Hacker News: psanford

New comment by psanford in "OpenAI should build Slack"

psanford — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 15:38:38 +0000

The API is free. The statement in the article is not about corporate friction

New comment by psanford in "OpenAI should build Slack"

psanford — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 21:33:35 +0000

> Developers routinely complain about Slack’s API costs and permissions

What? What API costs is the op talking about?

New comment by psanford in "Using an engineering notebook"

psanford — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 18:53:50 +0000

Most of what I write in my journal I don't want to need to remember (that is why I am writing it down). I also don't know what will be important or not important later, so I want it all to be searchable.

New comment by psanford in "Using an engineering notebook"

psanford — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 16:08:06 +0000

This "it has to be handwritten" stuff is nonsense. Do that if you enjoy it, but also you should acknowledge the downsides to it.

I started keeping a work journal a few years ago and it has changed how I work for the better. It is just a text file.

The main value of it is that I can search it! When I'm figuring something out for the first time, and I have a lot of trail and error, I write down what I did. And then I might not touch that thing again for 6 months. When I come back to it, it is unlikely that I will remember what I did exactly but because it is written down and searchable I can quickly recover my old state.

I like this so much I also started a personal work journal for my home lab. It really is useful for me. But its primary value is that I can search it.

New comment by psanford in "Why E cores make Apple silicon fast"

psanford — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 15:25:49 +0000

I'm curious how asahi linux manages scheduling across e cores and p cores. Has anyone done experiments with this?

Edit: It looks like there was some discussion about this on the Asahi blog 2 years ago[0].

[0]: https://asahilinux.org/2024/01/fedora-asahi-new/

New comment by psanford in "Code and Let Live"

psanford — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 19:41:44 +0000

To follow up on this a bit, something that I really want is a way to build and launch apps from an llm really easily. I am imagining and environment with a database, object storage, and a publicly reachable webserver. I think this could be that with OIDC auth to an s3 bucket and litestream.

I was previously thinking about doing the same thing on my homeserver with tailscale to expose the web interface publicly and tailscale oidc auth to an s3 bucket for object storage.

New comment by psanford in "Code and Let Live"

psanford — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 19:35:56 +0000

Playing around with this for a small amount of time, it is very neat but also there are a bunch of things that are unclear / undocumented (I assume the documentation is coming so I'm not faulting them for it not being there yet).

Some things that are unclear:

- How should I auth to github? sprite console doesn't use ssh (afaik) so I guess not agent forwarding?

- What on machine api's are available? Can I use the fly oidc provider[1]? There's a /.sprite/api.sock but curl'ing /v1/tokens/oidc gets a 404.

- How much is it going to cost me? I know there is pricing but its hard to figure out what actual usage would be like. Also I don't see any usage info in the webui right now.

[1]: https://fly.io/blog/oidc-cloud-roles/

New comment by psanford in "Code and Let Live"

psanford — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 15:46:30 +0000

What is the criteria for a sprite being "idle"? Is it no network activity or is it cpu based?

New comment by psanford in "Problems with D-Bus on the Linux desktop"

psanford — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 02:38:01 +0000

Those are not extensions. Not can you use them to talk to dbus.

New comment by psanford in "Problems with D-Bus on the Linux desktop"

psanford — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 02:32:26 +0000

What browser extensions? Why would I want websites to integrate with gnome or kde? What does that even mean?

New comment by psanford in "Litestream VFS"

psanford — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 19:39:39 +0000

Oh hey this is using my go sqlite vfs module[0]. I love it when I find out some code I wrote is useful to others!

[0]: https://github.com/psanford/sqlite3vfs

New comment by psanford in "I put a real search engine into a Lambda, so you only pay when you search"

psanford — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 15:50:59 +0000

This is great!

I have been using Quickwit as a low cost search engine on Lambda. It works very well for my relatively small and infrequently updated dataset.

Unfortunately Quickwit devs have decided to not support the Lambda deployment mode going forward so eventually I'll need another option.

New comment by psanford in "What Killed Perl?"

psanford — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 20:25:49 +0000

The thing that killed perl was python. The reason that python won is because it was Google's blessed scripting language.

New comment by psanford in "Asahi Linux Still Working on Apple M3 Support, M1n1 Bootloader Going Rust"

psanford — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 16:22:12 +0000

I had an M2 air running asahi that I loved and had similar worries. I ended up buying a maxed out refurbished M2 which I expect will last me a few more years.

New comment by psanford in "1Password CLI Vulnerability"

psanford — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 11:49:37 +0000

Yes. It is a nice report that does not engage with 1password's security model at all. 1password specifically says that they do not think it is feasible to defend against locally executing malware.

New comment by psanford in "SSH3: Faster and rich secure shell using HTTP/3"

psanford — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 15:48:18 +0000

I do hate the name ssh3. I was glad to see this at the top of the repo:

> SSH3 is probably going to change its name. It is still the SSH Connection Protocol (RFC4254) running on top of HTTP/3 Extended connect, but the required changes are heavy and too distant from the philosophy of popular SSH implementations to be considered for integration. The specification draft has already been renamed ("Remote Terminals over HTTP/3"), but we need some time to come up with a nice permanent name.

New comment by psanford in "Passkeys and Modern Authentication"

psanford — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 18:08:06 +0000

I assume you were using Authy desktop for TOTP? You don't need a smartphone for storing TOTP seeds or generating TOTP codes.

New comment by psanford in "Mosh Mobile Shell"

psanford — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 16:12:45 +0000

I found the "lets pretend like there is no input latency" thing to be more distracting than useful. As soon as something does not work as expected the illusion is broken. It made me more grumpy than not having it on in the first place.

New comment by psanford in "Linux on Snapdragon X Elite: Linaro and Tuxedo Pave the Way for ARM64 Laptops"

psanford — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 23:18:22 +0000

You can run x86 steam games on asahi easily now. muvm makes it quite easy to run x86 binaries fairly transparently on arm.

New comment by psanford in "How to negotiate your salary package"

psanford — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 14:21:41 +0000

I'm comfortable with what I said.

It is fascinating that some people are so afraid of negotiating that they make up excuses why they won't try, and then they try to convince everyone else that negotiating is too dangerous to attempt.