collinc777
Ask HN: How did you scale your analytics workloads (Postgres)?
Our product has some reporting features that require aggregations / analytics functionality. Some of the analytics workloads are time series, others are not and we generally expect these analytics queries to resolve in ~2.5sWe've recently decided to move these workloads to snowflake because we want to protect our transactional workloads.The snowflake devex has been pretty bad because we'd need...
Curious, when does your team decide to extend the date?
Ask HN: How do you deal with feature flag cleanup?
I work for a startup and as we grow we are increasingly depending on feature flags for releases.One of the side-effects that come with more feature flag(FF) use is the FF cleanup burden. I was curious if anyone has developed any tooling that makes this cleanup easier and automated?I know there's the obvious candidate of creating a clean up ticket as part story(or whatever equivalent)...
Show HN: Context Copy – VS Code extension for quickly copying context
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=collinc777.context-copy
Show HN: Context Copy - VS Code extension for quickly copying contextI've developed a VS Code extension called "Context Copy" that allows developers to swiftly copy multiple files with their full context, formatted as markdown. It's designed to streamline the process of sharing code snippets with AI assistants (like ChatGPT or Claude) or in documentation.Key features: - Select multiple files in...
I'd love to chat about how you generate your audiobooks if you're open to sharing. Good luck with everything!
Show HN: A-to-P – Convert articles into podcasts
Hi HN – I’m excited to share my open source project a-to-p (article to podcast) available at https://github.com/collinc777/a-to-p. A to P is a simple web app that converts any article to a conversational podcast experience. You can try it out here: https://a-to-p.vercel.app/I’ve explored text-to-speech (TTS) for articles using tools like Speechify. However, I noticed a gap: TTS lacked the...
Providing redundancy for EV fleet vehicles is much more expensive.
It all relies on the cost of the battery going down.
Imagine you have a fleet of EV emergency vehicles. How do make sure they're operable in the event of a far too common electrical outtage?
You'd need EV lots, outfitted with chargers, and serious battery backup to make that happen.
We're pretty far away from that infrastructure existing. As much as I'd like to see ev fleet vehicles on the road, a too rapid, forced transition to ev's for fleet vehicles scares me.
Show HN: Zivy Listen – Turn long articles into short podcasts
Zivy Listen converts long articles into short conversational podcasts. It's a really interesting experience and I encourage you to check it out!I love to listen to podcasts when I work out. I've tried listening to articles via Speechify but it just sounds too stale and I can't focus. I decided to see what would happen if made the article into a podcast format and Zivy Listen was born!I'd love...
That’s wrong and immoral. The world is full of risk. As individuals we choose to accept some risks and move on with our lives. I think it’s appropriate that blind people are given the same opportunity
I used to have an android and when I'd meet people the primary thing they'd remember about me was that I had an android. Their blinders were up after they had that information.
I think phones like the Galaxy line might be better than iPhones, but the experience of owning an iPhone far exceeds owning a Galaxy.
Although not everyone is a fan, Football is the cornerstone of American culture.
It does seem like Microsoft can crush any Saas startup by including a "good enough" competitive product in their bundle.
Just in case you're thinking this: He was not copying large portions of code from stack overflow or anything like that. He was line by line writing code, a few copy and pastes at a time. Often he times would copy and paste single characters to maintain his flow.
Sometimes he would need a portion of a word and he would remember that it was in an email he had open, and he would alt+tab and grab the portion of the word from the email, then alt+tab back to the editor and paste the word portion in.
He would go to extreme lengths to not have to move his hands to the home row on the keyboard.
I once worked with a programmer who, the vast majority of time, would only input text into a text editor via copy and paste.
Think anti-vim. His fingers were locked on mouse and crtl+c/v. It was incredible to watch and his programming speed was very impressive.
The objective of business is to win, but if a business is too dominant, then they have the ability to extort customers.
I don't see how customer extortion is born out of this. It's fair and in the spirit of a healthy ecosystem.