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bsima

640 karma · joined January 13, 2012

I forget to update this and then it gets out of date so just look at my website bensima.com

You can reach me via:

- email: ben@bensima.com - X: @bensima - hn: bsima.at.hn - irc/libera: bsima - xmpp: ben@bensima.com

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bsima··on So where are all the AI apps?
It's silly to think that 'AI apps' must look like the enterprise, centrally-managed SaaS that we are used to. My AI apps are all bespoke, tailored to my exact needs, accessed only via my VPN. They would not be useful to anyone else, so why would I make them public?
bsima··on Skillfile, the declarative skill manager, now with search for 110K+ skills
"declarative skill manager" bro this is just a wrapper for wget
bsima··on Show HN: Executable Markdown files with Unix pipes
Ive been doing this for a couple weeks
bsima··on Nvidia to poach top staff from AI chip startup Groq in licensing deal
Yeah and afaict all of the employees are totally in the dark as to what's going on. They have no idea if they'll get paid (I'm an ex-employee)
bsima··on Classical billiards can compute (2d billiard systems are Turing complete)
i knew there was a good reason i like playing pool so much
bsima··on Show HN: tomcp.org – Turn any URL into an MCP server
Who is tom and why is he copying?
bsima··on Ask HN: Why does MCP need to exist?
Open-Webui is using OpenAPI instead of MCP: https://docs.openwebui.com/openapi-servers/
bsima··on Show HN: I rewrote few of the common core string.h functions
If you specifically want code review, consider submitting the code to the code review SE https://codereview.stackexchange.com/
bsima··on OpenAI is building a social network?
Also rumored to be building a phone at one point? They are playing the media
bsima··on Why do we need modules at all? (2011)
scrap script is another similar project https://scrapscript.org/
bsima··on Restructuring Announcement
I used to be a big admirer of Matt and Automattic, but after this whole WP Engine episode I've lost respect. I shut down my old wordpress blog, still working on importing the posts as org-mode files onto my new site, I no longer recommend WP to non-techies that ask me how to build a website.

I hope WordPress (and Automattic) turn the ship around but its not looking good at this point.

bsima··on Show HN: Cocommit – A copilot for git commit
Don't listen to the negative comments. I think this is great, good on ya for building and releasing it.

Sure you could improve it by emphasizing the 'why' of the commit, but what I see is a great start.

bsima··on Show HN: Cocommit – A copilot for git commit
you guys do code review??!

joking aside, its kinda hard to find places that actually enforce high standards for commits in my experience

bsima··on Autology: A Lisp with access to its own interpreter
If you like this, you'll love Shen https://shenlanguage.org/
bsima··on Tesla offering insane perks as sales dry up
?? doge was explicitly part of trump’s campaign, a vote for trump was a vote for elon and doge
bsima··on Tesla offering insane perks as sales dry up
huh that’s a good point
bsima··on Tesla offering insane perks as sales dry up
i love my model Y, it drives me everywhere. only car i’ll buy from now on
bsima··on Tesla offering insane perks as sales dry up
it’s the only car i’ll buy tbh, i’ve got a model Y
bsima··on Tesla offering insane perks as sales dry up
insane that people actually let elon’s government work influence their car buying decisions
bsima··on Avian flu detected in wastewater from 10 Texas cities
okay I was under the impression that pasteurization only effected bacteria, and destroying virus required much higher temperatures, but looks like I was mistaken

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7361064/

bsima··on Avian flu detected in wastewater from 10 Texas cities
do you honestly think pasteurization does anything to prevent viral transmission
bsima··on IRC Will Never Die (2021)
1-3 are features. Keep chat messages short. Use git or NFS for sharing files. 4 can be solved by putting the server behind a VPN that does better (2FA) auth and then custom NickServ backed by your auth
bsima··on IRC Will Never Die (2021)
I don’t want searchable chat, I want my coworkers to write actual documentation. Ephemerality is a feature in this case.
bsima··on IRC Will Never Die (2021)
IRC is still my favorite chat system even if my close friends have moved on to fancier systems like discord and Zulip and slack.

If I could set technical direction in a company we’d use only IRC and email. Maybe mumble.

bsima··on Thoughts on Canonical S-Expressions (2019)
> One thought that I keep having while I'm using csexp is to use the type hints to store information such as the data type.

This is exactly what edn does. Seems like the author would like edn but doesn’t mention it

https://github.com/edn-format/edn

bsima··on Polylith
This just seems like a monorepo with extra steps
bsima··on One-man SaaS, 9 Years In
actually a pretty good playbook, would probably work
bsima··on Show HN: Patchwork – Open-source framework to automate development gruntwork
Yall know there’s a popular oss project called patchwork right https://patchwork.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
bsima··on Dmv.org
DMV.org's hq ~~is~~ used to be in Encinitas, CA. I used to walk by it when I lived there.

Well, looks like it was taken over by Sunbum, maybe around 2018? Here's a Google Maps street view image for proof:

https://www.google.com/maps/@33.0473569,-117.2949843,3a,75y,...

bsima··on Building a SaaS product with Htmx – Are you sure you need all the complexity?
…that’s what the article says… did you read it?
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