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by philfreo 4mo ago
We evaluated Stainless, Fern [1], and a few others for Docs & SDKs (soon, CLI) and ended up choosing Fern. Definitely glad we did after today's news. Hadn't seen WorkOS's work here though - thanks for sharing. [1] https:
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by philfreo 7mo ago
Is this article from a while back? > Before your agent can do anything useful, it needs to know what tools are available. MCP’s answer is to dump the entire tool catalog into the conversation as JSON Schema. Every tool, every parameter,
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by philfreo 1y ago
Cool. Reminds me of using SendKeys() in Visual Basic 6 in the 90s https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/microsoft.visua...
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by philfreo 2y ago
Can someone explain point #9 in the gist? How’d they know part of the two factor code?
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by philfreo 2y ago
I spent some time playing around with this recently and loved it at first. I also realized ChatGPT is pretty good at generating Mermaid diagrams (didn't try your own AI features). However after getting into it some I ran into some sign
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by philfreo 3y ago
At Close we have been offering an 80% salary / 4-day week option for engineering roles for a few years now. This originally was mandatory during early 2020 COVID-19 economic uncertainty as a way to cut costs without doing layoffs. Quic
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by philfreo 4y ago
Is this meant to be a good drop-in rich-text/WYSIWYG editor? What is the format that it creates that you could then persist in a database? Does it just save its state in HTML or some JSON format or what?
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How We Improved Reliability of our WebSocket Connections(making.close.com)
41 points by philfreo 5y ago|18 comments
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by philfreo 5y ago
As a hiring manager at a startup-ish SaaS company: I love seeing side projects, both because - it shows you have entrepreneurial skills (care about and able to think about more than just code) - as well as the technical side (shows you’re a
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by philfreo 6y ago
As a customer of Stripe too, I almost[1] couldn't disagree more. Running a global online/SaaS business is hard. So much complexity everywhere. I wish Stripe would handle MORE problems & complexity and would happily pay for i
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by philfreo 6y ago
I'd suggest putting the information directly on your site (at least the IPOs coming up in the next X days) and charge for the deeper access + email notifications. But that way people have a reason to visit your site even if they haven&
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The Billing Customer Portal(stripe.com)
8 points by philfreo 6y ago|0 comments
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by philfreo 6y ago
With an 8 year old codebase w/100s of thousands of lines of code and 100s of dependencies, this was no easy task. We had read many of the blog posts about the Python 3 transition, and yet still had a number of surprises. Here were some
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Python 3(engineering.close.com)
18 points by philfreo 6y ago|1 comments
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by philfreo 6y ago
I already have screenshots going into a Dropbox -> Screenshots directory (with "Fan" display from my macOS Dock), which I like. However I do want non-cloud OCR / text search on existing + new screenshots. Basically I don&#
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by philfreo 7y ago
> The redirect logic provided by the S3 website endpoint can be moved to a Lambda@Edge function. The post here is using Lambda@Edge to handle pointing example.com/about/ to example.com/about/index.html However there&#
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Using Lambda Edge to setup server-side redirects on a CloudFront+S3 static site(engineering.close.com)
12 points by philfreo 7y ago|0 comments
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by philfreo 7y ago
Is there an app like this (local only) for macOS?
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Show HN: BoxedName – Ready-to-go names for your next startup(boxedname.com)
1 points by philfreo 7y ago|0 comments
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by philfreo 7y ago
In the US, another way to make anonymous donations to charity is to use a Donor Advised Fund [1]. For example Fidelity Charitable [2] makes it easy to make grants anonymously if you choose. Beyond that, there can also be additional tax adva
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by philfreo 7y ago
I'll echo this and the related/parent comments -- super common experience for me too. I WANT to use iOS Safari and frequently do -- I just wish their mobile web version was given more love/functionality versus being a strippe
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by philfreo 7y ago
Yes, I'm using "timezone" as shorthand for "the timezone of your working hours", which occasionally can/does include people who want to work odd hours to accommodate. That said, we are always a little skeptical
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by philfreo 7y ago
There's a big difference between remote work (which can function 100% perfectly fine in the "Manager's schedule") from "remote work across varying timezones". In my experience (3+ years working fully remotely,
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Super simple React component for creating a custom scrollbar(github.com)
5 points by philfreo 7y ago|0 comments
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by philfreo 7y ago
Close.com | REMOTE WANTED: - Senior Software Engineer - Backend (Python) - Senior Software Engineer - Frontend (JavaScript/React) WHO ARE WE: At Close we’re a 100% remote team of ~33 building the sales communication platform of the fut
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by philfreo 7y ago
I've been with Close for over 7 years (since before we launched Close). It's a very special team. Feel free to hit me up at phil @ the domain
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by philfreo 7y ago
Close.com | REMOTE WANTED: - Senior Software Engineer - Backend (Python) - Senior Software Engineer - Frontend (JavaScript/React) WHO ARE WE: At Close we’re a 100% remote team of ~33 building the sales communication platform of the fut
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by philfreo 7y ago
Close.com | REMOTE WANTED: - Senior Software Engineer - Backend (Python) WHO ARE WE: At Close.io we’re building the sales communication platform of the future. We’ve built a next-generation CRM that eliminates manual data entry and helps sa
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by philfreo 8y ago
Close.io | REMOTE WANTED: Infrastructure/TechOps Engineering Two roles: 1. https://jobs.lever.co/close.io/38d0c4ac-c3eb-47e9-a49e-4611f... 2. https://jobs.lever.co/close.io/26369307-318c-4fee-
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by philfreo 8y ago
We recognize we are looking for someone very senior here in terms of devops/tech experience + having leadership experience... we're willing to be very competitive in salary/comp to accomplish this. Feel free to reach out at p

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