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aantix

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My name is Jim Jones. I consult as a software engineer for startups in the Bay Area. I'm a two-time speaker at RailsConf. Love spending time with my family and writing software.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimjones2

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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

Show HN: Your DNA – Finding answers for your hard to diagnose medical conditions

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Ask HN: Minecraft Community for Kids?

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: Ever hired a commission-only salesperson for your SaaS app?

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callstacking.com 3y ago

Easier Debugging with Ruby on Rails

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: What's the easiest, highly available server to self administer?

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: Restricting cell phone use in a classroom setting?

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www.youtube.com 3y ago

Comparing Tesla Full Self-Driving vs. Cruise

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railshackathon.com 3y ago

Rails Hackathon: Super Simple Debugging with Ruby on Rails

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: Getting (re)start with automated trading in 2020

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jamesstuber.com 6y ago

Too Scared to Release Your Personal Project?

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: What’s the most executed piece of code of all time?

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news.ycombinator.com 7y ago

Ask HN: Discounting Salaries for Remote Developers?

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news.ycombinator.com 7y ago

Ask HN: Best Places to Buy Server Components?

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news.ycombinator.com 7y ago

Ask HN: Creating a Hosted Version of an MIT Licensed, Open Source App?

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news.ycombinator.com 8y ago

Ask HN: Why are SF startup salaries stagnant?

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news.ycombinator.com 8y ago

How to Increase the Number of Remote Jobs in the Marketplace

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www.wired.com 8y ago

The Collapse of a $40 Million Nutrition Science Crusade

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www.vox.com 8y ago

We’re barely using the best tool we have to fight obesity

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news.ycombinator.com 11y ago

Ask HN: Online Therapy?

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news.ycombinator.com 13y ago

Hacknights for Designers?

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news.ycombinator.com 13y ago

Ask HN: Community of Car Buyers that Share the Price of their Purchase?

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github.com 13y ago

Rails: Easily Version Your Views (show.v1.json.jbuilder, show.v2.json.jbuilder)

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www.youtube.com 13y ago

DHH shows code from "Basecamp Next" rewrite & reveals their caching strategies

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www.telegraph.co.uk 14y ago

Exercise does not lift depression

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github.com 14y ago

An Emotional Framework for Hackers v0.1

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Ask HN: Why wasn't Rapportive ever sued by Google?

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gist.github.com 14y ago

Github, remote pair programming sucks. Here's how to solve it.

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gist.github.com 14y ago

Open Letter to Mechanical Turk: Please add externalSubmit debugging console.

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github.com 14y ago

Simplified Investing for Ruby Hackers

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github.com 14y ago

Gem takes your git commit history and generates a line item invoice.

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It's a tradeoff.

Generating a feature that is 90% correct in a tenth of the time is a reasonable tradeoff if you're trying to gain traction.

Generating a feature that is 90% correct in a tenth of the time, risking a multi-billion-dollar business, is a terrible tradeoff.

Everyone is obsessed with speed.

But no one wants to go out of their house.

Social connections. Trust. Facetime. All matter more than ever.

Want a moatable software business? Know your customers on a personal level. Have a personal relationship. Know the people that sign the contracts, know their kids names, where they vacationed last winter, their favorite local restaurant.

Get out of the house.

It's an un-invite. A hollow gesture.

Google's Gemini can read Google Docs directly.

They really don't want you to use another LLM product.

So they make the setup as difficult as possible.

Not my experience at all.

It fails to be pro-active. "Why didn't you run the tests you created?"

I want it to tell me if the implementation is working.

Feels lazy. And it hallucinates solutions frequently.

It pales in comparison to CC/Opus.

Growth through savings is limited.

Greed is sustainable.

When there's enough money on the sidelines, the pendulum swings, and big bets come back in fashion.

Downsizing is not a big bet.

Nobody leads tech to save billions and have money sit on the sidelines. It's a weak, shallow bet that should be reserved for discount retail and commodity markets.

The savings will be spent on engineering, eventually.

There is a nutritional lens that rarely gets talked about.

Magnesium glycinate, magnesium threonate, l-theanine, inositol, NAC - all have been both calming and help with negative ruminations, for me.

I've been pretty harsh on myself over the years.

I started carrying around a photo of myself as a kid. I'm sitting against a wall, by a pillar, at our state capital. My eyes are shut. I was kind of a shy kid.

When I start to get frustrated and talk to myself in that short, abrasive, condescending tone, I think of that photo and of myself, as still that kid.

It helps me to be more compassionate towards myself in those moments. I'm still that shy kid trying to make sense of the world.

I'm 47.

I did try out sculptor. I like the idea of the pairing mode - the syncing to the main branch is quite helpful.

A couple of items

1. As output comes back from Claude Code, I wish it were streamed to the screen in Sculptor. Seeing the text build up in realtime gives me the feeling of the agent being "alive". It's hard to describe - but I find it more delightful to see it streamed in realtime.

2. Add more hotkeys.

An alternative YouTube app for my kids.

YouTube's algorithm is all about engagement - more video game videos, more brainrot, their algorithm doesn't care about the content as long as the kid is watching.

My system allows parents to define their children's interests (e.g., a 12-year-old who enjoys DIY engineering projects, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and drawing fantasy figures)

.. and specify how the AI should filter video candidates (e.g., excluding YouTube Shorts).

Periodically, the system prompts the child with something like

"Tell me about your favorite family vacation."

And their response to that prompt provides the system with more ideas and interests to suggest videos to them.

email me if you'd like to test jim.jones1@gmail.com

Along these lines, how does everyone visually organize the multiple terminal tabs open for these numerous agents in various states?

I wish there were a way to search across all open tabs.

I've started color-coding my Claude code tabs, all red, which helps me to find them visually. I do this with a preexec in my ~/.zshrc.

But wondering if anyone else has any better tricks for organizing all of these agent tabs?

I'm using iTerm2 on macOS.