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Bulk of the series

And a good day to you, sir!

yes, exactly!

After using NixOS for a bit and eventually learning to rely on it, life without it seems inconceivably complex

When I was in college in 2001, I went to the library and checked out Kaare Christian's book called "The UNIX Operating System". One of the early chapters covered vi - I'd telnet in…

This should go into dictionary as definition for "fuck around and find out"

Oban is great!

A true derailer

One way is to become an apprentice with an experienced plumber - ideally skilled in hydronic heating.

I've been using daisyUI for a couple of years and really love it - it's a quick, reliable way to rig up a nice looking/functioning UI with minimal work, while making things appear …

I've been using Azure's "Document Intelligence" thingy (prebuilt "read" model) to extract text from PDFs with pretty good results [1]. Their terminology is so bad, it's easy to dis…

You're dealing with much larger datasets than I have, so far - mine is only a few million vectors. I have a hard constraint on resources, so had to get things working quickly in a …

pgvector - I wasn't able to get HNSW to build/rebuild quickly [enough] with a few million vectors. Very possibly I was doing something wrong, but fun research time ran out and I ne…

I ended up breaking up/sharding HNSW across multiple tables, but I'm dealing with many distinct datasets, each one just small enough to make HNSW effective in terms of index build/…

Yep, I believe it HNSW has been great for relatively small datasets (a website with 30K pages), but it’s a dangerous stretch for anything bigger

I've had browser and Linux VM logging to HyperDX with great success, but have been struggling to get OTel logging working with Azure Functions. Turns out, new (currently in Preview…

This may be the one area where some form of autocracy has merit :-)

We've been using Nix flakes and direnv ( https://direnv.net/ ) for developer environments and NixOS with https://github.com/serokell/deploy-rs for prod/deploys - takes serious digg…

Heya HN! We put together a post [0] explaining the motivation for building Supafana in some detail, but in short: we wanted a way to get to database graphs with an effort similar t…

Great work and writing - thank you!

I’ve been working on (with a couple of friends) a one-click observability solution for Supabase: https://supafana.com This our first experience in infrastructure SaaS (we opted for…

I don’t fully understand the words you’ve used, but it feels that RU market is too small to justify building plants?