Hacker News: alexfortin

New comment by alexfortin in "ZCode – Harness for GLM-5.2"

alexfortin — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 06:09:43 +0000

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.

New comment by alexfortin in "ZCode – Harness for GLM-5.2"

alexfortin — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 06:06:09 +0000

If you haven't yet you should give a chance to https://pi.dev

I've been using it exclusively (and extending it, see https://a.l3x.in/ai) for months with mainly GLM-4.7 then 5.1 and now 5.2 and I could hardly be any happier.

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 https://github.com/shaftoe/pi-coding-agent-action

New comment by alexfortin in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)"

alexfortin — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 07:03:35 +0000

Location: Bucharest, Romania

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: AWS, Golang, Typescript, Terraform, Docker / Kubernetes (ECS/Fargate, EKS), PostgreSQL / Redis, CloudFlare / CloudFront, CI/CDs (AWS CodePipeline, GitHub Actions)

Résumé/CV: https://cv.l3x.in/

Email: a@l3x.in

New comment by alexfortin in "GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks"

alexfortin — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:58:33 +0000

Try lowering thinking level with GLM-5.1, to me that seems to have an impact on mitigating the blocking behaviour.

New comment by alexfortin in "Hammerspoon"

alexfortin — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 20:11:43 +0000

I use it to enable/disable the wifi when I disconnec/connect the macbook to a specific usb hub with ethernet connection:

  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()

Centralise GNU/Linux email delivery like it's 2020

alexfortin — Thu, 14 May 2020 10:12:48 +0000

Article URL: https://a.l3x.in/2020/05/14/centralise-linux-email-delivery.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23177668

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by alexfortin in "AWS CDK with a real life Lambda and API gateway example"

alexfortin — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 11:47:56 +0000

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.

AWS CDK with a real life Lambda and API gateway example

alexfortin — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 11:46:07 +0000

Article URL: https://dev.to/shaftoe/introducing-aws-cdk-with-a-real-life-lambda-and-api-gateway-example-7kg

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22234506

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by alexfortin in "Remaking my curriculum vitæ with modern web technologies"

alexfortin — Fri, 31 Jan 2020 12:10:15 +0000

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.

Remaking my curriculum vitæ with modern web technologies

alexfortin — Fri, 31 Jan 2020 12:09:35 +0000

Article URL: https://a.l3x.in/2020/01/31/updating-curriculum-with-web-tech.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22200999

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by alexfortin in "My Quest for Identity in Software Engineering"

alexfortin — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 10:00:38 +0000

A wrap up of my last 20 years as a professional in IT, along with some considerations about the current state of the art.

My Quest for Identity in Software Engineering

alexfortin — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 10:00:14 +0000

Article URL: https://a.l3x.in/2020/01/29/my-quest-for-identity-in-software-engineering.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22178988

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by alexfortin in "Show HN: Sslnotify.me, a free serverless opensource SSL cert monitoring service"

alexfortin — Thu, 30 Mar 2017 16:14:40 +0000

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

Show HN: Sslnotify.me, a free serverless opensource SSL cert monitoring service

alexfortin — Thu, 30 Mar 2017 15:55:35 +0000

Article URL: https://alexanderfortin.tumblr.com/post/159003883536/sslnotifyme-yet-another-opensource-serverless

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13996464

Points: 7

# Comments: 1