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ryandetzel

758 karma · joined March 30, 2012

I write code, usually for profit but not always.
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ryandetzel··on Tell HN: OpenAI $500 ProMax plan listed in API
If it's unlimited that would be tempting. But that will never happen and if it does "unlimited" would not be
ryandetzel··on Vessel An EGA adventure about whether machines can grieve
Claude, make this mobile friendly.

I really wanted to play but just can't on a phone which I'm assuming is 90% of peoples first interaction?

ryandetzel··on Show HN: We want to displace Notion with collaborative Markdown files
What is the pricing strategy. I really like this concept and have been looking for something like this but would love to know where this is going commercially
ryandetzel··on How I use every Claude Code feature
I have a bash script that creates the worktree, copies env over and changes the ports of containers and the services. I then can proxy the "real" port to any worktree, it's common I'll have 3 worktrees active to switch back and forth
ryandetzel··on GPT-5-Codex
I don't know. Something that takes CC about a minute is now on minute 15 with this new model...
ryandetzel··on Ask HN: How do you store the knowledge gained in a day?
I have a discord bot and a bunch of channels for projects and a new thread is started weekly for that weeks notes. The bot reads and responds to messages posted there and saves them to the appropriate location and organizes them for me
ryandetzel··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
Amazing, lol
ryandetzel··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
A game: you're stuck on a 1970s spacecraft and you have to program your way home using 6502 assembly. I wanted to learn more about old 8 bit cpus so figured I would make a game out of it
ryandetzel··on Show HN: DIY 80€ 3D Printer Basement Ventilation
The problem for me is it's 23 degrees f outside so if I vent outside I'm losing money
ryandetzel··on Browser extension that globally blocks vertical video?
I wish everything was so great in my life that this could be a concern.
ryandetzel··on Ask HN: What do you do on the weekend?
From Apr-Oct we have friends over and enjoy doing what ever we want, different family every weekend usually booked all but two weeks we use for just family time. From Oct-Apr various activities and housework, electronics projects, programming, etc
ryandetzel··on Ask HN: What do you do on the weekend?
We went the other way and I'm so happy we did. Some think we're bad parents but we work all week and don't want our weekends working as chauffeur so we don't allow our three kids to play spring/summer sports. We have a few friend who do and it just looks miserable.
ryandetzel··on Some colleges will soon charge $100k a year – how did this happen?
Have we seen people start to game this system? Basically, attend a cheaper school for 2-3 years then jump to an elite one to get the paper?
ryandetzel··on You'll need more energy than the entire universe to spin the last gear once [video]
I find this amazing. Something you can see, touch, and build, yet it would be impossible to ever get that last gear to spin even once...
ryandetzel··on Words Make It Obvious That Your Text Is Written by AI
With more of these articles surfacing all prompts will just have a built in: "Don't include these words: Don't use any of these phrases: Etc..."
ryandetzel··on Kind of annoyed at React
I think is because boot camps pushed out bad developers. You can write bad code in any language framework, react isn't any different. We now just have a ton of front end devs that don't understand how to write good software
ryandetzel··on Ask HN: What work/office purchase transformed your life?
Do you ever sit, I like the idea of this but I try to do half/half so moving this out of the way every time I switch feels like a pain
ryandetzel··on Q&A with a person who does not have an internal monologue [video]
This video is old but I recently discovered that some people don't have an internal monologue and it's amazing.
ryandetzel··on Improving deep sleep may prevent dementia, study finds
If I drink past 2pm I'm up...weird but only started after I was 40 really. I'm starting to think my sleep just sucks so my mind is more aware that I have to go and not that something has changed with my bladder
ryandetzel··on Ask HN: How do you market an AI-powered productivity tool?
Would help to know what kind of tool as this will dictate how best to market it.

Could you start referencing it in blog posts you write? Make some short videos showing off a single feature? Reach out to YouTubers and get them interested in it

ryandetzel··on Ask HN: What's your go-to webhost in 2023 for simple websites?
I did this a few months ago, and CF Pages is by far the most flexible and easy way once you have it setup. Spend some time just setting it up and understanding it and then making changes is just a commit and push away. Scales well and offers a lot of other features some of the other platforms don't, for free
ryandetzel··on Ask HN: What's your go-to webhost in 2023 for simple websites?
Agreed. Once you get over the small hurdle of learning something new often times the new confusing method is much easier than the old way.
ryandetzel··on Purple Monster Project: 10k AI-Generated Monstrosities for Science
Welcome to the repository of 10,000 AI-generated monsters, a project born out of boredom, a hint of alcohol, and a rainy Saturday afternoon.
ryandetzel··on Workers AI: Serverless GPU-powered inference
I want to love workers but I've never had great luck with anymore more than a basic crud app. Even getting an external db to connect proved to be more work than it should have, and their docs are all outdated and all over the place, often contradicting themselves.
ryandetzel··on What was webdev programming full-time look like in the 80s, 90 or early 2000's?
First web dev job in early 2000s no version control (ftp the files around), no database (flat file csv), no testing (manually usually in prod), no ticket bug tracking, no prd/tdds, I'm amazed we had a working product people paid for.
ryandetzel··on Twitter refuses to pay arbitration costs for 891 laid-off workers, lawsuit says
The lawyers are fronting the fees if Twitter won't which indicates they feel it's a pretty solid case IMHO.
ryandetzel··on Ask HN: Have any notable companies failed because of poor code?
Interesting, never heard of that, good story. While I think you're technically right, this isn't quite what I had in mind. :-) This was not really a coding error or lack of quality as more just a mistake from what I gathered from the wikipedia entry
ryandetzel··on Ask HN: Have any notable companies failed because of poor code?
Yeah, I would put that under poor management since they decided a rewrite was necessary when it probably wasn't
ryandetzel··on Ask HN: Have any notable companies failed because of poor code?
Yeah, but did they fail to build the right things...or did they just write bad code that didn't work? I would assume the former, but you're right, it's hard to quantify. My CEO said something the other day at an all-hands, someone asked what concerns him and he said velocity and then followed it up with not that we're moving slowly but rather he's worried we're building fast just in the wrong direction. I think this happens a lot. I can't think of a single company that failed because they didn't have unit tests, or they chose the wrong DB. I'm sure they're out there, maybe, but it's more common you're going to fail because you built the wrong thing vs the code wasn't tested, no?
ryandetzel··on ChatGPTify: Spotify Playlist Generator via ChatGPT
This is really cool, I'm going to try it out.
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