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5701652400on OpenNode – Bitcoin Payment Processor

but you also got to have .NET runtime right? so it is bloat. I have allegeric reaction to bloat of any kind (especially oversized Docker containers)

5701652400on OpenNode – Bitcoin Payment Processor

interesting. maybe becauase I code all-day, every day, for couple decades, knowing what is inside software kind of important to me. what's under the hood.

5701652400on OpenNode – Bitcoin Payment Processor

yep, but web ui for it is far from Stripe quality.

and C#, I would rather have something in Go/Rust.

it always stike me how whacky ETH dev community is (based on their slack). like you have ETH core written in Go, just make a nice open source ETH gateway with nice UI. nope. neither core team nor community don't care.

and BTC has some Windows XP era C# monstrosity

5701652400on OpenNode – Bitcoin Payment Processor

when we will finally have good self-hosted, open-source, BTC gateways?

5701652400on OpenNode – Bitcoin Payment Processor

not your keys, not your money.

5701652400on How did the H1B visa become the 'Indian' visa

this is some next level rants

5701652400on Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber

if only DeepSeeek supported vision, would never use Gemini.

5701652400on Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber

same here. our production workloads was on Gemini for 2 years. seeing Google unilaterally dropping perfectly fine models and charing you 50x more for worse results is not good.

we are switching to Deepseek.

5701652400on I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned

no. you do move goalpost. you talking about public webiste, and now you need to make public entire git for it.

do you see difference between history of edits and internal documentation about the public website and public website itself? or sources to build website vs website itself? it is nuts not to see distinction of that.

github repo != public webpage. this is nuts.

5701652400on Eliminating Go bounds checks with unsafe

I have hunch PGO does detect when bound check can be eliminated.

5701652400on Eliminating Go bounds checks with unsafe

probably you do not need to do any of that.

better at Go to ship apps — none of that needed. actually opposite. the less complexity and low level details you hardcode yourself, the better. chances are, this low-level tech debt will bite you back when you have no time to deal with it. keep it simple.

better at Go to work with internals of Go/compilers/runtime — yes, but do you plan to ship one? or why it is needed at all? or do you work at Go core at Google?

5701652400on Eliminating Go bounds checks with unsafe

does profile guided optimisation reduce these checks?

5701652400on I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned

you guys keep shifting goal posts is nuts.

whatever critisism is just "IndieWeb decides not to do so".

not admiting own mistakes also goes hand-in-hand with it.

overall, recipe for disaster.

5701652400on I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned

https://github.com/pricing

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/22817

5701652400on Qwen 3.8

very simlar experience.

I would also add that I run it this way ~12hour a day non-stop. 300M / tokens per day (99.7% cache hit).

5701652400on I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned

GitHub Pages requires subscriptions for private repos.

use Cloudflare.

5701652400on I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned

ask street-bbq vendor or cleaning-lady or uber-driver what is a "GitHub"

5701652400on I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned

I know people in tech consulting advising large finance enterprises for 3+ years who barely know what DNS is.

5701652400on I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned

+1. unless I see IndieWeb in AppStore and real volume of real people use it, it is all tech people toy hobbies

(which seems diametrically opposite of IndieWeb: no HTML - iOS/Android is the king, no browsers, no desktop, no terminal, no GitHub, gated App Stores, rich media, videos is the king)

5701652400on Qwen 3.8 Max Preview

me: Go, Swift, Kotlin, bash k8s/gcloud

domain: typical web backend tier, mobile apps. not particularly complex, but requires OOP/architecture/system design.

5701652400on Qwen 3.8

also, be very careful which API endpoint and API Token you use. make sure you use right one (obseve your quota is used up. if you hit right endpoint quota used almost immediately). so that you do not accidentally burn API endpoint tokens (they are expensive, can easily hit 200 USD / 3 days which do not count towards your membership "Credits", if you say purchased it with 200 USD signup bonus in Alibaba Cloud)

5701652400on Qwen 3.8

so Deepseek 4 Pro cannot go on own sessions for too long.

I delegate small-medium tasks: refactors, summaries, research, writing tests + have very good codebase already + extensive history / architecture / docs / linters. so it picks up and does decent small-medium scope work. it is fast, accurate, cheap. does exactly what I want directly and does not waste time nor tokens.

definitely not "implement me complex greenfield project".

5701652400on Qwen 3.8

in my experience of 1 month daily use, Qwen 3.7 Pro is just unusable. wastes too much time, goes off track, useless stuck loops, cannot debug at all. Deepseek V4 Pro is night-and-day compare to Qwen. actually Qwen models seems the worst SWE experience so far. and it is super expensive compare to Deepseek. cannot delegate anything to it, cannot use it real-time low-level tasks either. totally unusable.

5701652400on Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day

I guess if you are Epic games, and you do not want to be blocked or controlled by App Stores, or pay 30% paycut. maybe you would build and support independent (from google/apple monopoly) interenet stack.

or if you are EU/China and do not want google DNS and networkign layer owning entire EU/China

in all cases they would still want centralized control by each state/company.

how to align incentives of someone who can actually pull this off and still keep it decentralized is a big question.

5701652400on Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day

so the only way to make this happen is independent SWEs build their own browser. AND significant portion of users will start use it exclusively AND it survives and crashes competition from OS controlled browsers (Chrome/Safari) AND OS does not block/remove them from OS controlled app stores (which they can and regularly do, just look at "Hey" or "Brave").

you got to go full own hardware stack. now only China can reallistically pull this off.

China has own hardward stack. (actually entirety of all hardware stacks. it is all build there). China has own playstores or higly regulated versions of Apple/Google play stores.

China has mini-apps ecosystem which is more resilient to App Store whims.

and pretty much China is only place that can reallistically negotiate and push back to Google/Apple.

nobody else can stand a chance.

so free web is only possible in China pretty much. and future of free web is there.

5701652400on Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day

if it was up to corporate monopolies (MSFT, Google, Apple) they would shut down whole web and remove other browsers from OS they control, and be gatekeepers of entire internet unless govenrment threaten them break them up or block them.. oh wait.

5701652400on Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day

exactly.

5701652400on Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day

this would work if we had free DNS. solving DNS to be trully decentralized and free is something for years I wish I had more time to work on and build

key properties:

1. everyone can be a registar. your localhost too

2. blockchain proof of ownership and discovery (certs, not proof-of-work, fast and cheap ledger)

3. everyone can be a CA (self-signed certs pinned in blockchain)

4. no fixation on static IPs (inspired by Cloudflare Tunnels, Tailscale). IPs are ephemeral.

5. blockchain/P2P discovery of domains

but it is all fantasy without real browsers support (Chrome, Safari). 99.999% of traffic is locked there, and both controlled by monopolies Google / Apple. and you cannot even build your own browser (Apple App Store will not allow it). Maybe alternative stores and some proxies / translation layer from normal web to this web would help.

5701652400on Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day

you still need domain and static IP with this setup. and volumetric DDoS protection, ASN IP blocklists, and CDN — is not even mentioned here.

just use Cloudflare. get all this for free (except domain).

5701652400on Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro?

didn't they moved actual hardware production elsewhere outside of US?

typical story. first move out production, loose core competency, let competitors copy it with own brands in own jurisdictions, and shut down business.