Hacker News: ruairidhwm

New comment by ruairidhwm in "Claude Opus 4.8"

ruairidhwm — Thu, 28 May 2026 22:03:01 +0000

I managed to find that Haiku outperformed Sonnet on some tasks...don't want to blog spam but if anyone is interested: https://www.ruairidh.dev/blog/sonnet-4-6-drops-format-rule-o...

New comment by ruairidhwm in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 21)"

ruairidhwm — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:37:34 +0000

I recently made halftrace - point it at your OpenAI/Anthropic/LangSmith agent logs and it tells you what shape your agent's rule-following has, why, and what to try. I built it to try and find smooth decay over trajectory length on Claude.

https://halftrace.dev

Show HN: Halftrace – See the shape of your agent's failures from your logs

ruairidhwm — Wed, 20 May 2026 12:20:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.halftrace.dev/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48206521

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by ruairidhwm in "Getting back into photography, ditching the phone camera in 2026?"

ruairidhwm — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 10:35:55 +0000

Ricoh GRIII / IV is absolutely perfect for this imo

New comment by ruairidhwm in "Claude Opus 4.7"

ruairidhwm — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:07:50 +0000

I guess just a spell-check in the repo? But yes, I'd imagine that they have an effect. Even running the same input twice is non-deterministic.

New comment by ruairidhwm in "Claude Opus 4.7"

ruairidhwm — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:28:49 +0000

I literally just posted a blog on this. Some seemingly insignificant words are actually highly structural to the model. https://www.ruairidh.dev/blog/compressing-prompts-with-an-au...

New comment by ruairidhwm in "Claude Code OAuth down for >12 hours"

ruairidhwm — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:44:04 +0000

Also seen this several times.

New comment by ruairidhwm in "How Much Money Jeff Bezos Made Since You Started Reading This Page"

ruairidhwm — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 11:13:46 +0000

To be fair, I suspect he doesn't make his own tea xD

New comment by ruairidhwm in "Show HN: WinLog – Automatically capture your work wins for reviews and 1:1s"

ruairidhwm — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 16:08:50 +0000

Hi HN,

I built WinLog because I kept seeing good engineers undersell themselves during reviews and promotions. Not because they weren’t doing great work, but because they simply forgot what they’d shipped over time.

WinLog helps you capture your "wins" as you go:

- You can log wins manually in a few seconds, or

- Passively capture candidates from Slack channels you choose (nothing is stored without approval)

Each win is rewritten into a concise, professional bullet you can use for:

- Performance reviews

- 1:1 prep

- Promotion packets

- Brag docs / weekly updates

It’s early, but I’ve been using it as my own tool and found it to be very helpful!

Would love feedback, especially from people who’ve struggled with review season or managing reports.

Link: https://winlog.dev

Show HN: WinLog – Automatically capture your work wins for reviews and 1:1s

ruairidhwm — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 16:07:01 +0000

Article URL: https://winlog.dev

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46872784

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by ruairidhwm in "Ask HN: How do you market a side project?"

ruairidhwm — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 13:13:08 +0000

It has, but there are always new perspectives.

New comment by ruairidhwm in "Ask HN: How do you market a side project?"

ruairidhwm — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 13:12:57 +0000

I'd say ICs and Team Leads in eng organisations. So far I'm thinking Reddit and HN? Maybe a bit of LinkedIn

Ask HN: How do you market a side project?

ruairidhwm — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 11:55:21 +0000

I've got a side project I've worked on for a while and I'm happy with the engineering side, but I'm terrible at marketing. I've made a couple of reddit comments, shown friends who would benefit from my project, but what is the best way to get it out there?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46823389

Points: 15

# Comments: 12

New comment by ruairidhwm in "How much recurring income do you generate in 2026 and from what?"

ruairidhwm — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 09:46:10 +0000

$0 so far (just launched).

I recently launched https://winlog.dev, a Slack-first tool to help engineers capture their work as it happens so they’re better prepared for reviews and promotions.

It’s early days, but I’m using it with my own reports and so far it's been really helpful. The goal for 2026 is to grow this into a meaningful side-business, but if not, then it's useful to me!

Ask HN: What do you want for Christmas?

ruairidhwm — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 12:40:22 +0000

I'm just curious as to what the HN crowd has on their wishlist this year.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46160493

Points: 3

# Comments: 3

GitHub metrics are lying to you

ruairidhwm — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 12:42:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.threadsafe.dev/blog/github-metrics-are-lying-to-you

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44289007

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by ruairidhwm in "Ask HN: How are people using ChatGPT to increase productivity in personal life?"

ruairidhwm — Fri, 30 May 2025 07:48:20 +0000

I'm moving house and it's great for feeding in floor plans and coming up with ideas. Like having an interior designer. Not always accurate but it's enough to get me going.

New comment by ruairidhwm in "Ask HN: How does your team decide who works oncall on Christmas?"

ruairidhwm — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 11:34:07 +0000

As a manager, I try and take most of it on when possible. The team have worked hard all year and I view it as good leadership to let them have that space.

New comment by ruairidhwm in "Ask HN: Programmers and Technologists in Scotland"

ruairidhwm — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 09:41:44 +0000

There are absolutely loads of us here in Scotland :)

New comment by ruairidhwm in "Technicolor Tokyo"

ruairidhwm — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 14:30:49 +0000

Yeah a RAW image is like a 'digital negative' so it preserves all the data that the sensor in the camera captures. A JPEG or similar is processed and compressed so the camera makes some decisions and 'bakes in' stylistic choices which are much harder to fix in post.

You can read a bit more about it here: https://photographylife.com/raw-vs-jpeg