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New comment by duggan in "Kyushu Railway Company Train Varieties"

duggan — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 07:50:56 +0000

There are some enchanting non-JR regional trains you can get in Kyushu, too.

Got the Shimabara line[1] last summer and it was this tiny cute little single car sailing through farms and along the coast.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimabara_Railway_Line

Build Everything

duggan — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:28:04 +0000

Article URL: https://duggan.ie/posts/build-everything

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47405151

Points: 1

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Paddy, Not Patty

duggan — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 09:28:39 +0000

Article URL: https://paddynotpatty.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47396774

Points: 2

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New comment by duggan in "Agents that run while I sleep"

duggan — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 07:19:49 +0000

> I worked at a startup, they built their API in PHP because it was easy and fast. Now they're successful

You can stop there! Sounds like PHP worked for them. Already doing better than 90% of startups.

Building a Stripe dashboard with an ESP32 desktop clock and Rust

duggan — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 10:28:26 +0000

Article URL: https://duggan.ie/posts/building-a-stripe-dashboard-with-an-esp32-desktop-clock-and-rust

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47307171

Points: 2

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New comment by duggan in "We might all be AI engineers now"

duggan — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 14:08:20 +0000

> We're playing with a fire that catches and spreads so fast, by the time anyone realizes the forest is catching and starting to react, the entire forest is already well on the way to joining in the blaze.

I suspect this has been said in one form or another since the discovery of fire itself.

New comment by duggan in "We might all be AI engineers now"

duggan — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 10:10:38 +0000

Very much on the same page as the author, I think AI is a phenomenal accelerant.

If you're going in the right direction, acceleration is very useful. It rewards those who know what they're doing, certainly. What's maybe being left out is that, over a large enough distribution, it's going to accelerate people who are accidentally going in the right direction, too.

There's a baseline value in going fast.

New comment by duggan in "Welcoming Elizabeth Barron as the New Executive Director of the PHP Foundation"

duggan — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 09:35:14 +0000

Liz is one of the most genuine and thoughtful people I ever worked with. The software world would be a better place if more people like her were running the show. Best of luck to her.

New comment by duggan in "GitHub having issues [resolved]"

duggan — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 22:57:30 +0000

I did give additional context in the blog post I linked, but yes, to be clear, this is something that will really work best for small projects with reasonably fast build cycles.

If you're already at the point where you're fielding pull requests, lots of long running tests, etc., you'll probably already know you need more than git over ssh.

New comment by duggan in "GitHub having issues [resolved]"

duggan — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 22:10:42 +0000

It does, you're just running a command over ssh, so if you've a particularly long build then something more involved may make more sense.

New comment by duggan in "GitHub having issues [resolved]"

duggan — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 21:11:40 +0000

A directory over SSH can be your git server. If your CI isn't too complex, a post-receive hook looping into Docker can be enough. I wrote up about self hosting git and builds a few weeks ago[1].

There are heavier solutions, but even setting something like this up as a backstop might be useful. If your blog is being hammered by ChatGPT traffic, spare a thought for Github. I can only imagine their traffic has ballooned phenomenally.

1: https://duggan.ie/posts/self-hosting-git-and-builds-without-...

Microgpt on the ESP32 – But Why?

duggan — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:52:25 +0000

Article URL: https://duggan.ie/posts/microgpt-on-the-esp32-but-why

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47236091

Points: 4

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AI-generated art can’t be copyrighted after Supreme Court declines review

duggan — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 13:51:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/policy/887678/supreme-court-ai-art-copyright

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47232289

Points: 193

# Comments: 151

New comment by duggan in "OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub"

duggan — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:22:58 +0000

Journalists, anyway. I think I originally heard it from Casey Newton on Hard Fork, but it was a month back so not 100% sure.

But there's loads of people who would be stumped by a for loop, yet can easily work their way through a setup guide, particularly with the hype/promise and an active community.

New comment by duggan in "OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub"

duggan — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 15:58:50 +0000

I've heard it described as the first time many non-programmers have been able to make computers "do things" without it being defined by someone else (app interface, developer, etc). It's a hugely empowering development from that perspective.

The stuff you've listed are the kinds of things smart home enthusiasts do with whatever tools are available to them, and are just a sign of people exploring the possibility space.

New comment by duggan in "If AI writes code, should the session be part of the commit?"

duggan — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 12:57:37 +0000

I've been tinkering away on one of these myself, https://rockstar.ninja. I expect there are a hundred others out there, going to be interesting to see what the end shape of these tools is.

New comment by duggan in "The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Eliminate Programmers"

duggan — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 11:32:23 +0000

Motivated novices will just learn differently, and produce different kinds of systems for different audiences with different expectations.

Some will dig into obscurities that LLMs don't or can't touch, others will orchestrate the tools, Gastown-style, into some as-yet-unknown form.

People will vibe themselves into a corner and either start learning or flame out.

New comment by duggan in "Writing code is cheap now"

duggan — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 07:55:41 +0000

I’ve used Claude to write custom firmware in Rust for an ESP32-driven desktop clock.

Turned it into a Stripe revenue dashboard and notifier.

Even bought a couple more, flashed them, and gave to my cofounders, complete with AI written (personally tested, though) setup instructions!

New comment by duggan in "Writing code is cheap now"

duggan — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 07:27:50 +0000

Like any service outage out of their control, people will find other things to do until it’s over.

Cognitive Debt in AI Coding

duggan — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 07:14:02 +0000

Article URL: https://duggan.ie/posts/cognitive-debt-in-ai-coding

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47031879

Points: 2

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