mrdonbrown

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by mrdonbrown 4mo ago
Gotcha. What would the ideal look like? Someone could create a financial doc they want to share then tell their agent to "Share foo.md with my team", and it would via mcp? On the backend, that mcp server takes the file and package
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by mrdonbrown 4mo ago
Makes sense. Would a tool that let non-tech people easily share and distribute skills without needing git be worth adoption? Would the info being shared just be skills or something else?
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by mrdonbrown 5mo ago
This is an underrated comment. You could have the best product out there, but AI has not only lowered the effort for competitors but has flooded traditional ways to get your product known, from outbound sales to content marketing. Sometimes
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by mrdonbrown 6mo ago
Why stop at skills though? If you are trying to solve the provisioning problem for agent tools, shouldn't that also include MCP, commands, hooks, rules, etc in addition to skills?
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by mrdonbrown 6mo ago
I could be wrong, but I don't think there is anything in the skills spec that prohibits a skill from having binaries? A skill may even choose to embed them to be able to run in sandboxed environments. Agreed on skills not being static.
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by mrdonbrown 8mo ago
If you want to share skills using something that has versioning, automatic updates, and focused on teams vs the internet at large, consider sx - https://github.com/sleuth-io/sx
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by mrdonbrown 8mo ago
If you want to share skills (and other tools) with teams at scale, consider sx - https://github.com/sleuth-io/sx [yup, my project :)]
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Show HN: Sx – I fixed Claude Code for teams(github.com)
5 points by mrdonbrown 8mo ago|1 comments
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by mrdonbrown 1y ago
I have a CD copy of the game, and many fond memories playing it with the wife in the early 2000's...
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by mrdonbrown 3y ago
Right, Jira is great at planning, but requires a lot of gardening to keep it up to date with actuals like when things ship and where. Glue automations like this can be really helpful.
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by mrdonbrown 3y ago
I met and worked with Bob in open source work in the mid 2000's, mostly with what would become Guice. He wrote this framework, again, thanks to his distaste of Spring and we put an early version of it what would become Apache Struts 2.
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by mrdonbrown 4y ago
I tried and liked Mint, but ended up with Red Pocket (MVNO that does Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T) when I moved somewhere that needed AT&T. It is pretty handy having one provider but having a choice of network. It also helps they hav
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by mrdonbrown 4y ago
Where I found that fell down was wanting to do things like slow zooms and interesting transitions. I'd love something like a Python or bash script to tweak that addressed those.
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by mrdonbrown 4y ago
Shotcut has this one cool feature [1] - drop a bunch of pictures into it and it'll create an animated slide show automatically. I've looked for ways to automate that via something like ffmpeg, but haven't found any better opt
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by mrdonbrown 4y ago
I haven't tried using the teleprompter with a webcam, but I don't see why it wouldn't work. I use a Sony a6600 myself, with a Sigma 16mm/f1.4 prime lense. Regardless, I recommend capturing in 4k, and running that through
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by mrdonbrown 4y ago
Sure, this is what I see [1] and you can see how it looks on the other side from my Twitch streams [2] [1] https://i.imgur.com/4JPIHx1.jpg [2] https://www.twitch.tv/mrdonbrown
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by mrdonbrown 4y ago
I use the Caddie Buddy one [1], which is a bit more robust for bigger cameras. There are other options where you can use your phone or something, but I prefer using a mirrorless and a good sized monitor. [1] https://caddiebuddy.c
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by mrdonbrown 4y ago
I'm surprised no one has mentioned using a teleprompter yet. You can pick one up for around $100 and when combined with a little 7" monitor (another $100) attached to your computer, creates a nice setup for zoom calls where you ca
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The wrong lessons to learn from the Log4j vulnerability(youtube.com)
9 points by mrdonbrown 5y ago|0 comments
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by mrdonbrown 5y ago
Exactly! Faster cycles means less waste and more productivity, not to mention better solutions and happier team members. It takes work for sure to build those relationships, but everyone is better off for them.
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by mrdonbrown 5y ago
Well said. Funny we realized long ago that you can't just have a backend team build an API then throw that the wall to a frontend team to use it, yet somehow, we often try to do that with design. To achieve what you describe takes more
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by mrdonbrown 5y ago
I recently did an interview on this topic [1] and I was surprised to hear the designer say, "If the developer tells me to design whatever and they'll build it, that is a huge fail". I kinda assumed designers were in their own
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by mrdonbrown 5y ago
When I worked at Atlassian, we had this issue as well, given all the many services that were deployed for products. A few of us left and created Sleuth [1] to solve it for Atlassian and folks like you. Sleuth helps you know what is deployed
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by mrdonbrown 6y ago
I built exactly this in my Manim-based library, code-video-generator [1] (via the code-video-generator command and the --slides flag). It basically turns any Manim scene.wait() call into a pause that I can then advance with a clicker. I use
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by mrdonbrown 6y ago
The library should work with a few other languages like Java, JavaScript, and C++. If you want to add another one, take a look at comment_parser.py as it is pretty simple.
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by mrdonbrown 6y ago
Related, if you want to create a code walkthrough video, I wrote code-video-generator [1] It uses Manim [2], an animation library commonly used by Math teachers, and adapted it to code walkthroughs. Just comment code as you do and it genera
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by mrdonbrown 6y ago
My team recently put in automation so that we use CircleCI for the staging deployment, have it wait for manual approval, then deploy to production. However, we can also give the Slack staging deployment message a +1 reaction, which will aut
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by mrdonbrown 6y ago
Right, got it. I think it is the lag time involved in the pipeline. Once a developer clicks merge, CI has to run, an artifact has to be created and uploaded, then usually a deployment to dev or staging is kicked off. That takes somewhere be
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by mrdonbrown 6y ago
To me, the main value of CD is ownership. The developer can own a change from beginning to end, and most importantly, its impact on production. That feedback loop creates better future changes and a better developer. Automatic deployment ta
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by mrdonbrown 6y ago
As my startup [1] is in the domain of CI/CD, I've been doing a bunch of customer development interviews to better understand how teams deliver software. I was also surprised how few teams use full Continuous Delivery, even at cutt

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