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New comment by thecodemonkey in "Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989)"

thecodemonkey — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:33:01 +0000

Running the same codebase for 10+ years with a small team is what finally made me fully internalize these rules.

I've always been a KISS/DRY person but over a decade there are plenty of moments where you're tempted to reach for a fancier database or rewrite something in a trendier stack. What's actually kept things running well at scale is boring, known technologies and only optimizing in the places where it actually matters.

We wrote our principles down recently and it basically just reads like Pike's rules in different words: https://www.geocod.io/code-and-coordinates/2025-09-30-develo...

New comment by thecodemonkey in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

thecodemonkey — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 13:45:11 +0000

I'm working on Chief [1], a CLI that autonomously works through a PRD using AI coding agents like Claude Code.

You write user stories, start it up, and it loops through them one at a time. Fresh context per story, progress tracked in markdown between iterations. One clean commit per completed story. Has a TUI for watching it work and supports running multiple PRDs in parallel via git worktrees.

Built it because a lot of the "autonomous coding" tooling out there felt overly complex and opaque. Chief is intentionally lightweight and transparent. Everything is just markdown files and git. No magic.

[1] https://github.com/MiniCodeMonkey/chief

Show HN: Chief – Loop Claude Code through your tasks, one commit at a time

thecodemonkey — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 22:18:52 +0000

Article URL: https://minicodemonkey.github.io/chief/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46939146

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by thecodemonkey in "A $1k AWS mistake"

thecodemonkey — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 11:30:41 +0000

We are also 100% customer-funded. AWS makes sense for us for the enterprise version of Geocodio where we are SOC2 audited and HIPAA-compliant.

We are primarily using Hetzner for the self-serve version of Geocodio and have been a very happy customer for decades.

New comment by thecodemonkey in "A $1k AWS mistake"

thecodemonkey — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 11:03:17 +0000

Hahaha. I'll update the post once I hear back from them. One could hope that they might consider an account credit.

New comment by thecodemonkey in "A $1k AWS mistake"

thecodemonkey — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 10:55:49 +0000

That was truly my hope with this post! Glad to hear that

New comment by thecodemonkey in "A $1k AWS mistake"

thecodemonkey — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 10:43:39 +0000

Haha, yep we were lucky to catch this early! It could easily have gotten lost with everything else in the monthly AWS bill.

A $1k AWS mistake

thecodemonkey — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 10:00:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.geocod.io/code-and-coordinates/2025-11-18-the-1000-aws-mistake/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45977744

Points: 339

# Comments: 265

Geocodio's Development Manifesto

thecodemonkey — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 11:59:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.geocod.io/code-and-coordinates/2025-09-30-development-manifesto/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45424399

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Building a Jeopardy Game for Laravel Live Denmark

thecodemonkey — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 19:31:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.geocod.io/code-and-coordinates/2025-08-27-building-laravel-jeopardy/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45043993

Points: 10

# Comments: 1

New comment by thecodemonkey in "Keeping our free tier sustainable by preventing abuse"

thecodemonkey — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 09:02:43 +0000

There's a couple of great open source projects[1][2][3] that try to keep up-to-date lists of domains that belong to disposable email providers.

I would probably not recommend implementing a whitelist for blocking purposes. But perhaps domains on a whitelist could get a slight scoring bump.

[1] https://github.com/disposable-email-domains/disposable-email... [2] https://github.com/disposable/disposable [3] https://github.com/unkn0w/disposable-email-domain-list

New comment by thecodemonkey in "Keeping our free tier sustainable by preventing abuse"

thecodemonkey — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 08:58:57 +0000

Thanks for giving it a read!

New comment by thecodemonkey in "Keeping our free tier sustainable by preventing abuse"

thecodemonkey — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 08:58:29 +0000

We are mainly B2B so we don't really see signups using Apple's email relay. That said, it could be something we might have to consider blocking in the future if it becomes a problem.

For paying customers, it probably doesn't make a lot of sense to use an anonymous email address, since we ask for your name and billing address either way (have to stay compliant with sales taxes!)

New comment by thecodemonkey in "Keeping our free tier sustainable by preventing abuse"

thecodemonkey — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 08:54:54 +0000

Isn't it nice to have just a little bit of an illustration instead of just text? Obviously an AI-generated image is going to spit out some nonsense text as part of the graphic, but we're not really trying to hide that it's AI generated.

New comment by thecodemonkey in "Keeping our free tier sustainable by preventing abuse"

thecodemonkey — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 21:39:26 +0000

I would love do a more in-depth talk about this at some point with some more concrete examples.

New comment by thecodemonkey in "Keeping our free tier sustainable by preventing abuse"

thecodemonkey — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 21:38:28 +0000

Not at this time. Some simple heuristics go a long way and also makes it very easy to test and debug the logic.

New comment by thecodemonkey in "Laravel Cloud"

thecodemonkey — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 16:27:41 +0000

Really excited for this! Had the opportunity to take part in early access over the last few weeks and the deployment process has been super smooth and insanely fast.

I'm mostly just impressed with how polished everything feels and how easy it was to add database, key/value store, etc.

Currently using Laravel Vapor for most of my hosting needs, but will be switching everything over to Cloud.

Keeping our free tier sustainable by preventing abuse

thecodemonkey — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:07:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.geocod.io/code-and-coordinates/2025-02-19-preventing-abuse/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43125875

Points: 106

# Comments: 46

New comment by thecodemonkey in "Using uv as your shebang line"

thecodemonkey — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 18:06:48 +0000

What is uv?

New comment by thecodemonkey in "Geocodio keeps 300M addresses up to date"

thecodemonkey — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 13:02:12 +0000

Our timezone and Highway data is OSM-based, but that's pretty much it.

Many of our address sources come from the OpenAddresses project: https://github.com/openaddresses/openaddresses