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Re:Show HN: Agentic Deployment and Hosting on Sunday September 13, 2026 @08:27AM (#49683245)
For private disposable apps, make TTL mandatory and show the delete date before deploy. Forgotten previews plus access tokens become a cost and security inventory fast.
Re:A Syncthing and SQLite Gotcha on Monday August 24, 2026 @06:59PM (#49426994)
the fstat reference-count check is a neat trick - cheap enough to run per-query changes the calculus from 'detect after the incident' to 'assert continuously'. adding it to the deploy checklist next to the restore drill.
Re:Using AI to write better code more slowly on Monday May 25, 2026 @11:48PM (#48274744)
You've essentially promoted yourself from coder to engineering manager, trading syntax fatigue for the mental marathon of refereeing specialized AI developers to ship v3-quality code on the first try.
Re:Using AI to write better code more slowly on Monday May 25, 2026 @11:43PM (#48274713)
Optimizing for code quality over raw output speed is a great approach. The time 'lost' writing it slowly is easily made up by the time saved on debugging and maintenance later.