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I only find this is a problem when it writes code in a language I deeply understand. I can’t help but look at it, get the LLM to change it, etc. But when it writes me a Cloudflare worker in Typescript that I don’t understand, I couldn’t care less. It works, that’s good enough.

So I suppose we just have to care less and let it get on with it. Not easy tho, for sure.

Perhaps BigCorp is only just starting to use agentic dev properly. Plus they’ll have loads of bureaucracy still to get code out of the door. Might take another year or two.

I just see “ Verification failed. Please try again.” (iOS safari)

Sad news. I’ve read his blog for forever, Bob was a total industry legend. Best wishes to his family

Should I stay on Sequoia? I’m seeing a few apps now required 26+ so I’m considering upgrading, but I don’t really want to tbh

> They talk to me in this grating LLM-voice, an uncanny valley of talking to a real human

It’s entirely possible to configure an LLM to talk to you in a different voice of your choosing, eg. “when responding, use a professional, formal, business tone of voice”.

Yeah, I need to try this thing in my own hands to actually understand if it’s useable.

Has anyone actually signed up to tweet.app (twitter.now)? Thoughts?

I think the use case here is for people who have an iPhone as well as an iPad they use occasionally for reading/watching stuff, as well as business people / execs.

Now you can (sort of) have both in one device. Reading the rumours, I was completely disinterested. Now I’m actually tempting to ditch the iPad Pro and iPhone Pro and have a Duo replace both. I’m excited to have a go with one in the Apple Store.

Shame it’s so damn expensive!

Yes, LLM code gen and human review seems to be the universal standard... today! that may well change soon though as trust in the agents increases and they get better. Fable, for instance, is so good for what I do (Rails) that I pretty much trust it implicitly. I still like to check though :)

Very true (in my fifties). I’d also add in a hobby/passion, especially when you’re retired.

I've tried it via OpenCode and I'm impressed. So fast compared to Opus, and the results so far are comparable I'd say.

I’m working on my indie blogging platform, Pagecord (https://pagecord.com). It started as a fun side project but is gaining decent traction right now - I’m convinced there’s a blogging renaissance about to happen! :)

I’ve been focused on decentralising it, offering ways for bloggers to write locally (markdown, Obsidian) while hosting remotely on the platform. I think it’s a great way of working. Most people still just use the editor though!

I’ve been focused on marketing and distribution, which is mainly about content. Hard in such a crowded space but it seems to be working.

It’s been such an interesting journey technically too, from using coding agents to dealing with the crazy deluge of bot traffic.

I run it all myself which isn’t so daunting in the AI age.

Check out https://bearblog.dev/discover and https://pagecord.com/spotlight. Indie blogging is alive and well!

Substack provides RSS too which is nice

I wouldn’t say it’s dead. Rather, niche.

IndieWeb blogging products are alive and well. Google definitely scrapes and ranks (my blog gets good juice) and there are and increasing number of aggregators like Kagi small web, bubbles.town, ooh.directory.

RSS is a wonder, but given that it removes any opportunity for ads and monetisation you can see why the powers that be at Google might want to kill it. Still, it lives on but only in our geek circles.

I run my own RSS reader product (feedgrab.net) and one thing I’ve learned is that there are plenty of sites that serve RSS yet block bots from reading it (ie. RSS crawlers!!).

Not sure what needs to happen to make RSS more popular again - there are loads of feed readers and most blog/news sites support it. Maybe it’s just too complicated for the masses? I tried to address this in Feedgrab with a “Discover” approach which I think could help, but I need to put more effort into the directory.

Also, let’s not forget social media’s role in killing it.

haha yes! i built feedgrab.net but once it did what i wanted, i stopped building it. it just works. doesn't really make RSS cool again, but it does the job for me

Blogs on indie platforms like Bear and Pagecord get promoted in the Discover (and Spotlight, on Pagecord) feeds which definitely drives traffic

I agree! That's why I built Pagecord. Like Substack it's a blog with a mailing list, but it's also your personal website (pages, for example) with a custom domain. Also, source available.

Most people will defer to Substack because (A) the brand, and (B) it can be monetised which is probably the biggest draw.

Maybe I need to bring monetisation to Pagecord? :)

https://pagecord.com

https://github.com/lylo/pagecord

It's about a popular security tech product! Sure there's a political angle as to _why_ the person has ditched it, but loads of HN news posts do. Not sure why it's flagged

I've been recommended https://airvpn.org. Any opinions?

Hi. As the Pagecord community has grown, people increasingly asked for a "discover" list so they could connect with other independent bloggers on the platform.

Spotlight is the result. It's a discovery page for public Pagecord blogs, currently English language only. There's also an RSS feed: https://pagecord.com/spotlight/trending.xml

Nothing revolutionary, but I thought the HN community might like it as another source of independent writing like the discovery list that Bear Blog does well.

Half the price of https://www.ubicloud.com/use-cases/postgresql?

that's not managed. that's just running PostresQL on a server, which is what I do already. I mean managed like https://www.ubicloud.com/use-cases/postgresql

yeah that's what i do, but i kinda would like managed where i don't have to think about it ;)

Hetzner could win back some of that love if they release the long-rumoured managed Postgres offering at a price that undercuts most of the competition.

Isn't his entire point on this short talk that one can become very wealthy by creating a product that people love and want to tell their friends about? I think it's also a nudge to students at one of the most prestigious universities in the world to consider building a startup. That's it.

I don't think there's anything insidious or controversial or misleading here. It's a simple talk to a bunch of clever students using contrived examples that emphasise this point.

Pagecord! A personal website and blog... that you'll actually keep updated.

It's an all-in-one, open source blogging/site analytics/newsletter platform that takes privacy seriously and is priced affordably (plus a free plan, obvs). Would love your feedback if you have a few mins to spare.

The goal is to make you write more!

https://pagecord.com

2 hours after I fork out for Codex Pro… :-|