Hacker News: inslee1

New comment by inslee1 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

inslee1 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 01:09:28 +0000

Hilarious analogy

New comment by inslee1 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

inslee1 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 03:15:18 +0000

Built a last-mile delivery/logistics management system to power deliveries for on-demand/hyperlocal services and launched it last year (mentioned it in another one of these threads last year)

https://toanoa.com/

To date it's handled more than 70k orders, ingested nearly 10m telemetry records, has been extremely reliable, is almost entirely self-contained (including the routing stack so no expensive mapping dependencies) and is very efficient on system resources.

It handles everything from real-time driver tracking, public order tracking links, finding suitable drivers for orders, batch push notifications for automatic order assignment, etc.

New comment by inslee1 in "Speeding up PostgreSQL dump/restore snapshots"

inslee1 — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 02:27:48 +0000

Slightly related but how does WAL-G stack up as far as backup/restoration options go for Postgres? https://github.com/wal-g/wal-g

New comment by inslee1 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)"

inslee1 — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 01:43:14 +0000

Unfortunately its closed source at the moment but happy to discuss the problem space. E-mail in bio.

New comment by inslee1 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)"

inslee1 — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 16:29:59 +0000

I guess it's not ENTIRELY a favor since I founded that company but stepped away a few years back and always felt a bit guilty ever since. They certainly weren't expecting me to build it though.

I built it all myself (including the integration with our ordering platform) It was sort of my white whale project that I've always wanted to do but didn't have the chops/time.

The advancements in AI-assisted coding encouraged me to give it a shot though and the results turned out great. It was a heavily supervised vibe-coding project that turned into a production-ready system.

New comment by inslee1 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)"

inslee1 — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 15:19:43 +0000

Just built a last-mile logistics management solution to replace a SaaS solution for a delivery company I used to be involved with.

Handles everything from real-time driver tracking, public order tracking links, finding suitable drivers for orders, batch push notifications for automatic order assignment, etc.

Backend: Feathers.JS, Postgres + TimescaleDB & PostGIS, BullMQ, Valhalla (for multi-stop route optimization although most of our deliveries are on-demand)

Frontend: SvelteKit

Mobile App (Android only for now): React Native/Expo, Zustand, Expo push notifications, and two custom native modules for secure token storage and efficient real-time GPS tracking. The tracking was probably the toughest to get right to find the best balance between battery/data efficiency and more frequent updates.

Been testing it for a couple weeks and as of last week, that company moved their operations over to it with 50+ drivers and thousands of orders processed through it so far (in a country with pretty unreliable connectivity/infrastructure).

I built it initially as a favor but open to other applications for it.

New comment by inslee1 in "HN-text: an easy-to-use, text-first Hacker News terminal client"

inslee1 — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 14:39:45 +0000

Great link! Might have found a bug in Chrome with it though :)

I was curious to see more about the internals so I opened up Chrome Devtools and as soon as I clicked on the "Application" tab, it crashes Chrome and did it every time.

New comment by inslee1 in "Average US vehicle age hits record 12.6 years amid high prices"

inslee1 — Wed, 22 May 2024 22:12:52 +0000

The good news is that if your car has a 3G embedded modem, it probably doesn't have any networks to connect to anymore.

New comment by inslee1 in "End of the Line? Saudi Arabia to scale back plans for desert megacity"

inslee1 — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 12:17:24 +0000

The implication of using "632 CE" appears to be a reference to the proliferation of Islam after the death of Muhammad (I didn't know this until I Googled)

So if that individuals distrust towards the Arabian peninsula begins in the exact year Islam began to spread, it wouldn't be a stretch to assume that OP is an Islamaphobe (and it would include a number of North African countries as well)

TLDR: OP is using geography as a dog whistle.

New comment by inslee1 in "End of the Line? Saudi Arabia to scale back plans for desert megacity"

inslee1 — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 12:02:35 +0000

"I went to and there's tall buildings and slums beyond"

Even Vienna has slum-like areas, every major city does. Not sure how that's a knock against Dubai. I'm not even sure what slums you saw in Dubai, Having lived there for a few years there's definitely low income housing in certain parts but I'd struggle to call them slums.

New comment by inslee1 in "End of the Line? Saudi Arabia to scale back plans for desert megacity"

inslee1 — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 11:42:08 +0000

That article says he was trying to flee to the Dominican Republic, not the UAE.

New comment by inslee1 in "Pitivi – Free video editor with a beautiful and intuitive user interface"

inslee1 — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 05:50:47 +0000

I just used Pitivi recently to cut something and quite liked its straightforwardness.

The only thing I don't like is the lack of preview monitor so I can work with raw clips before bringing them into the timeline but for quick cuts, it's a great tool.

New comment by inslee1 in "4th Gen KDE Slimbook – Linux Ultrabook with an AMD Ryzen 7 5700U"

inslee1 — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 17:43:30 +0000

I had some of these issues with the 5.17.x kernels but once I switched to Fedora 36 and 5.18.x, and updated the BIOS, the situation improved dramatically and sleep was fixed.

Never had the touchpad issue though.