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by davepeck 15d ago
Some of my fave C64 memories as a kid: listening to cassette tapes with stuff stored on them, punching in COMPUTE! listings with MLX, discovering 6510 and learning the Merlin assembler, long runs in Moon Patrol, making sprites with Gary Kit
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by davepeck 27d ago
A wise troll once said: > best weapon against complexity spirit demon is magic word: "no" In counterpoint, I believe small teams can remain small. Small teams can ship simple monoliths with high velocity, commit count, and qual
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by davepeck 1mo ago
It may be an age thing. 15-ish years ago, TDD, BDD, Red/Green Testing, and a whole bunch of others were hot topics. They’re still useful approaches to know about, even if some (like, IMO, BDD) didn’t really stand the test of time.
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by davepeck 3mo ago
My strong feeling while reading this “philosopher CEO”’s manifesto: consumer VPNs primarily help customers fight for their right to stream Netflix. This doesn’t strike me as effective advertisement.
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by davepeck 3mo ago
> the entire point of the ipad is that it's a handicapped tool amusing nonsense
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How I Host(davepeck.org)
4 points by davepeck 4mo ago|0 comments
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by davepeck 5mo ago
This thread is pretty quiet for what strikes me as a substantial set of changes with, presumably, more substantial changes still to come for anyone not grandfathered into a Pro plan. I get the impression that the intersection of HN posters
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by davepeck 7mo ago
My parents bought one for the house when I was in elementary school. I still remember the sound of the Speech Synthesizer, discovering 20 GOTO 10, and playing Hunt the Wumpus.
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by davepeck 7mo ago
CEOs have many audiences; great CEOs communicate capably with each. FWIW it's not entirely clear to me who Entire's long-term customer is , but the (interesting!) CLI that shipped today is very much for developers who are busy bu
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by davepeck 7mo ago
Dohmke never spoke clearly to developers when he was GitHub's CEO.
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by davepeck 7mo ago
Watching their public roadmap to see what happens. Right now, it looks about the same as it has for a while: useful new features and expected maintenance, moving along at a reasonable if not blistering clip. https://github.com&#x
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by davepeck 8mo ago
Oh, that's very interesting work. And, yes, I'd also be surprised if (today's) agentic tools were at all helpful for that: it's way outside of distribution, and conceptual correctness truly matters.
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by davepeck 8mo ago
I made some small contributions to cpython during the 3.14 cycle. The codebase is an interesting mix of modern and “90s style” C code. I found that agentic coding tools were quite good at answering my architectural questions; even when thei
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by davepeck 8mo ago
Per PEP 744, cpython shipped with an experimental JIT (default disabled) in 3.13. It remains experimental in 3.14. See https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.13.html#an-experimental...
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by davepeck 8mo ago
This is self-destructive defeatism. It is also flat wrong on its substantive points.
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by davepeck 8mo ago
Give https://www.paper2audio.com/ a try; it is targeted at just this use case. It’s a Seattle-local startup.
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R1: A Foundational Model for Small Molecule Drug Discovery(rhizomeresearch.ai)
2 points by davepeck 9mo ago|0 comments
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by davepeck 1y ago
If you’re curious about or playing with t-strings, see https://t-strings.help/
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by davepeck 1y ago
I'd never heard of it, alas. Luckily, they live in pretty different language ecosystems.
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by davepeck 1y ago
Hi! Thanks for your deeply non-silly reply; it's nice to (virtually) meet a cofounder. If you have time, I'd love to hear your thoughts on Mullvad's campaign here in Seattle. For what it's worth, I suppose my perspective
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by davepeck 1y ago
Long ago, in the era of Firesheep and exploding prevalence of coffee-shop Wi-Fi, consumer VPN services were definitely valuable. But that was long ago. Now, HTTPS is the norm. The only use cases for consumer VPNs today seem to be (1) "
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OpenAI Acquires Statsig for $1.1B(geekwire.com)
3 points by davepeck 1y ago|0 comments
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by davepeck 1y ago
It's not unreasonable to ask but I think it probably is unreasonable to expect a strictly technical solution. It feels like we're in the realm of politics, policy, and law.
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by davepeck 1y ago
Okay. Which, specifically, are the "AI scum" companies you're speaking of? There are plenty of non-AI companies that also use dubiously sourced IPs and hide behind fake User-Agents.
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by davepeck 1y ago
> Everyone loves the dream of a free for all and open web. But the reality is how can someone small protect their blog or content from AI training bots? I'm old enough to remember when people asked the same questions of Hotbot, Lyco
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by davepeck 1y ago
There are many reasons that "I used AI to do it all and now I've got $REAL ARR" strikes me as unlikely. To name just two: 1. I code with LLMs (Copilot, Claude Code). Like anyone who has done so, I know a lot about where these
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by davepeck 1y ago
Thanks, I’ll take a look. Everyone uses these tools differently, so I find AI-generated repos (and AI live-coding streams) to be useful learning material. FWIW: “Infuriating/wonderful” is exactly how I feel about LLM copilots, too! Lik
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by davepeck 1y ago
Ive never once successfully gotten a usable sprite sheet out of ChatGPT. The concept seems foreign to it and no matter how hard I try to steer it it’ll find a way to do something hopeless (inconsistent frame sizes; incoherent animations; no
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by davepeck 1y ago
> I've literally built the entire MVP of my startup on Claude Code and now have paying customers. Would you mind linking to your startup? I’m genuinely curious to see it. (I won’t reply back with opinions about it. I just want to kn
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by davepeck 1y ago
Am I the only one who found Dohmke’s communication style to be… buzzword forward? For a company whose roots were in pragmatic engineering, I always felt that there was a too-heavy component of hype, particularly around AI, in pretty much ev

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