Hacker News: vscarpenter

New comment by vscarpenter in "Web Search API"

vscarpenter — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:20:36 +0000

I guess I'm not understanding the value here - to compete with Google and the likes, the scale, cost and complexity would be huge. Appreciate new entrants in an existing field but not seeing this one.

Show HN: AgentMachinist: make your coding agent show its work

vscarpenter — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 16:35:51 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/vscarpenter/AgentMachinist

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49945696

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Show HN: AgentMachinist, issue to reviewed PR with a SHA-bound spec approval

vscarpenter — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:08:41 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/vscarpenter/AgentMachinist

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49449501

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

GSD – Open-source, local-first task manager built on the Eisenhower matrix

vscarpenter — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 03:12:25 +0000

Article URL: https://gsdtaskmanager.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48703980

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by vscarpenter in "Why I Actively Discourage Online Tooling like jwt.io and Online JSON Validators"

vscarpenter — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 14:42:04 +0000

Agree 100%. At my company, I've deployed the open source version of JSONLint.com internally to prevent any accidental exposure of internal or confidential data.

New comment by vscarpenter in "Introducing Money in Excel, an easier way to manage your finances"

vscarpenter — Mon, 15 Jun 2020 21:01:04 +0000

Exactly - this is a silly choice. Making it inaccessible to users of Office 365 for business is a terrible default choice.

New comment by vscarpenter in "Ask HN: Anxiety is limiting my enjoyment of a wonderful career. Can you relate?"

vscarpenter — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 19:12:20 +0000

I have friends and family members that suffer anxiety ranging from minor to debilitating anxiety where they feel like they cannot function. As davidkim suggests below, meditation, sleep and even exercise can help alleviate some of the symptoms but you also have to know that anxiety/OCD can be caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain and you simply cannot wish it away. Medicine may be appropriate in your situation and so I would start with a consultation with your doctor. No one should suffer and miss out on the wonders of life.

New comment by vscarpenter in "Stamplay: IFTTT for developers"

vscarpenter — Mon, 06 Oct 2014 14:02:45 +0000

Is there a JSON parsing component that I'm missing? I would think a simple JSON component would allow you to hook up any number of API's together to build an application. Assuming it's on your roadmap.

New comment by vscarpenter in "JPMorgan Says Data Breach Affected 76M Households"

vscarpenter — Thu, 02 Oct 2014 23:20:24 +0000

Yes - check out https://www.fsisac.com/

New comment by vscarpenter in "Ask HN: Do you use Web Application Firewall (WAF)?"

vscarpenter — Wed, 18 Jun 2014 02:44:09 +0000

I use mod_security for personal sites and Cisco NetScaler as a WAF, load-balancer and SSL offloader at work. If I was given the choice, I would use HAProxy and mod_security as I'm not too impressed with NetScaler.

New comment by vscarpenter in "Square open sources Kochiku"

vscarpenter — Fri, 06 Sep 2013 18:27:05 +0000

I'm curious as to why Square would spend engineering talent on a distributed CI system when you can buy something like Jetbrains TeamCity that does what they wanted to do. This is not meant as a slam and I am also a developer who loves to build things but I would think Square and other companies for that matter would want to apply their limited engineering talents in solving bigger problems that grow the business.

Not looking for a flame war - just curious to get different perspectives.

New comment by vscarpenter in "Show HN: I wrote an eBook on building iOS apps. First chapter is free."

vscarpenter — Tue, 28 May 2013 16:05:59 +0000

Great job Ash. Congratulations. I got to see a little bit of the book development happen via GitHub and it was great to see how crowd-sourcing technical review/editor function could potentially work in the future.

Congratulations again.

New comment by vscarpenter in "Snag.gy - Paste images directly to the web"

vscarpenter — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 03:54:06 +0000

Is there a freeware or commercial WYSIWYG editor that supports pasting of images like this awesome tool?

I have a use-case where users are creating charts in Excel and want to paste them into a HTML textarea and WYSIWYG editor that supported paste of images from the clipboard would be awesome. Thanks