Hacker News: mark_mcnally_jehttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mark_mcnally_jeHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:53:10 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by mark_mcnally_je in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)"]]>I'm working on Monitor Monkey[1]

It's attempting to be the easiest and nicest way to monitor Linux servers. I'm currently implementing 0 config custom alerting. All you will have to do is write a file to a home directory with some json in it e.g event_name:blah,interval:1m,data=10 - no server side config at all!

So should be quite suitable for big deployments :)

[1]: https://monitormonkey.io

]]>Tue, 29 Apr 2025 14:47:25 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43833452mark_mcnally_jehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43833452https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43833452<![CDATA[New comment by mark_mcnally_je in "OpenAI Codex CLI: Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal"]]>If one of these tools has broad model support (like aider) it would be a game changer.

]]>Wed, 16 Apr 2025 18:17:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43708649mark_mcnally_jehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43708649https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43708649<![CDATA[Show HN: The easiest way to monitor Linux servers]]>Hi HN,

I've been developing this tool myself as I've been constantly running into the issue of: I just want monitoring for my servers, nothing else, I don't care just let me know when they break.

So that's what I've made, you install an open source agent on your server and it automatically detects certain metrics and starts monitoring for you.

You can configure certain aspects if you like and at the moment alerting is limited to email only. I'm planning to add webhooks soon.

There is also live graphing. Metrics update every 5 seconds.

I'm using Django Rest Framework for the api, Django templates with HTMX for the frontend, Postgres for the database and Go for the agent. The agent has a pretty cool way of auto updating in the response to its requests, so you can configure the agent in the frontend if you need to and it'll tell the agent what to do when it next checks in.

Please let me know what you think :) You can monitor 1 server for free forever, no credit card required or anything.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43267987

Points: 3

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]]>Wed, 05 Mar 2025 15:38:41 +0000https://monitormonkey.iomark_mcnally_jehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43267987https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43267987<![CDATA[Show HN: Get pinged when you are mouth breathing]]>Hi HN,

I tend to resort to mouth breathing when I focus hard so I made this tool to track when I start mouth breathing and play a 'ding' sound to stop me from doing it!

It basically tracks if your mouth is open or not and has a calibration phase that mostly works to determine your nasal breathing posture.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43198952

Points: 2

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]]>Thu, 27 Feb 2025 21:56:16 +0000https://mcnally.je/breath/mark_mcnally_jehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43198952https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43198952<![CDATA[New comment by mark_mcnally_je in "My LLM codegen workflow"]]>:( big sad

]]>Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:51:47 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43096672mark_mcnally_jehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43096672https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43096672<![CDATA[New comment by mark_mcnally_je in "My LLM codegen workflow"]]>Hahahaa well that might work but I wish you could just say `aider --go-hog-wild`

]]>Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:39:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43096570mark_mcnally_jehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43096570https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43096570<![CDATA[New comment by mark_mcnally_je in "My LLM codegen workflow"]]>I'm a bit confused here, what promt do you use to start Aider and how do you just let Aider run wild so you can play cookie clicker?

]]>Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:23:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43096433mark_mcnally_jehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43096433https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43096433<![CDATA[New comment by mark_mcnally_je in "In Defense of AI Slop"]]>Trouble is when it sprawls into an unmaintainable mess. This software will all rot away

]]>Tue, 18 Feb 2025 22:09:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43095764mark_mcnally_jehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43095764https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43095764<![CDATA[New comment by mark_mcnally_je in "Slopware"]]>The trouble comes when a non dev makes slopware and it becomes relied upon. Then it will inevitably all come falling down.

]]>Mon, 17 Feb 2025 19:40:34 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43082583mark_mcnally_jehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43082583https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43082583<![CDATA[Slopware]]>Article URL: https://mark.mcnally.je/blog/post/Slopware

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43082361

Points: 4

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]]>Mon, 17 Feb 2025 19:19:09 +0000https://mark.mcnally.je/blog/post/Slopwaremark_mcnally_jehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43082361https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43082361<![CDATA[New comment by mark_mcnally_je in "Personal Website design for the long term"]]>Yes it's a good litmus test of a good website or not. I hope Hugo will be around for a long time :)

]]>Fri, 14 Feb 2025 18:08:05 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43051204mark_mcnally_jehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43051204https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43051204<![CDATA[New comment by mark_mcnally_je in "Personal Website design for the long term"]]>Yes I've thought a bit more about this topic and am actually writing up a response to my own post - Database are probably ok if you take a raw .sql backup; which is essentially plain text, or at least will be viewable in some form in the future.

]]>Fri, 14 Feb 2025 18:07:22 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43051194mark_mcnally_jehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43051194https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43051194<![CDATA[Personal Website design for the long term]]>Article URL: https://mark.mcnally.je/blog/post/Personal%20website%20design%20for%20the%20long%20term

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43050939

Points: 4

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]]>Fri, 14 Feb 2025 17:47:02 +0000https://mark.mcnally.je/blog/post/Personal%20website%20design%20for%20the%20long%20termmark_mcnally_jehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43050939https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43050939<![CDATA[The Death of the Web (2024)]]>Article URL: https://garry.net/posts/the-death-of-the-web

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43041033

Points: 72

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]]>Thu, 13 Feb 2025 20:39:48 +0000https://garry.net/posts/the-death-of-the-webmark_mcnally_jehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43041033https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43041033<![CDATA[New comment by mark_mcnally_je in "Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell"]]>My Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMiInY8BhSUtCarO6uu6i_g Videos about Linux and tech in general, I try and be entertaining as well as educational!

]]>Fri, 27 Jan 2023 22:02:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34552522mark_mcnally_jehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34552522https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34552522<![CDATA[Vim Is Just English]]>Article URL: https://mark.mcnally.je/blog/post/Vim%20Is%20Just%20English

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33522103

Points: 2

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]]>Tue, 08 Nov 2022 18:06:12 +0000https://mark.mcnally.je/blog/post/Vim%20Is%20Just%20Englishmark_mcnally_jehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33522103https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33522103<![CDATA[Software and Tools I Use Daily]]>Article URL: https://mark.mcnally.je/blog/post/Software&Tools%20I%20use%20daily

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32977553

Points: 33

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]]>Sun, 25 Sep 2022 23:28:43 +0000https://mark.mcnally.je/blog/post/Software&Tools%20I%20use%20dailymark_mcnally_jehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32977553https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32977553<![CDATA[New comment by mark_mcnally_je in "Show HN: Snipthat.io – save interesting text snippets you find whilst browsing"]]>If anyone is interested in the tech behind this; I used the Django rest framework and vanilla javascript to write the extension. I wrote it to be compatible with Firefox and chrome with the firefox polyfill which worked a treat in development.

Until I came to publish and I had to convert the chrome extension to manifest V3 which was not as easy as I thought it would be.

The chrome approvals process also took way longer then firefox did!

]]>Sun, 31 Jul 2022 14:16:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32295630mark_mcnally_jehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32295630https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32295630<![CDATA[Show HN: Snipthat.io – save interesting text snippets you find whilst browsing]]>I always wanted a place where I could save interesting snippets of text I find on the web, things like tweets, HN/reddit comments and little parts of blog posts and the like.

This tool is a browser extension, all you do is highlight text, right click and then you can send it to snipthat.

There are currently no logins, when you first get the browser extension you get a UUID which links to your snippets.

Site is very much in an alpha stage, I intend to add logins and you will be able to link your UUID to your login so you won't lose anything.

Any feedback / ideas appreciated!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32295594

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

]]>Sun, 31 Jul 2022 14:11:43 +0000https://snipthat.io/mark_mcnally_jehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32295594https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32295594<![CDATA[Oklo Mine – A Natural self sustaining nuclear reactor]]>Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklo_Mine

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30766230

Points: 1

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]]>Tue, 22 Mar 2022 14:05:20 +0000https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklo_Minemark_mcnally_jehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30766230https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30766230