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New comment by nkapias in "Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed"

nkapias — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:32:18 +0000

First I've heard of generational ban was in a hundred years old novel from Jack London (maybe an autobiography ? can't remember the name). It certainly was about alcohol, maybe he mentioned tobacco as well, anyway the idea and debate certainly aren't new.

I find bewildering that such concepts are tried only centuries later, and wonder how it comes to be possible. Is it that we can finally enforce them, or that the lobbying have been gradually weakened, or enough data to drive decision, etc. ?

New comment by nkapias in "Desk for people who work at home with a cat"

nkapias — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 21:49:47 +0000

Noticed that in my absence, cats hang where I spend the most of my time when present. If for a few days I only come home to sleep I'll usually find them on my bed. If I work at my desk for a week, then the next days they'll be found on my chair. And so on.. A somewhat reliable habit indicator.

New comment by nkapias in "Show HN: Craftplan – I built my wife a production management tool for her bakery"

nkapias — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 05:02:57 +0000

I like your 'llm-developped-app-friendly shared datastore' idea and would pursue it.

While taking ownership of AI slop is not an option for me, I do want to avoid shadow IT.

Might be a moon shot .. could sharing a prompt template with git access to colleagues be a way to enforce it ?

New comment by nkapias in "Show HN: Craftplan – I built my wife a production management tool for her bakery"

nkapias — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 04:47:52 +0000

With change management they can be informed of platform / infra and be autonomous to upgrade their app. They usually are in the loop if they have ownership, or will be after it happens a few times.

Also I believe the value is in the output, not the app itself. ROI of a 1 hour AI slop should™ be attained before it rots and they can just spun up a new one.

I might be hopeful and a bit selfish here, I expect my colleagues to own their toolbox.

New comment by nkapias in "Show HN: Craftplan – I built my wife a production management tool for her bakery"

nkapias — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 04:39:21 +0000

All platforms have their own known single way to deploy, they give the documentation to AI as constraints.

Some users with privileged access can run their app locally in cli or browser, else most softwares we work with can use custom modules in specific languages (html, css, js, dax, vb.net, perl, python, sql, etc.). Ownership and trust must be established, for example only the commercial manager has access to deploy modules to CRM. They usually are constrained to read access, unless they are informed engineering managers.

Ideally I would share pipelines to deploy static pages, or a predefined dynamic architecture. I'm wary the security risks are too great, I don't trust they would have enough time / interest to become autonomous in unconstrained environments so I didn't pursue the idea, maybe I could for static pages, or in isolated networks ..

New comment by nkapias in "Show HN: Craftplan – I built my wife a production management tool for her bakery"

nkapias — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 11:12:37 +0000

I'm the main dev in a small IT company, my backlog is filled with requests, it's not always easy to prioritize and plan, some of those small projects are ignored for months, yet their business value are sound.

I've observed a new trend, managers who are frequently in the wait list started to use AI to generate small local apps. They still rely on my input when it's complex, or when implementation could generate risks or need resilience and would ask for small code reviews when they are unsure of the generated code quality.

The result is win win, I have more time for high value projects the executives want to prioritize, and managers can innovate faster almost on their own.

New comment by nkapias in "Giving university exams in the age of chatbots"

nkapias — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 08:56:52 +0000

https://uclouvain.be/cours-2025-linfo2401

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New comment by nkapias in "The Dilbert Afterlife"

nkapias — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 05:14:20 +0000

"Organization headwinds" diagrams are helpful, thanks for the interesting read.

New comment by nkapias in "Google is dead. Where do we go now?"

nkapias — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 11:43:13 +0000

I use discord PTB and Canary to run multiple instances with different accounts on a single device.

It also allows running multiple instances with a single account (to be on multiple vocals at once for example).

The only drawback is the release cycle is more frequent and I need to update every time I boot.

New comment by nkapias in "Why SSL was renamed to TLS in late 90s (2014)"

nkapias — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 12:47:07 +0000

'It didn't help that RFC 2487 explained that STARTTLS negotiated "TLS more commonly known as SSL"'

> Good catch, it misled me for years !