acquired a SaaS that does business with people in the EU (we bill with stripe), so I decided to continue paying VAT. I do it all by a combination of code, scripts, and b…

Wow DisplayMaid looks useful. I managed to get my system "working" without knowing about it. I have a macbook and an external display, and I utilize "desktops" heavily. Basically d…

Perhaps an open source fork of Terraform, where the cloud providers themselves maintain the provider repos, is the correct end-state. AWS started doing that in the last few years, …

It's really sad to me that Hashicorp never found a monetization model that worked. 100% of the companies I worked for over the last 6 years all used Terraform, there really wasn't …

> That's why you "whitelist" those you wrote down and re-used with success: a little checkbox, which when checked means "Successfully re-initialized an authenticator with this 2FA?…

Hey All, I left my software career 2 months ago to write code that actually excites me. Ironically, the first thing I'm building is a tax tool. A few years ago, I had a surprise 5-…

I do that out of paranoia/mistrust for my wifi network, printer, printer software, etc. It's probably fine to just print it out, but for more sensitive items I definitely write it …

For my dad, he occasionally composes Word documents and uses other MacOS software for his business, so finding analogous iPad software and teaching him how to use that wouldn't be …

I got my 90 year old grandma to use an iPad. The other day I saw her switching languages via the keyboard to search for a video on YouTube using a combination of Chinese and Englis…

Yes. Installed a Brother printer myself the other day, was expecting a half-day affair, but it all just worked in 5 minutes. Contrast this with an HP printer I bought. I had to: - …

So cool to read an article discussing a problem I run into on a regular basis. Whenever I'm creating a 2FA backup on a piece of paper, anxiety hits me every time I cross over certa…

Hmm, I've been using Google Maps for this purpose for years, just helping me decide how to get to a particular spot in NYC, walking, subway, bus, citibike, or uber if its worth it.…

yes, quite a few hoops to jump through to get something working. Back in the day, I went through massive effort to jailbreak my iPhone, void the warranty, and use the Cydia app sto…

As a javascript web developer, you have skills to build a website. Have you tried building a side project? Perhaps it could be for passion, or perhaps it could lead to side or full…