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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025) on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @10:47AM (#43833452)
I'm working on Monitor Monkey[1]

It's attempting to be the easiest and nicest way to monitor Linux servers. I'm currently implementing 0 config custom alerting. All you will have to do is write a file to a home directory with some json in it e.g event_name:blah,interval:1m,data=10 - no server side config at all!

So should be quite suitable for big deployments :)

[1]: https://monitormonkey.io

Re:OpenAI Codex CLI: Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @02:17PM (#43708649)
If one of these tools has broad model support (like aider) it would be a game changer.

Show HN: The easiest way to monitor Linux servers

Posted by mark_mcnally_je on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @10:38AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://monitormonkey.io

Hi HN,I've been developing this tool myself as I've been constantly running into the issue of: I just want monitoring for my servers, nothing else, I don't care just let me know when they break.So that's what I've made, you install an open source agent on your server and it automatically detects certain metrics and starts monitoring for you.You can configure certain aspects if you like and at...

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Show HN: Get pinged when you are mouth breathing

Posted by mark_mcnally_je on Thursday February 27, 2025 @04:56PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://mcnally.je/breath/

Hi HN,I tend to resort to mouth breathing when I focus hard so I made this tool to track when I start mouth breathing and play a 'ding' sound to stop me from doing it!It basically tracks if your mouth is open or not and has a calibration phase that mostly works to determine your nasal breathing posture.

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Re:My LLM codegen workflow on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @06:51PM (#43096672)
:( big sad
Re:My LLM codegen workflow on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @06:39PM (#43096570)
Hahahaa well that might work but I wish you could just say `aider --go-hog-wild`
Re:My LLM codegen workflow on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @06:23PM (#43096433)
I'm a bit confused here, what promt do you use to start Aider and how do you just let Aider run wild so you can play cookie clicker?
Re:In Defense of AI Slop on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @05:09PM (#43095764)
Trouble is when it sprawls into an unmaintainable mess. This software will all rot away
Re:Slopware on Monday February 17, 2025 @02:40PM (#43082583)
The trouble comes when a non dev makes slopware and it becomes relied upon. Then it will inevitably all come falling down.
Re:Personal Website design for the long term on Friday February 14, 2025 @01:08PM (#43051204)
Yes it's a good litmus test of a good website or not. I hope Hugo will be around for a long time :)
Re:Personal Website design for the long term on Friday February 14, 2025 @01:07PM (#43051194)
Yes I've thought a bit more about this topic and am actually writing up a response to my own post - Database are probably ok if you take a raw .sql backup; which is essentially plain text, or at least will be viewable in some form in the future.
Re:Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell on Friday January 27, 2023 @05:02PM (#34552522)
My Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMiInY8BhSUtCarO6uu6i_g Videos about Linux and tech in general, I try and be entertaining as well as educational!
Re:Show HN: Snipthat.io – save interesting text snippets you find whil... on Sunday July 31, 2022 @10:16AM (#32295630)
If anyone is interested in the tech behind this; I used the Django rest framework and vanilla javascript to write the extension. I wrote it to be compatible with Firefox and chrome with the firefox polyfill which worked a treat in development.

Until I came to publish and I had to convert the chrome extension to manifest V3 which was not as easy as I thought it would be.

The chrome approvals process also took way longer then firefox did!

Show HN: Snipthat.io – save interesting text snippets you find whilst browsing

Posted by mark_mcnally_je on Sunday July 31, 2022 @10:11AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://snipthat.io/

I always wanted a place where I could save interesting snippets of text I find on the web, things like tweets, HN/reddit comments and little parts of blog posts and the like.This tool is a browser extension, all you do is highlight text, right click and then you can send it to snipthat.There are currently no logins, when you first get the browser extension you get a UUID which links to your...

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Re:Show HN: HN Avatars in 357 bytes on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @11:24AM (#30686466)
testing!
Re:A list of lightweight websites without bloat on Thursday February 24, 2022 @11:57AM (#30457098)
goodwebsites.org
Re:Google Search Is Dying on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @12:51PM (#30350030)
https://goodwebsites.org

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