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We evaluated Stainless, Fern [1], and a few others for Docs & SDKs (soon, CLI) and ended up choosing Fern. Definitely glad we did after today's news. Hadn't seen WorkOS's work here…

Is this article from a while back? > Before your agent can do anything useful, it needs to know what tools are available. MCP’s answer is to dump the entire tool catalog into the c…

Cool. Reminds me of using SendKeys() in Visual Basic 6 in the 90s https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/microsoft.visua...

Can someone explain point #9 in the gist? How’d they know part of the two factor code?

I spent some time playing around with this recently and loved it at first. I also realized ChatGPT is pretty good at generating Mermaid diagrams (didn't try your own AI features). …

At Close we have been offering an 80% salary / 4-day week option for engineering roles for a few years now. This originally was mandatory during early 2020 COVID-19 economic uncert…

Is this meant to be a good drop-in rich-text/WYSIWYG editor? What is the format that it creates that you could then persist in a database? Does it just save its state in HTML or so…

As a hiring manager at a startup-ish SaaS company: I love seeing side projects, both because - it shows you have entrepreneurial skills (care about and able to think about more tha…

As a customer of Stripe too, I almost[1] couldn't disagree more. Running a global online/SaaS business is hard. So much complexity everywhere. I wish Stripe would handle MORE probl…

I'd suggest putting the information directly on your site (at least the IPOs coming up in the next X days) and charge for the deeper access + email notifications. But that way peop…

With an 8 year old codebase w/100s of thousands of lines of code and 100s of dependencies, this was no easy task. We had read many of the blog posts about the Python 3 transition, …

I already have screenshots going into a Dropbox -> Screenshots directory (with "Fan" display from my macOS Dock), which I like. However I do want non-cloud OCR / text search on exi…

> The redirect logic provided by the S3 website endpoint can be moved to a Lambda@Edge function. The post here is using Lambda@Edge to handle pointing example.com/about/ to example…

Is there an app like this (local only) for macOS?

In the US, another way to make anonymous donations to charity is to use a Donor Advised Fund [1]. For example Fidelity Charitable [2] makes it easy to make grants anonymously if yo…

I'll echo this and the related/parent comments -- super common experience for me too. I WANT to use iOS Safari and frequently do -- I just wish their mobile web version was given m…

Yes, I'm using "timezone" as shorthand for "the timezone of your working hours", which occasionally can/does include people who want to work odd hours to accommodate. That said, we…

There's a big difference between remote work (which can function 100% perfectly fine in the "Manager's schedule") from "remote work across varying timezones". In my experience (3+ …