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geoffbp··on Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?
Vs code with agent mode
geoffbp··on Watching o3 guess a photo's location is surreal, dystopian and entertaining
Just me who couldn’t load the conversation from the blog?
geoffbp··on Breaking computers taught me to build them
I did this as well. Good times!

config.sys and autoexec.bat?

geoffbp··on OpenAI O3-Mini
Glad it’s not just me who does this. :)
geoffbp··on Linux desktop market share climbs to 4.45%
Year of the Linux desktop
geoffbp··on ICQ will stop working from June 26
Uh ow
geoffbp··on Apple apologizes for iPad 'Crush' ad that 'missed the mark'
All publicity is good publicity? Maybe not?
geoffbp··on Linux has reached 4% for the partial Feburary 2024 data on StatCounter
Year of the Linux desktop.
geoffbp··on Ask HN: Those who've joined a friend's startup as an employee, how did that go?
Wow that’s some selfish behaviour!
geoffbp··on Three gaming-focused Linux operating systems beat Windows 11 in gaming benchmark
Year of the Linux desktop.
geoffbp··on Ask HN: What are you reading these days?
Dune series

A philosophy of software design

geoffbp··on Ten Years Writing Book Reviews (2003)
Not that I’ve found it hard lately to find books to read, but the Best Books page could be useful later https://dannyreviews.com/mypubs.html
geoffbp··on Websites of 2000 [video]
Amazing! 2000 feels not long ago to me. I remember when Google came on the scene and how much better the search was, then when they started offering gmail
geoffbp··on [dead]
I could not fit the whole title in, it is: 'Cancer-killing pill' that appears to 'annihilate' solid tumours is now being tested on humans
geoffbp··on Monitoring Is a Pain
The key is to develop a monitoring framework. pick the tool/s you want, enrich and standardise what can be done with them (dashboards, alerting, etc) then make the path to using them easy
geoffbp··on The Maddest My Code Made Anyone
Sometimes a good way to get feedback is to listen to who is complaining
geoffbp··on GitHub staff are required to use Teams by Sep 1, 2023
We have slack huddles at work or the option to use teams. The performance of teams isn’t great (even on a modern computer) but it generally is alright - lots of people hate it though. Interesting
geoffbp··on Working for a Dating Website (2015)
Definitely a better idea to just be yourself!
geoffbp··on Once upon a time long ago, I was sitting alone in the UCLA ARPANET site #1
HN hug-of-death?
geoffbp··on Ask HN: What's a build vs. buy decision that you got wrong?
The elastic stack is pretty good, but you’ll need to either run it on your own cluster/s or pay for the cloud product. It’s likely to be much cheaper than datadog but not quite as good
geoffbp··on Ask HN: Products/Services you swear by – Dec. 2022
- unifi dream machine pro, wifi6 pro

- retropie

- Sonos arc and sub

geoffbp··on Ask HN: What platform/tool do you use for software documentation?
Confluence unfortunately, and readme files in code repos
geoffbp··on Tell HN: I just reached 10 paying customers after 2 weeks of the public launch
Congrats
geoffbp··on Ask HN: Is This Typical Procrastination?
It sounds like you created a thread to avoid doing work?
geoffbp··on Graphviz 7
https://diagrams.mingrammer.com is great - requires graphviz
geoffbp··on Linux on the laptop works so damn well that it’s boring
Year of the Linux desktop
geoffbp··on The movie Hackers was released 27 years ago
We have no names, man. No names. We are nameless!
geoffbp··on Shortest URLs on the Internet
canhazip.com
geoffbp··on Ask HN: Anyone having issues with job applicant fraud?
Yes we’re having problems along those lines. We don’t proceed with interviews unless video is available

- Multiple candidates with the same resume

- Resume doesn’t include full name, location or LinkedIn

- Candidate blatantly lies during interview

- Candidate is observed copying answers from the web, unable to explain how it works

- Language barrier issues

- Candidate applying for a senior role can’t solve simple problem

- Job hopping every 6 months or 1 year

geoffbp··on Wikipedia: Long-Term Abuse
Where do people find the time and motivation to do this? I’m amazed
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