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markcollin··on Ask HN: Daily practices for building AI/ML skills?
Highly recommended video of Karpathy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2ZK3ngNvvI

essentially, don't get paralysed on designing the perfect path on how to invest time/energy. just focus on putting in the hours everyday.

markcollin··on Remembering things that haven't happened yet
It was a sad, yet beautiful read. Some of my fav passage from the article.

"Researchers Gilbert, Quiodbach and Wilson coined a term called the “end of history illusion,” which describes people’s tendency to look back on the last ten or twenty years of their life and concede that they’ve changed a great deal. Yet when they’re asked to project how much they’ll change in the next decade, they tend to believe they’ll change much less, if at all, as if all their life was leading up to this moment, in which they’ve achieved peak selfhood"

"Until 2020, I thought Jake and I would live in New York forever. New York is so fun! But, realistically, we stayed too long, our goals and priorities changed, and the cost and struggle of the city stopped outweighing the desire for a kid and to be close to family."

markcollin··on Ask HN: Ways to make side income as a SWE?
SWE pays well.

I would rather improve my skills, grow in my career and switch jobs to bump my salary than juggle a side income

markcollin··on Monaspace
going to try this out.. clever font name ;)
markcollin··on Humane AI Pin
I liked the demo actually. But it's scary that they would have access to all personal details.

But then Google already has access to all my data - via Gmail and my phone (android)

Humane clearly appears to be a category creator in the making

markcollin··on Hoppscotch desktop application
would love to know too. The website is gorgeous.
markcollin··on Hoppscotch desktop application
Ive tried Jetbrains Http client in the past; but I felt comfortable with a simple UI like Insomnia

Mostly used Insomnia for a long time, until I came across Bruno. Its been a game changer for me. Requests get saved as plain text files and still provides a great UI to work with

Basically all the benefits of text based files combined with a nice UI.

markcollin··on Choose Boring Technology (2018)
- choose the tech stack ur team is most comfortable with - focus on getting PPL to try your product, then revenue, then scale and then microservices - in that order
markcollin··on Nue.js: Rethinking Reactivity
Going through the nue the tldr I got is "bring back simple html friendly declarative directives (hello AngularJS)"

Nice to see people trying to push boundaries

Nue might not be a great option for building large scale web apps; it however could be a great way to add reactivity to simple websites. We don't need to have the full fledged webpack monstrosity for every little site.

markcollin··on Insomnium – Local, privacy-focused fork of Insomnia API client
forks are hard, but I wish you the best.
markcollin··on Bruno: Open-Source IDE for Exploring and Testing APIs
forks are harder to maintain (specially when the original is still active) i wish them luck. prolly the best approach for people who want to use insomnia is to downgrade and keep using an older version.
markcollin··on jq 1.7
Nice to see this. I use jq a lot.
markcollin··on Teens inundated with phone prompts day and night, research finds
The attention economy on full swing.
markcollin··on Goodbye integers, hello UUIDv7
Interesting - have beem using uuidv4 for a long time. Will explore further on uuidv7
markcollin··on Bruno: Open-Source IDE for Exploring and Testing APIs
happy user of bruno here, love the project and the local only file based approach (no cloud bullshit-have had enough of it)

looks like the app has struck a chord with many folks, seeing a lot of hn posts & discussions in the last week around bruno

markcollin··on Bruno – Opensource, sustainability, privacy, freedom and incentives
We don't talk about Bruno ;)
markcollin··on Bruno – Opensource, sustainability, privacy, freedom and incentives
Like? If I understand you raise outside only if you plan to scale and give a great return; otherwise it is better to bootstrap right?
markcollin··on Was JavaScript made in 10 days?
Yes. However I love the fact that Euch continued to oversee it's lead and development in tc39, and a lot of credit goes to him where js is today
markcollin··on Bruno – Opensource, sustainability, privacy, freedom and incentives
To put things into perspective MS bought "GitHub" (which has a monopoly on oss hosting) in 2018 for 7.5b

and Postman (a gui client) is at 5.6b. mind-bogglingly insane. I'd love to be enlightened on why is postman valued so much. what is d endgame here?

markcollin··on Bruno – Opensource, sustainability, privacy, freedom and incentives
that rings true. and devs dont usually pay for dev tools. the only way I see them having any success is if they gain significant market adoption

however I applaud the effort trying to innovate in the saturated field. Almost every alternative on that list except thunder client is vc funded. I still can't wrap my head around postmans 5.6b val lol

markcollin··on Is consciousness part of the fabric of the universe?
Recommended reading: Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsche
markcollin··on Burning money on paid ads for a dev tool – what we've learned
having someone on the founding team who has a sizable network on social media is an unfair advantage ex: rauchg-nextjs sahil-gumroad and so on.
markcollin··on Bruno – Opensource, sustainability, privacy, freedom and incentives
Interesting. glad to see the transparency. oss monetization is really hard.

sadly, most dev's don't pay for dev tooling.

really liking Bruno so far. Also I don't think a gui client would need vc funding. The pressure to show returns is what turns them to bloatware and saas.

I would pay for supporter edition if they go that route. tired of switching tools every 2 years.

markcollin··on Insomnia REST client now requires an account
lol.. here we are again discussing postman alternatives.. this looks like a cycle

open-source a tool

build userbase

VC funding

rugpull

repeat

markcollin··on Insomnia REST client now requires an account
lol.. here we are again discussing postman alternatives.. this looks like a cycle

open-source a tool

build userbase

VC funding

rugpull

repeat

markcollin··on Insomnia REST client now requires an account
Both popular alternatives - insomnia and Thunder client have pulled the rug

Had to migrate away from Thunder client once they announced their pricing and stopping freemium.

I have moved to bruno and its pretty refreshing to use a simple tool without the cloud bloat

markcollin··on Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman
Nice to the tools come out to save us from postman bloat

I have been recently trying out bruno - https://www.github.com/usebruno/bruno

It allows me to save my collection on my filesystem (as folders and files) and I use git to save them in my private repo

markcollin··on Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman
I have been recently trying https://www.github.com/usebruno/bruno and it allows you to use your own version control
markcollin··on Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman
You should checkout https://www.github.com/usebruno/bruno they have collections that run on top of a folder that can be synced with git