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New comment by jherdman in "Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup?"

jherdman — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 15:51:33 +0000

Herdr, Pi, OpenRouter. I haven't found that I've needed much more than this for quite some time now.

New comment by jherdman in "Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you"

jherdman — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:09:29 +0000

Heh, yeah. I found the imperial units to be very jarring as a Canadian.

New comment by jherdman in "We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything"

jherdman — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 01:37:37 +0000

"Oh hai. I'm hooked on the drugs. Please stop me from taking more. kthnxbai."

Seriously. You all asked for this.

New comment by jherdman in "Frog and Toad and the Increasingly Capable Machines"

jherdman — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 17:24:39 +0000

I got to see this with my kids in Toronto last summer. It was a lot of fun!

New comment by jherdman in "OpenAI agent hacked Australian government website, PM says"

jherdman — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 14:05:38 +0000

Absolutely. People need to be held accountable for these actions now before something truly awful happens.

New comment by jherdman in "Matt Mullenweg tells Automattic staff in Slack he's back in control after ouster"

jherdman — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 13:32:38 +0000

As someone in the Rails community I deeply sympathize and understand where you're coming from.

New comment by jherdman in "Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence"

jherdman — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 21:49:58 +0000

If you’re going to leave a comment like this you need to at least outline your thinking as to why you feel they’re different.

New comment by jherdman in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

jherdman — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:09:33 +0000

This is neat! I’ve been meaning to get back into C. I’ll give this a shake.

New comment by jherdman in "Solid Queue 1.6.0 now supports fiber workers"

jherdman — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 16:35:10 +0000

Has anyone played with this and SQLite? I have no data, just a hunch, but I’d think this is a recipe for corruption if you’re doing lots of writes.

New comment by jherdman in "Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise"

jherdman — Tue, 12 May 2026 14:11:16 +0000

Many thanks for sharing this. I wasn't aware it existed.

New comment by jherdman in "Opus 4.7 to 4.6 Inflation is ~45%"

jherdman — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 17:39:23 +0000

Is this sort of setup tenable on a consumer MBP or similar?

New comment by jherdman in "Ask HN: What are your best purchases under $100?"

jherdman — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 20:20:57 +0000

For less than $100!? Do tell, my friend.

New comment by jherdman in "Tell HN: Merry Christmas"

jherdman — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 23:56:50 +0000

Merry Christmas, friends. And a special cheers to everyone that makes this community possible. It’s one of the last bastions of all that is good about this internet.

New comment by jherdman in "PGlite – Embeddable Postgres"

jherdman — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 12:02:23 +0000

I'm using this with a Bun project for my testing needs. I spin PGLite at the beginning, throw it all away at the end. It's not as nice as transactionally isolated testing (a la Ruby on Rails, or Elixir), but it's a fine replacement until I have time to replicate it.

New comment by jherdman in "Why we migrated from Python to Node.js"

jherdman — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 23:36:51 +0000

I’m curious about your choice of Kysely. I’ve really only used Drizzle. It’s fine but it has some very rough edges around Bun and SQLite.

New comment by jherdman in "Why we migrated from Python to Node.js"

jherdman — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 17:14:24 +0000

Have you tried Elysia (https://elysiajs.com/)? Admittedly I'm not using it at scale, but it's quite pleasant.

New comment by jherdman in "Disable AI in Firefox"

jherdman — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 17:29:26 +0000

I'm curious to know what the AI does when it encounters sheet music. Does it do anything intelligible?

New comment by jherdman in "Why I Chose Elixir Phoenix over Rails, Laravel, and Next.js"

jherdman — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 14:38:56 +0000

> But I still needed background jobs, real-time updates, and two-way communication that just works. Those things are possible in Rails and Laravel, but they take a bit more effort to set up.

I'm pretty sure this isn't true at all with Rails. Out of the box you get Solid Queue (jobs), and Solid Cable (real time messaging).

New comment by jherdman in "I'm leaving Ruby Central"

jherdman — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 22:51:54 +0000

You need only skim his blog to see why. He’s increasingly hostile to minorities of all sorts.

Beyond that, Mike (author of Sidekiq) is more than welcome to withdrawal his funding as he wishes. That’s how this works.

New comment by jherdman in "Behind the scenes of Bun Install"

jherdman — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 15:35:46 +0000

Storybook is another for me.