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I feel stuck on Github until the next generation of forges (I assume Linear is working on one too, and the Pierre guys, and there's probably more) are ready. When it works, I'm act…

Can't wait for the Graphite/Cursor alternative (Origin) to become available. Actions being down for an hour in the middle of the US East workday is crazy. It's super frustrating to…

We built our first version of our in-app agent with opencode, but we're probably going to switch to Pi. Fundamentally, Pi is the shape of the thing that should exist, and it's awes…

Possibly — but then you need a cowfs everywhere you run your tests. Templates are already really fast. Give it a shot and lmk if it’s faster!

Yup! If you keep your laptop on, failing dbs are investigable on tmpfs too — works fine for debugging a few tests in a loop, just can’t run the tests, sleep the computer, have lunc…

Just want to say thank you, Brandur, for checking out pgtesdb and benchmarking it so thoroughly. I’m pleased that it performs so well and I’m going to throw some tokens and brainpo…

Back in highschool, simulating different elevator algorithms was one of the projects I implemented during my CS class. It wasn't for the class — AP CS did not require anything like…

Just want to say thank you to Brandur for doing such a cool experiment. Last year I actually explored the River test suite to understand how they made it work so quickly — he's und…

Always wondered this. Must have been tried and not worked?

Keep following this line of thought and you'll end up in the same territory as Nick Land. If you haven't read already, the xenosystems blogs would probably be quite interesting to …

"completely" in my experience

Yes, we know. Good teams increase the likelihood of success with AI code generation the same way they increased the likelihood of success during hypergrowth: better infra, better d…

What kind of cpu/memory do the vms get? Is there a way to define the template that's used, so I can say to a new team member, log in to boxes.dev and all the repos and tools are al…

I've decided to no longer post here after the incredible amount of spam I started receiving, both in terms of direct email submissions as well as unqualified and outright fraudulen…

Judson sounds a lot like Henry, my twin brother, in terms of his abilities and profound autism. Growing up I learned to say that Henry is “autistic retarded” but I am sure that’s o…

Yes. This is partially why other ecosystems don’t see as many supply chain attacks.

Neutrino research is so cool. SNO+ is entering a new phase this year, with a new scintillator fluid that might allow us to determine their Majorana status. Always cool to realize h…

This is really good, particularly the async tasks part. Hadn't thought about that. We'll be thinking about these lessons for the next version of our agent CLI.

Oh sweet, thanks Mitch! I was a customer of Buildkite a few years ago, looking forward to working together again.

Founder is active on HN and the service is high quality. Support is reasonable. Machines are fast and work well. There are a bunch of alternatives, the switching cost is extremely …

Yup! Still haven't switched off of Github, but considering it at this point. If you're in my shoes, here's some tools we use that help: - https://github.com/sethvargo/ratchet for p…

Agreed! Been working on infra for an early-stage company recently and it's been awesome using OIDC and IRSA (or WIF if you're on google) for as many things as possible. Basically, …

Would make way more sense to just use verification claims backed by government issued IDs, rather than relying on a third party like World(coin). For instance, something like https…