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jvinet··on Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup?
I've found drop (https://github.com/wrr/drop) to be really simple and effective.

For full isolation, I also use a VM via Incus. Lets me run the dayjob's Tailscale within, as well.

jvinet··on What has Docker become?
Maybe Uncloud would fit the bill?
jvinet··on ASCIIFlow
Mermaid is great for this, though the output will be an image, not ASCII.

https://mermaid.js.org

jvinet··on Crypto-failure Terraform Labs to cough up $4.5B, liquidate self
This article tries to follow the action via the tweets emerging at the time.

https://medium.com/coinmonks/the-40b-wipeout-the-fall-of-ter...

The last laugh: https://x.com/FreddieRaynolds/status/1524139694388355072

jvinet··on Arch Linux turns 20: Small, simple, great documentation
> Still, I’d say that trying out Arch has immeasurably improved my knowledge, not just of Linux but of the underlying concepts behind modern computing.

I love hearing that, because it was a goal of Arch from the very beginning: to stop fearing the commandline.

And I was the first alpha tester, in that I wanted to learn more about how the sausage was actually made, so to speak. I was comfortable using things like Linuxconf at the time, but its beginner-friendly veneer meant that I didn't really know what to do if it _wasn't_ there.

After tinkering with Crux and PLD for a bit, I wanted to go deeper and start from nothing. So I loaded up the LFS[1] docs and just started typing in the shell stanzas to start building my compilation toolchain. In an effort to DRY as much as possible, the work also got placed into shell scripts, which eventually became PKGBUILD modules.

I started having way too much fun with it, so I put up the world's ugliest webpage[2] to share my triumphs, and a couple people found it, somehow. That begat the immediate need for documentation, which eventually brought Arch into the forefront. I can't recall who spearheaded the Arch wiki, but we owe them a great debt, because it has become a valuable resource for Linux users, and not only the Arch users.

Arch is my happiest accident.

ps: btw, I run Arch (is this still a meme?)

[1] https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20020328043401/http://www.archli...

jvinet··on My Favorite One Liners
I use something similar, but it leans on at(1) to popup reminders at predefined intervals. I tend to forget things once I'm buried in my Vim window.

https://github.com/jvinet/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/rin

Examples:

  $ rin +30 Check the turkey
  $ rin '14:30 tomorrow' Watch baseball
I currently have it setup so it pops up a modal dialog using Zenity. As well, it uses my cheap-and-cheerful bespoke notification doohickey that I have running in waybar, another script called notify: https://github.com/jvinet/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/notify

This way, I have a nagging badge/icon in my waybar system tray until I finally do check that turkey and watch that baseball.

jvinet··on Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000
Ah, those were the days.
jvinet··on Show HN: Figure out when you closed your MacBook lid
If you're on Linux, you can accomplish this with dbus.

https://github.com/jvinet/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/doorman.p...

jvinet··on PostgreSQL 9.4 Released
With JSONB here, JSONPath starts to become very interesting...

http://goessner.net/articles/JsonPath/

http://blog.redfin.com/devblog/2012/03/json_in_postgres.html

That article was written before JSON/JSONB showed up, but the idea remains the same.

I didn't have plv8 installed, so I did some plumbing code in plpython. plv8 would be more suitable though.

https://github.com/jvinet/pg-jsonpath

jvinet··on Bye Daddy: Search who hasn't fled GoDaddy yet
The archlinux.org transfer is in progress. I'd imagine the domain-transfer tubes are a bit clogged right now, given the mass exodus from GoDaddy.
jvinet··on Arch Linux – "It is what you make it"
That's a good analogy - I've never heard that one before.
jvinet··on Show HN: "Never wait on hold again" service built with Rails and Twilio
Brilliant. You've probably added a few years to my life, both in terms of hours lost and frustration listening to the same 24kbps top-40 song over and over.

Thanks. :)

jvinet··on Announcing Backbone.js: Models, Collections and Views in 2.4kb
Another approach, though more alpha in code/docs:

http://github.com/jvinet/jive

jvinet··on Is it Now Acceptable to Require JavaScript?
Exactly. Follow the cost-benefit analysis through to completion. For my startup, it's not worth it to create a second version of the site.

I'd love to serve up the site in a way that lets any screen reader or NoScript user see the site as it is intended, but the costs are too high for the relative gains.