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Just a little personal tool: Shipment tracking I call Lighthouse: - All our shipments in one UI (instead of searching trough our mail boxes or going to several merchant apps/sites)…

2 angles I think DB designers don’t often think about: 1. Durability extends to the client. Replicated db might ack a write to client, but what if that ack gets lost on the way bac…

jFrog is horrendous, so can you also tackle Python please?

I built myself a package tracking web app. Only cost is LLM sub (Cursor at like $20/m). OpenAI API is free (sharing data). Rest is tailwind+shadcn+Convex - Convex’s free tier is pl…

I felt the same, but I realized, that if you vibe code more, the changes make sense. Simple example: Should the AI sidebar be on the left, or on the right? At some point they swapp…

Fixing such issues requires software and site reliability engineering, of which coding is just a part. The first page of the score card mentions that this model is not capable to r…

There’s an official Lego boardgame built on this concept.

I would love simpler (harder) instructions! It's too easy tbh brick by brick as it is today. 1964 looks lovely. I also have a gripe with the complexity of modern bricks (besides "b…

Can you change the current working directory? If not, it's not a shell script.

1. From the docs: "In the the project it is production ready because it is already used in this context because the shell code generated is tested and confirmed that works, the lan…

Looks very tasteful! Good job!

> The government pays Raytheon for missiles, the money cascades down the economy through factories, aluminium smelters, mines, transport companies, all staffed by AIs buying and se…

The "focus" on planets doesn't work quite correctly. I love that you included true size, but it would be great if the focus worked, and one could zoom between the planets (until th…

You could sample the informality variable for this font, it might work out.

If Apple could give away a macbook neo to students, locked to the one individual student somehow, for free! they would still make money on it in the long run through the subsequent…

How do you ensure you or your contributors didn’t forget to run the tests? You’d need at least some hash of sources + test results, and check that it matches that (in CI). And you’…

This is so beautiful, this thread doesn't have enough praise! It's not easy to get this "right". Lovely!

Honest question which I think is at the heart of the question: What’s the difference between these and NYSE / Robinhood?

Everyone is commenting on the blog but not the service. I remain skeptical: A. Either it will remain obscure and not see any real use B. (Less likely) It will get abused to hell be…

The environment around the language can put in limits (on time, number of operations, etc.) Convex does this well, replacing SQL (somewhat yaml-like sucky old declarative language)…

Wait, have you been using Cursor? This is exaclty what it does fairly well.

Why do ppl think building something through yaml is ever a good idea?? (I know why: for a platform it’s simpler to parse a yaml than to run code, but it’s almost never a good idea …

The really bad: UI is constantly inconsistent. You have to keep reloading the page to hope to see what’s up with your MR. Doesn’t help it’s super slow to load. The backend infra is…

If you think GitLab is a good alternative to GitHub, I have 0 trust in you. GitLab and Azure are a daily source of pain for us.

Convex's open source version is OK as long as you don't expect huge load.