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New comment by leansensei in "Scriptc by Vercel: TypeScript-to-Native compiler, no JavaScript engine in binary"

leansensei — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 07:21:08 +0000

Oh no, we do, because the software world has been abusing what engineering means for decades, in order to inflate job titles. Most people are programmers, not software engineers, and that's OK.

New comment by leansensei in "GLM-5.2 – How to Run Locally"

leansensei — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:16:58 +0000

Not really, you can do great things without them. I've been summarizing hundreds of documents. I've added MCP servers to my internal business tools (Elixir apps) and can chat with the Nous Hermes agent over Telegram about pending orders, inventory level, historical product prices, etc., without having to click/dick around with a web UI.

Sure, it cannot replace SOTA models for agentic coding, except for small, well-scoped refactorings. But even a model like ministral-3:8b or qwen3.5:9b is a boon for so many smaller use cases!

New comment by leansensei in "GLM-5.2 – How to Run Locally"

leansensei — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:54:43 +0000

Europe was never at the frontier of any tech? Huh what now?

New comment by leansensei in "Major European payment processor can't send email to Google Workspace users"

leansensei — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:40:42 +0000

...and you'd be wrong.

New comment by leansensei in "I let LLMs write an Elixir NIF in C; it mostly worked"

leansensei — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 04:36:02 +0000

Thanks, that was not clear to me from skimming the docs.

However, this NIF also returns more fields than the disksup function.

New comment by leansensei in "I let LLMs write an Elixir NIF in C; it mostly worked"

leansensei — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 04:33:01 +0000

It's because the most familiar thing to me that uses a NIF was Exqlite, so that was my starting point.

Using Rust and Rustler turned out to be way easier and it also now works across Elixir versions 1.14 to 1.18.

New comment by leansensei in "I let LLMs write an Elixir NIF in C; it mostly worked"

leansensei — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 22:59:15 +0000

The post explains why I don't want to use disksup. You have to start an extra application (os_mon) and configure disksup to update the starts more frequently than the default of every 30 minutes.

Do we really need to do all that instead of the equivalent of a df?

Agree about the C code, which is why the latest version (on GitHub, the HEAD, not yet released in Hex.pm) is now using Rust and Rustler.

New comment by leansensei in "I let LLMs write an Elixir NIF in C; it mostly worked"

leansensei — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 19:00:31 +0000

Why not C? It made no difference, we're talking about a few function calls.

New comment by leansensei in "Abogen – Generate audiobooks from EPUBs, PDFs and text"

leansensei — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 21:25:46 +0000

"Abo" in German means "subscription" (from the French abonnement). Show some cultural sensitivity about these languages.

New comment by leansensei in "Debian 13 “Trixie”"

leansensei — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 22:53:30 +0000

Thank you for ntfy, it's such a useful piece of software!

New comment by leansensei in "Atlassian's Trello redesign may be 'worst in tech history' say frustrated users"

leansensei — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 06:52:04 +0000

Wekan looks close to pre-Atlassian Trello.

New comment by leansensei in "Trello: How the project management app's update is causing customers to revolt"

leansensei — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 07:01:41 +0000

Just use Wekan. Problem solved.

New comment by leansensei in "Show HN: Built a desktop app to organize photos locally with duplicate detection"

leansensei — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 12:27:35 +0000

apt install geeqie

That's all.

New comment by leansensei in "The $25k car is going extinct?"

leansensei — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 09:05:02 +0000

That's the VAG marketing strategy. Share most parts, have the customer pay for the brand.

New comment by leansensei in "Show HN: S3mini – Tiny and fast S3-compatible client, no-deps, edge-ready"

leansensei — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 15:42:46 +0000

Also try out Garage.

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

leansensei — Sun, 25 May 2025 22:00:58 +0000

I've been working on a kinda-sequel to my first technical book, Northwind Elixir Traders. This one (Phoenix Product Codex) is about developing and deploying a production-grade REST API with Elixir and Phoenix.

New comment by leansensei in "Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor"

leansensei — Wed, 07 May 2025 21:14:06 +0000

Zed is great but not so great if you are trying to copy/cut/paste with the keyboard layout being anything other than latin.

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

leansensei — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 20:29:47 +0000

I'm working on my second self-published technical book related to Elixir. The first one has been a surprising success, but since it was about learning to use Ecto on the basis of an old pedagogical toy database (and tiny dataset), the new book is about the development of a production-grade REST API with Elixir and Phoenix.

I find that many books out there are focused on documenting the "happy path" for rather small and simplistic applications without boundary conditions or business thinking behind them.

So, I thought (as with the first books) that it mix things up by also documenting the business context, the questions, decisions, and the decision-making process itself, as well as all the gotchas and "side-quests", rather than showing "here's how you do it" and then expecting the reader to suddenly make the jump from tutorial hell to actually software engineering.

Overall, it's enormously enjoyable, and I hope it goes as far as the first book, and possibly even farther.

New comment by leansensei in "I just want to code (2023)"

leansensei — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 12:03:25 +0000

This is The Incredible Story of Deft... https://leanpub.com/deft

New comment by leansensei in "Widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal"

leansensei — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 11:59:30 +0000

There are degrees of dependence on others, you make it sound as if it's a binary choice.