bink-lynch

I was around during the dot-com bubble. When it popped it popped pretty quickly. It wasn't a slow leak. Everything needed to be a dot-com and everything was centered around being a dot-com no matter what the business actually did. Money was pouring and almost anything dot-com was getting funding.

I moved to a dot-com right at the tail end of it. We built a pretty decent startup from scratch within the first two months and debuted at one of the largest trade shows in the world. We had our own private label factoring credit card and we did credit card transactions over the internet and with handheld cellular devices. It was built to scale, colocated, and we were getting customers. When the floor dropped out it was done in less than two months. dot-com was a very negative thing for a while after that.

I made a really big flowchart diagram of all of our services and how they interrelate by giving Claude Code the description of what I wanted starting at the entry point project and working its way through the entire system to the data ingestion point. I gave Claude my GitHub access token so it could look through or clone each repo it needed. I also had many of the projects already cloned in my workspace folder through years of working on the various projects.

Claude was able to determine the project, analyze the code, and infer the infrastructure. It worked through the projects as it went drawing a higher level diagram first. Then I iteratively asked for more detail around the sections I thought needed more detail.

This was just an experiment that I spent a few hours on. Months later I misplaced the mermaid markdown file so I asked Claude to reproduce the mermaid markdown from the png image so I could have it add more detail around another section that looked incorrect because it encapsulated the database and worker for one of the systems in a single box. The detail made the diagram in that area much more clear.

To me it is very good at writing/reading/reverse engineering mermaid diagrams.

The limits seem higher on Ollama Cloud to me than paying for API access. I don't have solid stats on that though. I have an OpenRouter account and the service I am creating is going to need to use that. I will have better measuring stick then.

I am using GLM-5.1 in pi.dev through Ollama Cloud. I am able to get by on the $20 plan. I use it a lot and the reset is hourly for sessions and weekly overall. This is the first week I got close to the limit before reset at about 85% used. I am probably using it about 4 hours a day on average 6 or 7 days per week.

I have been using GLM-5.1 with pi.dev through Ollama Cloud for my personal projects and I am very happy with this setup. I use pi.dev with Claude Sonnet/Opus 4.6 at work. Claude Code is great but the latest update has me compacting so much more frequently I could not stand it. I don't miss MCP tool calling when I am using pi.dev; it uses APIs just fine. I actually think GML-5.1 builds better websites than Claude Opus. For my personal projects I am building a full stack development platform and GLM-5.1 is doing a fantastic job.

Location: Las Vegas, NV

Remote: Yes (experienced)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Full Stack, Java, TDD, JavaScript, JQuery, Backbone, RequireJS, Handlebars, Bootstrap, HTML, REST, NoSQL (Google Datastore low-level), MySQL, SQL Server, Google Cloud Platform, Agile, Git.

Resume/CV: http://stackoverflow.com/cv/binklynch

Email: bink.lynch@gmail.com

About Me: I am an accomplished, team­-oriented full­-stack web developer, fluent in all levels of the architecture.

Location: Las Vegas, NV

Remote: Yes (experienced)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Full Stack, Java, TDD, JavaScript, JQuery, Backbone, RequireJS, Handlebars, Bootstrap, HTML, REST, NoSQL (Google Datastore low-level), MySQL, SQL Server, Google Cloud Platform, Agile, Git.

Resume/CV: http://stackoverflow.com/cv/binklynch

Email: bink [dot] lynch [at] gmail [dot] com (bink.lynch@gmail.com)

About Me: I am an accomplished, team­-oriented full­-stack web developer, fluent in all levels of the architecture, specializing in Agile software development, product development, user experience, database design, and unit and acceptance testing.

This is great! One feature I would love, the ability to edit the markup in the left pane, see it "live" in the right pane, get it the way I like it, then copy.

Nice work!

I looked around and found a nice writeup on Kotlin:

https://medium.com/@octskyward/why-kotlin-is-my-next-program...

We implemented a "point-in-time" database architecture to accomplish similar behavior based on this document:

https://www.simple-talk.com/sql/database-administration/data...

The article describes two columns, dateEffective and dateEnd. If dateEnd is null, the row is still effective. When the row has been updated or deleted, the dateEnd field is set.

This was implemented in a regulated industry where we had to show the state of the system at given points in time. It worked well for this purpose.

Check this 'It can turn out ok' comment[0] from this post[1]:

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9663904 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9663203

What great timing. I was just looking for this. Thanks!

We have recently been dealing with this not even knowing it existed prior. We adopted a flat-coated retriever from Kingman, AZ and he was soon diagnosed with a blown-out knee that required radical surgery. Luckily, my wife did some research and cancelled the morning of the surgery as his behavior was not consistent with a bad knee (lame sometimes, run like crazy others). Almost a year later, still lame off and on, my wife felt odd swelling on his leg bone. A new vet took more x-rays and found large lesions just above his ankle. We are lucky it did not affect his lungs, but it settled in his bones which seems painful. He has been on fluconazole for a couple of months and the masses on his leg are shrinking. He has not limped for a couple of weeks now, but I still have to carry him up and down the stairs because the weak leg could break and it would not heal. Treatment will take at least one year.

Arizona was on the top of our list for our next home. Not anymore.

It's just before you hit the space bar to begin playing the game, "404 Error! Press space to start," then it goes away. I missed it too until I saw your comment, then I went back and checked.

Just downloaded this. Looks great!

I too was concerned about lock in; however, it is really not that bad. I have been on AppEngine from the moment they supported Java. I created an abstraction layer between my program logic and whatever services it uses. This has allowed me to take the exact same compiled jars and run them on AppEngine using the datastore for persistence or in some other servlet container using SQL Server for persistence.

Just one additional advantage of using this approach is that I can use text files for testing and the program logic doesn't know the difference.

That's how I got rid of the lock in issue.

I'd say that is pretty impressive.

API docs for backgrid are fantastic. Looks like the docs are generated using JSDuck: https://github.com/senchalabs/jsduck.

Nice project. From what I can tell from the examples, you might need to add right justification for numbers. Better would be to allow me to specify a class array for a column so I can apply styles to the values returned.

The examples link gives 404.

EDIT: The examples link in the body: "Check out the examples page for ideas..."

> ...truly targeting low-latency and high frequency events concurrency is your enemy, not your friend.

This reminds me of the LMAX financial trading platform where they started with a concurrent model but ended up using a single-thread "...that will process 6 million orders per second..."

http://martinfowler.com/articles/lmax.html

My daughter 5/6th grade was using Khan Academy:

https://www.khanacademy.org/cs/tutorials/programming-basics

I have had reports that https://github.com/bigspotteddog/ScrollToFixed runs on mobile. Here are the confirmed combos:

- iPad 4 running iOS 6.0 (10A403) with dontCheckForPositionFixedSupport: true

- iPad 4 running iOS 6.0.1 (10A523)

- iPad 1 running iOS 5.1.1 (9B206) with dontCheckForPositionFixedSupport: true

- Nexus 7 running Android 4.2.1 with dontCheckForPositionFixedSupport: true

Unfortunately, I am mobile challenged so I cannot test these out for myself.

I am the author of ScrollToFixed, which has been out in the wild for a couple of years and does docking top, bottom, middle and still allows the fixed elements to move with the horizontal scroll, which is great for table headers.

I was thinking about posting it on HN when I got a break in the action. Haven't had a break in the action yet.

Thanks for the explanation. I figured there was no per serving information from the data. Seems like there would not be a consolidate source for that.

I get it now. Again, nice work!

This is great! My wife and I were just discussing the nutritional value of amaranth (Calcium in particular) and then I saw this.

To be clear, the bottom bar graph represents what 2000 calories of that food would contain of that nutrient? Being used to reading ingredient labels and the recommended values, I was thinking amaranth contained ~90% of Calcium per serving, then I watched the video. Do I understand this correctly? If so, you might want to label that somehow.

Very nice work! We love it!

Thanks!

btw - I was one of the key engineering members on the team that built Eidogen when it was a startup. Very expensive!

Until recently, I was kicking myself for not doing this sooner; like when I was in my 30's :)

I always knew this is what I wanted to do, but I just didn't leave, what I thought was, the comfort of employment. "Let them worry about the business", I always reasoned, "I'll just build it." I realize now, that was the wrong way, for me, to look at it.

Best of luck to you!

I will be 50 on my next birthday and I rebooted this past summer. Left my VP position and about to launch my first startup. Thirty is young. You have a lot of life ahead of you. Make sure you do what you love.

I am using http://raphaeljs.com/ for my current project, but http://d3js.org/ looks great, particularly http://nvd3.org/.