jakelsaunders94

https://prolific.com

Taking this as a good faith engineering argument. What does that mean? What do you constitute a pollutant and how much is zero?

I guess as a contrived example your breath releases 40k PPM Co2. Have you tried aiming for no pollution?

The reality is we make things which involve pollutants, which we create laws to govern the safe disposal of. Engineers optimise for these constraints the same way you do. You wouldn’t have one k8s pod per request to ‘strive to keep the response times as low as possible’.

Thank you for the rec and review, I’ll take a look!

What I miss is people showing off their hand-crafted libraries or frameworks.

Saame. I wonder if the use of AI will lead to less invention and adoption of new ideas in favour of ideas with lots of training data.

Hey, I don't think this sounded like snark at all. Super grounded take.

I think what’s interesting about AI, and why there’s so much conversation, is that in order to be a good user of AI, you have to really understand software development.

This I agree with completely. You can see it in the difference between a prompt where you know exactly what you want and when things are a little woolley. A tool in the hands of a well trained craftsperson is always better used.

So I think we’re going to keep talking for quite a while Me neither, and to be clear I'm okay with that. This was mostly a rant at the lack of diversity of discourse.

Hey :)

And this one will be different? I think you're talking about my blog post here, in which case no, I'm afraid not. Hence the admission at the bottom.

Umm. ??

It’s all positives. So what’s the problem? The article is trying to say that these things are great, but the level of conversation leads to a lack of novelty.

It’s just the discourse around it is “boring”. And the managers are lame about it. Exactly.

OP can’t even resign himself to being a Type. Sigh. “I know what I just did hehe” Very self-aware.

Is this sarcasm?

This is a really intersting take, and maybe shows that I haven't been thorough enough with my reading. My guess is that the deep technical articles are few and far between and the higher level 'hot takes' are what fills the room. Do you have any recommendations for interesting places to start?

Agreed, LinkedIn is a cesspit of this. But then it always has been so nothing new there.

I've been meaning to try Mastodon for a long time (I was never really a Twiiter user). As others have said elsewhere though, I'm not sure where to start. Did you just download the app and join mastodon.social?

I think in most places on the internet the negative comments are the ones that will win out. Same for AI I suppose. I tried not to bemoan the whole concept here, just the amount of 'airtime' it gets. Sort of like when something happens in the news (lately it's been the Epstein files for me), and you wish you could see a more balanced picture of world events.

This is a great saying, thank you for sharing it. Out of curiosity, do you have any links to intersting AI articles you've read recently? Maybe I'll change my mind.

This is really interesting. I've been out of education for a long time, but I was wondering how they were dealing with the advent of AI. Are exams still a thing? Do people do coursework now that you can spew out competent sounding stuff in seconds?

I use it all the time and have worked in several startups which do. For me personally, inline styling is the point. I can open up any tailwind project and see exactly how that element is styled without cmd + clicking around through layers of CSS.

Obviously it’s all personal taste, but in my mind it feels like the successor to bootstrap in a lot of ways.

https://jakesaunders.dev

This is a follow up to my post on getting hacked last week. Hopefully it contains some practical tips on self-hosting Coolify with Hetzner.

I did see your comment on Firewall, and you're right about the escape. It seems safe enough for now. Between the hacking and accidentally hitting the front page of HN it's been a long day.

I'm going to sit down and rewrite the article and take a further look at the container tomorrow.

Nothing in that container luckily, just what Umami needed to run, so no creds at all. Thanks for the info though!

This is a great shout actually. Thanks for pointing it out!

I've got a whole Hetzner EX41 bare metal server, as opposed to a VPS. It's gotr like 20 services on it.

But yeah it is massively overspecced. Makes me feel cool load testing my go backend at 8000 requests per second though!

Hahaha, I did tell him this afternoon. This is the bloke who has the same password for all his banking apps despite me buying him 1password though. The imminent threat from RCE's just didn't land.

Yeah I did consider just killing it, I'm going to keep an eye on it for a few days with a gun to it just in case.

I was lucky in that my DB backups were working so all my persistence wax backed up to S3. I think I could stand up another one in an hour.

Unfortunately I didn't keep an image no. I almost didn't have the foresight to investigate before yeeting the whole box into the sun!

Thanks for the encouragement! I find it difficult to write articles beyond simply stating a series of facts.

I tried handwriting https://blog.jakesaunders.dev/schemaless-search-in-postgres/ bit I thought it came off as rambling.

Maybe I'll have a go at redrafting this tomorrow in non LLM-ese.

I fixed it, apologies for the misinformation.

Yeah fair, I asked claude to help because honestly this was a little beyond my writing skills. I'm real though. Sorry. Will change

https://inventronix.club/connect

I just finished building my own IoT platform and I’m honestly so proud of it.

It’s completely free. Please try it out it would mean the world to me! Would love some feedback.

N.B. Finished the landing page and docs this morning. Done I’d better than perfect so expect some rough edges.

Myself and my partner are working on a new type of STEM kit for people who want to learn electronics!

https://inventronix.club/?utm_source=hn

It stated as a bit of a toy but we've got 200 people signed up to the waiting list, so we're doing a kickstarter in November!

We've spent the last ten days trying to get marketing off the ground for our new project. We managed to get 600 followers and 12 email list signups.

I've struggled to find good advice work marketing as an indie dev, so documenting my learnings as I go.

I'd like to not have to reinvent the wheel though. If you know of any good, authentic material please link them to me!

Thanks for the bookmark!

I never took an electronics or computer course in my life.

Same! One of my favourite things about these fields is that you can take the time and learn everything you need to know just by looking at the internet.

I had a plan to work with kids after school to collect data in the field and analyze it on computers with open source software, and give them a CD/DVD to take home (it was that long ago) and give them access from home. Pride of ownership. "This is my work".

This sounds really interesting. Why did it not work out? I think pride of ownership is an important aspect of this so keen to take any learnings.

Many kids aren't self-teachers Totally agree, the aim here is to get away from 'looking at random blogs for 4 hours' to building your first project. Then introduce them to trawling the internet for arcan knowledge slowly ;)

Hey, thanks! These are really cool bits of inspiration.

but the Radio shack kit never really explained why anything worked the way it did...

This has been my experience also. We recently built a solar powered toy with my nephews and when we got to the end they asked 'so how does it work?' which hit the point home for me.

Do you have any ideas on how to create engaging content for the app around this? We've got so far: - Mini articles on each component (with accompanying video). - Mini quizzes to embed learning.

Sharing the first build log of our STEM toy startup: why we’re building it, the tech stack, what’s working, and what’s not. Looking for advice + ideas from this crowd.