dugmartin

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by dugmartin 1mo ago
I think you are thinking g of Boris Yeltsin - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_visit_by_Boris_Yeltsin_to...
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by dugmartin 1mo ago
My solution for that is to use skills and add a omnibus shell script in each particular skill folder that does all the deterministic steps and then write the skill markdown to only use the script, usually passing a command line step paramet
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by dugmartin 2mo ago
I've been building these same personal apps but on Firebase. They have a generous free tier that includes hosting and you can add real user auth, again all for free.
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by dugmartin 2mo ago
I have my own review skill (I think it predates when Claude added theirs) and one thing I'd add to your description is tell it to examine all the code and then, based on the changes, do a multi-role review of the code again using the m
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by dugmartin 4mo ago
I'm curious what it is going to find in my 10 year old Elixir codebase (still in active production use).
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by dugmartin 4mo ago
I've found a mix of peppered in upper case words where you are effectively yelling at the LLM also gives it a strong signal. It is also a bit cathartic.
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by dugmartin 5mo ago
I miss pre-COVID prices. Our local diner is now $20+ for a simple breakfast (eggs, toast, bacon, coffee/tea) for two people. Pre-COVID is was ~$10 with tip.
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by dugmartin 5mo ago
I've heard the rule of thumb in a well run restaurant business is 30/30/30/10: 1. 30% food costs 2. 30% labor costs 3. 30% overhead 4. 10% profit margin
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by dugmartin 5mo ago
Its hard to express what it was like in the early/mid-80s (before I had my drivers licence) to bike a few miles to the bookstore at the start of every month and see all the new computer magazine covers for that month. It was so exciti
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by dugmartin 5mo ago
JWZ is still blocking traffic from HN so you can't click to read this but you can copy/paste it into a new tab or open it in a incognito window: https://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html
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by dugmartin 5mo ago
It is available here: https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/acli/guides/introducti... It has a pretty discoverable cli syntax (at least for Claude). I use it in my custom skills to pull Jira story info when
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by dugmartin 6mo ago
No, it was just there were no PM filters.
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by dugmartin 7mo ago
I grew up in small town Midwest and have now lived in tiny town New England for 20+ years. It still bothers me that folks here in New England won’t even acknowledge you on the sidewalk as you pass each other whereas in the Midwest that is a
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by dugmartin 7mo ago
Eons ago I developed a site+Windows app called 24Link (I know, horrible name) that let you run a tiny ~50KB web server in your taskbar and point it as a folder on your machine. If you visited 24link.com/{username} you would get a full
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by dugmartin 7mo ago
You should look up the Jallianwala Bagh massacre. (Full disclosure - I had to look up the name after remembering it portrayed in the movie Gandhi)
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by dugmartin 8mo ago
I need Claude to review my HN comments.
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by dugmartin 8mo ago
I have 30+ years of industry experience and I've been leaning heavily into spec driven development at work and it is a game changer. I love programming and now I get to program at one level higher: the spec. I spend hours on a spec, w
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by dugmartin 9mo ago
We have a small local company that takes bulk book (and cds, dvds, video games, vinyl records) donations. That company has couple of retail used bookstores and also sells both retail and wholesale online but, according to their owner, most
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by dugmartin 9mo ago
I think as ai tools actually learn languages that functional languages will win out as they are much easier to reason about.
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by dugmartin 10mo ago
They got it for cheap. AOL paid $165 billion for Time Warner in 2000. Is Netflix the next AOL?
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by dugmartin 10mo ago
Remember the old Bjarne Stroustrup quote: "There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses."
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by dugmartin 10mo ago
I forgot where I read it (Steve McConnell?) but the best analogy I've heard for a boss/project leader is to think of your job is moving a house and the bosses job is to be a few streets ahead taking down telephone pole wires so yo
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by dugmartin 10mo ago
I agree. There are lots of free AstroJS themes for restaurants that generate static html that you can host somewhere like Firebase hosting for free. - https://astro.build/themes/details/astropie/ - https:&#
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by dugmartin 10mo ago
Not biblical references but rather Elmer Fudd. Bugs Bunny called Elmer Fudd "Nimrod" in a 1940's cartoon to sarcastically refer to Elmer as a great hunter. At that time I think most people probably got the biblical reference
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by dugmartin 10mo ago
If you are into podcasts Steve McConnell (the author) was a guest a couple of months ago on the pragmatic engineer podcast. My one take away from that podcast was just how young and new in his career he was when he wrote that book. https:
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by dugmartin 11mo ago
Slower and unstable. I spent a lot of my freshman year in college on Bitnet chat and iirc about every 30 minutes there would be a "netsplit" and a bunch of folks in the chat would disappear. Maybe it was our universities connect
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by dugmartin 11mo ago
I know this was a joke: <div id="root"></div> <script src="bundle.js"></script> but I feel there is a last tag missing: <main>...</main> that will ens
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by dugmartin 11mo ago
I started around the same time. No unit tests but we did have code reviews because of ISO 9001 requirements. That meant printing out the diffs on the laser printer and corralling 3 people into a meeting room to pour over them and then hav
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by dugmartin 11mo ago
A doctor in my little town created his own open source EMR software in FileMaker: https://cottagemed.org/p/24/Cottage-Med His practice also accepts payment in the form of barter: https://cottagemed.org&
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by dugmartin 1y ago
> You should also remove any students from classrooms whom routinely distract from others' learning. You can't do this without getting sued (at least in Massachusetts). Source: my wife is a long-time elementary school teacher

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