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btables··on 13 Months Sober (2025)
Congrats on 12 years and sharing that story. More people should hear about these moments.
btables··on 13 Months Sober (2025)
Alcohol was a net-positive in so many ways for me. I talk more about that aspect in the 6 month post here: https://www.bobbytables.io/p/six-months-sober
btables··on OpenAI Agents API
Just letting you know, this comment inspired me to finally just say "screw it" and launch what I've been building for the past year. https://www.cadenya.com
btables··on One Protobuf Schema for REST, Postgres, SDKs, and Docs
I wrote this up because I haven't found many end-to-end posts that explain how to go from Protobuf to an implemented API, to SDKs, to API docs. There's a lot of wires to plug in, but once you're there. It's magical. So here's my writeup on it for Cadenya.
btables··on Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?
Building an agent runtime at cadenya.com and MCP servers have been the hardest part to create adapters for. For a two year old spec, there's far too many permutations.
btables··on The Agentic Loop: Three loops in a trench coat
Totally. Earth's rotation is a loop too. We should count that.
btables··on The Agentic Loop: Three loops in a trench coat
I think of them from the outside in, so that's why I illustrated it that way.
btables··on Integrations on Rails: How we build and deploy integrations at FireHydrant
It’s been a minute since I wrote a technical blog post about FireHydrant, but I think I’m making up for it with this doozie. Check out how we structure our integration architecture in a way that’s allowed us to release a new integration every month for the past three years.
btables··on Launch HN: Rootly (YC S21) – Manage Incidents in Slack
Thanks, emailed you as well. Sorry you ran into this!
btables··on Launch HN: Rootly (YC S21) – Manage Incidents in Slack
firehydrant.com has a free tier that allows people to open incidents from Slack. It also includes the service catalog, runbooks, and status pages.
btables··on Launch HN: Rootly (YC S21) – Manage Incidents in Slack
Yikes! Never like seeing that. Can you email me directly and I will get this sorted? robert@firehydrant.com
btables··on Grafana Incident: Smart incident management for your teams
I'd checkout FireHydrant, but I'm biased ;)
btables··on Disney+ hit by technical glitches on launch day
Disney bought one of the most successful video streaming companies in the world to drive Disney+ called Bamtech, they didn't start from scratch at all - https://www.forbes.com/sites/maurybrown/2017/08/08/disney-ac...
btables··on Show HN: FireHydrant – A simple incident response tool
Great feedback, thank you!
btables··on Show HN: FireHydrant – A simple incident response tool
This feedback is great and very appreciated.

With the other competitors I get the point of targeting smaller customers. With that said, I think a point might be missed with what I'm trying to accomplish with this initially: Context being lost through engineers finding things. Metrics, logs, traces, etc all don't tell a root cause when its a new incident. That's usually a human putting 2 and 2 together. When that happens it can be lost never to be seen again (the trail of tears getting to the solution).

This is a super early release and this feedback was invaluable so thank you very much! There are plenty of ideas I'll be implementing in the coming weeks now that this first release is finally out of the way.

btables··on Show HN: FireHydrant – A simple incident response tool
Noted, did the features page hit that marker for you if you dont mind if I ask?
btables··on Spec-me-maybe: Introduces the “maybe” syntax to RSpec
I promise its a joke. I work with this gent and we were frustrated with some specs so he said he was going to make this. haha.