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ctxcon Show HN: I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio

Would be nice if you can add your contact details to your profile too :)

ctxcon Dicing an Onion, the Mathematically Optimal Way

Beautiful!

ctxcon Best Practices for Building Agentic AI Systems

Hey, I'd love to share/discuss cool stuff you do. I tinker with stuff now and then - my profile has my contacts, please give me a poke!

ctxcon Nginx introduces native support for ACME protocol

Hey! Great to see you here.

I tried dokku (and still am!) and it is so hard getting started.

For reference, - I've used Coolify successfully where it required me to create a Github app to deploy my apps on pushes to master - I've written GH actions to build and deploy containers to big cloud

This page is what I get if I want to achieve the same, and it's completely a reference book approach - I feel like I'm reading an encyclopedia. https://dokku.com/docs/deployment/methods/git/#initializing-...

Contrast it with this, which is INSTANTLY useful and helps me deploy apps hot off the page: https://coolify.io/docs/knowledge-base/git/github/integratio...

What I would love to see for Dokku is tutorials for popular OSS apps and set-objective/get-it-done style getting started articles. I'd LOVE an article that takes me from baremetal to a reverse proxy+a few popular apps. Because the value isn't in using Dokku, it's in using Dokku to get to that state.

I'm trying to use dokku for my homeserver.

Ideally I want a painless, quick way to go from "hey here's a repo I like" to "deployed on my machine" with Dokku. And then once that works, peek under the hood.

ctxcon FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support

Thanks John Key Many!

ctxcon Starbucks in Korea asks customers to stop bringing in printers/desktop computers

Damn. The kind of friends I need in my life.

ctxcon Show HN: Engineering.fyi – Search across tech engineering blogs in one place

Damn, if I knew I'd get one person to read what I write I'd have added RSS :P

ctxcon Launch HN: Hyprnote (YC S25) – An open-source AI meeting notetaker

Fair stance. I believe sso tax is a necessary evil.

ctxcon Google Opal

"We’re launching today in a US-only public beta because we believe the best way to build a new product is with our community, right from the start."

Umm...haven't seen that one before!

ctxcon Hand: open-source Robot Hand

Good point, well put.

ctxcon Five companies now control over 90% of the restaurant food delivery market

It's not black and white, but what you're saying sounds like "just because users have an attention problem doesn't make every social media app an attention grabber"

I mean, companies optimise for profits and at some point people fall for it in excess which is the point OP made.

It kinda makes sense, because the means the companies employ are psychologically advanced plays on people who don't know the spelling of psychology.

I'm probably manipulated into scrolling more than I wanted to or buying more than I wanted to on an everyday basis.

ctxcon New Date("wtf") – How well do you know JavaScript's Date class?

Haha, @dvsj_in :D

ctxcon New Date("wtf") – How well do you know JavaScript's Date class?

Good job Sam! Been a while since we spoke on Twitter, but good to see you here :)

ctxcon Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists

Hijacking, but

Hey hey you're the TIL guy! I was designing my blog and I looked at what was suggested as the best blogs, yours was on it.

The TIL is such a great idea, takes the pressure off of "is it really good enough to post as a blog"

Glad to see you here :D

ctxcon Are we the baddies?

Tangential, but I think most extended warranties I've noticed are beneficial. Even last month I was kicking myself for forgetting to extend a 2 year warranty which costs 1/4th the one time repair cost I had to cough up.

ctxcon Optimizing Tool Selection for LLM Workflows with Differentiable Programming

Nit - code screenshots are a PITA to read on mobile!

ctxcon Gemini CLI

ZohoMail offers upto 5 free emails for a custom domain. It's what I use fwiw.

ctxcon The bad boy of bar charts: William Playfair (2023)

https://blog.engora.com/2020/05/florence-nightingale-data-an...

And he's done it five years back! Great blog, look at his other posts too

ctxcon The bad boy of bar charts: William Playfair (2023)

What a goldmine of a blog. Interesting find!

ctxcon Public/protected/private is an unnecessary feature

Exactly. Ime most classes are not designed to be inherited but want to expose a clean public API.

While true that all classes can be inherited, treating _all_ classes with the assumption that they will be would just lead to a labyrinth of code.

ctxcon Public/protected/private is an unnecessary feature

Do you really want to create an interface for every possible place where you'd use `private` though?

ctxcon Show HN: Workout.cool – Open-source fitness coaching platform

Well if I had to do this, I'd build the whole system just procrastinating walking into the gym :P

ctxcon Waymo rides cost more than Uber or Lyft and people are paying anyway

I mean it _technically_ isn't an OTP, but you know what I mean - just a code only the user knows that they need to share with the rider.

The threat model is sufficiently low to justify the much better UX of not having to look the code up everytime.

ctxcon Iconic icons to showcase your skills

I can analyse logs on notepad. Not the ++ imposter. Does that count?

(cries in enterprise customers who required me to RDS into a barebones Windows installation to troubleshoot. Of course any other software installation was also blocked by security policies)

ctxcon Waymo rides cost more than Uber or Lyft and people are paying anyway

That's must be annoying to say the least. In India drivers require an OTP to start a ride.

The OTP is the same for a user across rides, so I have mine memorised which is nifty. No fiddling with the phone during boarding.

On security: exploiting this would require the driver to stay in my vicinity the next time I book a ride, and also get the ride assigned to them. In a high population density area, it's rare - I've never had the same driver twice.

ctxcon I used ChatGPT to learn programming from zero and built a video generation SaaS

Wait...what? _Eighty_ five MB?!

ctxcon Show HN: Tattoy – a text-based terminal compositor

Well I didn't either, so join the boat I guess :)

ctxcon DeskHog, an open-source developer toy

Brilliant usage of the rotary knob!

ctxcon DeskHog, an open-source developer toy

Hey, the website on your profile is broken.

Btw I did exactly that! I cut (literally) a cheap keyboard at the numpad boundary. Installed AHK (Windows) which runs macros on button click.

Postits to label each button.

Now I have one of those fancy few-button keyboards that do my bidding.

I've been meaning to post it. Would that be interesting?

ctxcon How we decreased GitLab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes

Ah, thanks. I could only think of art as in literal, artistic art.