HN user

mehh

177 karma
Posts0
Comments207
View on HN
No posts found.
WikiTok 1 year ago

Nice site @aikz

Hope you don't mind, but as others are pointing at wiki type sites, I'll plug my own (also using Vercel and cursor)...

https://ont.fyi it's a work in progress ... feedback wanted (no matter how painful), focusing on enabling adding in your own data at present, lots of ideas and work to be done

I cancelled mine today, as I’ve moved to cursor, so this is a great news as I’d still want to use it sometime.

I do think this slightly aggressive tactic, I’m sure they claim otherwise!

Problem with VSM, is where is the practical evidence of it working, if it's so great surely there would be more uptake of it?

I mean it sounds like a reasonable model, I'm sure there is a lot of nuance to it, but getting it up and running at an existing enterprise would be a very difficult to do, and at great risk without some solid case studies showing significant ROI.

next.js reminds me of Ruby on Rails, main pain point is they keep changing how they do things, but docs, examples etc can't keep up so I'm constantly seeing the wrong answers to my problems.

An example of this is how they implemented sitemap.xml, but half arsed doing a sitemap index properly (which really wasn't much work), so they will end up doing it properly in some version, in the mean time you have to work around the framework (it would be better if they didn't even have this feature), and when the release a proper implementation new users will struggle to find the answers on how to do it.

This all adds friction to upgrade, I'd like to move to v15 as it has a feature I really need, but they have changed the bloody confusing caching system, not sure it's worth the work. Creating web frameworks that are volatile is fine if your just building short lived projects, but not anything more complex and longer lived, this is the same pain and why I gave up on RoR.

Working on it https://ont.fyi

The approach is not to capture all pages you view, rather you can add the pages etc you want in order to reduce the amount of noise/rubbish. It constructs a knowledge graph from these documents, and then a graph rag approach ontop to enable chat.

The core graph is based on wikidata, you can have your graphs either private or public if so they are published like those you can see on the site now.

Lots to do, but making ing good progress, if this sounds like something you might want to use please sign up.

I'm fine with it, I've forgotten more frameworks and libs for now dead devices/services/OS etc over the years that it's largely pointless memorising these things, I'm very happy for a machine to help me get to where I want to be, and less time faffing about with google/stackoverflow the better, like I said the failure rate is still fairly high, but still useful enough.

I’m working on a nextjs project, nextjs made a bunch of breaking changes and doesn’t document things consistently or comprehensively, I have a lot of grief using LLM on this framework.

This is something framework/libs/apis should factor in for future, how can you make your project LLM friendly in order to make it dev friendly.

Very much this, I have > 25 years programming experience, but not with typescript and react, it’s helping me with my current project. I ignore probably 2/3 of its auto suggestions, but increasingly I now highlight some code and ask it to just do x for me, rather having to go google the right function/ css magic

So 4 years ago you was a junior (and your over 30, so how did you move into that, what’s your background). So junior, 4 years later given inflated title of ‘Head of’ and salary more than doubled… think you’re doing ok. If you was on job market I doubt you would get more than that and mostly be considered a senior engineer (although I have my suspicions you might not pass that, based on past experience of people working in start up silos, I may be wrong), I’m UK based.

Are your notes really that interesting? I’ve written software that does this sort of thing commercially, if your materials are that sensitive you’d be using one of those packages.

I suspect this is just a dev with a fetish for obsessing over security. Like putting an expensive lock on a cheap bike!