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carimura

1,646karma·538submissions·December 7, 2011
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Former founder/CEO of Iron.io

Former VP DevRel, Java Platform Group, Oracle

What's next? TBD!

https://chad.cm

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If I could point to two major influences that directed me towards computer engineering it was Hypercard and BBS's.
20d ago·view thread
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i've said this before on Hn but I called the sheriff to discuss these in our neighborhood and asked if they could search for our whereabouts and he said "only if there's an active crime…
22d ago·view thread
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nice. i just asked chatgpt for the lean and it said progressive so there ya go.
22d ago·view thread
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ya. classic tactic to label someone so there's pattern matching for readers. happens everywhere unfortunately.
22d ago·view thread
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funny. I was just texting someone this morning and using emdashes — and thought to myself... oh no.
23d ago·view thread
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More info here: https://chad.cm/posts/2026-7-22-announcing-the-daily-fm
25d ago·view thread
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Congrats Poolside team!!
26d ago·view thread
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Ya my memories are similar: ~12 years old building BBS's late into the night, then after college first startup, programming from midnight to 5am "in the flow" - nobody around or online.…
1mo ago·view thread
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I've found that I can go back and forth between two workstreams (at most) but beyond that my brain gets fried from the context switching.
1mo ago·view thread
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"Claude was the only LLM to survive the LLM Wars."
1mo ago·view thread
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get your popcorn out. the git wars are on.
1mo ago·view thread
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i was just joking about Anthropic's `ant` CLI not caring about Apache `ant` (maybe one person got it), and now we're talking about Javascript `ant`!
1mo ago·view thread
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that's 100% happening to me right now not just with a specific codebase but with the fun/engineering parts of coding in general.... it makes me sad, slightly concerned, but optimistic that I…
1mo ago·view thread
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I haven't used them but I'm sure they're good and I'm sure they're even using LLMs themselves now as a non-deterministic pass. For my use cases I'm just trying to keep ve…
1mo ago·view thread
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I don't have a scientific answer to this but I'm just assuming a different model, and more specifically, the frontier latest models like Fable/5.6 would catch things the author model mi…
1mo ago·view thread
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I find myself doing this but then I worry that the slop will just compound and 3, 6, 12 months from now as my services scale I'll have a harder time operating them. Maybe I'm wrong.
1mo ago·view thread
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I continually run codebases through different models to have them look for bad code smells like repeated code. That's been pretty effective. You do have to maintain over time or else you end up w…
1mo ago·view thread
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Agreed. "I don't need a receipt for the donut, I'll just give you some money, you give me the donut. End of transaction. We don't need to bring ink and paper into this."
1mo ago·view thread
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The PostHog Enterprise license (the “Enterprise License”)
1mo ago·view thread
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I missed the fact that Meta was developing and releasing closed-weights models... bummer. Would be great to see some more progress with American open-weights models.
1mo ago·view thread
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there seems to be a lot of burnout from folks who have been in tech for a decent stretch, not just devrel. AI is an accelerant but not the only reason. probably the "power swap" as well as m…
1mo ago·view thread
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ya that is likely correct in most cases, but I bet one could sell their surplus at a discount from store and break even. So that means "invest" the time and resources to take just a small pi…
1mo ago·view thread
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Please invest in some happy backyard chickens if you are able. We did, and it's amazing.
1mo ago·view thread
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I suspect CF is their future CLI.
1mo ago·view thread
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what did you use for the eink display?
2mo ago·view thread
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this thread is crazy.. hackers are clearly hacking, myself included. A lot of what I've built I've already seen here: 1. home automation, access point management, solar/battery health m…
2mo ago·view thread
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TIL last.fm is still around!
2mo ago·view thread