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hendryon Private healthcare makes industries less innovative. It's time for change

“Just get seen” lol from uk

hendryon HomeLab #1: MikroTik as a Home Router

They don't release / host source code unless formally asked

hendryon HomeLab #1: MikroTik as a Home Router

Mikrotik's FOSS story is as bad.

hendryon HomeLab #1: MikroTik as a Home Router

Switched to Ubiquiti, I'm quite happy except for their lack of a sane MCP.

hendryon Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0

I’ve also dropped nix-darwin for homebrew on my new m5.

Fantastic work Mike and team, though I’m still a little confused about cask upgrades.

hendryon Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption

Can I assume the UK will get Siri AI?

hendryon I found a seashell in the middle of the desert

I found a sea shell in a visit to Latamber in Pakistan (NWFP): https://www.flickr.com/photos/hendry/73369720/

Gemini says "As the crow flies (Straight-line distance): Approximately 900 to 920 kilometers (roughly 560 to 570 miles) directly north of the coast at Karachi"

hendryon Floci – A free, open-source local AWS emulator

I noticed an AWS engineer publish a local AWS suite https://github.com/local-web-services/local-web-services which seems comparable.

Great to see Localstack offset a bit thanks to ... AI driven shift left infrastructure tooling? This is a great trend.

hendryon Learnings from paying artists royalties for AI-generated art

Are there successful non-AI artist platforms for works of art?

hendryon The browser is the sandbox

Agreed! systemd nspawn is actually pretty awesome, though not many people use it.

hendryon Ask HN: Share your personal website

https://hendry.iki.fi/

hendryon Show HN: Ferrite – Markdown editor in Rust with native Mermaid diagram rendering

Yeah, an example would be good. Tbh the examples on https://d2lang.com/ don't seem to fit the bill of a typical AWS Architecture diagrams! https://aws.amazon.com/architecture/reference-architecture-d...

hendryon CLI agents make self-hosting on a home server easier and fun

Timely! I just re-setup my Pi5 with the help of Claude. https://github.com/kaihendry/ai-pi

Tbh I did the mistake of throwing away Ansible, so testing my setup was a pain!

Since with AI, the focus should be on testing, perhaps it's sensible to drop Ansible for something like https://github.com/goss-org/goss

Things are happening so fast, I was impressed to see a Linux distro embrace using a SKILL.md! https://github.com/basecamp/omarchy/blob/master/default/omar...

hendryon Show HN: Ferrite – Markdown editor in Rust with native Mermaid diagram rendering

More service flows aimed at security audits

hendryon Show HN: Ferrite – Markdown editor in Rust with native Mermaid diagram rendering

Wish there was something like Mermaid for typical AWS Architecture diagrams.

Something that doesn't suck like draw.io!

hendryon GitHub no longer uses Toasts

Same as modals?

hendryon ULID – the ONLY identifier you should use? [video]

Can't believe you're promoting Rust on a Go YT channel. ;)

hendryon Things I don't like in configuration languages

What about bash? https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PKGBUILD

hendryon How I use every Claude Code feature

"All my stateless tools (like Jira, AWS, GitHub) have been migrated to simple CLIs." - How do you get Jira on the CLI?

hendryon You Have to Feel It

Vibe coding

hendryon Emailing a one-time code is worse than passwords

I came to the comments to say this. Nevor and I are one.

hendryon Make It Yourself

Why isn't this a Web page?

Sidenote: I want to get started with wood working, can anyone recommend a resource?

hendryon Ask HN: Anyone attending EMF camp this year?

First time here. So far enjoying the wifi and the friendly people! I am tweeting from https://twitter.com/kaihendry

hendryon ESPHome

Requires nerves of steel to navigate Aliexpress.

hendryon California Electricity Mix Live Dashboard

UK version: https://grid.iamkate.com/ written in PHP: https://github.com/KateMorley/grid

hendryon Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)

Packaging on Archlinux is quite insane. https://s.natalian.org/2024-03-14/1710415700_1918x1167.png

hendryon The killer app of Gemini Pro 1.5 is using video as an input

Can it work on traffic I wonder? Automatic number-plate recognition (ALPR)

hendryon LLRT: A low-latency JavaScript runtime from AWS

Wonder how it compares to https://aws-lite.org/

hendryon Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp

https://ir.hashicorp.com/news-releases/news-release-details/...

Hashicorp seems to be doing alright to me. Don't look at the stock price.

hendryon Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp

Mitchell feels like the exception that proves the rule, the rule being that there are very few engineers turned entrepreneurs that are successful & balanced.