madjam002

What version of Excel does your Nix Flake package out of interest? Is it current?

I noticed a big speedup in Opus 5 on Max x20 since about 10 days ago, and I feel like the model has been performing better.

It would be great to know if this was Opus 5.5 or a lesser incremental improvement, as otherwise it's difficult to judge whether Opus 5.5 is expected to be a big improvement.

It's frustrating that there isn't more transparency here.

Last time I checked, Posthog self hosted was basically unusable. They have a hobby deployment script which just pulls the latest build from master which varies from “somewhat works” to “completely broken”

A lot of footpaths in Europe are designated paths that are shared with cyclists

Does anyone know of any good firewalls for macOS? The built in firewall is practically unusable, and if client isolation can be bypassed, the local firewall is more important than ever.

I often have a dev server running bound to 0.0.0.0 as it makes debugging easy at home on the LAN, but then if I connect to a public WiFi I want to know that I am secure and the ports are closed. "Block all incoming connections" on macOS has failed me before when I've tested it.

I have just today discovered zmx [1] which is like tmux but I always hated the tmux terminal emulation and how it hijacks scrolling, especially on Termius on my phone. It does session persistence but I think without the terminal emulator side of things, so scrolling works normally.

Been testing it today with Claude Code and it seems to work quite well switching between my laptop and phone.

[1] https://github.com/neurosnap/zmx

Yeah first time in 6 years being with them that I've had an outage of this scale. Cloud VMs and Dedicated servers all down / intermittent

You can look at any air quality website and source of information and see that the air quality here is utter crap.

If not IQAir, you can use Windy, WAQI, Airly (founded in Krakow, so lots of sensors here).

I am in Krakow right now and my IKEA sensor is reading 183 µg/m³ when I put it outdoors. On a good day it's normally less than 5.

The PM2.5 in Krakow is currently 185 µg/m³, the WHO recommended annual average is 5 µg/m³.

This is about air quality, not waste on the streets.

I was travelling a lot a couple of days ago across the countryside just outside of Krakow, and people are definitely burning plastics and trash, you can smell it even inside your car in the early hours of the morning.

It's coming from the surrounding areas, not the city itself.

This is absolutely wild haha, love it

"A high-latency architect who spends his days documenting every time a CDN sneezes while dreaming of a mountain drive through the Balkans with a fresh burek in hand."

Definitely don't recommend going down this path if you're not already familiar with Nix, but if you are, a strategy that I find works really well is to package your software with Nix, then you can run it easily via systemd but also create super lightweight containers using nix-snapshotter[0] so you don't have to "build" container images if you still want the flexibility of containers. You can then run the containers on Docker or Kubernetes without having to build heavy images.

[0] https://github.com/pdtpartners/nix-snapshotter

Not gonna lie Terranix has been working great for us, all our configuration is in Nix files anyway so it's so easy to just pass stuff in rather than using Tf variables etc

It's quite an unfortunate coincidence that React has indirectly been the reason for two recent issues at Cloudflare haha

Looking forward to the post mortem on this one. We weren't affected (just using the CDN), and people are saying they weren't affected who are using Cloudflare Workers (a previous culprit which we've since moved off), so I wonder what service / API was actually affected that brought down multiple websites with a 500 but not all of them.

Wise was just down which is a pretty big one.

Also odd how some websites were down this time that previously weren't down with the global outage in November

Yes I will be looking, thanks for the rec!

I just considered moving from Namecheap to Porkbun as Namecheap is down, but Porkbun use Cloudflare for their CAPTCHA meaning I'm unable to signup and I assume log in as well, so also no good.

Can't even change my nameservers away from Cloudflare as Namecheap use Cloudflare!!

This must be some sort of joke right?

My favourite was the Azure CTO complaining that Git was unintuitive, clunky and difficult to use

This is pretty cool and brings back a lot of memories for me. When I was younger I remember building a clone of Roblox in C# with the Lua scripting engine part as well. I even ported some script builder scripts over to it (Player199 admin commands or something like that, can’t remember the name exactly)

Good times

Google Maps not loading, thought it was my 4g, go to see if my connection works by loading Hacker News, GCP Outage XD

They just strip types and don’t do any type checking

I had a good experience with an app called Owlfiles for network shares

I moved off a fleet of VPSes onto Cloudflare Pages and subsequently back to VPSes again due to unpredictable latency, several cases of downtime in 12 months and weird bugs around static assets disappearing long before the advertised retention date for old deployments.

Surface Book 2 here, same price as a top spec MacBook Pro, absolute garbage. Thermally throttled, poor performance, random freeze ups, terrible screen glare, screen wobbled constantly, never again.

Drive down to Lili’s restaurant in Berat and order everything on the menu (it’s small), and visit the castle while you’re there. It’s well worth it. You will need to make a reservation. It’s probably the most unique dining experience I’ve ever had, and the food was exceptional.

You can visit Bunk’Art in Tirana and then take the cable car up the mountain afterwards.

Lamar Tirana had some incredible sea bass.

Odas Garden is frequently recommended for local food to tourists but I found it to be overpriced and the dishes were way overcooked, but YMMV. The atmosphere is pretty unique. There are far better small time restaurants around for local cuisine (can’t remember the names).

My fav dish was Lakror, but it can be hit or miss in Tirana.

Do the free walking tour in the main square / Skanderbeg square.

There are bakeries everywhere, getting up early and walking down to the nearest bakery and getting fresh coffee and a pastry / burek and walking a bit in the sun is such a good way to start the day.

And I second the suggestion to go to Himare, we went via Vlore along the coast and down to Himare. They’ve built a new tunnel, I highly recommend avoiding it (I've heard it's closed now for final works anyway) and going over the mountain, there’s an amazing view point next to Mt Cika.

Get up to Montenegro if you can if you love scenic drives.

Are there any OSS Chromium based browsers that don’t have crypto and VPN bloatware that people recommend?

Such a shame it’s like this now because I played it extensively as a kid back in 06 and 07 and it helped inspire me to learn programming.

To me it seems reasonable because I’m already providing a lot of information to the airline, name, ID card, maybe even passport. If accounts are optional, this data is still being stored, probably against some kind of “shadow user” account, which ironically is more difficult to reason about or remember if you wanted to exercise your rights under the DPA.