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New comment by avandekleut in "How I estimate work"

avandekleut — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 16:27:56 +0000

Are you me? We do the same thing, and they also translate it into hours by averaging across the whole team's velocity.

New comment by avandekleut in "Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team"

avandekleut — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:04:04 +0000

Tailwind is a UI styling and components company. Are you thinking of Tailscale?

New comment by avandekleut in "I can build enterprise software but I can't charge for it"

avandekleut — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:18:08 +0000

As a technical founder I empathize with the authors situation and approach, but honestly spending that much time and energy on a product before even getting one sign up is a known failure mode.

New comment by avandekleut in "Game design is simple"

avandekleut — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 15:34:55 +0000

not to mention that dopamine is generally associated with anticipation and searching + reinforcing behaviours, whereas pleasure and satisfaction is associated with the opiate system

New comment by avandekleut in "When stick figures fought"

avandekleut — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 18:35:00 +0000

I remember spending hours and hours on pivot and forums like droidz.org which used to host animations, models, and forums. I even remember learning about "easing" and different "levels" of animation and collabs as showcased on darkdemon.org[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkqDoAYKG4A

New comment by avandekleut in "S.A.R.C.A.S.M: Slightly Annoying Rubik's Cube Automatic Solving Machine"

avandekleut — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 21:51:12 +0000

It takes something like 60 turns or so in my experience. you probably messed up while doing it.

New comment by avandekleut in "ANTML: Anthropic’s Markup Language"

avandekleut — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 05:53:15 +0000

Using context-free grammars and sampling techniques.

New comment by avandekleut in "Pricing Pages – A Curated Gallery of Pricing Page Designs"

avandekleut — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 00:12:53 +0000

Please consider making this responsive on mobile!

New comment by avandekleut in "Modern Node.js Patterns"

avandekleut — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 00:28:10 +0000

Also want to shout out ts-rest. We have a typescript monorepo where the backend and frontend import the api contract from a shared package, making frontend integration both type-safe and dead simple.

New comment by avandekleut in "Why agents are bad pair programmers"

avandekleut — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 18:49:53 +0000

Ive found similar behaviour with stopping at linting errors. I wonder if my instructions are conflicting with the agent system prompt.

New comment by avandekleut in "Show HN: I build one absurd web project every month"

avandekleut — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 13:50:05 +0000

You may be interested in reading Manna, a short story about AI that operates exactly this way.

New comment by avandekleut in "is-even-ai – Check if a number is even using the power of AI"

avandekleut — Tue, 20 May 2025 01:51:54 +0000

Someone should implement this using tool calls.

New comment by avandekleut in "Directory of MCP Servers"

avandekleut — Sun, 18 May 2025 06:08:37 +0000

Ive used smithery.ai as well.

New comment by avandekleut in "Claude Integrations"

avandekleut — Thu, 01 May 2025 19:41:06 +0000

MCP also has support for "hints" which note whether an action is destructive.

New comment by avandekleut in "N-Params vs. Single Param"

avandekleut — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 02:46:37 +0000

Another common pattern is to put the "primary" argument first, and the rest in an "options" object argument.

New comment by avandekleut in "N-Params vs. Single Param"

avandekleut — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 02:45:50 +0000

Typescript nukes primitive aliases like this sadly. Intellisense will just infer it as "string".

New comment by avandekleut in "N-Params vs. Single Param"

avandekleut — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 23:57:42 +0000

Similarly to passing an object argument, you can return an object.

Then pair it with destructuring assignment!

`const { fullName } = getName({ firstName, lastName )}`

New comment by avandekleut in "Show HN: Omiword – A daily, sector-based word puzzle"

avandekleut — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 03:39:02 +0000

2:12 27 moves, my first guesses for words were correct. The Q was the key for me. Fun game!

New comment by avandekleut in "2025 AI Index Report"

avandekleut — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 17:27:17 +0000

I'm glad I'm not the only one that has found 3.5 to be better than 3.7.

New comment by avandekleut in "A (Long) Peek into Reinforcement Learning"

avandekleut — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 16:42:55 +0000

I used SpinningUp as one of my main sources for my thesis. I also wrote some downloadable-and-runnable blog posts here: https://avandekleut.github.io/ppo/