Hacker News: tbeseda

New comment by tbeseda in "So where are all the AI apps?"

tbeseda — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:53:01 +0000

Sorry, I'm not sure how this relates to the content of the article. Sounds like an interesting experience, but this is an analysis of the Python ecosystem pre+post ChatGPT.

New comment by tbeseda in "Packaging a Gleam app into a single executable (2025)"

tbeseda — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 21:02:33 +0000

ratio of upvotes to comments is oddly high...

New comment by tbeseda in "Vercel's CEO offers to cover expenses of 'Jmail'"

tbeseda — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:40:26 +0000

Directly to CDN. Put it in a CloudFront distribution and it would be a fraction of a fraction of that Vercel bill.

Remember kids, they're incentivized to get you to build something to burn as much compute as possible.

New comment by tbeseda in "Ask HN: What would you do if you didn't work in tech?"

tbeseda — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 21:35:03 +0000

I'd try and figure out how to make a living converting older, everyday cars/trucks to EVs. Restomod I guess; but not just classic sports cars and big trucks (though I love those too). I think a 1989 Mazda Protege deserves a new life as an affordable commuter car. Tape deck and all.

New comment by tbeseda in "My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020)"

tbeseda — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 21:04:07 +0000

Agreed. I'm working on a small GUI that just appends to a local .ndjson file. A user just posts with a text box into a feed. Like a one person chat or tweeting into the void. And a local LLM picks apart metadata, storing just enough to index where answers to future questions will be. Then you can use slash commands to get at the analysis like "/tasks last month" or "/summarize work today" etc.

New comment by tbeseda in "I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollars"

tbeseda — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 23:40:32 +0000

> But the cloud is not too expensive - you're paying for stuff you don't need. That's an entirely different kind of error.

Agreed. These sort of takedowns usually point to a gap in the author's experience. Which is totally fine! Missing knowledge is an opportunity. But it's not a good look when the opportunity is used for ragebait, hustlr.

New comment by tbeseda in "Suno Studio, a Generative AI DAW"

tbeseda — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 19:11:56 +0000

> as a consumer I could care less if you put your soul and years into producing art vs the one I can get a lot of today

a quantity over quality argument with regard to art is wild.

New comment by tbeseda in "Tech CEOs Take Turns Praising Trump at White House Dinner"

tbeseda — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 18:30:13 +0000

https://archive.li/4pWuk

I'm surprised Cook was there. I'm sad that I'm surprised Cook was there.

I can likely get away from macOS by EOY. But this phone has a stranglehold on my mobile, digital life.

New comment by tbeseda in "I want to be left alone (2024)"

tbeseda — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 02:28:24 +0000

I get your point but my Apple devices (Macs, iPhone, even my Vision Pro thing) aren't exactly "calm" either. The app stores are constantly trying to rope me into gacha games or promote some subscription wellness platform. Apple News subscription is floating click-bait Hollywood articles no matter how much I tap the thumbs down. Maps clutters my commute with suggested places and guides. Don't get me started on Podcasts and Music showing me topics and genres it's bizarrely certain I want to listen to.

New comment by tbeseda in "The Missing Protocol: Let Me Know"

tbeseda — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 01:11:13 +0000

You could probably consider a broader interpretation of ActivityPub for something like this; or the underlying ActivityStreams format.

It was conceived for social networking, but social networking doesn't have to be just 140 characters in a timeline.

https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/

New comment by tbeseda in "Linear sent me down a local-first rabbit hole"

tbeseda — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 15:58:25 +0000

They're also the past...

New comment by tbeseda in "Corporation for Public Broadcasting ceasing operations"

tbeseda — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 17:55:56 +0000

Including the military. Hell, even the constitution.

New comment by tbeseda in "The Chrome Speculation Rules API allows the browser to preload and prerender"

tbeseda — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 18:23:55 +0000

I mean that's generally the curve of performance across those devices where "fast", "decent", and "slow" are relative.

New comment by tbeseda in "Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal"

tbeseda — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 17:51:42 +0000

Agreed. Charm has a solid track record of great TUIs. While I appreciate a good DSL, I don't think React for a TUI (via ink) is working out well.

New comment by tbeseda in "Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage"

tbeseda — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 20:32:04 +0000

I wonder if it correlates to the rollout of T-Mobile satellite services. They just exited their trial phase, so a global config update might make sense.

New comment by tbeseda in "XMLUI"

tbeseda — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 15:32:37 +0000

I don't mind XML but the release is 4.23 MB. Minified. There are 90 dependencies (931 fully resolved).

Also, the Docs link to home.xmlui.com and don't resolve

New comment by tbeseda in "Tell HN: Notion Desktop is monitoring your audio and network"

tbeseda — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 17:30:07 +0000

My Notion install (macOS) asked to discover devices on my network. I'm assuming this permission is related to "monitoring network traffic".

New comment by tbeseda in "Show HN: Petrichor – a free, open-source, offline music player for macOS"

tbeseda — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 13:54:12 +0000

I just want to point out that the .app is only 14MB. This is the way. Nice work, OP

New comment by tbeseda in "Show HN: Petrichor – a free, open-source, offline music player for macOS"

tbeseda — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 13:52:59 +0000

fwiw this won't work in macOS 15.6

New comment by tbeseda in "A new pyramid-like shape always lands the same side up"

tbeseda — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 22:03:44 +0000

So, like my Vans?

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