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skeptrune··on We architected an edge caching layer to eliminate cold starts
We chose to do a custom cache key to avoid modifying the origin host NextJS app as much as possible. If we had more confidence in modifying the host then I agree cache-tags would have been better.
skeptrune··on We architected an edge caching layer to eliminate cold starts
I blame this more on NextJS than Vercel, but agree in spirit. Their architecture creates a pit of failure where you're encouraged to fall into a fully dynamic pattern and is a huge trap.

However, it's probably more inexperience than anything. Nobody senior was around to tell our founders that they should go for a SSG architecture when they started /shrug. It's mostly worked out anyways though haha.

skeptrune··on We architected an edge caching layer to eliminate cold starts
Stale-while-revalidate as implemented in the post was easier for us and required less resources than migrating from our dynamic site architecture to static. Ideally we would have migrated to fully static sites, but the engineering effort required to make that happen wasn't in scope.
skeptrune··on $50 PlanetScale Metal Is GA for Postgres
Let's gooooo! Incredible deal for indiehackers.
skeptrune··on Online Piracy Can Boost Box Office Revenue, Study Suggests
I'm surprised that the argument here about piracy increasing box office demand instead of IP value.
skeptrune··on Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?
Have you tried prompting the loop? Something like "keep trying until <insert format command here> is happy?"
skeptrune··on Want to sway an election? Here’s how much fake online accounts cost
There are whitehat reasons to use these services with regards to creating private accounts for common digital software services. I'd be interested to know what % of usage is for that vs. sentiment manipulation.
skeptrune··on Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?
You likely need to provide it with more direction in your prompts.
skeptrune··on Using e-ink tablet as monitor for Linux
Ooh, crowdsupply looks interesting. This is my first time seeing it.
skeptrune··on Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class
All of the literature we recommend in school is outdated, so it makes sense to me that kids would not want to read them.

More school districts should experiment with contemporary novels that make sense in a modern context.

skeptrune··on Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?
You should make sure that your queries to the agent contain a "loop condition"[1]. This can be something like "keep trying until yarn test passes".

Always remember that these agents are just LLMs running tools in a loop and treat them as such.

[1] https://www.skeptrune.com/posts/prompting-the-agent-loop/

skeptrune··on Some surprising things about DuckDuckGo
I don't understand how this would compromise one's privacy.
skeptrune··on Some surprising things about DuckDuckGo
Your comment here made me go and try it. It's quite polished and smooth for an ai ux. I'll have to use it more for quick queries.
skeptrune··on Some surprising things about DuckDuckGo
This was an interesting read. I'm surprised by the market share statistics especially. It feels higher than my lived experience would suggest, but I am likely missing context on broader population usage.
skeptrune··on A series of tricks and techniques I learned doing tiny GLSL demos
Making things harder on yourself by imposing artificial limitations like the 512 character limit mentioned by the author seems to be an effective skill growth hack.
skeptrune··on Kroger acknowledges that its bet on robotics went too far
It's interesting that the problem had more to do with poor decision-making related to warehouse location than robotics limitations.

The title is a red herring.

skeptrune··on Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle
yes, let's definitely do that
skeptrune··on You Gotta Push If You Wanna Pull
Gunnar is a fantastic writer. I never thought about this before and cannot agree more now in hindsight having read his analysis.
skeptrune··on Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros
Hard agree. My read on the whole situation is that this is R.I.P. for Netflix as a tech company.
skeptrune··on Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving
I'm very thankful for @dang and @tomhow keeping this site such high signal to noise ratio. It's a great place to spend time on the internet :).
skeptrune··on Workday to acquire Pipedream
Agents are coming. What's an agent? Who knows. But know they're coming.
skeptrune··on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues
Feels like it's been a rough year for huge infra outages man :(.
skeptrune··on UCSD Faculty Sound Alarm on Declining Student Skills
I felt like the top quartile of my college class was getting nothing out of the education because they were too far ahead and the bottom two quartiles were getting nothing out of it because they were too far behind.
skeptrune··on AMD GPUs Go Brrr
I appreciate that there are people in academia working on this problem, but it seems like something AMD would have to fix internally if they were serious.
skeptrune··on Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for nuanced AI image generation
I need to give this a shot for turning written stories into comics. Seems like the technology is finally there.
skeptrune··on The history of Casio watches
Very cool! I've had a F91-W for years and never knew the history. I thought it was way older than '89.
skeptrune··on How Split Fiction, World of Warships, and Other Games Astroturfed Reddit
I don't mind this kind of marketing. It sounds like "hire us to get involved in your community with Reddit accounts and post about your game". Maybe if there was an easy way to sponsor redditors they wouldn't do this, but until this seems fine.
skeptrune··on OpenAI may not use lyrics without license, German court rules
I just expect openai to suspend service to Germany such that Germans have to use a VPN.
skeptrune··on OpenAI may not use lyrics without license, German court rules
I guess. But I doubt openai will change its behaviour due to this.
skeptrune··on OpenAI may not use lyrics without license, German court rules
Probably not for something like this honestly. I feel like it would just keep getting appealed up. But what do I know? I'm not an attorney.
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