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New comment by evtothedev in "xAI joins SpaceX"

evtothedev — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 01:15:10 +0000

It was also foreshadowed in the Benedict Evans newsletter.

New comment by evtothedev in "Meditation as Wakeful Relaxation: Unclenching Smooth Muscle"

evtothedev — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 22:26:07 +0000

10-20m minutes every morning. Back when Headspace was strictly a meditation app, I went through the entire "pro" sequence, and now I feel good about going it alone. Genuinely, and very positively, life changing.

New comment by evtothedev in "Meditation as Wakeful Relaxation: Unclenching Smooth Muscle"

evtothedev — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 16:40:08 +0000

This makes anecdotal sense to me. When I first started mediating (~10 years ago), my wife said to me that my face looked younger. I think it was from releasing all the startup-CTO stress that had tangled everything.

New comment by evtothedev in "The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership"

evtothedev — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 13:24:32 +0000

> Microsoft’s IP rights now exclude OpenAI’s consumer hardware.

While not unexpected, this is exciting and intriguing.

And of course, looking forward to Microsoft's Zune AI.

New comment by evtothedev in "16-inch softball"

evtothedev — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 22:13:55 +0000

Nothing is more satisfying that hitting an old 16" softball and having the guts fly out of the skin.

New comment by evtothedev in "M5 MacBook Pro No Longer Coming in 2025"

evtothedev — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 19:23:08 +0000

My completely uninformed bet is that with the release of open source GPT, they're planning to embed this on all laptops. That will require a huge bump in the baseline specs, and therefore you have cascading delays.

New comment by evtothedev in "Ask HN: Do you struggle with flow state when using AI assisted coding tools?"

evtothedev — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 13:51:23 +0000

Very, very much agree with this. The nuggets of wait time are just long enough to get distracted, but not long enough to accomplish anything worthwhile.

My best "hack" for this has been to use Freedom[1] to create a blocklist of all my go-to time sucks (including, sadly, HN). This at least stops me from getting pulled in too deeply.

[1] http://freedom.to/

New comment by evtothedev in "GCP Outage"

evtothedev — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 18:22:48 +0000

Yarn package registry also appears to be down.

New comment by evtothedev in "Universe expected to decay in 10⁷⁸ years, much sooner than previously thought"

evtothedev — Mon, 12 May 2025 21:27:44 +0000

I feel like you could build an entire meditation practice around reading this article.

New comment by evtothedev in "Herb: Powerful and seamless HTML-aware ERB parsing and tooling"

evtothedev — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 16:04:21 +0000

I hope this results in a vastly improved version of the VSCode extension vscode-erb-beautify.

New comment by evtothedev in "We switched from Next.js to Astro (and why it might interest you)"

evtothedev — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 20:03:00 +0000

I love that they're using Kamal[1] outside of a Rails context. I've seen that promised in the docs, but hadn't encountered it in real life.

[1] http://kamal-deploy.org

Show HN: ActionPrompt – A Rails Plugin for Managing Your LLM Prompts

evtothedev — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 16:25:04 +0000

Hi Everyone! I've just extracted this from our code base.

As LLMs have become ubiquitous in web applications, I've noticed that prompts intended for Claude or GPT have become scattered throughout our codebase or buried within objects. Often, these prompts were built inline through string manipulation. My thinking was two-fold, 1) Let's come up with a simple pattern for organizing and rendering these prompts, and 2) Let's make them easy to review.

This draws heavy inspiration from ActionMailer::Preview.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41603492

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by evtothedev in "Ask HN: Why is Pave legal?"

evtothedev — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 16:25:55 +0000

FWIW, I believe that Pave works to raise engineering salaries. Every company wants to say, "We pay above the 50% mark", thereby steadily raising it over time.

New comment by evtothedev in "Pigeon towers: The rise and fall of a 17th-century status symbol (2015)"

evtothedev — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 19:29:18 +0000

> At the time, root vegetables had not yet arrived in Britain, meaning that in winter, farmers could not rely on their usual crops to feed livestock such as pigs and cows. They were therefore bereft of beef and bacon, and turned to alternative sources of meat.

What the heck is going on in these two sentences.

First, I suspect they meant to say that potatoes hadn't yet arrived. Turnips, for example, go back for over a thousand years.

Second, is the implication they couldn't keep any livestock over winter because of a lack of root vegetables? Because what about barley? Or silage?

Makes you start to question the rest of the article.

New comment by evtothedev in "It pays to be a double major in college"

evtothedev — Mon, 20 May 2024 18:56:05 +0000

I feel like being a good software engineer is itself like being a double major. You need to know code, but you also need to know the domain you're going for. And I saw this as a double major (history & biology) now running a small software company.

New comment by evtothedev in "Slack AI Training with Customer Data"

evtothedev — Fri, 17 May 2024 18:37:23 +0000

You could checkout [Campfire](https://once.com/campfire). You get teh source code (Ruby on Rails) and you deploy wherever. We're running ours on a digital ocean droplet.

New comment by evtothedev in "Take a look at Traefik, even if you don't use containers"

evtothedev — Mon, 06 May 2024 14:23:04 +0000

The 37Signals/Basecamp team has been working on a small, opinionated replacement for Traefik called Thruster: https://github.com/basecamp/thruster

Would be worth checking out, if you're currently considering options.

Paul Auster, the Patron Saint of Literary Brooklyn, Dies at 77

evtothedev — Wed, 01 May 2024 13:57:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/30/books/paul-auster-dead.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40223325

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by evtothedev in "Archaeologists find intact medieval gauntlet"

evtothedev — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 18:49:00 +0000

It could very well be referring to bullets in the "pew! pew! pew!" sense.

I'd recommend The Military Revolution by Geoffrey Parker[1] if you're curious to know more about the transition from knights to guns and all the strategic ramifications.

[1]https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-military-revolution-geoffre...

New comment by evtothedev in "Uber is closing alcohol delivery service Drizly three years after acquistion"

evtothedev — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 20:17:08 +0000

I am really bummed by this. It's the best way to send alcohol across state lines (i.e. gifts for clients).