Hacker News: agjmills

New comment by agjmills in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

agjmills — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:11:51 +0000

Trove - a really simple web app where I can shove some files without having to really think about configuring anything

https://agjmills.github.io/trove/

Go, docker, bit of alpine js

New comment by agjmills in "Cardiorespiratory fitness is associated with lower anger and anxiety"

agjmills — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 19:23:26 +0000

Linguistics question: the title says “[…] is associated with lower anger and anxiety” I read it as _people who have lower anger, and people who have anxiety_ Am I broken? (I am a native English speaker but that doesn’t mean that I speak English correctly)

New comment by agjmills in "The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in USA"

agjmills — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 08:25:55 +0000

Oddly I watched it live on the Eurosport broadcast and didn’t hear any noticeable booing

New comment by agjmills in "Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games"

agjmills — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 18:29:47 +0000

This reminds me of OHRRPGCE

New comment by agjmills in "Vibe Code Warning – A personal casestudy"

agjmills — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 07:38:41 +0000

Whilst I ostensibly agree with the sentiment of the linked page, my personal experience is very different - my suspicion is due to the different technologies at play

I enjoy building little SaaS side hustles that one day (I can dream) might make me a couple of grand, but I don’t enjoy writing 20+ CRUD controllers, with matching validation, and HTML forms. I’m probably a bit neurospicy, and I have a young family, but before LLMs came along I might “finish” one SaaS every couple of years. I’ve been able to complete 3 so far this year. It’s a wild uptick in productivity.

I’m well aware of the dangers that come with it too, but having been in the mines churning out this code for the last couple of decades I feel well versed in what to prompt for, just as I would with a keen yet naive junior engineer. I’d also argue that LLMs are much better at enforcing a particular style on the code base. I feel strongly that with an opinionated framework, in a relatively simple language, solving repetitive simple problems - you’ll have a great time with LLMs and you’ll be more productive than ever.

The problems arise when we delegate jobs like writing READMEs or tests (the boring stuff, right?) without really getting into the weeds.

New comment by agjmills in "Taking Risk"

agjmills — Tue, 21 May 2024 08:06:25 +0000

Whilst I dont want to defend the relatively low compensation for public-sector jobs in the UK, it is more nuanced than just salary.

In this case, it was actually a salary of £50,550 - £57,500, so total compensation of around £75k (circa $95k), as the pension scheme is in the order of 30% of your salary. Then there's the usual US vs UK medical cover and vacation allowances.

It's still a way off, but the gap is smaller than you think when you crunch all of the other benefits into a single number.

New comment by agjmills in "BT confirms it's switching off 3G in UK from Jan next year"

agjmills — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 11:04:08 +0000

Does make me wonder what will happen to a lot of the Gas and Electricity Smart Meters that rely on 3G (will they fall back to 2G?)

New comment by agjmills in "Show HN: Invoice Dragon – An open source app to create PDF invoices"

agjmills — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 18:08:13 +0000

Looks great, but you can’t scroll the currency select box on iPhone

New comment by agjmills in "Ask HN: What are some of the most elegant codebases in your favorite language?"

agjmills — Sat, 17 Jun 2023 15:49:46 +0000

Php and Laravel

New comment by agjmills in "Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?"

agjmills — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 20:53:47 +0000

https://bauns.net A dashboard for SES reporting, giving fine grained metrics rather than just a failure %

New comment by agjmills in "I still have an old-school cert on my HTTPS site"

agjmills — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 23:08:10 +0000

But also check it’s still valid, because revocations

New comment by agjmills in "I still have an old-school cert on my HTTPS site"

agjmills — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 23:02:38 +0000

Or better, an alert to check the cert is still valid

New comment by agjmills in "Cheerful chatbots don’t necessarily improve customer service"

agjmills — Sat, 31 Dec 2022 09:03:52 +0000

Like all US tax law?

New comment by agjmills in "Ask HN: Is it still worth learning Kubernetes in 2022?"

agjmills — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 09:31:33 +0000

With your ML background I'd probably focus on things like AWS Sagemaker and going from dev to prod in a sensible fashion.

New comment by agjmills in "Tips on adding JSON output to your CLI app"

agjmills — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 09:18:57 +0000

Imagine if http APIs has similar output to lsof or df -h - nobody would write a script to use them! JSON makes a lot of sense, but a human-parseable format is also needed.

New comment by agjmills in "My Twitter was hacked"

agjmills — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 09:15:42 +0000

Isn't this the entire point of GDPR in the EU? To prevent corporations and individuals from using your personal data for any purpose other than for the reason your provided it.

Perhaps you should change your strategy? Personally, I use myname+website@gmail.com as then I'll know the source, when I find my email address has been sold to a 3rf party

New comment by agjmills in "Please stop closing forums and moving people to Discord"

agjmills — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 12:51:42 +0000

I have the same problem with Gitter.im or slack for FOSS projects - quite a few communities have switched from being fórum based (and therefore the conversations are logged and indexable by search engines), to being ephemeral conversations in Slack channels.

You could argue that IRC fits in the category of ephemeral platforms, but most large communities provide some form of indexable log of the conversations

Fairphone: Ethical, fairtrade and modular mobile phone

agjmills — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 18:09:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.fairphone.com/en/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28224981

Points: 18

# Comments: 1

Crest investigating NCC Group for potentially cheating at pentest accreditation

agjmills — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 09:48:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/14/crest_investigates_ncc_group/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24196856

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by agjmills in "Show HN: Dashboard to Manage and Monitor AWS SES Bounces/Deliveries/Complaints"

agjmills — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 15:08:18 +0000

OP here, I built this to scratch an itch, as I run a few other platforms that sent around 16000 emails per day, and SendGrid was getting pricey, but I couldn't get the granularity of reporting for my transactional emails with SES.

I could've built it into my existing platform, but fancied doing something different - and that's how I ended up with Bauns.