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vindin··on AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
Not a lawyer but if you can sue for emotional distress for similar situations I would imagine there is an angle here
vindin··on No AI Co-Authors. A Manifesto
Broken on mobile, and clearly written by an AI co-author.

This sounds like Claude from a mile away

“It strikes the tool. It keeps the person. Matching runs on both the display name and the email, normalized — so a renamed bot or a numeric noreply address doesn’t slip through. A human is never in the blast radius.”

vindin··on 120k Lines of Rust: Inside the Nosdesk Backend
“Sub-100ms response times, because I chose the hard path with Rust and it paid off.“

Rust is not the reason you have sub-100ms response times. If it were the true bottleneck your app would be far faster than this

vindin··on A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline
This woman knows nothing about the real world
vindin··on Amazonbot is finally respecting robots.txt
robots.txt is merely a gentleman’s courtesy at this point. Nobody is obligated to follow it.
vindin··on A Faster Alternative to Jq
The data viz of the benchmarks is really rough. I think you’d get a lot of leverage out of rebuilding it and using colors and/or shapes to extract additional dimensions. Nobody wants to scan through raw file paths as labels to try and figure out what the hell the results are
vindin··on Show HN: Email.md – Markdown to responsive, email-safe HTML
This problem was solved almost 15 years ago
vindin··on Show HN: Deff – Side-by-side Git diff review in your terminal
Learn to read canonical diffs. It is the standard and will get you further than any new tool
vindin··on Msgvault: fast private email archive and search system
Neat idea but you could build this with a fraction of the complexity by ditching sqlite and duckdb for your native file system and rg/grep/gawk with equivalent performance
vindin··on Show HN: Apate API mocking/prototyping server and Rust unit test library
Why are people using rust to build web apps
vindin··on Muse: Cursor for Composing MIDI
Looks really cool, will definitely be trying it out. Do you have any screenshares or demo midi you can share? And is there any way to use a text based notation rather than a piano roll?
vindin··on Deep dive into Turso, the “SQLite rewrite in Rust”
Why? Just because it’s in rust doesn’t make it a better product
vindin··on Native Instruments enters into insolvency proceedings
Heartbreaking. They were a pioneer and laid the foundation for countless artists over the last 20 years. Especially in the early 2010s, their products like Massive played a key role in shaping what modern electronic music would eventually sound like. Ever since they got acquired and merged with izotope, they’ve been spiraling. Another textbook example of how private equity destroys innovative companies.
vindin··on CLI command history tracker – never forget a command again
Someone never read their shell’s manpages
vindin··on Feed me up, Scotty – custom RSS feed generation using CSS selectors
Love the powerful simplicity, nice work
vindin··on Show HN: Pbar.io – Distributed progress bars that work in terminals and browsers
Really clever, nice work. Love the minimal but polished approach you’ve taken
vindin··on Why we still build with Ruby
I've noticed the exact same thing. Every tablestakes component has a gold standard library (sidekiq, puma, devise, rake, vcr, and so many others) and all seem to have been updated within the last week. The community might be small and have a dull outward appearance, but anyone who works with Ruby knows that the ecosystem has been blooming with life for 2 decades.
vindin··on Linux Foundation's updated inclusive language guide
I really think we need to take a good look at Tux, and consider a redesign. For something as symbolic as him, I really think that we need to adjust his shading, such that he is at least 50% black. His current appearance is a literal example of white supremacy, and this should never be tolerated.
vindin··on Linux Foundation's updated inclusive language guide
This also makes me think of blackbodies, which are literal black bodied objects in physical space that absorb radiation in larger quantities than non black bodies
vindin··on Linux Foundation's updated inclusive language guide
Such a waste of valuable man hours
vindin··on Why we still build with Ruby
I don’t understand why Ruby and Rails get a reputation for being outdated or “legacy.” Over the last several years both have seen massive numbers of contributions, both in improvements and new features. I’d be surprised if any tool for building a new web app could even come close to what Rails has to offer across the full stack.
vindin··on Show HN: I've been building an ERP for manufacturing for the last 3 years
I really recommend you do more reading on DDD. This codebase is looking like a ticking time bomb. Biggest red flag I’m seeing right now is your supabase/functions/create/index.js. You have 2000 lines of code that contain what I see is your domain logic mixed with database queries and http concerns. In some places there are 8+ levels of conditionals, promises, and error handling. For an ERP system, this is not good. Ideally the domain logic (accounting, rules, core erp stuff) should be isolated by itself, with solid test coverage, free of any external communications/concerns, etc. The reason being that this is not something you want to fuck up. Business rules are tough as I’m sure you know, and this is going to be a pain to maintain in its current state
vindin··on A bunch of programming advice I'd give to myself 15 years ago
I would have told myself that there's going to be a new frontend architecture called "SPA," and a new framework related to it called React.js. And that I should stay far away from both of them.
vindin··on Work Hard (2007)
I strongly disagree with this. I got a 102 on the Putnam and am proud member of Mensa International, yet I never studied for exams or really tried very hard in school. While it makes me uncomfortable, people often call me a “genius,” and they are always even more surprised when they notice I never really have to put in any effort to do anything. I also strongly disagree with the “relearn your field” argument. I have a photographic memory, and never forget anything. The idea that I’d have to relearn something is absurd.