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deanputney

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deanputney··on Tailscale SSH: Investigation and remediation update
It's so unusual that I'm starting to wonder if this was intended to harm Tailscale's public image. These don't appear to be major flaws, and if the purpose of publishing was to get them fixed there's a well known process for responsible disclosure. Sounds like they didn't even attempt to follow that.
deanputney··on Tesla Roadster
Fly out of a bad situation and straight into another one.
deanputney··on Lobbying
> Remember the rule change to the amortization of software expenses, which inadvertently would have killed thousands of software companies?

While I’m sure this was lobbied heavily against by many companies, I don’t think that’s what did it. This was bad legislation done on purpose to poison the next administration, then undone as convenient.

deanputney··on Cloudflare K2: serverless event streams
I'm a little surprised the Docker CLI doesn't support this directly, since gcr.io works this way. Maybe there's a thin layer between the bucket and the CLI? Neat that you worked it out for the generic case.
deanputney··on Show HN: OwnTime – a chess clock for your day's priorities
Very nice, I like your approach and design.

Counting up would be preferred for me on some tasks. Sometimes the timesheet approach is needed, it'd be great if you could support both.

deanputney··on Almost no skill required to cook a steak
I've had a Combustion thermometer since they came out. The best uses for me are butterflied whole chicken on the grill and roasts in the oven. You can get extremely precise results and account for carry over cooking very easily. Huge leap in results.
deanputney··on The Artist Who Colored Ghibli
Animation Obsessive continues to deliver some of my favorite reads online. Well researched, detailed, and interesting. I'd wondered about the Ghibli colors, feels like that's not talked about much. Cool article!
deanputney··on Book prizes don't work how you think
Neither part of that quote mentions a quota for the longlists. Am I missing something?
deanputney··on Temporary Cloudflare accounts for AI agents
Yeah, it's still up at this time. That's surprising that it's not being auto cleaned up.
deanputney··on Magnifica Humanitas
If you want an example of a sacrifice caused by regulation before technology had fully caught up, banning sperm whale oil in automatic car transmissions comes to mind: https://www.nytimes.com/1975/04/17/archives/transmission-pro...
deanputney··on On The Conflation of Money and Things
My mobile browser gave up it was so bad. Shame, it seemed like it could have been an interesting read.
deanputney··on Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce
Wow, can't say I saw this one coming. Cloudflare has been putting out a lot of strong work lately. What percentage of their workforce is this?
deanputney··on United Wizards of the Coast
I’ve seen this done as a carve-out or exception that has to be explicitly documented. Trouble is that documentation is not presented as simple.
deanputney··on Guy builds AI driven hardware hacker arm from duct tape, old cam and CNC machine
Wow that's nuts. What a great idea! I wonder how much of this the commercial flying probe machines can do already. Pretty cool to be able to have this on a home scale.
deanputney··on YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney
Here it is for those who haven't: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZk2jV5gJbM

When I looked it up, turns out I've seen it too!

deanputney··on Gold overtakes U.S. Treasuries as the largest foreign reserve asset
They are arguing that Trump is controlled by a foreign adversary and doing these things at their direction.
deanputney··on My home network observes bedtime with OpenBSD and pf
Love your watercolors! What a fun addition to a technical article :)
deanputney··on Show HN: Email.md – Markdown to responsive, email-safe HTML
Curious why the CLI function is `mvd` instead of `mdv`?
deanputney··on I built an AI receptionist for a mechanic shop
If someone put on their website and voicemail that they were available for calls only from 8-10am (for example), or that they would return my call at that time, I'd make a point to call them then. It's reasonable that people are busy too.
deanputney··on Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns
They almost certainly already do. If you just look into Axon you'll see they have tons of cloud-based and AI products. Axon is the major player in police body cameras in the US.
deanputney··on Ghostty – Terminal Emulator
Same. As far as I can tell, Ghostty is still in active development and unfinished. For regular use iTerm 2 is a complete product that can be relied upon.
deanputney··on A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words
I will say that having used the same starter word the whole time that has not come up yet, it's a little disappointing that it may now take even longer to appear.
deanputney··on Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone
It wouldn't shock me if multiple people came up with this idea independently. I've certainly experimented with it over the last couple years.
deanputney··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
Glad to see you're doing this! I was wondering if the currency button could be changed. Defaulting to Euro is fine, but being able to switch that shortcut would be handy.
deanputney··on CM0 – A new Raspberry Pi you can't buy
geerlingguy and simonw really amaze me at how well and consistently they cover their respective spaces of interest. Great content, easy to read, and thorough! I'm sure there are others doing deep reporting like this on their own subjects. I'd love to read them too.
deanputney··on Contact Sheet Prompting
Neat! It looks like the first video under "adapting it" is broken somehow. Wish I could see that.
deanputney··on Frinkiac – 3M "The Simpsons" Screencaps
Have you written about the tech behind Frinkiac and Morbotron at all? I'm super curious how it works (although I'm sure I could guess), and also how it might be generalized for other shows. Hosting infrastructure and cost to run would be interesting too!
deanputney··on Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker
One possible option might be to set up email ingestion. My brokerage will send a daily update, for example. It's not super detailed, but it's a start.
deanputney··on WeatherNext 2: Our most advanced weather forecasting model
I've found this to be more related to poor representation of the data than inaccurate data.

For example on Apple's Weather app, a "rainy" day means a high chance of rain at any point during the day. If it's 80% chance of rain at 5am and sunny the rest of the day– that counts as rainy. You can see an hourly report for more info, and generally this is pretty accurate. You have to learn how to find the right data, know your local area, and interpret it yourself.

Then you have to consider what effects this has on your plans and it gets more complicated. Finding a window to walk the dog, choosing a day to go sailing, or determining conditions for backcountry skiing all have different requirements and resources. What I'd like AI to do is know my own interests and highlight what the forecast means for me.

deanputney··on PD Stepper: A self-contained USB-C power delivery hat for stepper motors
Pleased to see this project in the wild– it seems useful to have a stepper motor with all the control components right on it, and USB-C PD to drive it. This one has an ESP32 chip on it to support a web interface as well. Lots of things I could think of making with this!
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