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flowingfocus··on You can run Git on object storage if you re-make packfiles
I recently found https://github.com/enroute-sh/enroute which also does git on object storage

I found the idea of a git-proxy interesting where you start with proxying an existing forge and then later adopt the object storage backend

flowingfocus··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026)
Muris | Founding Engineer | Berlin | ONSITE | Full-time

We're building software for agricultural logistics, from field to factory. A lot of harvest planning still happens over phone calls and spreadsheets, even though weather, queues, breakdowns, and capacity change throughout the day.

Good fit if you want to work on planning, dispatch, optimization, allocation, OR and you’re comfortable shipping production systems.

https://muris.ai/careers

flowingfocus··on DHL Set to Transport Goods on New Wind-Powered Cargo Ships
For anyone interested in economics and life cycle math (for sailing in general, not the trimarans they are using here) I recommend https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2021/05/how-to-design-a-sa...
flowingfocus··on Show HN:Turn any GitHub .MD into a collaborative editor by replace "g" with tune
I think I ran into an edge case: Directly after opening the example https://tuneithub.com/Legit-Control/get-colibri I pressed Undo and all text disappeared and I couldn't get it back via Redo
flowingfocus··on Prek: A better, faster, drop-in pre-commit replacement, engineered in Rust
For folks using devenv: prek is the default used for devenv's git-hooks since November 2025

https://devenv.sh/blog/2025/11/26/devenv-111-module-changelo...

flowingfocus··on Canada slashes 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs to 6%
I'm also curious to see if we will see more "no drive zones".

We see this in other domains: I recently talked to someone from an asset inspection (think flying around bridges to check for fractures) company. They can't use DJI drones because of security concerns.

flowingfocus··on Datacenters in space aren't going to work
Another great write-up on datacenters in space that goes a bit deeper in cost calculations: https://angadh.com/space-data-centers-1
flowingfocus··on CachyOS: Fast and Customizable Linux Distribution
Careful though, you might end up like me and add more and more machines, because setting up new machine is very satisfying with nixos
flowingfocus··on The time has finally come for geothermal energy
Instead of drilling deep, there is also an intersting case for storing cheap solar energy as hat in piles of dirts in the summer to power turbines in the winter: https://austinvernon.site/blog/standardthermal.html
flowingfocus··on Claude for Excel
Version control and meaningful diffs for .xlsx will be in high demand in a few months
flowingfocus··on Two things LLM coding agents are still bad at
A diff makes these kind of errors much easier to catch.

Or maybe someone from XEROX has a better idea how to catch subtly altered numbers?

flowingfocus··on Intuitive find and replace CLI (sed alternative)
For cases I am not 100% sure I want to replace all occurrences, I prefer scooter: https://github.com/thomasschafer/scooter
flowingfocus··on Opencode: AI coding agent, built for the terminal
specifically for working better with diffs, I can recommend tmux + lazygit with this keybinding for quickly opening a floating lazygit:

bind-key C-g display-popup -E -d "#{pane_current_path}" -xC -yC -w 80% -h 75% "lazygit"

not only does it allow you to see the diffs, but you can directly discard changes you don't want, stage, commit, etc.

flowingfocus··on I'm starting a social club to solve the male loneliness epidemic
> The neighborhood cafe where locals can stop by at any time and see other locals

This is still the norm in some places. When I was cycling through the Balkans, I was surprised how many people sit in public spaces, usually close to a kiosk, and play cards, throw dice, or just chatter

flowingfocus··on The Great Barefoot Running Hysteria of 2010
Anecdotally, I see a lot of people wearing minimal shoes in their daily lives. But pretty much no minimal/barefoot runners anymore
flowingfocus··on Show HN: Predict LLM Predictions
Adversarial play sounds fun, I might try that out!

The LLM we use is mistral-large-latest, we didn't do any training on the data yet

flowingfocus··on Tools for 2025
For anyone who is into decentralized protocols: here is a comprehensive list: https://codeberg.org/amjoseph/not-your-keys-not-your-name
flowingfocus··on Cosmos Keyboard: Scan your hand, build a keyboard
The layout is fully customizable. That being said I just stick with the default, works well for me.

By default F12 is on the lower layer "V" key.

https://docs.moergo.com/glove80-user-guide/typing-with-glove...

flowingfocus··on An autumn bike adventure down the US portion of the Eastern Divide Trail
Ultra-endurance cycling like the race you mentioned is fascinating. I once met a few contestants in a European bike race and drove alongside one. He said the best in the field sleep around 4 hours per night and do 500+ km per day.
flowingfocus··on Diátaxis – A systematic approach to technical documentation authoring
I recently built a small, free analysis tool that takes public documentation git repos and evaluates the content against this framework:

https://app.getdocsy.com/analysis/

flowingfocus··on Async Django in Production
The explanation is in the article. Tldr is for sync functions, the CPU is blocked, with async functions, once the await statement is reached, other stuff can be handled in between
flowingfocus··on Blogging Through the Decades
I mostly do that when I am taking about something Il that I wrote about and want to share it.
flowingfocus··on Thoughtworks Technology Radar Oct 2024 – From Coding Assistance to AI Evolution
Link to the radar: https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar
flowingfocus··on Show HN: Scooter – Interactive find and replace in the terminal
I opened a PR for it: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/356310

In the meantime you can also add packages that aren't yet in nixpkgs using pkgs.callPackage.

flowingfocus··on Confessions of a Theoretical Physicist
Yes, our models are never complete. As someone here already wrote: "all models are wrong, some are useful".

What makes me optimistic here is that since the enlightenment we have a good track record with arriving at better and better models. In the language of David Deutsch: We are arriving at better and better explanations, where the quality of an explanation is determined by rigidity ("how hard it is to vary") and reach ("in how many situations does it apply"). His books "The Fabric of Reality" is a great book by the way, he describes how the theories of evolution, quantum physics, epistemology and the theory of computation are connected with each other. The bit about good explanations is from "The Beginning of Infinity", also a very good read.

flowingfocus··on Silicon Valley's best kept secret: Founder liquidity
I find that it sometimes easier to accept this as this is just how life is when I read people with experience write about this. If this is true for you as well:

There is a good book review about it on SSC https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/your-book-review-the-laws-o...

> Whether or not you make money, you have regrets! If you profited, you could have made more. If you lost money, you shouldn’t have made the trade at all. Like death and taxes, you can’t avoid adverse selection.

flowingfocus··on Myths about platform engineering: what it is and what it isn't
Platform engineering applies the lessons the cloud providers have learned to internal software delivery.

Self service + APIs for all offerings reduces friction for developers and allow automating the most recurring things they want to do. Pay as you go pricing is the counterweight to the increase in freedom.

Viewing is this way makes the direction the whole platform engineering space is developing towards much more predictable.

flowingfocus··on The illusion of being stuck
The whole process of predicting the world and trying to match incoming data against the predictions is explained in more detail in "Surfing Uncertainty". Relevant SSC book review: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/05/book-review-surfing-un...
flowingfocus··on I think GCP is better than AWS (2020)
Shameless plug: At the company I work for (meshcloud) we have developed a freely available model that describes the capabilities your central team is building up: https://cloudfoundation.org/maturity-model/

Disclaimer: meshcloud sells a product for teams in that space

flowingfocus··on Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info
I recently built my first wheel from scratch. Everything I needed to know was collected on this fantastic page on wheel building https://www.sheldonbrown.com/wheelbuild.html

> Learning to build wheels is an important milestone in the education of an apprentice mechanic. A "mechanic" who has not mastered this basic skill cannot be considered to be a fully-qualified professional, and will always feel inferior to those who can list wheelbuilding among their skills.

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