Nick Mills-Barrett
@fizzadar.com
Make servers and code go brr @ Beeper. Infra/devops/platform or whatever you want to call it.
Elsewhere:
- pointlessramblings.com
- Matrix: @fizzadar:beeper.com
- Mastodon: @[email protected]
Elsewhere:
- pointlessramblings.com
- Matrix: @fizzadar:beeper.com
- Mastodon: @[email protected]
One of my kids presents is apparently from the future..
December 26, 2025 at 10:06 AM
One of my kids presents is apparently from the future..
Used Claude plan mode for the first time, some thoughts
1. instantly 10x cost of everything
2. nothing that couldn’t be done in my head, and probably quicker (watching Claude is boring)
3. thinking is the fun bit, the entire process feels completely soulless
Not my cup of tea.
1. instantly 10x cost of everything
2. nothing that couldn’t be done in my head, and probably quicker (watching Claude is boring)
3. thinking is the fun bit, the entire process feels completely soulless
Not my cup of tea.
December 2, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Used Claude plan mode for the first time, some thoughts
1. instantly 10x cost of everything
2. nothing that couldn’t be done in my head, and probably quicker (watching Claude is boring)
3. thinking is the fun bit, the entire process feels completely soulless
Not my cup of tea.
1. instantly 10x cost of everything
2. nothing that couldn’t be done in my head, and probably quicker (watching Claude is boring)
3. thinking is the fun bit, the entire process feels completely soulless
Not my cup of tea.
Flying. 2 things. 1. Overhead cabin bags should be banned, so much drama. 2. Why is it that half of people on board seem to be completely new to flying “oh I’m on an exit row I have to keep the floor clear?”
November 2, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Flying. 2 things. 1. Overhead cabin bags should be banned, so much drama. 2. Why is it that half of people on board seem to be completely new to flying “oh I’m on an exit row I have to keep the floor clear?”
Watching two restaurant staff mind a table delivery robot through slightly wonky floor is peak 2025. What the fuck is happening to the world, this is not progress.
October 4, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Watching two restaurant staff mind a table delivery robot through slightly wonky floor is peak 2025. What the fuck is happening to the world, this is not progress.
New core training regime: hold the baby in the air while the toddler repeatedly jumps onto the core.
October 2, 2025 at 7:07 PM
New core training regime: hold the baby in the air while the toddler repeatedly jumps onto the core.
This bullshit is infuriating. Your email is spam, to “opt out” I will move it to the spam folder where it belongs. Don’t cold email me.
September 26, 2025 at 1:56 PM
This bullshit is infuriating. Your email is spam, to “opt out” I will move it to the spam folder where it belongs. Don’t cold email me.
ABC is spineless and democracy is dead in the US. Wild times.
September 18, 2025 at 7:43 PM
ABC is spineless and democracy is dead in the US. Wild times.
“pacifiers for adults” is such a great description (for vapes). Very cool project: bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/project...
Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape
Someone's trash is another person's web server.
bogdanthegeek.github.io
September 15, 2025 at 7:12 PM
“pacifiers for adults” is such a great description (for vapes). Very cool project: bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/project...
Generally avoid politics because internet but this photo of the London met arresting an 80yr old lady for peaceful protest sums up what a total catastrophe this country has become. Disgrace. www.reddit.com/r/pics/s/POa...
August 9, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Generally avoid politics because internet but this photo of the London met arresting an 80yr old lady for peaceful protest sums up what a total catastrophe this country has become. Disgrace. www.reddit.com/r/pics/s/POa...
Spot on: coding agents aren’t like junior engineers, they’re like mid-tier engineers who are drunk. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4478...
In my experience it is more like a quite skilled developer, but who is dead drun... | Hacker News
news.ycombinator.com
August 5, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Spot on: coding agents aren’t like junior engineers, they’re like mid-tier engineers who are drunk. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4478...
July 18, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Shocking (yet not surprising) that companies are allowed to torrent anything for AI training but dare we peasants do the same.
July 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Shocking (yet not surprising) that companies are allowed to torrent anything for AI training but dare we peasants do the same.
Dear online retailers: if you don’t give me a way to checkout without setting up an account then you won’t have my business.
June 2, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Dear online retailers: if you don’t give me a way to checkout without setting up an account then you won’t have my business.
This post perfectly highlights my experience with code “assistants”: Ask HN: Anyone struggling to get value out of coding LLMs? news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4409...
Ask HN: Anyone struggling to get value out of coding LLMs? | Hacker News
- solving tasks that just require applying knowledge ("here's a paste of my python import structure. I don't write Python often and I'm aware I'm doing something wrong here because I get this error,…
news.ycombinator.com
May 26, 2025 at 12:44 PM
This post perfectly highlights my experience with code “assistants”: Ask HN: Anyone struggling to get value out of coding LLMs? news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4409...
The lack of a “start this episode again” when resuming an episode at the end in Disney plus is nothing but infuriating. You have to open the previous episode, forward to the end and acces it that way. Absurd UX.
May 24, 2025 at 7:07 PM
The lack of a “start this episode again” when resuming an episode at the end in Disney plus is nothing but infuriating. You have to open the previous episode, forward to the end and acces it that way. Absurd UX.
That moment when linear reloads the page, without maintaining state, after you spent ages selecting a few issues from hundreds. Thanks, I guess I’ll do it all again.
May 9, 2025 at 10:35 AM
That moment when linear reloads the page, without maintaining state, after you spent ages selecting a few issues from hundreds. Thanks, I guess I’ll do it all again.
Flakey APIs need many retries.
May 2, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Flakey APIs need many retries.
The orange man is a u-turn king.
April 23, 2025 at 10:49 AM
The orange man is a u-turn king.
Unless it’s on your own hardware you own nothing. I will always extract anything worth keeping. Extra punch in the face from Spotify because they don’t let you edit metadata for local files.
April 2, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Unless it’s on your own hardware you own nothing. I will always extract anything worth keeping. Extra punch in the face from Spotify because they don’t let you edit metadata for local files.
It is absolutely crazy that the first ever pyinfra commit was OVER TEN YEARS AGO.
init concept · pyinfra-dev/pyinfra@cdfd05e
pyinfra turns Python code into shell commands and runs them on your servers. Execute ad-hoc commands and write declarative operations. Target SSH servers, local machine and Docker containers. Fast…
github.com
February 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
It is absolutely crazy that the first ever pyinfra commit was OVER TEN YEARS AGO.
Sad solution to an unnecessary "security" enhancement.
February 13, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Sad solution to an unnecessary "security" enhancement.
You can tell when a company needs to inflate its user numbers when you get an email saying they’ll cancel the account if details not provided by X and continue to follow up well past X.
January 25, 2025 at 4:01 AM
You can tell when a company needs to inflate its user numbers when you get an email saying they’ll cancel the account if details not provided by X and continue to follow up well past X.
Really interesting article+HN thread on re-promoting LLMs to get better output. The biggest optimisations seem to be missed because they’re in a review, not create, mode of thinking. IMO this is why writing code with LLMs is both ineffective and boring AF. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42584…
Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to “write better code”? | Hacker News
On an m1 macbook pro, using numpy to generate the random numbers, using mod/div to do digit sum:Base: 55msTest before digit sum: 7-10ms, which is pretty close to the numba-optimized version from the…
buff.ly
January 3, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Really interesting article+HN thread on re-promoting LLMs to get better output. The biggest optimisations seem to be missed because they’re in a review, not create, mode of thinking. IMO this is why writing code with LLMs is both ineffective and boring AF. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42584…
That feeling when you pull carpet and the previous previous owner had already put wood down 🤩
January 2, 2025 at 8:07 PM
That feeling when you pull carpet and the previous previous owner had already put wood down 🤩