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New comment by emilsoman in "Show HN: OneCLI – OSS credential gateway that keeps secrets out of AI agents"

emilsoman — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 19:37:30 +0000

How does it compare to agent-vault and clawpatrol?

New comment by emilsoman in "Chatto is now open source"

emilsoman — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 04:39:11 +0000

> I've tried (and failed)

Why did it fail?

New comment by emilsoman in "Chatto is now open source"

emilsoman — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 04:37:06 +0000

Can you share something that you found nice?

New comment by emilsoman in "The last six months in LLMs in five minutes"

emilsoman — Tue, 19 May 2026 09:50:37 +0000

Curious, what's the career path you'd chase? Can you give examples of some work that you think Claude will never be able to one-shot?

New comment by emilsoman in "Claude Advanced Tool Use"

emilsoman — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 10:19:02 +0000

That's cool, but they say the code execution would wait till the tool call is done. Would they be just keeping the code execution process alive? That seems like a bad idea given tool calls can take an unknown amount of time to finish. I am guessing they would be putting the python orchestrator code to sleep when the tool call starts and restoring the state when the tool call is done.

New comment by emilsoman in "Claude Advanced Tool Use"

emilsoman — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 07:12:34 +0000

> The script runs in the Code Execution tool (a sandboxed environment), pausing when it needs results from your tools. When you return tool results via the API, they're processed by the script rather than consumed by the model. The script continues executing, and Claude only sees the final output.

Anyone knows how they would have implemented the pause/resume functionality in the code execution sandbox? I can think of these: unikernels / Temporal / custom implementation of serializable continuations. Anything else?

New comment by emilsoman in "Why I code as a CTO"

emilsoman — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 04:48:10 +0000

> You may not have time for your actual responsibilities.

In your opinion, what are the actual responsibilities of a CTO?

New comment by emilsoman in "Why I code as a CTO"

emilsoman — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 04:46:25 +0000

From your point of view, what's the approach taken by someone who rose to the rank? Is it mostly people and process management and less to do with tech?

New comment by emilsoman in "Why I code as a CTO"

emilsoman — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 06:35:22 +0000

> do you find yourself developing the MVP of a particular feature to "get water through the pipes" and then handing that off to some other team to get it to "production ready"?

I liked your take and curious to know what you think a CTO should be doing here

New comment by emilsoman in "What is “good taste” in software engineering?"

emilsoman — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 14:45:18 +0000

> What kind of code “looks good” to you? What kind of code “looks ugly”? IMO this is not taste, it's your pattern recognition skill based on what you think is better in terms of correctness, performance and maintainability.

> Which design decisions you feel really good about, and which ones are just fine? It's not just a feeling, it comes from reasoning.

Good taste == good skill isn't it?

When someone chooses a functional lang over an object oriented one - is this because of better taste? They’ve learned, through experience, what kinds of problems map more cleanly to immutability and composition versus encapsulation and state. Their "taste" for one paradigm over another is just a reflection of the skills they’ve built up in recognizing tradeoffs, debugging pain points, and anticipating long-term maintainability. What looks like taste is really just expertise shaping intuition.

I get why the author feels a team member who doesn't align with the team's goals has bad taste. But it's really just this - the opinions they have formed from their experience don't match yours.

New comment by emilsoman in "Show HN: Amplication – Instantly Generate Node.js Apps with GraphQL and REST API"

emilsoman — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 21:08:53 +0000

How does this compare to https://wasp-lang.dev/ ?

New comment by emilsoman in "Compiler Construction by Niklaus Wirth [pdf]"

emilsoman — Sat, 01 Feb 2020 06:08:13 +0000

Which are some books focused on IRs you’d recommend?

New comment by emilsoman in "Launch HN: Buy Me a Coffee (YC W19) – Give your audience a way to thank you"

emilsoman — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 18:47:24 +0000

Love the feature where creators can message their supporters. Congrats on the HN launch!

New comment by emilsoman in "Ask HN: How do you share/organize knowledge at work and life?"

emilsoman — Mon, 21 Oct 2019 21:08:40 +0000

I have a directory named “mystuff” that’s gitignored globally, in every repository I work on. This is where I store commands, snippets, scripts, ideas, meeting notes etc. To organize things I find on the web, I simply use bookmark folders in the browser.

In our company we use both github wiki and google drive to share knowledge.

Talking to Users

emilsoman — Sun, 01 Sep 2019 12:15:33 +0000

Article URL: https://emilsoman.com/post/talking-to-users/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20851860

Points: 2

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New comment by emilsoman in "Launch HN: Dockup (YC W19) – On demand staging environments for dev teams"

emilsoman — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 13:44:51 +0000

Update: we're listed on https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/?batch=w2019 now

New comment by emilsoman in "Launch HN: Dockup (YC W19) – On demand staging environments for dev teams"

emilsoman — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:55:17 +0000

Yes, every branch gets its own environment.

New comment by emilsoman in "Launch HN: Dockup (YC W19) – On demand staging environments for dev teams"

emilsoman — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 00:51:32 +0000

It looks like I need to host my prod environment completely on your tool to make use of the staging feature. I will look more into this though, thanks for sharing. One difference is that in Dockup, we can boot up databases instantly with obfuscated prod like data and we do this because Dockup deployments are accessible by the entire team.

New comment by emilsoman in "Launch HN: Dockup (YC W19) – On demand staging environments for dev teams"

emilsoman — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 00:12:38 +0000

Dockup does have support for this through a feature called "resource pools" which allows you to create external resources and use them in your dockup deployments. This is more involved than simply using the containers, but the support is there for those who think it's worth the effort. Thanks for asking!

New comment by emilsoman in "Launch HN: Dockup (YC W19) – On demand staging environments for dev teams"

emilsoman — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 22:40:25 +0000

Dockup is like Heroku review apps, but for the entire tech stack (each PR gets a dedicated environment with all the microservices in your stack). One benefit of using Dockup is that seeding DBs with prod-like data is easy and works super fast so you don't have to wait around for a long time until you do a pgdump/restore. We can do this in Dockup because we maintain a pool of single-use DBs for your deployments.