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New comment by barkerja in "Cloudflare acquires Deno"

barkerja — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 15:14:19 +0000

> there is no a single Durable Objects alternative at the moment

If you live in Elixir land, there's this repo from the Phoenix team, which is quite good. It has pluggable storage, and EKV (https://github.com/chrismccord/ekv) is supported as "batteries include" type storage adapter.

https://github.com/phoenixframework/durable_server

New comment by barkerja in "Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues"

barkerja — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:30:13 +0000

It's being largely driven by DHH (creator of Rails, and co-founder of 37signals). He has a massive following and a lot of influence (and money).

New comment by barkerja in "Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?"

barkerja — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 13:02:24 +0000

At this point, I wish Anthropic would drop both Haiku and Opus and focus on offering just Sonnet + Fable. Those two together are extremely powerful and capable.

Sonnet is great at writing code, it is not great at planning or orchestrating. Let Fable handle all the planning, hand off to Sonnet for implementation, and then back to Fable for review. That loop has worked wonderfully for me.

New comment by barkerja in "Ford AI hiccups push carmaker to rehire ‘gray beard’ inspectors"

barkerja — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:20:07 +0000

It's easy to take that stance in jest .. when it has no material impact on you. But if your life was uprooted by the decision of an executive because they made what was a "good faith" decision for the benefit of the shareholder, then I'd wager you may feel differently.

New comment by barkerja in "Ollama is now powered by MLX on Apple Silicon in preview"

barkerja — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:57:02 +0000

User's care about privacy when they understand the threat and impact. The issue is most user's don't understand this, especially when it comes to use of products like Meta where on the surface, everything appears harmless.

New comment by barkerja in "Show HN: Beehive – Multi-Workspace Agent Orchestrator"

barkerja — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 19:55:19 +0000

> Eventually the model providers will do it, and that's what we'll all use.

Haven't they already, to varying degrees?

New comment by barkerja in "An Update on Heroku"

barkerja — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 16:16:11 +0000

For us, the reason is we're primarily a Salesforce company and rely on the Heroku Connect product to facilitate bidirectional syncing between Salesforce and PostgreSQL (which also requires Heroku PG).

One of the biggest benefits to this product -- aside from the syncing mechanism -- is a bypass of Salesforce's extremely limiting (and expensive) API limits.

New comment by barkerja in "An Update on Heroku"

barkerja — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 18:04:36 +0000

Just please don't sunset Heroku Connect

New comment by barkerja in "How Jeff Bezos Brought Down the Washington Post"

barkerja — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 20:45:58 +0000

Their recipe and cocktail repository is excellent. It's a large part while I'm a subscriber.

New comment by barkerja in "150k lines of vibe coded Elixir: The good, the bad and the ugly"

barkerja — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 14:27:47 +0000

I don't have a fancy workflow per se, but I have started leaning into git workspaces more which has really been a boon with Elixir (especially in large projects where compile times can be in the many tens of seconds).

New comment by barkerja in "150k lines of vibe coded Elixir: The good, the bad and the ugly"

barkerja — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 19:36:58 +0000

These should get added to https://skills.sh/?q=elixir

New comment by barkerja in "150k lines of vibe coded Elixir: The good, the bad and the ugly"

barkerja — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 18:53:41 +0000

Opus 4.5 with Elixir has been remarkably good for me. I've been writing Elixir in production since ~2018 and it continues to amaze me at the quality of code it produces.

I've been tweaking my skills to avoid nested cases, better use of with/do to control flow, good contexts, etc.

New comment by barkerja in "UniFi 5G"

barkerja — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 00:46:34 +0000

The person that started Ubiquiti was an engineer at Apple working on the Airport, and left out of frustration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Pera

New comment by barkerja in "John Giannandrea to retire from Apple"

barkerja — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 02:32:10 +0000

China does not care about personal privacy, they only care about privacy beyond their political boundaries.

If you've never been to China, you need to look no further than the streets to understand this (cameras everywhere, social credit system, etc.)

New comment by barkerja in "U.S. hits new low in World Happiness Report"

barkerja — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 21:47:17 +0000

> and the new anxiety about bringing your phone on a plane

This one I am not familiar with. What's the latest development here?

New comment by barkerja in "Microsoft memo advises H1B employees to return immediately if currently abroad"

barkerja — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 17:36:04 +0000

Does it matter when you have a Congress that does not care what he does?

New comment by barkerja in "Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed"

barkerja — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 03:48:30 +0000

For me, the editor is still the most important component of my tooling. The AI features are secondary to my needs/wants when it comes to an editor.

Zed is hitting all the checkboxes when it comes to performance and user experience (yeah, I care about that in my editor).

I'm not a hardcore user of AI, but I do make use of Zed's inline suggestions and occasional use of Opus 4.1 through my Zed subscription.

New comment by barkerja in "FCC bars providers for non-compliance with robocall protections"

barkerja — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 17:28:11 +0000

It's not perfect/ideal, but you can basically accomplish keyword filtering using a shortcut powered by a message automation. I've done something similar where during the political season I would have all incoming texts (from unknown numbers) run through an LLM to determine if it was a political message. If so, it'd get deleted immediately.

New comment by barkerja in "YouTube to be included in Australia's social media ban for children under 16"

barkerja — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 12:44:14 +0000

But that is unfortunately a nuclear option that should not need to be taken to perform such a thing. Like the op, I have no interest in Shorts, especially considering the type of content that seems to proliferate that format.

However, I feel like YouTube does a genuinely good job — at least for me personally — of curating my feed with videos I have genuine interest in; mostly being tech talks and home DIY.

I'd hate to lose the discoverability I currently have for the sake of having to disable a feature like Shorts.

New comment by barkerja in "Apple Intelligence Foundation Language Models Tech Report 2025"

barkerja — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 14:28:33 +0000

This is available in iOS 26 to all applications; it's available directly to the user through shortcuts.

I'm currently on the beta, and I have a shortcut that pulls in various bits of context and feeds that directly to the on-device model.