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Jellyfin does all these things too, and it’s free.

Congrats on the traction you’ve got with this project. We used Gin back in 2016 for a while. I honestly don’t understand those Go devs who claim that the standard library is suffic…

I don’t know about the company’s ethics*, but the app is fine and it’s genuinely useful. For one thing, it has a map with the most popular running routes around you. And if you wan…

Have you tried https://github.com/simulot/immich-go for dealing with the some of the complexity of google takeout? Not sure how much it actually handles, and whether it can be used…

It’s not about ease of use and freemium, it’s the strong network economies at play, just like credit cards or social networks. It’s impossible for a competing product to get tracti…

This is the real issue. We’re currently migrating from GitLab+Jira to GitHub. I did most of the migration, including our CI/CD with a self-hosted runner, and it was… fine. The stra…

Nope, it was in the Midwest.

We did this on a train! Also StarCraft, also a coding competition, also felt like the coolest kids in the world.

I love that Naur paper! Also love this essay that extends it: https://hiringengineersbook.com/post/autonomy/ I literally maintain a conceptual-model.md that describes the “things” …

Were you concerned about the overhead of shelling out to journalctl?

As someone who’s an experienced coder but sorta new to LLMs, I’ve learned that my intuition about what is and isn’t machine-readable for an LLM isn’t well-tuned. Better to do the b…

From the perspective of the “physics” of code (for lack of a better term), this feels right. We all know that if you have a generated asset, you basically mark that asset as read-o…

It’s almost as if we need to write some unit tests. For our profession.

Every now and then someone shares a small web link here (Kagi is one aggregator). It’s like survivors picking up the shards of civilization after the apocalypse. Of course such a p…

I switched to Linux in 2018, and I hear you on the quirks. But now, an LLM can fix basically any quirk you hit. I’ve been surprised multiple times. I’m also on Pop OS, which feels …

I’d guess that’s what GP was referring to. I’ll also be a day 1 preorder.

There are differences across vendors, but there’s a way to build with k8s where the benefit far outweighs the cost. We run a bunch of services in two very different cloud vendors (…

That part was really surprising to me because for the kind of compute lake he’s talking about building, k8s seems like a pretty good fit for the layer that sits just above it. We r…

Was just listening to the Lenny’s Podcast interview with Simon Willison, who mentioned another such incantation: red/green TDD. The model knows what this means and it just does it,…

I have a Supernote and was looking at different models for handwriting recognition, and I agree that gemma4-26B is the best I’ve tried so far (better than a qwen3-vl-8B and GLM-OCR…

This is in fact what happened with SpaceX. Musk had the vision to make first stage reusability a thing with the Falcon 9, and Gwynne Shotwell is the operational genius behind the j…

The idea lingered for longer than that. China under Hu Jintao wasn’t exactly friendly to the west, but it was Xi who really set China on its present course to build a multi-polar w…

For sure. I feel I need all of my experience to discern the difference between “slightly different, and should be combined” and “slightly different, and you’ll regret it if you com…

I’m one of those that have thrown out Postel’s law entirely. Maybe the issue is that it never defines “strict”, “liberal”, and “accept”. But at least for public APIs, it never made…

Vantage looks great! I’ll try it out this weekend. To do the job that swarf does, I found that the bwrap sandbox I’d been using is the perfect place to mount a folder to catch mark…