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harisamin

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@itsglimpse (itsglimpse.com) Cofounder/co-CTO. Full stack developer, hacker, rubyist, ios/mac developer. Formerly a Senior Software Engineer at @daillyburn.

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harisamin··on One setjmp call was eating 81% of Geolith's emulator frame time
Just wanted to post a link to Geolith which is awesome:

https://gitlab.com/jgemu/geolith

https://gitlab.com/jgemu/geolith/-/merge_requests/64

And of course NeoBox if you care :) https://neo-box.app

harisamin··on Penguin Mail – open-source Rust email client for Linux with AI
wow that looks super polished!
harisamin··on Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows
Let’s give thanks to all those meta engineers who have been ripped for my heir teams (while sitting right by them) working on manually tagging data. I guess the morale dip paid off in some way? I wish you all well and hope you find some happiness … IYKYK
harisamin··on DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
I'm curious... is anyone using DeepSeek V4 Flash from HugginFace? Is the cost around the same as directly form DeepSeek or from Openrouter?
harisamin··on The AI Aesthetic
Let's be real

* remember the 90s internet aesthetic? geocities anyone? GIFs everywhere?

* how about the Flat Design aesthetic?

* How about the Twitter Bootstrap aesthetic?

... This too will pass ...

harisamin··on PgManage: Modern, cross platform graphical database client
My goto these days is TablePlus https://tableplus.com. Native desktop client (no electron). UI is pretty standard, polished, and IMHO great. Supports PG really well (amongst other RDBMSes and some NoSQL dbs).

Yes it's not open source but its free version is still great.

harisamin··on Saving Three Months of Latency with a Single OpenTelemetry Trace
yeah I totally turned all of those off...way too noisy :)
harisamin··on Saving Three Months of Latency with a Single OpenTelemetry Trace
On the noisy NodeJS auto-instrumentation, it is indeed very noisy out of the box. Myself along with a bunch of other ppl finally got the project to allow you to select the instrumentations via configuration. Saves having to create your own tracer.ts/js file.

Here's the PR that got merged earlier in the year: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js-contrib/p...

The env var config is `OTEL_NODE_ENABLED_INSTRUMENTATIONS`

Anyways, love Opentelemetry success stories. Been working hard on it at my current company and yielding fruits already :)

harisamin··on Show HN: I built jq-like scriptable tool to query CSV and JSON with SQLite
Wrote something similar a year or so ago https://github.com/hamin/jlq
harisamin··on JJ: JSON Stream Editor
A while ago I wrote jlq, a utility explicitly querying/filtering jsonl/json log files. It’s powered by SQLite. Nice advantage is it can persist results to a sqlite database for later inspection or to pass around. Hope it helps someone :)

https://github.com/hamin/jlq

harisamin··on Show HN: Log collector that runs on a $4 VPS
Ah cool! Somewhat related I built a json log query tool recently using rust and SQLite. Didn’t build the server part of it

https://github.com/hamin/jlq

harisamin··on Show HN: I developed a native macOS Hacker News client
This is great! I built a native. macOS client that I actually sold in the AppStore a while ago. It did everything was native except rendering of the article but I was just using plain web view for that part. The pain was keeping but synced with changes on HN. I still have a personal build that I use on a daily basis.

I still have the landing page up which warning, looks awful on mobile https://mackernews.com/

But congrats! I stopped selling my client and it’s starting to show age for my personal use too. Will check this out. Do you have voting and commenting working? That’s one thing I miss the most that stopped working on my client.

harisamin··on I wandered off and built an IDE
Really cool stuff!
harisamin··on Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways
So I've been working on a truly native macOS Slack client for a while, wondering if its time to revive it

https://twitter.com/harisamin/status/727634194814373889

I've posted about it before here on HN but wasn't sure if there's enough interest

harisamin··on Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways
maybe its time to revive my macOS native slack client MacSlack :) https://twitter.com/harisamin/status/727634194814373889

I've posted about it before here on HN but wasn't sure if there's enough interest

harisamin··on Google Cloud Platform cuts the price of GPUs by up to 36 percent
really curious to see your updated analysis :)
harisamin··on Show HN: Hacker News desktop application in Kotlin/Swing
Very cool! I made a native macOS desktop client . It does use a web view to render the article but the article list, comments, voting, commencing, login interactions are all native . http://mackernews.com
harisamin··on Saudi Arabia Agrees to Let Women Drive
This is a REALLY big deal. I was born and raised there. Glad to see some progress.
harisamin··on Other ways to read Hacker News
I also made native macOS HN client app called MackerNews. It renders the article in a web view (readable if possible) but everything else is native. Btw its a client, you can login, vote, comment, etc :) http://mackernews.com
harisamin··on Atlassian launches Stride, its Slack competitor
Would either of you be interested in this? https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=15194413&goto=threads%...
harisamin··on Atlassian launches Stride, its Slack competitor
A bit off topic but I have been working on a native Mac slack app on and off for the past couple of years. Truly native, no web views except for the Slack oauth login.

Would ppl be interested in beta-testing it? Would ppl here be interested in paying for something like that?

Here are some links to screenshots so you know its not just vaporware :)

https://twitter.com/harisamin/status/727634194814373889

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ChkTccjVAAAZ0Kt.png

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ChkTcbMUkAIYolx.png

harisamin··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2017)
New York,NY USA, Senior Software Engineer iOS

Pager is a rapidly growing NYC health-tech startup looking for a Senior Software Engineer, iOS to develop mobile solutions for our suite of patient and clinician facing products.

https://boards.greenhouse.io/pager/jobs/676165?t=kf058s#.WYC...

harisamin··on Ask HN: What are some of the better Hacker News apps?
Shameless plug but check out mackernews.com for a Mac app :)
harisamin··on Afghanistan's All-Girl Robotics Team Can't Get Visas to the US
You should revisit the assumption that the travel ban would be effective at all. Saudi Arabia isnt on that list. Think about that for a sec. Of course we know why, because there are other national self interests involved. Of course every government has had its share of hypocracy clearly aligned with the nations self interest. Just call it like it is and don't be naive. Calling for repealing sanctions on Cuba because of 'political prisoners' should make one chuckle when looking st Saudi Arabia is concerned .
harisamin··on Afghanistan's All-Girl Robotics Team Can't Get Visas to the US
Are you serious? US has been ther for over a decade now. One of the US goals is to promote democracy and education of women to detract from taliban ways which indeed help the US perogative, rightfully so IMHO. Even if you agree with the 'travel ban', it seems completely counter productive, careless, disrespectful, and destructive for the state department (or other powers that be) to not handle such scenarios with care and elegance. But I guess that's bureaucracy for you. Exactly one of the reasons why some were opposed to the ban to being with.
harisamin··on Ruby values: ruby-the-tribe vs. ruby the language
Couldn't agree more! The GORUCO conference is amazing! I've had the wonderful opportunity of speaking there once and volunteering a few time too. It was also where I was first introduced to a dear friend that would go on to become an amazing co-founder of our funded startup (now defunct :) ). Its a great community, great format, you won't regret it!
harisamin··on Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls
So I'm glad they're doing something with the purchase. I LOVE screenhero. But right now...holy crap this is bad. Really crude benchmarks but I'm seeing an ADDITIONAL ~3.5gb of ram usage when screensarhing via slack. Checkout screenshots here. https://twitter.com/harisamin/status/864908004176658433 I know its beta, plz help improve this. I love both products
harisamin··on Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)
There actually isn't any webkit here at all, except for the slack api oauth login. Everything is native. Trust me, I'm not faking this :)
harisamin··on Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)
A while ago I had been working on a native Mac slack app. I was 70% complete but sidelined it. Should I pick it up again? Would ppl here be interested in paying for something like that? Here are some links to screenshots so you know its not just vaporware :)

https://twitter.com/harisamin/status/727634194814373889

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ChkTccjVAAAZ0Kt.png https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ChkTcbMUkAIYolx.png

harisamin··on Announcement: Official Docker Image for Swift Now Available
Hello all,

I'm pleased to announce that with the assistance of many, many people (see below), we have released an “official" Docker image for Swift https://hub.docker.com/_/swift/.

The image contains everything needed to compile and run a Swift application, reliably and reproducibly. It’s based on Ubuntu 16.04 and has been used in production for many months now. A Docker library image such as this one occupies the top level namespace, so that you can simply write “FROM swift” to refer to the image. It has received extensive auditing for best practices and security by Docker experts, and will be maintained by a dedicated team of volunteers.

I would like to encourage everyone interested to ask questions and offer improvements over on the Github repo https://github.com/swiftdocker/docker-swift. Personally, I want to offer my thanks to Thomas Catterall and Oliver Letterer for their early and pioneering work on Dockerizing Swift, Tianon Gravi for his patient and informative feedback while refining the image; and all those who have contributed to its development https://github.com/swiftdocker/docker-swift/graphs/contribut.... Thomas was also instrumental in completing the last stretch to get this accepted by Docker as an official image :)

Happy coding – I hope you make something excellent with this.

Haris Amin

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