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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.
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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…
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nice. i just asked chatgpt for the lean and it said progressive so there ya go.
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ya. classic tactic to label someone so there's pattern matching for readers. happens everywhere unfortunately.
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funny. I was just texting someone this morning and using emdashes — and thought to myself... oh no.
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More info here: https://chad.cm/posts/2026-7-22-announcing-the-daily-fm
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Congrats Poolside team!!
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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.…
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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.
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"Claude was the only LLM to survive the LLM Wars."
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get your popcorn out. the git wars are on.
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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`!
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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."
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The PostHog Enterprise license (the “Enterprise License”)
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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.
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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…
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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…
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Please invest in some happy backyard chickens if you are able. We did, and it's amazing.
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I suspect CF is their future CLI.
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what did you use for the eink display?
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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…
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TIL last.fm is still around!