ryancnelson

i think i'd buy a $279 refurbished steamdeck and a bag of usb-c sensor-widgets from aliexpress. ...In fact I did. I plug my flipper zero into it sometimes, too.

nifty tool. can it write README's?

Linus Torvalds is 56.

“ That behaviour survived — untouched — through nearly half a century of Linux distributions” … LOL

I use it but not for daily coding/chatops-ing. It’s great to have my chosen tools available from slack while I’m mobile though. Yesterday Mr claw gave a coworker read access to a GitHub repository at my command while I was in line at Home Depot. I’ve got a PR ready that proves authentication with an otp challenge.

is the only way to export the results "run in daemon mode and curl yourself"?

i know how to use curl. (I was a contributor before git existed) … watching Claude iterate to re-learn whether to try application/x-form-urle ncoded or GET /?foo wastes SO MUCH time and fills your context with “how to curl” that you re-send over again until your context compacts.

You are bad at reading comprehension. My comment meant I can tell Claude “update jira with that test outcome in a comment” and, Claude can eventually figure that out with just a Key and curl, but that’s way too low level.

What I linked to literally explains that, with code and a blog post.

I commented here already about deli-gator ( https://github.com/ryancnelson/deli-gator ) , but your summary nailed what I didn’t mention here before: Context.

I’d been re-teaching Claude to craft Rest-api calls with curl every morning for months before i realized that skills would let me delegate that to cheaper models, re-using cached-token-queries, and save my context window for my actual problem-space CONTEXT.

The uptake on Claude-skills seems to have a lot of momentum already! I was fascinated on Tuesday by “Superpowers” , https://blog.fsck.com/2025/10/09/superpowers/ … and then packaged up all the tool-building I’ve been working on for awhile into somewhat tidy skills that i can delegate agents to:

http://github.com/ryancnelson/deli-gator I’d love any feedback

This really resonated with me, it's echoing the way i've come to appreciate Claude-code in a terminal for working in/on/with unix-y hosts.

A trick I use often with this pattern is (for example): 'you can run shell commands. Use tmux to find my session named "bingo", and view the pane in there. you can also use tmux to send that pane keystrokes. when you run shell commands, please run them in that tmux pane so i can watch. Right now that pane is logged into my cisco router..."

is anyone going to point out that the linked website is absolute AI-generated ad-filled slop? or is this just a comments thread starter for "hey, morse code, right?"

I wonder if it's entirely coincidental that "KIRO" is a Seattle-area (amazon land) television station.

this is neat.... whose anthropic credits am i using, though? sonnet-4 isn't cheap! would i hit a rate-limit if i used this for daily work?

the irksome bit was this: lodash's page, first sentence, says "A modern JavaScript utility library delivering modularity, performance & extras."

this github's readme says "alternative to lodash". other than being named "superutilsplus", someone who clicked on it would need to then go google for lodash to see it's another js utilities kit, to then figure out they don't care.

I stopped professional javascript development when i stopped having an office next to Ryan Dahl at Joyent, so, yeah i haven't cared for about a decade. Thanks for explaining about atoms, though, my esteemed chemists.

No I’m asking a commercial that pops up in what I’m watching and says “ask your doctor if ciallis is right for you.” and gives no context but someone washing their tesla.

Biggest pain point: wtf is lodash? I don’t care if it’s in your readme, but maybe tell us in your HN hype post

i love this. A startup I was at during early COVID times got acquired into Hewlett Packard Enterprise, so we all became HPE employees with HPE addresses. There was a similar form there to request "ryancnelson"@hpe, etc...

One of my co-workers got cute and asked for "root@hpe.com" .... And boy, there's a lot of cron jobs running at HP.

Illumos, and specifically the SmartOS distribution.

Being ringside for the fork of Sun's OpenSolaris, and watching absolute geniuses steward a thing like that into a useful product and a build process was foundational for my understanding of how and why process is important, as well as how to get things fixed in the real world, while not muddying the idea of the pure design principles. A balance can exist!

naming things is hard. Googling for other things already named this shouldn't be.

https://everymac.com/systems/apple/messagepad/stats/newton_m...

WHAT?! Aw, man that's terrible news that I'd not heard yet.

I worked with Ray in the late 90's in NYC. I remember that "I'm working on a Lisa Emulator" distracted us for an extra hour of geeking out during his job interview.

awesome. nothing on thingiverse has ever search-matched for "ADM-3a" for me. cheers!

I would love it for some kickstarters to lean into what this product is actually selling: the retro design.

Seriously: build this, but shaped like a Lear ADM-3A ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADM-3A ) , and TAKE MY MONEY.

... or just introduce the set designers from "Loki" and "Starfield" to the supply people at Restoration Hardware. That's what I want in my nerdCave.

Pretty sure there’s a lot of vinyl gifting going on. Rich dudes are hard to shop for, but they don’t shut up about their record collection, simple solution for secret Santa this year.

Buyer doesn’t have a turntable.

When I saw the URL, I thought "did Smitty Halibut get a new domain name"? But it's not the same person/people, apparently. "Different fish, people!"

(halibut.com is the QTH of well-known podcaster/hacker/dude Mark Smith)

“Their”

I came out of "early retirement" to work with the tech team at TED (the TEDTalks non-profit)

It's a for-real media tech brand with a mission to incubate and spread good ideas. I love it. Find the TED jobs page -- we're hiring people in NYC and remote.

this is a mostly-unreplied-to question from one person, from 10 months ago, on a customer-support forum. Why is this newsworthy?

Um…what’s a “AAA” record? Is that like a AAAA record, but for the elusive ipv5?

There’s Usenet archives going back to at least 1990. I’d search those for image urls, then find ones that still work. I just checked and sumex-aim.stanford.edu isn’t a host anymore :(