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New comment by pikdum in "Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw"

pikdum — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:10:14 +0000

Does this mean I can't use `claude -p` in bash scripts now?

Building a World of Warcraft Server in Elixir: 2025 Update

pikdum — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 17:06:34 +0000

Article URL: https://pikdum.dev/posts/thistle-tea-2025-update/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46648791

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by pikdum in "Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team"

pikdum — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 20:27:13 +0000

Only an anecdote, but I was working on a side project with another dev who wanted to use Tailwind Plus components. It wasn't immediately obvious whether this was allowed under his personal license or if we'd have to get a team license instead, though.

We decided to go with a FOSS component library instead to avoid any potential issues down the road. After re-reading the license page now, I'm still not sure.

New comment by pikdum in "Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg"

pikdum — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 06:35:43 +0000

I'm not a fan of GitHub Actions either, but is there actually anything better nowadays? I've just come to accept it as the best of bad options.

New comment by pikdum in "Automatic K8s pod placement to match external service zones"

pikdum — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 19:55:37 +0000

Wasn't aware that there was noticeably higher latency between availability zones in the same AWS region. Kinda thought the whole point was to run replicas of your application in multiple to achieve higher availability.

New comment by pikdum in "Cloudflare Email Service: private beta"

pikdum — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 17:53:45 +0000

Oh cool, somehow missed that. :)

New comment by pikdum in "Cloudflare Email Service: private beta"

pikdum — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 16:08:15 +0000

As someone not currently using Cloudflare Workers, I'm not sure I want to build a worker and figure out how to interface with it though my existing application just to send email. What happened to SMTP?

New comment by pikdum in "GCP Outage"

pikdum — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 20:24:30 +0000

Was just about to do a demo, but Google Meet was down. Tried to use Jitsi as a fallback, but couldn't log in because Firebase was down too. Ended up using a Slack Huddle, lol.

New comment by pikdum in "Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust"

pikdum — Wed, 28 May 2025 20:43:51 +0000

Looking forward to either being stable. I like the idea of Tauri, but I need it to work well on Linux too.

New comment by pikdum in "Writing A Job Runner (In Elixir) (Again) (10 years later)"

pikdum — Fri, 23 May 2025 17:48:09 +0000

My open source projects are generally more applications than libraries, yeah.

New comment by pikdum in "Writing A Job Runner (In Elixir) (Again) (10 years later)"

pikdum — Fri, 23 May 2025 15:57:29 +0000

It's more than just a few - even more basic things like rate limiting or concurrency controls are gated behind Pro. It works extremely well, but I've been reluctant to use it in open source projects because there's quite a bit in there I'd need to rebuild.

New comment by pikdum in "Ash Framework – Model your domain, derive the rest"

pikdum — Wed, 14 May 2025 18:10:58 +0000

I've been using Ash for a few side projects and recently started using it at the day job too. We're mostly using it for new functionality, with the Ash APIs alongside our existing ones, but planning on slowly moving older things over too. It's been working well so far, and it's been easy enough to use the escape hatches for anything weird we're doing.

Getting started was a bit tricky though - definitely recommend the Ash book there. It works a lot better than the documentation as an introduction.

New comment by pikdum in "Show HN: Hydra (YC W22) – Serverless Analytics on Postgres"

pikdum — Fri, 09 May 2025 17:50:01 +0000

I feel like my ideal would be something more hybrid. It's pretty rare that I have a table that I decide upfront should be columnar. It's a lot more common that I want occasional analytics-like queries on my regular tables to not take forever.

New comment by pikdum in "Bitwarden is turning 2FA on by default for new devices"

pikdum — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 17:15:55 +0000

This is how I use Bitwarden too, and it's the one thing I definitely don't want 2FA on.

New comment by pikdum in "Purelymail: Cheap, no-nonsense email"

pikdum — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 05:16:46 +0000

I've been using this for a while now just to have mailboxes for various domains. Works well, no complaints.

New comment by pikdum in "Building a World of Warcraft Server in Elixir: 2024 Update"

pikdum — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 03:23:33 +0000

Awesome! Contributors are definitely welcome, with just me this project will take an extremely long time to get to a polished state. For anybody interested in helping out, a Discord channel was set up to help coordinate.

Building a World of Warcraft Server in Elixir: 2024 Update

pikdum — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 22:25:10 +0000

Article URL: https://pikdum.dev/posts/thistle-tea-2024-update/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42562304

Points: 25

# Comments: 2

New comment by pikdum in "Bitwarden is no longer free software"

pikdum — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 09:10:36 +0000

I never really looked into it, but I thought Bitwarden was completely free software based on their marketing. Looks like it's had some weird proprietary bits introduced around 2020, though?

New comment by pikdum in "Soft Deletes with Ecto and PostgreSQL"

pikdum — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 02:33:27 +0000

> What I haven't seen much of is a trigger-based system which moves the deleted record into an entirely new table.

I've used https://github.com/nearform/temporal_tables before for that, has been pretty solid. Still need to manually keep the schema in sync, though.

New comment by pikdum in "Building a World of Warcraft Server in Elixir"

pikdum — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 00:00:12 +0000

Thanks! It's been the most fun project I've worked on in a while now.