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kgthegreaton Show HN: Vibe coding a bookshelf with Claude Code

While currently taste is what we are banking on the thing humans will continue doing but I don’t think that will last for long.

kgthegreaton Show HN: Vibe coding a bookshelf with Claude Code

I wrote about how I think about the separation of intent and execution here : https://bikeshedding.substack.com/p/the-agency-continuum

kgthegreaton If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C?

On fun/joy in the era of agency - https://bikeshedding.substack.com/p/the-agency-continuum

kgthegreaton Show HN: I built a system for active note-taking in regular meetings like 1-1s

Nice concept! I wrote this tool a while back which provides a bit more structure to your 1:1s including bubbling up latest topic to the top - https://meeteffective.com/

kgthegreaton Chess engines didn't replace Magnus Carlsen, and AI won't replace you

Nobody is paying money to watch you code

kgthegreaton Agent Client Protocol (ACP)

Shouldn’t be too hard. I wrote this emacs plugin to do similar things but without this protocol - https://github.com/kgthegreat/protagentic . Heavily used AI assisted coding for it.

kgthegreaton Evolution of AI Powered IDEs – Comparing Aider, Warp and Kiro [video]

Did a quick comparison video of Aider, Warp and Kiro with same prompts

kgthegreaton Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

Made https://meeteffective.com/ for useful 1 on 1 meetings. Not charging for it though right now

kgthegreaton Show HN: Minimal Twitter Client with Classification

Hello All, I wrote this twitter client to scratch an itch and to reduce context switching while browsing twitter. This client neatly classifies tweets(or atleast attempts to) into categories such as sports, politics, travel and also allows you to add custom categories. For e.g. academics, music, entertainment. All classification is keyword based.

kgthegreaton Show HN: Minimal Twitter Client with Classification

Thanks for visiting! nitter looks cool. Though not exactly for browsing your twitter timeline? More like a scraper?

kgthegreaton 2020 Habit Tracker Template (Free)

Non HTML View - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pGGjaMCYppJ6VWtxVBY4...

kgthegreaton Tell HN: I used to be homeless and want to work as a software developer

1. Open a github.com account

2. Use that as a base to build a public portfolio

3. There are many code golf based platform such as https://www.hackerrank.com/ - Get an account and practice. Others without account - https://projecteuler.net/

4. Also sites which may or may not be great at job hunting - https://hired.co.uk/, https://linkedin.com/

5. Go to meetups - find meetups in meetup.com or google mailing lists. Search for User Groups in your area. London is obviously the best place(sheer numbers) to do this in the U.K. but Edinburgh and other cities should have in some form or another. Universities. A lot of companies keep holding tech events in their offices - that is a good way to get a foot in the door.

6. Build something useful and demoable - search for things you have interest in.

7. Apply to early career/internship programs at companies

All the very best.

kgthegreaton Simple-twitter: A bare-bones Twitter clone implemented in a single file

Feel free to take this for a spin - http://trysensible.com/

It has that and more!

Open source - https://github.com/kgthegreat/sensible

kgthegreaton Simple-twitter: A bare-bones Twitter clone implemented in a single file

Slightly related - If you want a pre-categorised tweets feed with ability to add new categories, I have written one - http://trysensible.com/ (Open source https://github.com/kgthegreat/sensible). It comes with some standard categories such as politics, sports etc. but you can add whatever categories you want such as - music, academia and start adding your own curated list of keywords to support this category. This is written in golang and is open source https://github.com/kgthegreat/sensible

kgthegreaton Monzo: How our security team handle secrets

Distinct but small services each with 1-5 endpoints

kgthegreaton Monzo: How our security team handle secrets

In web scale companies, it is not uncommon to have that many. (including the engineer:microservice ratio). Code re-use is generally handled by standardisation of services (including, language, libraries and frameworks). Reliability is taken care by metrics based measurements. It is truly a wonderful world. Of course, the path to el dorado lies in investing in world class platform and devops including painless CI/CD, Rollout/Rollback.

kgthegreaton A JavaScript-Free Front End

This is interesting and corresponds with the post https://builtwith.com/detailed/slimvoice.co

kgthegreaton How hard is it to have a conversation on Twitter? So hard even the CEO can’t

This seems like an A/B test to find out if there is enough demand to open up twitter or improve twitter for some specific purposes.

kgthegreaton Netflix claims Fortnite is now a bigger competitor than HBO

What happens when Netflix is the only profitable channel of distribution around by killing most competitors and then introduces regular ads?

kgthegreaton Ask HN: What do you struggle with?

translation Try to get a job in the United States. It is easier for Chileans than even a European to get work in the United States for the H1B1 visa. But beware that only large companies are willing to make the implication (Lawyers and those things). In addition to the SW they pay much better here than anywhere in the world. Source: Chilean in the USA

From google translate: https://goo.gl/N57zNf

kgthegreaton Ask HN: Codebase at my work is a complete mess, what should I do?

Also, https://medium.com/feature-creep/the-software-engineer-s-gui...

kgthegreaton Ask HN: Codebase at my work is a complete mess, what should I do?

"On your first day at the new job, squash every commit from the repo into a single commit with message "Legacy code" and force-push to master." Source https://twitter.com/codeinthehole/status/1029682224713617408

kgthegreaton Einstein in Oxford

There is a preserved blackboard[1] with Einstein's writing and a plaque[2] with explanation in the Museum of the History of Science[3] at Oxford.

[1] https://imgur.com/lmRE5pb [2] https://imgur.com/AS2Nhda [3] http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/

kgthegreaton Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2018)

Victor, London What we do: We are building the world’s foremost on-demand private jet platform. We solve critical private aviation challenges through technology everyday. We are flyvictor.com What is our stack: We are a JS heavy team with NodeJS on the backend, Angular on the frontend. A bit of Wordpress and Salesforce thrown in the mix. We heavily use MongoDB. We are devops first team with Docker, Terraform, Ansible, Wercker, AWS forming the backbone of our infrastructure and deployment pipeline. We use Cucumber for integration test, Mocha + Sinon + Should for unit testing. Our mobile apps use Native iOS and React Native.

kgthegreaton Books worth reading this summer

https://hackernewsbooks.com/ ?

kgthegreaton Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018)

kgthegreaton Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2018)

Victor, London What we do: We are building the world’s foremost on-demand private jet platform. We solve critical private aviation challenges through technology everyday. We are flyvictor.com

What is our stack: We are a JS heavy team with NodeJS on the backend, Angular on the frontend. A bit of Wordpress and Salesforce thrown in the mix. We heavily use MongoDB. We are devops first team with Docker, Terraform, Ansible, Wercker, AWS forming the backbone of our infrastructure and deployment pipeline. We use Cucumber for integration test, Mocha + Sinon + Should for unit testing. Our mobile apps use Native iOS and React Native.

kgthegreaton Domain Logic and SQL

Another article on the same: http://www.vertabelo.com/blog/notes-from-the-lab/business-lo...

kgthegreaton Domain Logic and SQL

'multi-user scenarios often cause surprising changes to the way queries behave, so real profiling has to be done under a realistic multi-user load. You may find that locking issues outweigh anything you can get by faster individual queries.'