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California Is Chasing Wealth That Has Feet

slackpad — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:40:53 +0000

Article URL: https://progressandpoverty.substack.com/p/california-is-chasing-wealth-that

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48736298

Points: 6

# Comments: 10

New comment by slackpad in "Software Is Made Between Commits"

slackpad — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:41:44 +0000

Yeah I really would not want all my convos synced up like this. I've been working on a personal version of something like this but it keeps all your conversations and notes in a separate Git repo that you control that's totally separate from the project repo - it's entirely designed for personal use:

https://github.com/modulecollective/moe

Show HN: Ministry of Everything – CLI agent harness for a single operator

slackpad — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 05:20:14 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/modulecollective/moe

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48352910

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

UA flight – 'turn Bluetooth off or we're turning around'

slackpad — Sun, 31 May 2026 01:08:21 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/unitedairlines/comments/1tse6mq/ua_flight_turn_bluetooth_off_or_were_turning/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48342158

Points: 88

# Comments: 36

Altman and Masa Back a 27-Year-Old's Plan to Build a New Bell Labs Ultra

slackpad — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 23:05:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.corememory.com/p/exclusive-altman-and-masa-back-episteme-louis-andre

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45908172

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by slackpad in "I was right about dishwasher pods and now I can prove it [video]"

slackpad — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 01:28:07 +0000

It's interesting - YouTube does show AI summaries now - here's the one for this video:

This video explores dishwasher detergent, focusing on a new powder formulation. The creator details the science behind effective dishwashing, including pre-wash cycles and water temperature. Independent testing results comparing the new powder to leading pods are revealed.

I've noticed that they all seem to not give away too much so you still have to watch the video to get the conclusion. It makes sense why they do this for creators, but I do agree it would be awesome to just read the conclusion on many of these.

New comment by slackpad in "Ask HN: Any interest in a HashiCorp Consul fork?"

slackpad — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 21:59:32 +0000

Seems like no :-) If folks in the future see this please reach out at the contact info in my bio to discuss!

Ask HN: Any interest in a HashiCorp Consul fork?

slackpad — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 16:24:16 +0000

There don’t seem to be any credible open source forks of HashiCorp Consul and the traction from HashiCorp has fallen quite a bit recently in the main repo. I was the lead maintainer for Consul from 2015 to 2018 (versions 0.5.2 through 1.0.6) and would be willing to start one if there’s enough community interest. There are some long-neglected feature requests for things like dynamic tags but Consul in general doesn’t seem like it should take on a bunch of new features. I almost lean towards making a more streamlined version of it, but am curious what the community thinks. Would this be interesting to anyone out there and what would you like to see?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44953340

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by slackpad in "I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file"

slackpad — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 17:00:40 +0000

A few years back a friend approached me with an idea to track todos in Google Calendar directly by adding #todo to event titles. If you don't mark them as done they will roll forward to the next day. We ended up shutting it down as a product, but I recently vibe coded it back as a Google Apps Script so it's free to run on your own. It works super well for people who live off of their calendar - https://github.com/slackpad/hashtagtodo-redux.

New comment by slackpad in "Claude Opus 4.1"

slackpad — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 20:24:29 +0000

Claude Code running in a terminal can connect to your IDE so you can review its proposed changes there. I’ve found this to be a nice drop in way to try it out without having to change your core workflow and tools too much. Check out the /ide command for details.

New comment by slackpad in "6 Weeks of Claude Code"

slackpad — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 19:02:49 +0000

Not the parent but I've totally been doing this, too. I've been using docker compose and Claude seems to understand that fine in terms of scoping everything - it'll run "docker compose logs foo" "docker compose restart bar" etc. I've never tried to isolate it, though I tend to rarely yolo and keep an eye on what it's doing and approve (I also look at the code diffs as it goes). It's allowed to read-only access stuff without asking but everything else I look at.

New comment by slackpad in "6 weeks of Claude Code"

slackpad — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 14:41:36 +0000

Really agree with the author's thoughts on maintenance here. I've run into a ton of cases where I would have written a TODO or made a ticket to capture some refactoring and instead just knocked it out right then with Claude. I've also used Claude to quickly try out a refactoring idea and then abandoned it because I didn't like how it came out. It really lowers the activation energy for these kinds of maintenance things.

Letting Claude rest was a great point in the article, too. I easily get manifold value compared to what I pay, so I haven't got it grinding on its own on a bunch of things in parallel and offline. I think it could quickly be an accelerator for burnout and cruft if you aren't careful, so I keep to a supervised-by-human mode.

Wrote up some more thoughts a few weeks ago at https://www.modulecollective.com/posts/agent-assisted-coding....

New comment by slackpad in "I launched 17 side projects. Result? I'm rich in expired domains"

slackpad — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 03:07:04 +0000

Yeah - I think early users are going to click on a link too and don’t really care. If you were really advertising or something with traction you’d want a nice domain but I don’t think it would hurt early adoption of little saas tools.

New comment by slackpad in "I launched 17 side projects. Result? I'm rich in expired domains"

slackpad — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 21:50:13 +0000

I ended up using one of my more generic domains (https://www.modulecollective.com/) and then launching things as .modulecollective.com. It's a little wordy but it's free and creates kind of a natural place to catalog things. I figure if any of them take off then I can go buy a better name later and move it over, having the old one redirect. That would be a good problem to have :-)

That particular domain was going to be like a Netflix DVD style subscription product for Eurorack modules but I never even ended up trying to build that after buying the domain.

New comment by slackpad in "Show HN: Telomere – Lifecycle Primitives for Timeouts"

slackpad — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 17:16:59 +0000

Thanks for taking a look! Here's a blog post with some more detail about how it works and why we built it - https://www.modulecollective.com/posts/telomere-launch/.

Show HN: Telomere – Lifecycle Primitives for Timeouts

slackpad — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 16:01:07 +0000

Telomere lets you set a timer for any process - if it doesn't complete in time, we trigger your webhooks or send alerts. Unlike most monitoring-centric tools, Telomere is designed as a flexible set of lifecycle primitives that let you model cron jobs, user sessions, deploys, and many others.

We've kept Telomere focused and simple so you don't have to build and maintain timeout infrastructure yourself. Free tier with 750 runs/month, $49/month unlimited. Both tiers include teams, email alerts, and webhooks. Hopefully this hits a sweet spot for many developers where it’s not worth the hassle of building and running another service.

Looking for feedback especially from users who have timeout use cases that aren't served well by traditional monitoring tools - hello@modulecollective.com.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44648919

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by slackpad in "Ask HN: What's the 2025 stack for a self-hosted photo library with local AI?"

slackpad — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 20:25:34 +0000

Haven’t tried it yet (I’d love to find something like this too) but I saw a conference talk on https://docs.voxel51.com/ that looked pretty interesting. It is kind of a data frame for images with a GUI for exploring them. They make it pretty easy to rip various models over your images to add tags, and to evaluate the results.

New comment by slackpad in "Ask HN: 80s electronics book club; anyone remember this illustrator?"

slackpad — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 03:40:19 +0000

Forrest Mims did a bunch of interesting hand drawings like that back then but I don’t recall the specific book or image you are thinking of. I’m curious to see if you find it - it sounds up my alley too.

Teenage Engineering lets you pick what you want to pay for an OP-1 Field

slackpad — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 16:08:03 +0000

Article URL: https://teenage.engineering/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44182275

Points: 13

# Comments: 24

New comment by slackpad in "Ableton Push 3"

slackpad — Tue, 23 May 2023 18:45:30 +0000

Did anybody find any references to the materials on the outside of the Push 3?

I loved the Push 2 but if it got any amount of sunlight on it the rubber outer shell would sweat and become this sticky rubber mess. I don't have a fully protected area to keep the device in and it became so gross it was unpleasant to use and I stopped using it. A lot of people complained but they didn't deal with it very well, and directed you to hope for the best by scrubbing it with orange oil products. I hope they sorted this out because otherwise Push 2 was amazing and this looks like a very nice set of improvements.