I am unconvinced that agent skills are that impressive. My context is that I've built up a stack of "rules / playbooks" but these are just basic rules I would use for myself or a team.This is the kind of thing any good team or dev writes so they have checklists. And the content is really best (if uncommon) practice.But then I real and watch all kinds of people getting excited about what skills...
2. the other projects it the framework. Aside from the product itself, I've ended up with a really nice framework (FE and BE) and playbook for copilot to follow. I've hit multiple problems with AI generated code and had to rework it like I have for junior devs! But now, the framework focuses the work and stops the slop!
I want to build out all the product-dev-helper tools I've wanted in the past. I've already got a lovely schema-UI system, UI components which are data-aware and the basis of some low-ish-code tools. I've also nearly got a "run tests and fix" local LLM which saves tokens.
Really enjoying this.
Location: UK
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: full stack, especially data-rich / data-heavy applications. E.g. large scale or high complexity of data. Backends include python, node (also java, PHP and others); frontend mostly React but enough experience to adapt. Very deep knowledge of infra and experience in infra-as-code, scaling etc.
Most of my roles are fCTO/fCPO at inflection points: idea to MVP; MVP to stability; stability to scale-up.
CV: See https://danfrost.co.uk/
email: [email protected]
Hey! I’m a designer and this is a little portfolio project I’ve been working on. If you’ve got a moment, I’d love for you to check out the page and try the quiz.The idea is to see what people think of the quiz format and whether it’s something they might come back to a few times a week. If you do give it a go, any feedback would be really appreciated.Thanks a lot!https://quizrush.webflow.io
What chrome plugins do you use? Are they stand alone (e.g. the augment the browser behaviour) or do they have a "backend" somewhere (e.g. Evernote, Google Keep etc)?
Tech debt is often a taboo. Talking about it can be bad and arguing for addressing it can be worse.But I'm not sure everyone talks about "tech debt" in the same way. I've seen people use it as excuses for "time on what I want to do" and definitely seen management refuse it for that reason. But I've also seen management refuse addressing it to the detriment of the product/project.So what,...
Asking kind of for fun, kinds of for serious :)
Do you read the comments on HN links?Why? What do you look for?And 2nd question: do you read the original link before or after the comments?And why..?(I'm just interested for reasons I won't share yet as I don't want to influence the answers!)
Also, I've seen the same stacks succeed and fail. The only common thing I can see is:
- when the tech team fully understand the stack they're using - when the tech team fully understand the product and business they're building (and can make appropriate trade offs)
There are a bunch of basic tech things. E.g. the underlying infrastructure has to be performance, scale, secure etc. There's also the issue of choosing a tech you can actually recruit for.
I have built a bot version of a daily gratitude checkin which will expand to cover all areas of life that you want to work on. It works on noticing opportunities instead of setting goals.If you have goals or habits you want to develop, this bot could help. I've found it hugely useful in keeping my mood up and keeping me focused on long term objectives even when stressed and distracted.It would...
I've been thinking about how and when I program at my best, what the tools are, what the situation is and how I can engineer it more often.It's a combination of editor/IDE (that I know), debugging tools, clear goal, clear head, ...and a bunch of other things.What are your factors of 'the best programming you'?
Hi HN!I've collected lots of material, techniques and methods over the past few years on mindfulness and applied it to my own (hacker) brain.My question(s)- what mindfulness techniques do you use? - do you find the mindfulness material out there a bit hippie? - what apps/hacks do you use? - do you know of any books specifically for hackers/programmers/techies?Cheers!
The big recruitment groups (Stackoverflow, github etc) tend to be startup/large corporates.Where should smaller companies, who have different requirements advertise?
The big recruitment groups (Stackoverflow, github etc) tend to be startup/large corporates.Where should smaller companies, who have different requirements advertise?
I've long thought that the command line is just a bit rubbish, even if it is powerful.If you were redesigning it today (2016), how would you lay it out and what it do?E.g. collapse output. Keep more metadata on history. Built in error hints (e.g. google the error, harvest possibilities).How should the CLI work across microservices and cloud services?What should the graphical design be?This is...