Hacker News: techscruggs

New comment by techscruggs in "Strands Harness"

techscruggs — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 15:37:53 +0000

Deepseek was cheaper, but also less accurate. "Beats" isn't a fair assessment.

New comment by techscruggs in "The EPA is planning to scrap public review rules for data center pollution"

techscruggs — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:34:45 +0000

This article seems incredibly biased. Is there a more balanced report of what is actually occurring?

New comment by techscruggs in "Shopify acquires Tailwind"

techscruggs — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 15:56:15 +0000

I was a hardcore tailwind user and my projects still use it. That said, in the last 6 months, I haven't touched it. I just let my agents style things as they want. ... and they just use plain CSS.

I really appreciated tailwind, but it solved problems that fewer people face these days.

New comment by techscruggs in "Claude, change the “Add to Cart” button to blue"

techscruggs — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:26:28 +0000

I never really understood what being "triggered" was like until now.

New comment by techscruggs in "Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root"

techscruggs — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 16:34:40 +0000

This is the type of security and vulnerability testing that actually matters. In a sea of security researcher noise, thank you for contributing in a meaningful way.

New comment by techscruggs in "New MCP Roadmap"

techscruggs — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 16:01:20 +0000

The challenge with this is that it often causes a proliferation of MCP tools which bloats context, which is one of the reasons that MCP was created.

New comment by techscruggs in "Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub"

techscruggs — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:02:42 +0000

I get your point, but it kind of is AI related. The size of PRs since AI has made it much harder to review a diff. Stacking the PRs seems like a response to this problem.

New comment by techscruggs in "Small Penis Rule"

techscruggs — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 20:57:17 +0000

This sounds like exactly the kind of thing that some with a small penis would say ...

New comment by techscruggs in "Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radix"

techscruggs — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 13:37:56 +0000

The post effectively communicated what it needed to. It seemed both written and structured in a way that was optimized for human consumption.

If they used AI to write this and that gave them more time to volunteer their time towards developing this fantastic piece of open source software, then this all seems like a good thing to me.

New comment by techscruggs in "My AI-built PHP engine in Rust passes 17% of PHP-src tests, renders WordPress"

techscruggs — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 02:04:26 +0000

Let me make sure I am hearing you right. 1) The person you report to asked you to accomplish a discrete task 2) of standing up one of the most common websites on the planet 3) and your response was to begin building your own custom CMS?

I know I am removing the train of thought that led you down this path, but is there anything I just said that is factually false?

New comment by techscruggs in "RubyLLM: A Ruby framework for all major AI providers"

techscruggs — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 22:52:35 +0000

It analogous to Active Storage and aws-sdk-s3.

Some of the things I like about RubyLLM: 1. the DSL - You can chain methods like ActiveRecord. 2. the Structure - If gives a way to organize agents, tools & prompts 3. the Portability - The costs of AI usage, will one day be an issue for any successful product. Being able to easily test and move from Anthropic to DeepSeek cut my bill down by over 90%. Knowing how easy RubyLLM makes it, ignoring this eventuality feels reckless to me. 4. ActiveRecord Integration - With a simple `bin/rails generate ruby_llm:install `, you can save each chat to your database. 5. Agent Training - This is a side benefit of the above, but has been a huge unlock for me. Since I have all my chats saved, I will regularly pull down that history and give it to claude code to refine my agent instructions.

New comment by techscruggs in "RubyLLM: A Ruby framework for all major AI providers"

techscruggs — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:27:07 +0000

Do you have any details published around 2.0? Would love to learn more.

New comment by techscruggs in "RubyLLM: A single, beautiful Ruby framework for all major AI providers"

techscruggs — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:20:27 +0000

And thank you! It is absolutely awesome and a true joy to work with.

New comment by techscruggs in "Running local models is good now"

techscruggs — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:22:59 +0000

He is using a 2022 M2, which you can get that for about $2k used. That is beyond reasonable.

New comment by techscruggs in "Twenty One Zero-Days in FFmpeg"

techscruggs — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 12:57:39 +0000

The incentives structure is deeply broken in the field of Security Research. They are the middle management of the FOSS world. Celebrated for dumping more work on volunteers. The more urgent the work, the more they are celebrated. Acknowledging the realistic impact of issues or the pragmatic implications of an issue are at odds with their incentives.

It's hard not to see them as bottom feeders of the software industry and I wish we would starting treating them like pariah. Submit the PR or STFU.

New comment by techscruggs in "Top downloaded skill in ClawHub contains malware"

techscruggs — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 14:05:08 +0000

MacOS isn't a hard requirement. You could spin it up on a VPS. Hetzner is great and very inexpensive https://www.hetzner.com/cloud/

New comment by techscruggs in "Anthropic acquires Bun"

techscruggs — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 23:31:54 +0000

I remember a time ...

New comment by techscruggs in "Apple is crossing a Steve Jobs red line"

techscruggs — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 14:05:21 +0000

Remember that Steve Jobs appointed his COO Tim Cook to take over Apple. Not Ives or Cue or Federighi. I've always seen this as an acknowledgment that without Jobs the company would not be able to innovate in the same way.

Having acknowledged that, Apple shifted to the value extraction phase of its business lifecycle.

It sucks.

It like when your favorite band starts selling out, but as publicly traded company, I am not sure it is avoidable.

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

techscruggs — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 16:55:20 +0000

I like this idea!

Having SSH in the name helps developers quickly understand the problem domain it improves upon.

New comment by techscruggs in "DaisyUI: Tailwind CSS Components"

techscruggs — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 16:48:43 +0000

That is a rather dismissive attitude that could cause you to overlook some great technologies.