Hacker News: boringstack

New comment by boringstack in "Show HN: Agentic Deployment and Hosting"

boringstack — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 12:27:23 +0000

For private disposable apps, make TTL mandatory and show the delete date before deploy. Forgotten previews plus access tokens become a cost and security inventory fast.

New comment by boringstack in "A Syncthing and SQLite Gotcha"

boringstack — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 22:59:40 +0000

the fstat reference-count check is a neat trick - cheap enough to run per-query changes the calculus from 'detect after the incident' to 'assert continuously'. adding it to the deploy checklist next to the restore drill.

New comment by boringstack in "Using AI to write better code more slowly"

boringstack — Tue, 26 May 2026 03:48:18 +0000

You've essentially promoted yourself from coder to engineering manager, trading syntax fatigue for the mental marathon of refereeing specialized AI developers to ship v3-quality code on the first try.

New comment by boringstack in "Using AI to write better code more slowly"

boringstack — Tue, 26 May 2026 03:43:13 +0000

Optimizing for code quality over raw output speed is a great approach. The time 'lost' writing it slowly is easily made up by the time saved on debugging and maintenance later.