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jerdthenerd

16 karma · joined June 14, 2023

meet.hn/city/us-Spokane

Interests: DevOps, Entrepreneurship, Hacking, Hiking, Networking, Open Source, Programming, Remote Work, Startups, Sports, Technology

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jerdthenerd··on Charts built for Chat
The use case that immediately came to mind for me was to use dbt charts as a rendering method for an MCP App.

You don't really want to give a LLM client code execution environment like Observable Framework does. dbt charts appear to validate the entire yaml input including the SQL being sent to the data source.

So I'm getting: a data vis layer that can be dynamically defined and rendered via LLM/MCP client without the headache of sandboxing a JS Runtime environment.

jerdthenerd··on Webmux: Like Tmux, but for the Browser
Not sure if it's because I'm on mobile but no screenshot or demo link in README.md.

Since it's a semi-novel way for terminal multiplexing, would like to see some examples prior to installing/downloading.

jerdthenerd··on Treasury Orders Erasure of Domestic Ownership Records
I personally filled out this form, under duress, because there was ZERO communication from any regulating body of the requirement.

And yes it was a felony to not register by, IIRC, December 31st of the same year the measure was passed or some other very accelerated timeline.

There was no email, letter, or notification received. The data collected included enough information for someone to effectively takeover my business record for my state if the government dataset ever got leaked.

I'm glad they are forcing the erasure of the data.

jerdthenerd··on Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions
While I agree with the spirit of your statement "people are afraid to run their own software", I feel like this assumes that people are the ones choosing the software they run. I wish my teams could run more things ourselves, but are told no by our systems and infrastructure staff.

Any self hosted service in an enterprise means that you're dealing with all the headaches that come with that including: backups, user/role creation and mapping maintenance, infrastructure scaling needs, OTEL or other monitoring, etc.

It's an easier decision for VPs to pay GitHub anything less than the man hours required to execute the above tasks because it's a "not our problem" fee.

jerdthenerd··on Ask HN: Should we bring software dev in-house?
I'm late to the game on this thread, but I am a lead SWE at a medium size logistics company. Been in logistics SWE since 2015. I'd be interested to hear how your company fits into the industry, who your service provider is, which no code platform you're using, etc and at the very least give you a sounding board based on my experience. Shoot me a DM if you're interested!
jerdthenerd··on DevOps: The Funeral (2023)
I'm genuinely not sure how other companies do this.... But how is your team handling SOX controls WITHOUT at least one DevOps person?

I work at a medium size publicly traded company and our SOX compliance controls would take literal months to generate and/or prove to auditors without our CI/CD pipelines. It's just an extract from GH Actions with a report of who modified, who approved, and who actually pushed to main. All of these actions must be siloed (if you can commit to repo, you cannot push to main)

Potentially this is a consequence of micro service infra, my team alone manages nearly 25 separate git repositories.

jerdthenerd··on DIY Book Scanner
I was interested to see how they solved automated page turning... but none of the designs appear to address this?

Sounds like a repetitive motion injury waiting to happen after you get done scanning Fountainhead.

jerdthenerd··on Show HN: Beeper Mini – iMessage client for Android
Can anyone explain to me why it matters if you have iMessage or not? So what my friends see a green bubble when I message them?
jerdthenerd··on Ask HN: Requirement Doc Training for Business Leaders?
Thanks for your reply. When I describe "the business" I am referring to Product teams that manage SOP, help prioritize new offerings, etc. Here's an example of a feature request from the business:

"I want to allow customers to run scheduled reports from our portal and receive them via email."

Development then designs and executes, delivering a scheduled reporting suite for testing. Business will come back with feedback such as:

"I don't like how I have to select the time for every report. Can't you just default it?" or "Only some users from the customer's account should be able to create/edit scheduled reports. Please add this by Tuesday so I can demo." or even "This is great, but my customer has special holidays that they don't want emails to be sent on. We should have a yearly calendar that prevents reports from getting sent."

There is a large gap between feature request "requirements" and the expectations of the business. Thus, we request specific feature request requirement documents to be turned in prior to development starting work.

jerdthenerd··on Opening the Codebase Up to Everyone
Can someone, anyone, explain to me how this passes SOX scrutiny?

I have issues with business/product team even commenting on PRs because auditors have said that access to GitHub=Access to Codebase.

There are a select few people I would consider granting access to code within our product teams, but without "segregation of duties" clearly defined, I don't think it would fly.

jerdthenerd··on The Password Game
I am stuck on the chess one because my captcha included text with "xe8" which could be read as a (albeit confusing) algebraic notation.

So I give this game a 6/10 for bugginess. Would not recommend the preorder.

edit - after reading some of the comments, I realized I could change my destiny by resetting the captcha

jerdthenerd··on Hundreds of subreddits plan to go dark indefinitely after Reddit CEO's memo
Reddit can always bring subs back online - the question is if they can find dedicated mods for those subs that were previously ran by volunteers.