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brianllamar

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I write code by day and night
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brianllamar··on Ask HN: Anyone using Cursor/Claude Code for non-coding workflows?
I've been using it to claude and continue (I work here) to manage issues and projects. Just started playing around with managing notion docs from the command line.
brianllamar··on Open Sauced Does it again
OpenSauced founder here. Thanks for sharing codercat. We are really excited to further explore AI engineering.
brianllamar··on Show HN: StarSearch, Copilot for Git History
Founder of OpenSauced. The team and I have been working to take our public GitHub Events dataset and turn it into an RAG power search. The goal is to quickly grok who experts are in specific features or corners of the code base. This is our first iteration, and we are looking for feedback.
brianllamar··on We Saved 10s of Thousands of Dollars Deploying Low Cost Open Source AI
great read. I hope more folks show off the infrastructure of AI. Its cool to see demos of products, but its a breath of fresh air to see how its made.
brianllamar··on Show HN: Saving Money Deploying Open Source AI at Scale with Kubernetes
This was a good read. Seeing the story of AI infrastructure is a breath of fresh air. Too much witchcraft and hand waving in the AI space at the moment.
brianllamar··on Ask HN: I want to create IMDB for open source projects
openbase did reviews and got up to 400k users. They couldn’t figure how monetize and shut down I think their blog post on it is still available somewhere.
brianllamar··on Ask HN: I want to create IMDB for open source projects
What happened to Ovio. I haven’t heard from them in years. Is it still active?
brianllamar··on Growth Hacking Killed GitHub Stars
Nothing is a replacement for writing decent code.
brianllamar··on Ask HN: Tool to compare OSS communities to each other
ossinsight has comparison and collection tools that are also worth checking out too.
brianllamar··on Ask HN: Tool to compare OSS communities to each other
OpenSauced team member here.

Thanks for the mention. We have been chatting with maintainers this past year and recommend new contributors as the best metric to start identifying repo health.

Another example is the rate of selection, how many contributors outside the core team or employees.

We plan to expose more metrics like these in app really soon.

Check out our guide for maintainers https://docs.opensauced.pizza/maintainers/maintainers-guide-...

brianllamar··on An open source repository discovery tool
Hey thanks for posting. I am one of the maintainers of opensauced and happy to answer questions.

Also still working on improving the discovery part but also wanted to mention everything is open sourced and we also have an API for anyone build with the data.

brianllamar··on Heavybit Raises $80M Fund to Back the Developer Tools
MY first experience with Heavybit was working for a devtools startup as an employee. They have continued to provide amazing content and events for early stage devtools companies and look forward to the future companies that get added to their portfolio.
brianllamar··on Find out what companies use you open source project
Companies use open source and this open sauced conversation is about just that. Knowing which companies use your code makes approaching for the most advantageous maintainers looking for funding.
brianllamar··on Fig now supports JetBrains IDEs
Already use fig in my Mac terminal and love the attention JetBrains IDEs are getting with plug-ins. Going to check this out when I need to fire up PyCharm for scheduled script maintenance.
brianllamar··on Organization Discussions – GitHub Changelog
This is something that I have been waiting on for a long time. Happy to see it ship.
brianllamar··on You probably don't need a knowledge garden
I tend to use textedit on mac to jot ideas quickly and organize my todos. My brain dumps end up being brainstorm sessions later when I have time to all those scope ideas. I love that my workflow can be embraced as work in progress.
brianllamar··on Microsoft Joins the Open Invention Network
> Their primary product is still proprietary, and if that's not bad enough, it's essentially completely spyware at this point.

Interested Observer here. What is Microsoft's primary product you are referring to? Windows or Office. From a quick Google search, it seems like Office (based on revenue).

brianllamar··on GitLab raises $20M Series C round led by GV
congrats to GitLab they seem to be taking the right chances in the right places. I am hopeful this tangentially helps grow the Vuejs community as well. https://www.heavybit.com/library/podcasts/jamstack-radio/ep-...
brianllamar··on REST in Peace. Long Live GraphQL
REST is certainly not dying anytime soon, GraphQL is just solving the data fetching problem in a different way. My intro to GraphQL came from researching GitHub's move towards it. For those interested, I chatted in detail with API manager there on my podcast. Transcription is also available for those who want to skim. https://www.heavybit.com/library/podcasts/jamstack-radio/ep-...
brianllamar··on Top Static Site Generators of 2017
I guess the question is how much does running a server that is up all the time and hosting a Django project. Static is either free or pennies to post.
brianllamar··on Top Static Site Generators of 2017
I wonder if it has to do with exposure. I see Kyle(the creator) everywhere (conference speaking and twitter to be specific) and it seems like it is the introduction static site generation with React even thought renderToStaticMarkup is built into the ReactDOM library
brianllamar··on Using GraphQL to manage open source repositories
Hi, I made the thing. It solves 2 problems for me.

1 save open source projects and write notes about them to eventually make a contribution

2 try out solving a problem using a new technology, GraphQL

brianllamar··on Graphcool – Serverless GraphQL Back End
Nice to see Graphcool in HN and doing such great things in the GraphQL space. For those interested in hearing more about their back story, I did a podcast episode with their CEO on JAMstack Radio. http://www.heavybit.com/library/podcasts/jamstack-radio/ep-1...
brianllamar··on Netlify CMS – An open-source CMS for Git workflows
There is an open issue, if you have any insight in providing other APIs backend https://github.com/netlify/netlify-cms/issues/57
brianllamar··on Netlify CMS – An open-source CMS for Git workflows
Consider adding your project a list of headless cms's. I am hoping to expand the category and spread the JAM.

https://headlesscms.org/

brianllamar··on GitHub Pages – Usage Limits
To add to the list of alternatives, try netlify it has a free tier with no build limits and provides a pretty liberal and free open-source plan that has more feature than GitHub pages. https://netlify.com/open-source. Just throwing out there as well.

you can also connect your github repo to have a atomic deploys, which is more than you get from gh pages. https://www.netlify.com/blog/2016/08/11/from-unstable-to-rel...

brianllamar··on Netlify, a sevice for quickly rolling out static websites, raises $2.1M
Zeit is an awesome product that I use as well for my node APIs in tandem with my Static stuff on Netlify. I wish the deploy limits were a bit higher in the free plan, 20 is so low :(

however Netlify has no limits on builds :)

brianllamar··on Create React Apps with No Configuration
I love the opinions I get with Ember and love it for getting small projects off the ground quickly and prototyped.

One thing I don't see a lot of is opinions in React on deploying. I wrote a blog post on deploying this new boiler using netlify, pretty straight forward. https://www.netlify.com/blog/2016/07/22/deploy-react-in-30-s...