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Absolutely - not a criticism. I think it's great to try out projects :)

Nice! Reminds me a little of https://github.com/gchq/CyberChef

A dumb vibe-coded GTA III parody set in my city of Glasgow: https://glasgow-brawler.vercel.app/

I managed to find that Haiku outperformed Sonnet on some tasks...don't want to blog spam but if anyone is interested: https://www.ruairidh.dev/blog/sonnet-4-6-drops-format-rule-o...

I recently made halftrace - point it at your OpenAI/Anthropic/LangSmith agent logs and it tells you what shape your agent's rule-following has, why, and what to try. I built it to try and find smooth decay over trajectory length on Claude.

https://halftrace.dev

Ricoh GRIII / IV is absolutely perfect for this imo

I guess just a spell-check in the repo? But yes, I'd imagine that they have an effect. Even running the same input twice is non-deterministic.

I literally just posted a blog on this. Some seemingly insignificant words are actually highly structural to the model. https://www.ruairidh.dev/blog/compressing-prompts-with-an-au...

Also seen this several times.

To be fair, I suspect he doesn't make his own tea xD

Hi HN,

I built WinLog because I kept seeing good engineers undersell themselves during reviews and promotions. Not because they weren’t doing great work, but because they simply forgot what they’d shipped over time.

WinLog helps you capture your "wins" as you go:

- You can log wins manually in a few seconds, or

- Passively capture candidates from Slack channels you choose (nothing is stored without approval)

Each win is rewritten into a concise, professional bullet you can use for:

- Performance reviews

- 1:1 prep

- Promotion packets

- Brag docs / weekly updates

It’s early, but I’ve been using it as my own tool and found it to be very helpful!

Would love feedback, especially from people who’ve struggled with review season or managing reports.

Link: https://winlog.dev

It has, but there are always new perspectives.

I'd say ICs and Team Leads in eng organisations. So far I'm thinking Reddit and HN? Maybe a bit of LinkedIn

$0 so far (just launched).

I recently launched https://winlog.dev, a Slack-first tool to help engineers capture their work as it happens so they’re better prepared for reviews and promotions.

It’s early days, but I’m using it with my own reports and so far it's been really helpful. The goal for 2026 is to grow this into a meaningful side-business, but if not, then it's useful to me!

I'm moving house and it's great for feeding in floor plans and coming up with ideas. Like having an interior designer. Not always accurate but it's enough to get me going.

As a manager, I try and take most of it on when possible. The team have worked hard all year and I view it as good leadership to let them have that space.

There are absolutely loads of us here in Scotland :)

Yeah a RAW image is like a 'digital negative' so it preserves all the data that the sensor in the camera captures. A JPEG or similar is processed and compressed so the camera makes some decisions and 'bakes in' stylistic choices which are much harder to fix in post.

You can read a bit more about it here: https://photographylife.com/raw-vs-jpeg

Most of this will be post-processed. You can get a decent camera + lens which helps, as well as a good eye for photography. The rest is shooting in RAW and knowing how to use Lightroom to get the most out of your photo.

AskPorter | Software Engineer (all levels) | Sales Engineers | Remote | Full Time

We are a Google and VC backed Digital Assistant SaaS platform helping clients deliver better services to their customers. We are now seeking multiple full-time Software Engineers to join our established team to further expand and evolve our SaaS products.

Founded in 2016 as part of the Pi Labs accelerator programme, askporter has had a meteoric rise and has received industry wide recognition for our innovative Digital Assistant platform. We started with a focus in the property management industry, improving the experience for residents. We are now expanding out to tackle similar challenges across other sectors, starting with improving the broad range of services local councils deliver to their residents.

Supported by further investment from Google, VC firms and high profile angel investors we are in a fantastic place to pursue our mission to help our clients deliver better services, more efficiently with a complete AI solution. Ultimately our vision is to enable people to spend less time on the mundane and more time on the things that matter.

We're looking for sales engineers who can assist our product team in helping customers understand what is possible with the AskPorter platform.

We're also open to software engineers of all levels who have experience in Node/TS/React/AWS, etc.

If you're interested, email me at ruairidh[DOT]wynnemchardy@ the domain: askproducts.co

For my own learning, what do you mean by a 'crash cart' here?

Probably not. You need to practice. As a fellow self-taught engineer, I'd say it's worth doing. Check out something like algoexpert.io or one of Andre Neagoie's courses on Udemy to get a mix of theory and practice.

https://ruairidh.dev - just my dev blog. Recently given a new lick of paint!

I have a GraphQL course on Educative. It doesn't make crazy money, but definitely nice beer money every month! You could make several of these to increase the income and it's pretty passive (after writing your course obviously).

AskPorter | Software Engineer (all levels) | Remote | Full Time

We are a Google and VC backed Digital Assistant SaaS platform helping clients deliver better services to their customers. We are now seeking multiple full-time Software Engineers to join our established team to further expand and evolve our SaaS products.

Founded in 2016 as part of the Pi Labs accelerator programme, askporter has had a meteoric rise and has received industry wide recognition for our innovative Digital Assistant platform. We started with a focus in the property management industry, improving the experience for residents. We are now expanding out to tackle similar challenges across other sectors, starting with improving the broad range of services local councils deliver to their residents.

Supported by further investment from Google, VC firms and high profile angel investors we are in a fantastic place to pursue our mission to help our clients deliver better services, more efficiently with a complete AI solution. Ultimately our vision is to enable people to spend less time on the mundane and more time on the things that matter.

We're looking for engineers who have experience with: Node, and TypeScript. We're open to people who prefer backend, frontend, or full-stack work.

If you're interested, email me at ruairidh[DOT]wynnemchardy@ the domain: askproducts.co

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Shameless plug, I quite like my own: https://ruairidh.dev

You wouldn't believe the lack of efficiency in law firms (much of the cost of which is passed to clients). When I tried selling SAAS to law firms, there was a degree of resistance because efficiency threatens the charge by the unit model.

I no longer work in law ;)

AskPorter | Remote (UK) | https://askporter.com

We are a Google and VC backed Digital Assistant SaaS platform helping clients deliver better services to their customers. We are now seeking multiple full-time Software Engineers to join our established team to further expand and evolve our SaaS products.

Founded in 2016 as part of the Pi Labs accelerator programme, askporter has had a meteoric rise and has received industry wide recognition for our innovative Digital Assistant platform. We started with a focus in the property management industry, improving the experience for residents. We are now expanding out to tackle similar challenges across other sectors, starting with improving the broad range of services local councils deliver to their residents.

Roles we're looking for:

* Software Engineer: http://prtr.link/jd/se

* SRE: http://prtr.link/jd/sre

Any questions? Contact me via my email in my profile, or send an application to jobs@askporter.com with [Hacker News] in the subject.

Sure - I just didn't make enough money from it. Looking back, there was potential but I didn't have enough experience to grow the product, and my technical skillset wasn't anywhere close to the level I've reached working as a full-time software engineer.

At some point I'd look to doing a SaaS again, but I'm happy working on other stuff just now and improving my software engineering skills.

Worked as a lawyer but was coding on the side. I started making legal technology products and selling them as SaaS. Then I decided I loved that way more, moved to Spain, started doing freelance development, and eventually got hired full time by a client.

Since then I've changed jobs a few times, but love what I do and have never looked back.