I became a father recently (:D) and it's been an emotional rollercoaster for me. I had been frantically Googling my "symptoms" and asking around what's wrong with me, because it seems I've been quite sensitive since the birth of my baby.

One way to explain this is the Gordon Ramsay meme (https://imgflip.com/memetemplate/211147137/Oh-dear-dear-gorg..., LHS = my reaction to my baby, RHS = my reaction to other kids before my baby was born).

I think the article is spot on — the more time you spend with your baby and care for them, the more oxytocin you get and the more your testosterone drops (I cried when my baby first spoke — cooed, really — to me, for example, and that's just one instance).

Edit: I want to take this opportunity to say — fuck companies that don't give paternity leave. This is fucking hard to do alone, so be nice to your employees and offer paternity benefits. I'm in India, where paternity leave isn't required, so I was told to fuck off when I asked for time off.

"0.05% of domains" is a vanity metric -- what matters is how many requests were mis-served cross-user. "Cache-Control was respected where provided" is technically true but misleading when most apps don't set it because CDN was off. The status page is more honest here too: they confirmed content without cache-control was cached.

They call it a "trust boundary violation" in the last line but the rest of the post reads like a press release. No accounting of what data was actually exposed.

[1] https://status.railway.com/incident/X0Q39H56

I've been using Claude Code to spin up apps quickly, and I kept needing the same infrastructure every time - user auth, permissions, usage tracking, job queues. So I pulled it all into one SQL package that lives in Postgres. Now when I start a new app I just tell Claude to use Postkit and all that stuff is already there, no external services to set up. I can focus on the actual product and iterate fast.

It was also a good excuse to actually use stuff I'd studied for system design interviews - Zanzibar-style ReBAC for permissions, a double-entry ledger for usage metering, transactional job queues with SKIP LOCKED. ~15k lines of SQL across five modules, with a Python SDK. The SQL works from any language though.

https://github.com/varunchopra/postkit

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I'm a bit of a skeptic. Claude Code is good, but I've had varied results during my usage. Even just 5 minutes ago, I asked CC to view the most recent commit diff using git show. Even when I provided the command, it was doing dumb shit like git show --stat and then running wc for some reason...

I've been working on something called postkit[1], which has required me to build incrementally on a codebase that started from nothing and has now grown quite a lot. As it's grown, Claude Code's performance has definitely dipped.

[1] https://github.com/varunchopra/postkit

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CEOs, AI "thought leaders," and VCs are advertising LLMs as magic, and tools like v0 and Lovable as the next big thing. Every response from leaders is some variation of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w61d-NBqafM

On the ground, we know that creating CLAUDE.md or cursorrules basically does nothing. It’s up to the LLM to follow instructions, and it does so based on RNG as far as I can tell. I have very simple, basic rules set up that are never followed. This leads me to believe everyone posting on that thread on Cursor is an amateur.

Beyond this, if you’re working on novel code, LLMs are absolutely horrible at doing anything. A lot of assumptions are made, non-existent libraries are used, and agents are just great at using tokens to generate no tangible result whatsoever.

I’m at a stage where I use LLMs the same way I would use speech-to-text (code) - telling the LLM exactly what I want, what files it should consider, and it adds _some_ value by thinking of edge cases I might’ve missed, best practices I’m unaware of, and writing better grammar than I do.

Edit:

[1] To add to this, any time you use search or Perplexity or what have you, the results come from all this marketing garbage being pumped into the internet by marketing teams.

So glad to come across it again!

Somehow it's gotten worse since then, and I'm back to using Claude for serious work.

Gemini is like that guy who keeps talking but has no idea what he's actually talking about.

I still use Gemini for brainstorming, though I take its suggestions with several grains of salt. It's also useful for generating prompts that I can then refine and use with Claude.

Example from the comments...

> Great question. I haven’t found a perfect tool. A combination of Figma and Storybook and Zeroheight do a good job pulling it all together. But the real magic is the designer-developer relationship that stay in lock step. Those relationships are what it takes to be in tight sync.

_But the real magic is the designer-developer relationship that stay in lock step. Those relationships are what it takes to be in tight sync._

Who writes like this?

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That's really neat! Thank you for answering my questions and all the best with your launch!

* You want to simplify infrastructure, but there's a new learning curve here. Why did you decide to go with diagramming as a solution? What other methods did you evaluate and discard?

* How does an organization with existing infrastructure implement Massdriver?

* How do you handle edge cases, custom configurations, complex logic, etc.? For example, workflows that use custom scripts or some other form of band-aid.

* The visual approach could make it too easy to piece together infrastructure without understanding the implications. How do you prevent developers from creating poorly architected systems just because you make it simple to connect components?

* When things go wrong, how do developers debug issues at the infrastructure level? Do they reach out to ops?

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Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python and the Python ecosystem (Flask, FastAPI, ...), frontend (HTML, CSS, JS, Tailwind, and intermediate React), all things AWS, Containers (Docker, Kubernetes,...), Prometheus, Ansible...

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/varun-chopra/details/experience/

Website: https://varunchopra.vc

Résumé/CV: Please e-mail me for my resume.

Email: `echo "hello hn" | awk '{print $1"+"$2"@varunchopra.vc"}'`

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Looking for opportunities to work with companies or individuals doing interesting things. I can have overlap with EU or Asian time zones, and I’m open to async work in PST or partial overlap with PST.

I have over 7 years of experience in software. My primary focus has been on infrastructure (working with web hosting companies, multiple Fortune 10 companies, and early to late-stage startups). While my expertise lies in infrastructure, I also build applications[1][2][3], though I don’t do this as often (mostly in my free time or on contract).

Please do mention HN if you get in touch.

[1] https://gyso.com

[2] https://latexresume.com

[3] https://pencilbeam.com

If you are a hiring manager and would like to experiment with something like this, please get in touch!

[1] https://pencilbeam.com

[1] https://varunchopra.vc/posts/building-streaming-service/

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