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johntash··on Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net
I'm also a happy customer of bunny.net. I mostly use it for dns, but do use the CDN for a few sites too.

For DNS, it's cool because you can have it return scripted results which makes dns-based load balancing a bit "better".

https://docs.bunny.net/dns/scriptable/introduction

johntash··on Running out of disk space in production
ext2/ext3/ext4 all automatically reserve an amount of space on a partition. 5% iirc
johntash··on Show HN: ctx – an Agentic Development Environment (ADE)
It's not open source, but is it free? I'm assuming you have plans on making money off of it somehow, can you share anything about what that will look like?
johntash··on Adobe wrote to my hosts file. I've never had an app do this before
No that seems like the reasonable expectation to me too.
johntash··on Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'
I might be missing it, but does fireworks actually have a subscription? All I saw was serverless (per token) and gpu $/hr.

And since I saw a few other comments talking about these, do you have any preference on different cloud providers with ZDR? I look every once in a while and want to switch to completely open models and/or at least ZDR so I can start doing things like summarizing e-mail. I'm thinking I can probably split my use between some sort of cloud api and claude code for heavier tasks.

johntash··on Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'
I'm really hoping locally hosted llms get to the point of competing with current-day frontier models so that we all have "unlimited" usage.
johntash··on Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan
Do you have a recommendation for something like bwrap but for macos? I've been trying to use bwrap more on my servers when I remember.
johntash··on Show HN: Open Source 'Conductor + Ghostty'
I know you said MIT License, but just FYI there is no LICENSE file in the repo :)

Also thank you for not having a super long ai-generated readme! I'll give it a try.

johntash··on I'm OK being left behind, thanks
Not sure about copilot, but most enterprise plans do offer a way to export all prompts to a company siem.
johntash··on Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?
If someone is making the kind of mistakes that cause oncall issues to increase, put that person on call. It doesn't matter if they can't do anything, call them every time they cause someone else to be paged.

IME too many don't care about on call unless they are personally affected.

johntash··on Tailscale Peer Relays is now generally available
The (almost) opposite is also a feature: it's OSS and will still be available if the business goes out of business
johntash··on Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation
I somewhat like the idea of not using MCP as much as it is being hyped.

It's certainly helpful for some things, but at the same time - I would rather improved CLI tools get created that can be used by humans and llm tools alike.

johntash··on Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now
Indeed, I think the only "new" thing about clawdbot is that it is using discord/telegram/etc as the interface? Which isn't really new, but seems to be what people really like
johntash··on Stop using low DNS TTLs
I'm assuming OP means cloud-based load balancers (listening on public ips). Some providers scale load balancers pretty often depending on traffic which can result in a set of new IPs.
johntash··on Clawdbot Renames to Moltbot
depending on how you set up the reverse proxy, clawdbot can think _all_ traffic comes from localhost
johntash··on There is an AI code review bubble
What if you have two people with different ideas of how to name a certain variable and they just flip the name back and forth every release?

I like this review method too though, and like that some pr review tools have a 'suggest changes' and 'apply changes' button now too

johntash··on Ask HN: Do you "micro-manage" your agents?
If it's a single project, you could try putting some of your corrections in AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md if supported. I don't remember if cursor reads from there, but I think it does have its own rules system.

Basically just a bullet list of stuff like "- use httpx instead of requests" or "- http libraries already exist, we dont need to build a new one that shells out to /proc/tcp"

Just add stuff you find yourself correcting a lot. You may realize you have a set of coding conventions and you just need to document it in the repo and point to that.

Smaller project-specific lists like that have been better imo vs giant prompts. If I wouldn't expect a colleague to read a giant instruction doc, I'm not going to expect llms to do a good job of it either.

johntash··on A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth
Oh man, I remember these. A modern version would be pretty cool.
johntash··on Show HN: Terminal UI for AWS
Official AWS cli from AWS is a bit different than "random binary off the internet"?
johntash··on Show HN: Terminal UI for AWS
Your pricing page says:

> $3.33/mo

> Per user, per machine.

Is that really per machine? That seems a bit steep? If I wanted to use it on a laptop and a desktop, I'd need two licenses?

johntash··on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell
Are you making money just from sponsors or something else too?
johntash··on Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker
Is SimpleFIN basically the same as something like Plaid? I thought it was maybe an open source thing, but it looks like you still need to sync your bank accounts to their system first?
johntash··on Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker
I didn't see your previous post, but my feedback would be that your readme doesn't really list all the features? It has some screenshots, but maybe a short list of major features/what you can do with it would be helpful for people just driving by to look at it?

I don't think you need a fancy landing page for every oss project, but I have no way of telling what is different about your project without actually trying it out.

johntash··on Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker
beancount + the web ui for it, fava, is what I end up going back to whenever I look for the sort of tools. Downside is I'm way behind on my ledger and don't _really_ want to spend the effort inputting everything to catch up.
johntash··on Show HN: Continuous Claude – run Claude Code in a loop
LLMs had to learn where to use emoji from somewhere, now we know who to blame ;)
johntash··on Incus-OS: Immutable Linux OS to run Incus as a hypervisor
That's awesome, thanks for the nudge. I reinstalled one of my proxmox servers so that I can try Incus out and see if I like it.

It looks like it may handle networking (via ovn) a bit better than what I have now

johntash··on Show HN: I built a synth for my daughter
My mind jumped to synths from the Fallout games, so I was disappointed to find something else, but it's still pretty cool!
johntash··on Zed is our office
For me, I was happy using Zed until suddenly an update caused it to crash every time I opened it. It was caused by some sort of issue with graphics drivers on linux I guess.

I just checked the issue [1] and it is fixed now, but it's crazy to me that I never really thought of my text editor needing to use my graphics card for rendering.

[1]: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/37448

johntash··on Incus-OS: Immutable Linux OS to run Incus as a hypervisor
Can Incus do regular vms too, or only LXCs? I think I looked at it before but wrote it off because I still have some workloads that have to be in VMs.
johntash··on Warp Terminal changes pricing model
Most shells can help with this. vim mode helps, zsh also has 'edit-command-line' that can open the command in an editor but idk if it has a keybind by default.
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