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Email: moltar [at] moltar [dot] net
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moltar··on Ask HN: How to automate collecting HAR file while user is browsing
Have you tried Sentry with replay?
moltar··on Ask HN: Moving a not-for-profit web app off AWS
Maybe explain your stack and why it’s expensive I can help suggest saving strategies.
moltar··on Ask HN: Moving a not-for-profit web app off AWS
Stay on AWS and apply for $1K credits. Just position yourself as a potential money making startup on the Activate application. It’s very easy to get.

Then you can get $5K ($4K actual) package by using a code from Mercury bank or Secret plan purchase ($200).

moltar··on Life expectancy/years of life lost in adults w ADHD in UK: matched cohort study
What are the new options? Thank you.
moltar··on Why aren't we all serverless yet?
If you use AWS CDK the DX is amazing.
moltar··on You don't need Next.js – Why we migrated from Next to React
ClickUp runs on Angular though.
moltar··on Ask HN: What's Your Morning Routine?
Thank you for your valuable input.

I’m keenly aware of attention value and try my best not to reinforce bad behaviour. But if he’s doing something truly dangerous I cannot ignore that. I understand that even that can be dealt with differently, e.g. in a calm and non reactive manner or get upset (reaction). I mostly try to stay calm, but of course it’s not always possible. My spouse on the other hand just doesn’t get it and always reacts which I know is a huge problem.

Advise on therapy is also good and something I was considering. Just don’t really know where to start I guess. If you have any actionable advice here would be great.

Thank you.

moltar··on Ask HN: What's Your Morning Routine?
I wish that worked with my 4yo. He’ll whine and whine. And then feel rejected and start deliberately causing trouble to gain attention. Literally cannot be alone for a second.
moltar··on Ask HN: How do you improve your writing?
I found one online, but it wasn’t in English.
moltar··on We use our own hardware at Fastmail
Cloud is more than instances. If all you need is a bunch of boxes, then cloud is a terrible fit.

I use AWS cloud a lot, and almost never use any VMs or instances. Most instances I use are along the lines of a simple anemic box for a bastion host or some such.

I use higher level abstractions (services) to simplify solutions and outsource maintenance of these services to AWS.

moltar··on Ask HN: How do you improve your writing?
I once hired a writing coach for a bit and it improved my writing immensely. There’s no better way to get real, unadulterated feedback on your writing.
moltar··on The CD Pipeline Manifesto
Best pipeline I’ve had the pleasure to design is AWS CodePipeline via AWS CDK. Ticks all boxes. Uses pure TypeScript code.
moltar··on Ask HN: Examples of agentic LLM systems in production?
Is the tool public? We are looking for a solid text to sql tool that works with Athena.
moltar··on There's a New Country Ranking and You're Not Going to Like It
1 is exactly what Denmark does on many levels. From early medical to care to infra to lifestyle. Children are accepted as part of whole life, not as some bothersome nuisance that most western countries treat children as such.
moltar··on Serverless VPN Self-hosted
Or just use algo https://github.com/trailofbits/algo/
moltar··on UK sees privatisation 'opportunities' in Ukraine war
Oh yes how opportunistic. Now that Ukraine had been weakened let’s push thru some “reforms” to make it easier to pillage legally.
moltar··on Ask HN: Anybody used Retool for production, user-facing app?
One massive one that we’ve been struggling with for months.

Some PostgreSQL query errors are not handled correctly. It results in a fatal handling which restarts the entire server. It takes up to 30 seconds for the full reload meanwhile users are getting 504s.

The error is benign and totally retriable in the userland. It’s a query timeout. No need to handle it as fatal.

moltar··on Ask HN: Anybody used Retool for production, user-facing app?
It’s ok for an MVP but anything beyond that I wouldn’t use it. It’s ok for internal tools. But has a few annoying bugs and they aren’t too eager to fix. Even our internal users are very annoyed.
moltar··on $8k Suzuki from India received a 5-star crash test rating
Should be sold in Europe!
moltar··on Memos – An open source Rewinds / Recall
How’s the performance with Python? What’s the overhead?
moltar··on $200M a year, 700k tons of rice, space tech: deal for North Korea in joining war
And Ukrainian partners don’t even wait for that. Lands are being divided and bought out by BlackRock and the like for pennies on the dollar.
moltar··on Stick to boring architecture for as long as possible
To clarify the definition. Boring is in the eyes of the developer writing the solution. What’s boring to the author might not be boring to me. Running a bare metal server with apps and database is not boring, but stressful to me. I find AWS Lambda and RDS, managed thru IaC boring.
moltar··on Show HN: Pipet – CLI tool for scraping and extracting data online, with pipes
Because every website has such an advanced protection?
moltar··on Ask HN: How have you integrated LLMs in your development workflow?
Lovely project. Happy to see it’s in TypeScript for once. Also very clean code base and good abstractions!
moltar··on Ask HN: How have you integrated LLMs in your development workflow?
One use cases I like a lot is copy paste the entire error from the console into the chat window. No explanation or preamble. Just raw output. Most of the time I get some useful leads out of it. It’s not always solving it entirely for me but even a hint in the right direction can save you hours of digging in the wrong direction.
moltar··on Hyperscalers are carving up the ocean floor into private internet highways
Could make the argument the other way too though. If these companies bought bandwidth from for profit companies like Level3 who charge them an arm and a leg, then it’d be the final consumer who’d be paying the costs. By having their own pipes they can distribute content at cost and only charge for the value add.
moltar··on Show HN: Mitata – Benchmarking tooling for JavaScript
Any plans for web compatible output?

I maintain this repo, and we hand roll the stats page, but if we could get that for free it’d be so great!

https://github.com/moltar/typescript-runtime-type-benchmarks

moltar··on F1 Wing Trick That Helped Oscar Piastri Win the Azerbaijan GP
“One weird trick”
moltar··on When You Call a Restaurant, You Might Be Chatting with an AI Host
Well that’s the 10% it cannot answer. Most questions are much more mundane.
moltar··on When You Call a Restaurant, You Might Be Chatting with an AI Host
Full knowledge is easy enough for 90% success. Just record every human to human conversation for a month and use a RAG or fine tune the model on the transcriptions.
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