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New comment by styfle in "What your Bluetooth devices reveal"

styfle — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:47:36 +0000

Did you ever try to communicate with them?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluejacking

New comment by styfle in "The Weird Concept of Branchless Programming"

styfle — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 18:19:02 +0000

This same blog posted yesterday and got flagged with “How I accidently created the fastest CSV parser ever made”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45400009

Eliminating JavaScript cold starts on AWS Lambda

styfle — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 11:44:42 +0000

Article URL: https://goose.icu/lambda/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44922383

Points: 200

# Comments: 69

New comment by styfle in "Telo MT1"

styfle — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 11:18:41 +0000

Slate is going to start closer to 28K now that the tax credit is gone (remember it’s not going into production until next year).

That said, $41K is still a big jump in comparison and it makes the Telo much closer to the price of a Model Y starting around $45K.

New comment by styfle in "GitHub issues is almost the best notebook in the world"

styfle — Mon, 26 May 2025 21:59:48 +0000

I liked being able to “close” the issue once I unpacked the box.

New comment by styfle in "GitHub issues is almost the best notebook in the world"

styfle — Mon, 26 May 2025 16:06:06 +0000

Correct. There’s no way you’re going to write every item inside the box on the box itself. And definitely not on every side of the box. Think cables and small items.

It only makes sense if you plan on unpacking over a year but if you unpack everything in a couple days then the system is not as useful.

New comment by styfle in "GitHub issues is almost the best notebook in the world"

styfle — Mon, 26 May 2025 16:03:16 +0000

> This can be helpful even years later when you don’t unpack all boxes.

Indeed, this is one of the biggest reasons I tracked this information to begin with.

New comment by styfle in "GitHub issues is almost the best notebook in the world"

styfle — Mon, 26 May 2025 11:47:04 +0000

I used GitHub issues as a form of project management to plan my wedding many years ago.

My wife was skeptical at first, but the ability to add labels, search, etc made it really easy to work together and accomplish the tasked we needed in time for the wedding.

The hardest part was creating a bookmark that links directly to the issue tracker.

Oh, I’ve also used GitHub issues to organize all the boxes in my most recent move. I would create an issue and the description would list all the contents of a box. Then I would write the issue number on the box. After moving, I could search GitHub to find that one thing I was looking for and know what box it was in.

New comment by styfle in "The Cost of Being Crawled: LLM Bots and Vercel Image API Pricing"

styfle — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 13:29:31 +0000

The article explains that they were using the old Vercel price and that the new price is much cheaper.

> On Feb 18, 2025, just a few days after we published this blog post, Vercel changed their image optimization pricing. With the new pricing we'd not have faced a huge bill.

New comment by styfle in ".localhost Domains"

styfle — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 16:37:18 +0000

Why use that over *.localhost which has been available since 1999 (introduced in RFC 2606)

New comment by styfle in "PackagePhobia – Find the cost of adding a new dev dependency to your project"

styfle — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 14:26:30 +0000

Both offer a free plan but Package Phobia is sponsored meaning its on the paid plan but getting it for free.

Kinda like a skateboarder might be sponsored and get a skateboard for free even though others pay for the same item.

Package Phobia started out on the free plan but it turns out its quite popular, serving over 5 million requests per month. A cache miss (which is frequent given the cardinality of packages + versions), it can take 30 seconds to install a package and measure its size.

There's also a public API which tools like Socket use to check the size of every npm package.

https://x.com/styfle/status/1826296197566644497

New comment by styfle in "PackagePhobia – Find the cost of adding a new dev dependency to your project"

styfle — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 14:17:35 +0000

The word "publish" is from "npm publish" and I don't think there is a better term to switch to.

https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v8/commands/npm-publish

I like your idea about showing the information below the fold so I fixed it, thanks!

https://github.com/styfle/packagephobia/pull/1069

New comment by styfle in "PackagePhobia – Find the cost of adding a new dev dependency to your project"

styfle — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 12:55:48 +0000

See the readme on github for a full comparison

New comment by styfle in "PackagePhobia – Find the cost of adding a new dev dependency to your project"

styfle — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 12:55:21 +0000

See this issue:

https://github.com/pastelsky/bundlephobia/issues/40

New comment by styfle in "PackagePhobia – Find the cost of adding a new dev dependency to your project"

styfle — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 12:53:36 +0000

If you find a bug, please report the issue on GitHub and I’ll take a look, thanks!

New comment by styfle in "PackagePhobia – Find the cost of adding a new dev dependency to your project"

styfle — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 12:52:36 +0000

They are orthogonal tools.

Checkout the readme for a comparison against other tools.

https://github.com/styfle/packagephobia

New comment by styfle in "PackagePhobia – Find the cost of adding a new dev dependency to your project"

styfle — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 12:51:41 +0000

It does apply to JS if you use a bundler that has “tree-shaking” also known as “dead code elimination”.

New comment by styfle in "PackagePhobia – Find the cost of adding a new dev dependency to your project"

styfle — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 12:50:27 +0000

True, Python has a larger std lib, but Node.js has increased a lot in the last two years.

Although it’s not so much Python that’s influencing Node.js but more like Deno and Bun that try to include everything but the kitchen sink.

New comment by styfle in "PackagePhobia – Find the cost of adding a new dev dependency to your project"

styfle — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 12:47:57 +0000

What a surprise!

I’m the author of Package Phobia and it’s been largely unchanged since 2018.

If you’re looking for more details, checkout the readme on GitHub.

Let me know if you have questions, thanks!

https://github.com/styfle/packagephobia

New comment by styfle in "A 10x Faster TypeScript"

styfle — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 17:20:58 +0000

Its not strange, its very common. Its called "bootstrapping".

> Bootstrapping is a fairly common practice when creating a programming language. Many compilers for many programming languages are bootstrapped, including compilers for ALGOL, BASIC, C, C#, Common Lisp, D, Eiffel, Elixir, Go, Haskell, Java, Modula-2, Nim, Oberon, OCaml, Pascal, PL/I, Python, Rust, Scala, Scheme, TypeScript, Vala, Zig and more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping_(compilers)