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New comment by holocen in "AGENTS.md outperforms skills in our agent evals"

holocen — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 02:53:54 +0000

Prompted and built a bit of an extension of skills.sh with https://passivecontext.dev it basically just takes the skill and creates that "compressed" index. Still have to install the skill and all that, but might give others a bit of a short cut to experiment with.

New comment by holocen in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

holocen — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 20:29:01 +0000

Started working on a training plan builder after getting frustrated with trying to use an existing service (trainingpeaks) and not finding the controls intuitive enough without being a coach in their system.

https://bloks.run/

I wanted something local and offline first + 10-20% better than excel, think I'm missing a few features other might find useful, but it works for my needs which has been great.

New comment by holocen in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (Dec 2025)"

holocen — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 14:27:47 +0000

https://bloks.run/

I wanted something local and offline first + 10-20% better than excel, think I'm missing a few features other might find useful, but it works for my needs which has been great.

New comment by holocen in "Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?"

holocen — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:15:37 +0000

I'm debating adding 3 things next: arrival/departures, general airport delays and ground stops, and yes airports outside the US. Less clean TSA like information from those sadly.

Right now the only special airport is DEN where I've started to gather the real time data. https://plaintextwaittimes.com/airport/den

New comment by holocen in "Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?"

holocen — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:03:19 +0000

Slowly but surely adding things to https://plaintextwaittimes.com/

I have really enjoyed going back to a text first information dense design. I'll likely build more tiny sites like this in the future.

New comment by holocen in "Kedro – Creating reproducible, maintainable and modular data science code"

holocen — Sat, 22 Jan 2022 16:24:54 +0000

Am from McK not involved with Kedro, it’s been open source for awhile now and I don’t think we are abandoning it, but it was apparently donated to the Linux foundation.

As far as impressions of it as a tool go it’s really just an opinionated way to build a pipeline and structure a project. Which is pretty useful when you have many. If you’re doing something that you know will be one off it is a bit overkill. Like using airflow when a makefile will do. There are some pretty nice plug-ins though if you want to try and have an opinionated ecosystem.

New comment by holocen in "Show HN: Self-Published Book – “Data Science in Production”"

holocen — Sat, 04 Jan 2020 22:46:57 +0000

I really enjoy your articles on Towards Data Science and this seems to pull a lot from it. I bought the PDF copy. I have a Full Stack background and really like it all from the data engineering perspective

Thanks!

New comment by holocen in "Ask HN: What made your favorite manager/supervisor/CEO so great?"

holocen — Wed, 19 Sep 2018 07:30:06 +0000

You cleared your ideas with the technical lead of the project. That doesn't necessarily include the manager.

New comment by holocen in "It’s COBOL all the way down"

holocen — Tue, 01 May 2018 10:16:54 +0000

Can you point to any accessible versions of this? I’d love to check out an example, sounds really interesting.