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mpern

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mpern··on Jelly Sheet
Works over here on Firefox Mobile 159.0.1
mpern··on Postman silently auto-installs AI plugins and attempts to share all API data
While not exactly an equivalent to Postman or Bruno, I really like the "http file with extras" approach of httpyac

https://httpyac.github.io/

Since it's all in plain text it's easy to share in a repo.

mpern··on Bitwarden Dual License Model
FWIW I moved to Proton Pass after I read the blog post months ago. The switch was seamless except for passkeys (had to enroll new ones; back then I only found a tool to convert Proton Pass passkeys to Bitwarden, but not the other way around)

For me, Pass works much better, especially passkeys on Android. Bitwarden was very flaky in that regard, Proton Pass "just works".

I use Pass for personal logins and sharing family-related accounts with my wife.

mpern··on Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents
At least for gondolin and microsandbox, you bind a specific secret placeholder to the target host. i.e. your GH token is only replaced/injected for calls to api.github.com, not other hosts. And you can set up both with deny-by-default
mpern··on Why are so many young people getting cancer?
Which therapies do you have in mind and where can I find more information?

I have cancer, I'll take anything that has at least preliminary trails...

mpern··on Show HN: I scraped 3B Goodreads reviews to train a better recommendation model
I read the title as "I scraped 38 book reviews". Time to get reading glasses...
mpern··on Claude Sonnet 4.5
Would you be so kind to lead by example?

What are the specific tasks + prompts giving you an 3x increased output, and conversely, what tasks don't work at all?

After an admittedly cursory scan of your blog and the repos in your GH account I don't find anything in this direction.