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lloydjones··on Sunny days are warm: why LinkedIn rewards mediocrity
Exactly — depth is the new authenticity . #Reflecting #ThoughtLeader
lloydjones··on Show HN: Private Markdown library for AI agents / development work
I threw this together to scratch my own itch – I hope it helps others.
lloydjones··on Prompting LLMs is not engineering
This article seems like LinkedIn style controversy-bait, or is written from a place of extreme pedantry.

Evals can come pretty close to getting “deterministic” output from LLMs, and I’d argue that this is reasonably considered engineering.

lloydjones··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
I’m the technical co-founder of Visibil (https://visibil.ai), an LLMO and SEO automation platform. It’s unique in that (unlike similar solutions) it doesn’t have a brittle JS-based content “hijacker” (which normally pulls the content changes from the SaaS’ database and therefore stops if you stop paying), but rather it updates the user’s CMS.
lloydjones··on Show HN: Canine – A Heroku alternative built on Kubernetes
Got it — Thanks for getting back to me!
lloydjones··on Show HN: Canine – A Heroku alternative built on Kubernetes
That’s an interesting way of looking at it.

Though I do believe that Coolify will “eventually” support Kubernetes, I think what you’re saying feels right to me.

lloydjones··on Show HN: Canine – A Heroku alternative built on Kubernetes
I started using Coolify a few months ago — Do you have a “pitch” as to how Canine is different or better?

Good work either way!

lloydjones··on Persuasion methods for engineering managers
As a Brit I’ve had to unlearn a lot of this (IMO nonsensical and obstructive) innuendo, and it’s made a huge difference in my work and personal life.
lloydjones··on Show HN: I made a tool to port tweets to Bluesky mantaining their original date
I made a similar tool a while back, https://pleasenox.com – Mine relies on a "poster" account doing the work rather than the current user's account.
lloydjones··on Alarm as bird flu now 'endemic in cows'
I’ve read mixed ideas on this but:

Is bird flu “bad” (for cows and humans) because of higher mortality?

lloydjones··on H2alagút: Fetch adapter that uses HTTP/2 and can tunnel through an HTTP/1 proxy
What?

- HTTP/2: Utilises Node's built‑in http2 module.

- Proxy Tunneling: Automatically tunnels through an HTTP/1 proxy (via HTTP CONNECT) when a proxy configuration is provided.

- Fetch-like API: Provides a drop‑in replacement for the standard Fetch API. The returned Response object supports properties such as status and methods like text() and json().

Why?

Because many proxy services still use HTTP/1.1, while many sites use HTTP/2.

lloydjones··on Ask HN: Moving a not-for-profit web app off AWS
Hetzner (Pulumi) with SST example: https://github.com/prutya/next-self-hosted

Hetzner (Pulumi) example outside of SST: https://timozander.de/blog/using-pulumi-with-hcloud/

lloydjones··on Ask HN: Moving a not-for-profit web app off AWS
Port it to using SST (https://sst.dev) then you can more easily experiment with different cloud providers’ costs by deploying to A, B and C service.

SST uses Pulumi so (per other comments) there are constructs for Hetzner among other budget hosts.

lloydjones··on Use Bluesky as comments for any web page (Chrome extension)
Thank you!
lloydjones··on Use Bluesky as comments for any web page (Chrome extension)
This was thrown together super quickly — I will improve upon it and add features in the coming days.

Suggestions welcome!

lloydjones··on OpenCV and the Wild Kingdom
Excellent!

I wonder how difficult it would be to detect specific actions in the video frames, like “cat eating food”?

lloydjones··on Web browser as GUI, with your preferred language in the backend
FYI: The website (webui.me) has a TLS / certificate issue and can only be viewed in Chrome (iPhone) after accepting the unsafe warning.
lloydjones··on Emoji Generator with AI
This doesn’t appear to have any filter for generating based on racist / extremist language
lloydjones··on Analysis of Twitter algorithm reveals Twitter down-ranks tweets about Ukraine
To be clear: I am not disagreeing that slickly-produced videos are propaganda.

Or that tweets in support of Ukraine's efforts / donations / etc are "supporting the war".

I am, rather, disputing the "both sides"-type thinking of the person I replied to, who seems to imply that stopping ALL talk of war (regardless of whom it is in support of) is desirable.

lloydjones··on Analysis of Twitter algorithm reveals Twitter down-ranks tweets about Ukraine
It'll be the health, limbs and lives of future Ukrainians and other Europeans too, if invaders are appeased.

I think this mindset betrays a lack of understand at how power-hungry bullies work. They aren't reasonable.

It's not a case of "negotiate with them THIS time, and all will be fine" (as if they have a single, specific grievance).

Choosing to defer pain now invites much, much more later.

lloydjones··on Analysis of Twitter algorithm reveals Twitter down-ranks tweets about Ukraine
Whataboutism.

Other examples of stealing territory / starting wars can also be bad.

lloydjones··on Analysis of Twitter algorithm reveals Twitter down-ranks tweets about Ukraine
It is supporting a side in a war who didn't choose to be at war.

Insofar as that meets the criteria of "supporting war", then yes it's "supporting war" (a country's defence).

I see that as a wholly good thing.

lloydjones··on Analysis of Twitter algorithm reveals Twitter down-ranks tweets about Ukraine
Is that not a massive oversimplification? And is it bad/wrong that a country's leadership can be persuaded by its allies?

If they were to enter peace talks based on the premise of ceding territory, would that not strengthen Russia; sending the message that this sort of robbery works and is rewarded? And would that not pose a danger to other neighbours of Russia?

I can see why it's in both Ukraine's interest, and its allies, for it to not cede territory.

Having said all of this: I am not a military strategist or diplomat, and I don't really know what I'm talking about.

lloydjones··on Analysis of Twitter algorithm reveals Twitter down-ranks tweets about Ukraine
Assuming this isn't trolling/baiting:

Ukraine was invaded by its neighbour. Russia started a war.

Would you deem tweets that encourage donations toward Ukraine's military defence to be "promoting war"?

How about tweets that boost morale of their defence forces (well-produced propaganda videos, etc)?

The war isn't something that Ukraine wanted, but it was forced on them.

To then demote any tweet about Ukraine is throwing out the baby with the bathwater, and (in the examples I've given above) making their digital 'life' harder when trying to deal with a problem they didn't want.

lloydjones··on What happens when you open a terminal and enter `ls’
Excellent article! Thank you
lloydjones··on Women visited by police after raising concerns over sewage to local MP
Given the murder of David Amess, I can see why MPs are a little twitchy over people who are potentially out of a given area (though not constituency) attending

Perhaps involving the police was heavy-handed and there could have been another way…

lloydjones··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2022)
VPD | Remote | UK | Full-time | Full Stack Engineer | £70,000 - £90,000+ We’re a well-funded scaleup (no VC money) with big plans to revolutionise legal pricing: our software aims to bring an end to law firms overcharging clients, arbitrary pricing, and other bad practices that have existed for years.

Our two directors are recognised world authorities in this domain, and bring a number of signed firms ready to use our software. We've successfully onboarded one of the world's largest legal teams and we're now busy deploying to some of the top law firms, in the UK and abroad.

Our fully-remote dev team is small, and therefore you’ll have a lot of opportunity to make a noticeable impact, especially given the extremely flat hierarchy.

Our whole team is friendly, down-to-earth, and operates without ego. We think you’ll enjoy working with us, and we’re looking for similarly-minded folks.

The work is varied, challenging, and will be quite evenly split across the front and back end. Because of the need to get scheduled features out, fix bugs, and respond to the needs of newly onboarded firms, we’re looking for a seasoned React pro (hard requirement) who is also comfortable with Node.js, TypeORM (or similar), GraphQL,

A bonus would be if you’ve had any prior experience with Ant Design (our UI framework of choice), Storybook, CircleCI, Heroku, Jira, and any client support ticket work.

In summary, we’re looking for a versatile, full stack developer who (after a short period of learning the ropes on our specific setup) can hit the ground running and contribute to our fast-growing product and team.

If this sounds cool to you, email our person handling applicants at: vittoria at vpd dot law

lloydjones··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2022)
VPD | Remote | UK | Full-time | Full Stack Engineer | £70,000 - £90,000+

We’re a well-funded scaleup (no VC money) with big plans to revolutionise legal pricing: our software aims to bring an end to law firms overcharging clients, arbitrary pricing, and other bad practices that have existed for years.

Our two directors are recognised world authorities in this domain, and bring a number of signed firms ready to use our software. We've successfully onboarded one of the world's largest legal teams and we're now busy deploying to some of the top law firms, in the UK and abroad.

Our fully-remote dev team is small, and therefore you’ll have a lot of opportunity to make a noticeable impact, especially given the extremely flat hierarchy.

Our whole team is friendly, down-to-earth, and operates without ego. We think you’ll enjoy working with us, and we’re looking for similarly-minded folks.

The work is varied, challenging, and will be quite evenly split across the front and back end. Because of the need to get scheduled features out, fix bugs, and respond to the needs of newly onboarded firms, we’re looking for a seasoned React pro (hard requirement) who is also comfortable with Node.js, TypeORM (or similar), GraphQL,

A bonus would be if you’ve had any prior experience with Ant Design (our UI framework of choice), Storybook, CircleCI, Heroku, Jira, and any client support ticket work.

In summary, we’re looking for a versatile, full stack developer who (after a short period of learning the ropes on our specific setup) can hit the ground running and contribute to our fast-growing product and team.

If this sounds cool to you, email our person handling applicants at: vittoria at vpd dot law

lloydjones··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2022)
Virtual Pricing Director | Remote | UK preferred | Full-time | Full-Stack Engineer | £70,000 - £100,000+, plus stock.

We're a well-funded scaleup (no VC money) building the future of legal pricing, for small and large law firms alike. Our workflow and data management software means an end to overcharging clients, arbitrary pricing, and other bad practices that have existed for years. Our two directors are recognised world authorities in this domain, and bring a number of signed firms ready to use our software. We're off to a healthy start, busy preparing to deploy to one of the world's largest legal teams.

The work is varied, challenging, and we place equal emphasis on front and back-end. Because of the need to deliver scheduled features, fix bugs, and respond to the needs of newly onboarded firms, we're looking for someone who relishes lots of hands-on work, contributing across the whole stack.

Our app is powered by React, with Apollo Client for its GraphQL queries and mutations. It leverages Ant Design as the UI framework, upon which we build a mixture of UI components; some simple, some complex. On the back-end, we're using PostgreSQL as our RDS, TypeORM as our ORM, TypeGraphQL to define the API schema, and Apollo Server to deliver the GraphQL.

Both our front and back ends are coded in TypeScript. We believe in end-to-end testing and have therefore used Playwright to handle an automated E2E test script which runs before deployments.

You'll join us as we begin to roll out our product to some of the top law firms, and in time to help define, design and build the next two roadmapped modules, and to grow from there.

If this sounds appealing to you, email our person handling applicants at: vittoria at virtualpricingdirector dot com

lloydjones··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2022)
Virtual Pricing Director | Remote | UK preferred | Full-time | Full-Stack Engineer | £70,000 - £90,000+, plus stock. We're a well-funded scaleup (no VC money) building the future of legal pricing, for small and large law firms alike. Our workflow and data management software means an end to overcharging clients, arbitrary pricing, and other bad practices that have existed for years.

Our two directors are recognised world authorities in this domain, and bring a number of signed firms ready to use our software. We're off to a healthy start, busy preparing to deploy to one of the world's largest legal teams.

The work is varied, challenging, and we place equal emphasis on front and back-end. Because of the need to deliver scheduled features, fix bugs, and respond to the needs of newly onboarded firms, we're looking for someone who relishes lots of hands-on work, contributing across the whole stack.

Our app is powered by React, with Apollo Client for its GraphQL queries and mutations. It leverages Ant Design as the UI framework, upon which we build a mixture of UI components; some simple, some complex. On the back-end, we're using PostgreSQL as our RDS, TypeORM as our ORM, TypeGraphQL to define the API schema, and Apollo Server to deliver the GraphQL.

Both our front and back ends are coded in TypeScript. We believe in end-to-end testing and have therefore used Playwright to handle an automated E2E test script which runs before deployments.

You'll join us as we begin to roll out our product to some of the top law firms, and in time to help define, design and build the next two roadmapped modules, and to grow from there.

If this sounds appealing to you, email our person handling applicants at: vittoria at virtualpricingdirector dot com

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