<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: alexfortin</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=alexfortin</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 20:58:22 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=alexfortin" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alexfortin in "Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Might not be the right move for everyone but I'm very happy to have invested some time and effort to setup my personal Forgejo instance.<p>I've blogged about it too: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48978707">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48978707</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:15:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49342880</link><dc:creator>alexfortin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49342880</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49342880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alexfortin in "Bluesky's active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It is for me, I'm pretty sure I didn't tweak anything.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 05:59:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49295185</link><dc:creator>alexfortin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49295185</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49295185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alexfortin in "Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>About the missing native support for Pi, I opened this issue long ago in case you want to add some pressure: <a href="https://github.com/docker/sbx-releases/issues/34" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/docker/sbx-releases/issues/34</a><p>To work around that limitation I came up with this <a href="https://github.com/shaftoe/sbx-template-pi" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/shaftoe/sbx-template-pi</a><p>So essentially you can get latest Pi/Node pulling from that image:<p>`sbx run -t ghcr.io/shaftoe/sbx-template-pi:latest shell`<p>Like others here I'm also saddened by the login requirement but at the moment this is the best UX I could find for running sandboxed agents, the "kit/mixin" concepts are neat and I make use of them too: <a href="https://github.com/shaftoe/sbx-template-pi#stacking-the-extras-mixin" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/shaftoe/sbx-template-pi#stacking-the-extr...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 08:49:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49241077</link><dc:creator>alexfortin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49241077</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49241077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alexfortin in "A deep dive into my Forgejo setup"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hello folks! I've recently resurrected my will for tech blogging and I thought someone else out there might also be considering setting up a Forgejo instance so I took the time to write about my journey into it.<p>I'm looking forward to feedback, suggestions, etc, and I'll be happy to answer any questions too.<p>Happy forgin'</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://a.l3x.in/blog/welcome-to-my-forge/">https://a.l3x.in/blog/welcome-to-my-forge/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48978707">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48978707</a></p>
<p>Points: 9</p>
<p># Comments: 2</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:35:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://a.l3x.in/blog/welcome-to-my-forge/</link><dc:creator>alexfortin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48978707</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48978707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alexfortin in "Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thanks to being unemployed, the last few months I've been experimenting a lot with coding agents, harnesses and most importantly, the workflows around them.<p>Currently I'm refining what I think works best for me, which I'd call something like "issues/PR based LLM workflow", powered mainly by this action I'm building on top of the Pi coding agent SDK: <a href="https://github.com/shaftoe/pi-coding-agent-action" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/shaftoe/pi-coding-agent-action</a><p>Essentially I issue prompts swapping between the terminal and the git forge web app (GitHub and my own Forgejo instance) and it currently looks something like this:<p>- create an issue with detail/quality of spec based on how the task or the project is important<p>- trigger a Pi session prepending a comment in the forge with "/pi " to work on it, either to produce a report or to e.g. implement the change in a new PR<p>- trigger more sessions in the same thread, be it an issue or a PR, to steer or to add more requests like fork out a new PR or similar. This works also for reviews so I just add comments and the submit a review with "/pi follow the comments instructions" or similar<p>- if I want more fine graded control and I am at the workstation I use the bridging Pi extension to pick up the work locally: <a href="https://github.com/shaftoe/pi-coding-agent-action/tree/develop/packages/pi-action-bridge" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/shaftoe/pi-coding-agent-action/tree/devel...</a><p>- rinse and repeat until I'm either happy with the change or the PR is so bloated that I get rid of it and start anew<p>I know it's probably something Claude / Codex / Cursor offer with their web app but I want the freedom and the flexibility to use the LL provider/model I want, and Pi as a harness does that plus all the rests egregiously. Another advantage is that I can fit the LLM action in any pipeline I want and take care of chores like automated changelog generation and what not.<p>As I said it's still mostly work in progress but in general I think there's lot of potential with this kind of workflow, it forces me to keep the scope of the changes small (I still want to review the PR content after all) and gives me a memory for free just leveraging the ticketing system. I also like the fact the harness is running most of the time in the ci/cd sandbox which, in the case of Forgejo, I control fully.<p>PS I try to keep my work with/on AI tools on my website at <a href="https://a.l3x.in/ai" rel="nofollow">https://a.l3x.in/ai</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 10:41:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48773409</link><dc:creator>alexfortin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48773409</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48773409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alexfortin in "ZCode – Harness for GLM-5.2"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Same here. Moving from OC to Pi also taught me one more time that less is more and I don't need most of the features I thought I needed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 06:09:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48757190</link><dc:creator>alexfortin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48757190</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48757190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alexfortin in "ZCode – Harness for GLM-5.2"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you haven't yet you should give a chance to <a href="https://pi.dev" rel="nofollow">https://pi.dev</a><p>I've been using it exclusively (and extending it, see <a href="https://a.l3x.in/ai" rel="nofollow">https://a.l3x.in/ai</a>) for months with mainly GLM-4.7 then 5.1 and now 5.2 and I could hardly be any happier.<p>I'm still working on a "Github/Forgejo first" based workflow but also quite happy with it already, basically most of my sessions run as a ci/cd job (triggered by "/pi" comments) and generate PRs or push commits to PRs, see <a href="https://github.com/shaftoe/pi-coding-agent-action" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/shaftoe/pi-coding-agent-action</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 06:06:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48757162</link><dc:creator>alexfortin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48757162</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48757162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alexfortin in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Location: Bucharest, Romania<p>Remote: Yes<p>Willing to relocate: No<p>Technologies: AWS, Golang, Typescript, Terraform, Docker / Kubernetes (ECS/Fargate, EKS), PostgreSQL / Redis,  CloudFlare / CloudFront, CI/CDs (AWS CodePipeline, GitHub Actions)<p>Résumé/CV: <a href="https://cv.l3x.in/" rel="nofollow">https://cv.l3x.in/</a><p>Email: a@l3x.in</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 07:03:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48366954</link><dc:creator>alexfortin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48366954</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48366954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alexfortin in "GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Try lowering thinking level with GLM-5.1, to me that seems to have an impact on mitigating the blocking behaviour.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:58:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47688985</link><dc:creator>alexfortin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47688985</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47688985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alexfortin in "Hammerspoon"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I use it to enable/disable the wifi when I disconnec/connect the macbook to a specific usb hub with ethernet connection:<p><pre><code>  local usbWatcher = hs.usb.watcher.new(function(device)
    if device.productName == "EMEET SmartCam C960" then
      if device.eventType == "added" then
        hs.execute("networksetup -setairportpower en0 off")
        hs.notify.new({title="Wi-Fi", informativeText="Disabled (USB device connected)"}):send()
      elseif device.eventType == "removed" then
        hs.execute("networksetup -setairportpower en0 on")
        hs.notify.new({title="Wi-Fi", informativeText="Re-enabled (USB device removed)"}):send()
      end
    end
  end)
  usbWatcher:start()</code></pre></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 20:11:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47369219</link><dc:creator>alexfortin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47369219</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47369219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Centralise GNU/Linux email delivery like it's 2020]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://a.l3x.in/2020/05/14/centralise-linux-email-delivery.html">https://a.l3x.in/2020/05/14/centralise-linux-email-delivery.html</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23177668">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23177668</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2020 10:12:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://a.l3x.in/2020/05/14/centralise-linux-email-delivery.html</link><dc:creator>alexfortin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23177668</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23177668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alexfortin in "AWS CDK with a real life Lambda and API gateway example"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>After successfully replacing Terraform with CDK in a real life project I take the chance to wrap up the new knowledge along with some Terraform vs. CDK kind of considerations. I also synthesize the acquired know-how in a mini tutorial based on the actual code used in the production scenario.</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://dev.to/shaftoe/introducing-aws-cdk-with-a-real-life-lambda-and-api-gateway-example-7kg">https://dev.to/shaftoe/introducing-aws-cdk-with-a-real-life-lambda-and-api-gateway-example-7kg</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22234506">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22234506</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2020 11:46:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://dev.to/shaftoe/introducing-aws-cdk-with-a-real-life-lambda-and-api-gateway-example-7kg</link><dc:creator>alexfortin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22234506</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22234506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alexfortin in "Remaking my curriculum vitæ with modern web technologies"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For a while I wanted to manage my CV in a more flexible way. I stumbled upon a great article on CSS-Tricks that made me think I had no more excuses to procrastinate. In this article I present my solution along with some considerations.</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://a.l3x.in/2020/01/31/updating-curriculum-with-web-tech.html">https://a.l3x.in/2020/01/31/updating-curriculum-with-web-tech.html</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22200999">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22200999</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 2</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 12:09:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://a.l3x.in/2020/01/31/updating-curriculum-with-web-tech.html</link><dc:creator>alexfortin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22200999</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22200999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alexfortin in "My Quest for Identity in Software Engineering"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A wrap up of my last 20 years as a professional in IT, along with some considerations about the current state of the art.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jan 2020 10:00:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22178989</link><dc:creator>alexfortin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22178989</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22178989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Quest for Identity in Software Engineering]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://a.l3x.in/2020/01/29/my-quest-for-identity-in-software-engineering.html">https://a.l3x.in/2020/01/29/my-quest-for-identity-in-software-engineering.html</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22178988">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22178988</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jan 2020 10:00:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://a.l3x.in/2020/01/29/my-quest-for-identity-in-software-engineering.html</link><dc:creator>alexfortin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22178988</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22178988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alexfortin in "Show HN: Sslnotify.me, a free serverless opensource SSL cert monitoring service"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hello, I've posted about my experiment here not because I think is particularly cool nor useful, but because I'd love to have some feedback from everybody interested in FaaS/Serverless, especially from who has some real experience building solutions with FaaS and willing to share his/her insights. Thanks for your time</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Mar 2017 16:14:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13996652</link><dc:creator>alexfortin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13996652</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13996652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show HN: Sslnotify.me, a free serverless opensource SSL cert monitoring service]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://alexanderfortin.tumblr.com/post/159003883536/sslnotifyme-yet-another-opensource-serverless">https://alexanderfortin.tumblr.com/post/159003883536/sslnotifyme-yet-another-opensource-serverless</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13996464">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13996464</a></p>
<p>Points: 7</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Mar 2017 15:55:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://alexanderfortin.tumblr.com/post/159003883536/sslnotifyme-yet-another-opensource-serverless</link><dc:creator>alexfortin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13996464</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13996464</guid></item></channel></rss>