Hacker News: j4mie

This looks great! Question on the API/CLI - is there any provision for capturing frames (or even streams?) from Homekit cameras, or even triggering events or webhooks based on the cameras detecting motion?

Msgvault: fast private email archive and search system

j4mie — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 12:58:58 +0000

Article URL: https://wesmckinney.com/blog/announcing-msgvault/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46855517

Points: 52

# Comments: 8

New comment by j4mie in "Doing gigabit Ethernet over my British phone wires"

j4mie — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 12:40:09 +0000

When we bought our house (1950s semidetached) it needed a full electrical rewire. I’m so glad I asked the electricians to run Ethernet all over the house at the same time, including to the ceiling in some rooms for WiFi access points.

The Third Audience

j4mie — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 14:16:07 +0000

Article URL: https://dri.es/the-third-audience

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46632839

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by j4mie in "Django RAPID Architecture, a guide to structuring Django projects"

j4mie — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 14:21:46 +0000

Hi, author here. I have been building Django and DRF applications commercially for about fifteen years at DabApps, and this guidebook is an attempt to write down the architecture patterns we have arrived at, for projects that have to survive years of ongoing maintenance.

High level summary:

* We don’t hide Django under layers of abstraction, we just slice it up a bit differently than you would by default.

* Organise code by responsibility (readers, actions, interfaces, data) rather than by app.

* Put most business logic in plain functions, not in fat models or deep class hierarchies.

* Keep views thin: treat GET as "read some data" and POST as "do an action".

* Design endpoints around real frontend use cases (backend for frontend) instead of idealised resources.

* Control queries carefully to avoid performance traps.

Happy to answer questions!

Django RAPID Architecture, a guide to structuring Django projects

j4mie — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 14:20:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.django-rapid-architecture.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46231696

Points: 6

# Comments: 2

Abundant Intelligence

j4mie — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 13:45:44 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.samaltman.com/abundant-intelligence

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45346968

Points: 87

# Comments: 128

Measuring the environmental impact of delivering AI at Google Scale [pdf]

j4mie — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 14:07:50 +0000

Article URL: https://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/measuring_the_environmental_impact_of_delivering_ai_at_google_scale.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44972993

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by j4mie in "Happy 20th Birthday, Django"

j4mie — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 16:42:17 +0000

Laravel’s ORM was originally inspired by my now-long-dead PHP projects Idiorm and Paris:

https://laravelpodcast.com/episodes/c7807d42/transcript (Search for “Paris” to find the relevant section)

https://github.com/j4mie/idiorm

https://github.com/j4mie/paris

Idiorm was started in early 2010 while I was still writing PHP professionally. I’d heard about Django from a talk @simonw gave at the FlashBrighton meet-up group in 2009 and immediately fell in love. Idiorm and Paris, although not direct attempts to duplicate Django’s ORM, came from frustration that such an elegant ORM and query builder didn’t exist in the PHP world.

So in a roundabout way, Laravel’s ORM was absolutely inspired by Django.

As a side note, I’m still doing Django 16 years later and love it more than ever.

New comment by j4mie in "Switching Pip to Uv in a Dockerized Flask / Django App"

j4mie — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 10:48:09 +0000

It's worth noting that uv also supports a workflow that directly replaces pyenv, virtualenv and pip without mandating a change to a lockfile/pyproject.toml approach.

uv python pin will create a .python-version file in the current directory.

uv virtualenv will download the version of Python specified in your .python-version file (like pyenv install) and create a virtualenv in the current directory called .venv using that version of Python (like pyenv exec python -m venv .venv)

uv pip install -r requirements.txt will behave the same as .venv/bin/pip install -r requirements.txt.

uv run will run the command in the virtualenv and will also expose any env vars specified in a .env file (although be careful of precedence issues: https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/9465)

New comment by j4mie in "Heroku Is Down"

j4mie — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 09:32:10 +0000

Things that are down or impacted:

* Heroku and most of Salesforce

* Pipedrive: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44234098

* OpenAI: https://status.openai.com/incidents/01JXCAW3K3JAE0EP56AEZ7CB...

* Lobsters: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44234075

What's the common denominator?

Physicality: The New Age of UI

j4mie — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 16:40:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.lux.camera/physicality-the-new-age-of-ui/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44171909

Points: 9

# Comments: 0