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tnolet

5,797 karma · joined July 11, 2014

Co-founder at https://checklyhq.com. https://twitter.com/tim_nolet
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tnolet··on Ditching Obsidian and building my own
Very curious to hear from avid note takers: is it a habit? (maybe addiction?) is it just a tool to do you work better? Is it for fun? Why the elaborate setups (Git + Wireguard etc.)

Sincerely, not-trolling, from a bare minimum note taker.

tnolet··on Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?
The basic, classic Salesforce UI. In this screenshot the classic is on the left, the new one they pushed already years ago on the right: https://www.newfangled.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/LEXOpp...
tnolet··on Mike Waltz Accidentally Reveals App Govt Uses to Archive Signal Messages
This is misleading bordering on rage bait. There were 11 dutch military police who created a WhatsApp group. This was not allowed and is also not sanctioned or any form of official Military Police communications channel.

The leader of those 11 was fired because of it.

It says it right there in the article. Stop making drama.

tnolet··on Show HN: Moose – OSS framework to build analytical back ends with ClickHouse
I’d brand this OS Tinybird.
tnolet··on ClickHouse gets lazier and faster: Introducing lazy materialization
yes, we looked at Timescale also. But they were much younger then and Clickhouse was more mature. Clickhouse cloud did not exist yet. We now use a mix of Altinity and Cloud.
tnolet··on ClickHouse gets lazier and faster: Introducing lazy materialization
For us these are just metrics on customer facing dashboards inside our app. They are basically realtime and show p95, p99, avg. etc over time ranges. Our app can show this for 1000s of entities in one dashboard and that can eat up resources pretty quickly
tnolet··on ClickHouse gets lazier and faster: Introducing lazy materialization
We adopted ClickHouse ~4 years ago. We COULD have stayed on just Postgres. With a lot of bells, whistles, aggregation, denormalisation, aggressive retention limits and job queues etc. we could have gotten acceptable response times for our interactive dashboard.

But we chose ClickHouse and now we just pump in data with little to no optimization.

tnolet··on US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU
But then we can promote immigration from poorer neighbouring countries to pick up the work. Oh wait...
tnolet··on Tesla sales drop 35% in San Diego County
Was in the market for a Model Y. Got Volvo EX40 instead. Glad I dodged that bullet.
tnolet··on Google to buy Wiz for $32B
Last Kubecon / Cloudnative Con they had a HUGE stand. Hard to miss them if you are in this space.
tnolet··on Google to buy Wiz for $32B
For hardcore Wiz users: What are their killer features that you use day in, day out?
tnolet··on Blender-made movie Flow takes Oscar
That's the whole point. That it's not explained and you are left with tantalizing questions. It's ok to not like it. Not everyone likes the same things.
tnolet··on Ask HN: Ethical VC Funds?
There are two parts to this:

- The Limited Partners (LPs) e.g. the folks putting money into the VC fund. E.g. would you consider money from Saudi Arabia be ethical?

- The portfolio strategy. E.g. would you find investing in some company in the carbon based fuel space be ethical?

tnolet··on Launch HN: Browser Use (YC W25) – open-source web agents
How are you different from https://www.browserbase.com/ and their Stagehand framework? [0]

[0]https://github.com/browserbase/stagehand

tnolet··on Laravel Cloud
Yeah, I’m very familiar with them. But they never really were a framework specific platform or at least did not go in that direction very long. Now they are explicitly a framework agnostic PaaS.
tnolet··on Laravel Cloud
The idea is the company eats that cost and sees it as marketing. It’s pretty common with dev tools. But not required of course.
tnolet··on Laravel Cloud
Kinda annoying I have to put in a CC before starting a free $0 plan.
tnolet··on Laravel Cloud
That’s funny, because Rails is the one big framework that does not have a framework level hosting provider. Wordpress has it, Nextjs has it and now Laravel has it. There is no Rails equivalent.
tnolet··on Laravel Cloud
Easier to who? The audience here is folks that don’t want to wade into the murky Docker waters
tnolet··on Launch HN: Massdriver (YC W22) – Self-serve cloud infra without the red tape
Wanted to check your status page to get a feeling for stability. Is your status icon in the footer hard coded, or is there an actual status page?
tnolet··on Umami is a simple, fast, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics
yeah, funky how 20 years later the UTM (Urchin Tracking Module) query param is still the defacto standard tracking tag.
tnolet··on Ask HN: What are you using for personal tech blogs?
No that is great. Tnx
tnolet··on Ask HN: What are you using for personal tech blogs?
What made you go for Ghost?
tnolet··on Ask HN: What are you using for personal tech blogs?
What are things you like & don't like about Hugo?
tnolet··on Ask HN: What are you using for personal tech blogs?
what do you like about Svelte in this case?
tnolet··on OpenDAW – a new holistic exploration of music creation inside the browser
All plugins add latency. They just report that in their API and your DAW compensates. There is no way eliminate CPU cycles being spent on whatever the plugin does.
tnolet··on OpenDAW – a new holistic exploration of music creation inside the browser
No, low latency is not needed for all non-realtime things. Even then, you are looking for latency compensation. Just add one VST plugin to an audio track and you will instantly add latency.

The crux is you want everything to play in sync when doing recording and overdubbing, e.g. "hit record and what I hear live is in sync with what I have recorded already". Almost all DAWs solve this by just starting things a bit later (latency compensation). Some audio cards solve this by allowing direct hardware monitoring. But even then you will have some samples of latency.

tnolet··on Free Web Hosting Area
who knows? My handyman's site still works, so there is that.
tnolet··on Free Web Hosting Area
I just posted this as I noticed my handyman was hosting his site there. I felt very very nostalgic. The text, the buttons, everything. The mention they will "soon have SSL", unmetered traffic. Just good old early 2000s web.
tnolet··on No Calls
I'm a founder (and started solo like the OP) in the tech / devops / infra space. Doing calls, and in-person meetings is the 10x accelerator for sales. The OP is quite right in his assessment of what types of calls there are. Pretty spot on.

However, the moment you can afford to have AE (Account Executives) and "sales" in general to field these calls, you might benefit. He IS leaving money on the table.

(yes, we have all pricing, free plan and super extensive docs on our site. But still calls and meetings seal the sweetest deals)

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