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Founder/CEO at trieve.ai helping with search, recommendations, and RAG

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declank.skeptrune.com 1mo ago

Declank – Remove AI Watermarks from Images

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declank.skeptrune.com 1mo ago

Show HN: Declank – Remove AI Watermarks from Images

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www.mintlify.com 1mo ago

Tokenmaxxing: One AI budget, four jobs

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audit-logs.tax 2mo ago

Audit Logs Wall of Shame

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chenglou.me 3mo ago

The future of text layout is not CSS

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skeptrune.substack.com 4mo ago

Startup Marketing 101

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www.mintlify.com 6mo ago

Skill.md: An open standard for agent skills

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www.skeptrune.com 6mo ago

Replace your standup with a todo list

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www.skeptrune.com 6mo ago

Multi-Tenant SaaS's Wildcard TLS: An Overview of DNS-01 Challenges

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www.mintlify.com 7mo ago

We architected an edge caching layer to eliminate cold starts

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github.com 7mo ago

Show HN: Sherp, a CLI for building presentations from Markdown/MDX

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www.skeptrune.com 7mo ago

Prompt the Loop When Using Coding Agents

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www.skeptrune.com 9mo ago

How I Use Claude Code on My Phone with Termux and Tailscale

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www.skeptrune.com 9mo ago

Multi-Tenant SaaS's Wildcard TLS: An Overview of DNS-01 Challenges

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www.mintlify.com 9mo ago

The role of good code blocks in documentation

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www.trycandle.app 9mo ago

Move Fast, (Don't) Break Things

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www.mintlify.com 9mo ago

We built our coding agent for Slack instead of the terminal

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www.skeptrune.com 9mo ago

LLM agents need sites to respect 'Accept: text/plain'

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jeffhuber.substack.com 10mo ago

Founder as Prophet, Founder as Priest

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www.patron.com 10mo ago

Building SSR with Vite: A Custom GetStaticProps Replacement

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wxiaoyun.com 10mo ago

2x Performance, $300k Savings: Rewriting a Critical Service in Rust at TikTok

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www.theverge.com 10mo ago

Anthropic extended its all data retention policy from 1 month to 5 years

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benanderson.work 11mo ago

Computer-Use Evals Are a Mess

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mintlify.com 11mo ago

How Mintlify uses Claude Code as a technical writing assistant

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www.zach.be 11mo ago

Why is it so hard for startups to compete with Cadence?

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www.skeptrune.com 11mo ago

VPS Evangelism and Building LLM-over-DNS

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mintlify.com 11mo ago

Debugging a mysterious HTTP streaming issue

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www.skeptrune.com 11mo ago

I couldn't submit a PR, so I got hired and fixed it myself

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www.nytimes.com 11mo ago

Believers in manifestation are using AI to create motivational vision boards

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http1mustdie.com 12mo ago

HTTP/1.1 Must Die

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I really appreciate how "Jony Ive" this looks. Feels like they absolutely nailed the style.

I personally feel like it looks like a disposable tech hardware product, but to each their own. I'm sure a lot of people will love it.

100% agree a FUSE mount would be the way to go given more time and resources.

Putting Chroma behind a FUSE adapter was my initial thought when I was implementing this but it was way too slow.

I think we would also need to optimize grep even if we had a FUSE mount.

This was easier in our case, because we didn’t need a 100% POSIX compatibility for our read only docs use case because the agent used only a subset of bash commands anyway to traverse the docs. This also avoids any extra infra overhead or maintenance of EC2 nodes/sandboxes that the agent would have to use.

Part of why I originally picked programming as a profession is because it felt like a way to get paid to be more of an artisan craftsman. Ultimately, I don't think it was ever quite that, even before ai.

But now post LLM coding agents, its not at all that. Nothing about programming for money resembles artisanship.

It might be time to try sewing wallets or something...

input: my boss is making me go through a humiliation ritual known as "sprint planning"

output: Grateful for the opportunity to lean into another high-impact sprint planning session today! It’s all about radical transparency, aligning our vision, and embracing the grind to deliver massive value. Growth happens outside the comfort zone! #AgileMindset #Leadership #Synergy