Hacker News Reader

digitalsanctumon General Availability of the AWS SDK for Rust

The blog post mentions support for 300+ services. I have a couple of questions:

1. It would be interesting to see a comparison between the Rust service coverage and other language SDKs that have been around for a while such as Java. Is there such a place to see this comparison? 2. Will the Rust SDK stay up to date with the latest services as they're announced?

I'm very excited to see this announcement. It's been a long time coming.

digitalsanctumon Automerge-Repo: A "batteries-included" toolkit for local-first applications

This is exciting in several ways including the fact that Martin Kleppmann is involved with the project. Filed at the top of my reading list if nothing else to see an undoubtedly good example of a complex Rust project.

digitalsanctumon Major outages across ChatGPT and API

Hah, I have roll-down windows! Bummed about the outage. I was hoping I'd be able to take the new features for a spin today.

digitalsanctumon Razor 1911

Great memories of spending all my time on IRC and hunting for Photoshop when it was just a desktop app. Untold hours spent in college while procrastinating for my next exam.

digitalsanctumon Razor 1911

I remember being pretty stoked after getting a flat screen CRT. Oh how things have changed

digitalsanctumon The Cloud Computer

Congrats to the Oxide team. I'm not a potential customer but still get a thrill from the open source projects from these folks.

My favorite is the automated CIO repo: https://github.com/oxidecomputer/cio

digitalsanctumon Show HN: OpenAPI DevTools – Chrome extension that generates an API spec

7. Train a machine learning model to recognize and extract tabular and repeated data based on training data.

8. Optionally publish generated OpenAPI specs to a central site or open PR to a GH repo, "awesome-openapi-devtools"?

digitalsanctumon Show HN: OpenAPI DevTools – Chrome extension that generates an API spec

Great project! These features come to mind that would be great additions:

1. Ability to filter response properties.

2. Ability to work with non-JSON (web scraping) by defining a mapping of CSS selectors to response properties.

3. Cross-reference host names of captured requests with publicly documented APIs.

4. If auth headers are found, prompt user for credentials that can then be stored locally.

5. "Repeater" similarly found in Burp Suite.

6. Generate clients on the fly based on the generated OpenAPI spec.

digitalsanctumon Show HN: OpenAPI DevTools – Chrome extension that generates an API spec

FYI, Akita was just bought by Postman: https://www.akitasoftware.com/blog-posts/announcing-akita-ha...

digitalsanctumon Ask HN: I desperately want a solo business

This hits a chord with me and I've felt the same way for years. I'm now unemployed (by choice) and mulling over if I should take the plunge to pursue a SaaS or find another job.

One resource I haven't seen mentioned yet is https://tinyempires.substack.com/. He emphasizes not going the VC route and keeping the business small (solo) instead.

I feel like there should be a support group somewhere for like-minded software engineers that are unhappy with the typical job and yearning for a more self-fulfilling path.

Good luck on whatever you end up doing!

Edit: I forgot to mention there's also a bunch of good videos on YouTube from ycombinator startup school. They go into a lot of detail about cultivating ideas, etc.

digitalsanctumon Ask HN: What hardware are you running for your home server?

I have a couple of desktops with decent CPU, memory and GPU and 4x Intel NUCs that I run Proxmox on to manage VMs. I generally run a Kubernetes cluster on the VMs.

Depending on your use case, maybe just run a couple $5 machines on DigitalOcean?

digitalsanctumon Show HN: JobLens – AI-powered job search for 'Who Is Hiring'

I was going to build something similar for funsies but now I don't have to :)

I'm curious the page mentions not being able to scrape sites that require a login but then I saw LinkedIn as an example. Will LinkedIn eventually be supported but require a login or something?

digitalsanctumon Everything that uses configuration files should report where they're located

As I read this I wonder if SBOM (Software Bill of Materials)[1] could be used? I'm not sure if it already has configuration files as part of it's definition but doesn't seem like a stretch to add? Btw, I've never used SBOM in practice but seems like something worthwhile implementing.

[1] https://www.cisa.gov/sbom#:~:text=A%20%E2%80%9Csoftware%20bi....

digitalsanctumon Ask HN: Cloud to on-premise (reverse migration). Is it a thing?

I just left a $45B company that has many of the same issues you mention. There were efforts around consolidating competing technologies and vendors as well as a very large "digital transformation" effort which I was directly a part of. None of the efforts went very well for a variety of reasons including reorgs, two competing technology organizations, hard economic times, etc. Another underlying issue I saw was lack of accountability and communication. "Technical debt factory" is a great way to phrase it.

Ultimately, leadership has to make tough decisions cut costs while not impacting the company's continued growth.

digitalsanctumon Ask HN: What would you do if you had the summer off as a technologist?

Thanks for the encouraging words and I certainly will checkout #showcase on the bevy discord server.

digitalsanctumon Ask HN: What would you do if you had the summer off as a technologist?

Good luck! One of my hobbies in the past has been bug bounties and I've heard the CISSP is one of the harder certs to attain.

digitalsanctumon Ask HN: What would you do if you had the summer off as a technologist?

This is something I've been thinking a lot about recently in the context of an area I might try to build a SaaS for.

One domain I've encountered that falls into this category is mom and pop food stores which don't typically have a decent website. You typically have to visit the store or call to find out things like what they stock and current prices (to do comparison shopping).

digitalsanctumon Ask HN: What would you do if you had the summer off as a technologist?

Great tip. I have a couple of friends that have traveled to that region in part because of the low cost. Thanks for the suggestion.

digitalsanctumon Show HN: Private, text to entity-relationship diagram tool

I love tools like this (text to diagram) and tend to use mermaid for most things. I also really like draw.io which includes a gui and has integration with GitHub to save diagrams directly to a source repo.

Is there a solution that has direct, bi-directional integration with Postgres/MySQL. For example, execute DDL from the diagram or point to an existing db and output the diagram text?

digitalsanctumon Ask HN: What would you do if you had the summer off as a technologist?

> reading old Latin books, reciting old Cumbrian poetry wut? ;)

Thanks for the suggestions. I do have a pretty decent woodworking shop and plan on spending more time there.

digitalsanctumon Ask HN: What would you do if you had the summer off as a technologist?

I tend to be a homebody but traveling to faraway places are on the bucket list for sure. I'm trying to conserve funds to extend my time off so I'll be taking more day trips near where I live here in Washington.

digitalsanctumon Ask HN: What would you do if you had the summer off as a technologist?

Agreed. I already went on a camping trip to Jedediah Smith Redwoods park and re-installed an old but enjoyable game (to me) called Insurgency.

digitalsanctumon Ask HN: What would you do if you had the summer off as a technologist?

Agreed! I've already prioritized personal health and working outside.

digitalsanctumon Ask HN: What would you do if you had the summer off as a technologist?

Coming from someone where AI has not been one of my top interests for the last 30 years, what specifically should the focus be?

In the last several months I have used ChatGPT for things like thought experiments and churning out code faster.

digitalsanctumon Astmaker – A DSL in Rust for programming language designers

Same here, unfortunately.

digitalsanctumon Implement DNS in a Weekend

I just have to say I love everything Julia produces. Very inspiring!

digitalsanctumon Ask HN: How do you determine if you'd like to work for a specific company?

Thanks for the reminder about "interviewing them." I've never actually requested a "meet and greet" and sounds like a good idea too.

I should have been more clear but my intent is to use the information I find to actually filter jobs by company before I apply to them. Or, at least have a good indication how a company may compare to others in my list.

digitalsanctumon Remembering Bob Lee

Shocked to hear about this senseless loss. I didn't know Bob personally but was a big inspiration to me as a Java developer early in my career. My thoughts and prayers to his family and friends.

digitalsanctumon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2023)

Location: Greater Portland, Oregon Area

Remote: Only

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Golang, Rust, Kotlin, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, NoSql, Sql, cloud-native, microservices

Résumé/CV: https://digitalsanctum.com/resume

Email: shane@digitalsanctum.com