Hacker News: geoffmunn

New comment by geoffmunn in "Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?"

geoffmunn — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 10:59:05 +0000

We're using OpenClaw to do a massive number of fixes and improvements to our ERP.

It takes Jira tickets, resolves them, and creates a GitHub PR, which is then reviewed by another AI agent. It can even analyse screenshots with MS Paint-style arrows.

So far it's been an amazing tool - I am very impressed.

New comment by geoffmunn in "Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a strict no-LLM policy"

geoffmunn — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:33:47 +0000

"make their own fork which nobody else is interested in because it is personalized to them"

Isn't that literally how open-source works, and why there's so many Linux distros?

Code quality is a subjective term as well, I feel like everyone dunking on AI coding is a defensive reaction - over time this will become an entirely acceptable concept.

New comment by geoffmunn in "I may have found a way to spot U.S. at-sea strikes before they're announced"

geoffmunn — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 06:59:00 +0000

Well luckily it turned out that they were all ne'er-do-wells so it's all good.

Just like when the US used drones on Iraqi convoys and amazingly they were all Al-Qaeda sympathisers.

New comment by geoffmunn in "The Death of the Middle-Class Musician"

geoffmunn — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 07:43:13 +0000

This is what most people miss when they criticise UBI - for most people, it will be immediately spent, taxed, and put back into the economy. As long as the velocity is there, it's not an entirely bad idea as long as inflation can be kept under control.

New comment by geoffmunn in " and (2020)"
geoffmunn — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 08:29:55 +0000

also Guestbooks and the email icon of the word 'email' rotating around a globe.

New comment by geoffmunn in "The metre originated in the French Revolution"

geoffmunn — Fri, 23 May 2025 22:42:08 +0000

I am 100% convinced that the baby weight thing is because grandparents love to compare newborns with their own experiences, and they were on the cusp of the metric conversion in the 60s. In a decade or two, this will vanish.
Imperial height is because 6 feet is the generic height of a "tall person" - we get so much of our sporting news from overseas and no one bothers to convert it.

New comment by geoffmunn in "We have reached the "severed fingers and abductions" stage of crypto revolution"

geoffmunn — Thu, 08 May 2025 08:11:24 +0000

That's only a post-9/11 requirement, so it's not really part of the 'traditional' banking system.

New comment by geoffmunn in "Why can't HTML alone do includes?"

geoffmunn — Sun, 04 May 2025 05:21:11 +0000

The thing I liked the most about XHTML was how it enforced strict notation.
Elements had to be used in their pure form, and CSS was for all visual presentation.
It really helped me understand and be better at web development - getting the tick from the XHTML validator was always an achievement for complicated webpages.

New comment by geoffmunn in "My legal last name prevents me from completing my Twitch affiliate onboarding"

geoffmunn — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 07:06:51 +0000

I worked with a guy called 'Com' which is a reserved word in Active Directory. It causes chaos so apparently his AD name is always modified to be less offensive to the Microsoft gods.

New comment by geoffmunn in "GeoCities in 1995: Building a Home Page on the Internet"

geoffmunn — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 02:02:32 +0000

At one point, you could leave an open