markthethomas
Re:SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @06:52PM (#47855779)
yup - updated
Re:PaybackTime.app: survived the Eaton fire in LA, so I made an app
on Thursday March 06, 2025 @07:25PM (#43286434)
Dealing with insurance reimbursements is a huge pain, so threw this together over a few weeks. Not bulletproof, but hoping it can help the thousands of other people in my situation a little bit
PaybackTime.app: survived the Eaton fire in LA, so I made an app
Show HN: Split Pdfs by Page or File Size
Just a little utility project I put together; using Go, JS
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?
on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @10:15PM (#36594827)
https://ifelse.io
Been a minute since I’ve posted but writing for it has made major positive impacts in my career and life
Re:Show HN: I built a price-tracking tool
on Saturday April 29, 2023 @06:43PM (#35757984)
hey thanks so much for trying things out! I really, really appreciate it. Totally hear you on the search experience. I currently use Meilisearch (https://www.meilisearch.com/) for the search backend. I love how crazy fast it is and generally have had a nice experience running the system myself. But I totally hear you on the semantic search side of things.
I am definitely hoping / planning to offer that unified "view this product across stores" feature — that would be killer. Just have to work on the ML stuff to get that sufficiently good and get the data in a good spot. The CozoDB thing looks very promising, will check it out! Thanks again
Re:Show HN: I built a price-tracking tool
on Saturday April 29, 2023 @12:10PM (#35754246)
I'm working on Costbot, a price tracking tool designed to help online shoppers save time and money by monitoring price histories and alerting them when their favorite products hit their target prices. The side-project recently become done "enough" to be shared in small fashion, and wanted to ask for feedback/thoughts etc. on here.
I'm a staff software engineer by trade, but love working on side projects in my (relatively rare) spare moments. This has been a fun project, involving some new things I hadn't worked on before (extended parsing / crawling, scraping, headless browsers etc.). Hoping to put together a write-up on the tech soon.
Show HN: I built a price-tracking tool
This looks super cool! I have a use case where I store some stateful stuff in Redis that a worker constantly interacts w/ and updates. Redis is great, but the project is a very side thing and would love not to have to pay for bandwidth / just embed it inside of it. Going to take a look at this and see if I can make it work! Didn't see any serialization formats, so might just do that myself. Ty for building this!
Re:Transactions Aren't Everything
on Friday April 07, 2023 @02:07AM (#35478599)
Not sure if I missed done nuanced point here or it was just a non-sequitur of an article
Re:Fly.io outage, recently deployed apps down, deployments disabled
on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @08:47PM (#35176752)
That's a good point / thing that I've not thought about as much here. I would be much more frustrated if my primary datastores were hosted there. As things stand, their semi-hosted offering never really made sense to me (esp. now lol), but I do think if you get into the game of DB hosting there's almost another level of expectation even beyond basic compute (oddly enough)
Re:Fly.io outage, recently deployed apps down, deployments disabled
on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @08:28PM (#35176588)
Yeah, I saw; I've kept up w/ everything pretty closely. Still decently frustrating as a paying customer, but I hope they can figure it out. If they can and can show some real reliability, I'll be an even bigger fan.
Re:Fly.io outage, recently deployed apps down, deployments disabled
on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @08:18PM (#35176511)
(unpkg seems to be up now)
Re:Fly.io outage, recently deployed apps down, deployments disabled
on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @08:05PM (#35176409)
Been a fan of fly and have had most, if not all, of my side and semi-side projects on there for some time now. But...the ratio of good/fun/snarky blog posts to reliable service has gotten a bit too large for me, starting to look for other providers at this point just in case they can't turn this trend around. Honestly been a good object lesson for me in the importance of backing up marketing/hype/"mind-share" stuff w/ absolute rock-solid performance/reliability or just forgoing the former for the latter.
As an aside, it's also taking down some decently-load-bearing web infra like unpkg => https://www.unpkg.com/
Re:Show HN: Chess2 – Play live online chess against a friend, or a che...
on Thursday March 02, 2023 @11:50AM (#34998189)
Ah gotcha very cool! Incredible it can run in the browser
Re:Show HN: Chess2 – Play live online chess against a friend, or a che...
on Thursday March 02, 2023 @11:32AM (#34997933)
Very cool! What’d you use for the engine?
Re:Moonwalkers: The World's Fastest Shoes
on Thursday January 05, 2023 @10:24PM (#34270571)
“My shoes!!! They’ve been hacked!!!”
Re:Twitter Suspends PG's Account
on Sunday December 18, 2022 @05:57PM (#34045056)
Wow. Wrote this in jest but seems like it won’t be long before it’s practically, if not actually, true https://unicorn.computer/twitter-suspends-all-users-who-have...
Some Helpful, Free APIs I Run with Fly.io
Re:Show HN: MongoDB Katas / Practice Problems
on Thursday June 02, 2022 @07:58PM (#31602230)
planning to add more katas and support databases in the future; built for fun and to help teach Mongo at work :)
Show HN: MongoDB Katas / Practice Problems
Re:Show HN: Griddler, a Wordle clone built for free and fun
on Sunday January 30, 2022 @04:12PM (#30141147)
built for fun while waiting for some appointments the other week. Hoping to add some multiplayer support soon.
Show HN: Griddler, a Wordle clone built for free and fun
Remix Goes Open Source
Re:Ask HN: Host of [redacted] is not well. Can anyone in SF help?
on Monday September 13, 2021 @07:20PM (#28518177)
This is brutal to see. Hoping he can get some help ASAP.
Re:Robinhood to Re-Brand as Sheriff of Nottingham Capital, LLC
on Thursday January 28, 2021 @12:50PM (#25945662)
THIS IS SATIRE
Re:GameStop to Offer Stock Trade-In Program [Parody]
on Thursday January 28, 2021 @11:17AM (#25944195)
This is satire!
Re:Oracle Migration to Austin to Take Place over Next 100 Years
on Saturday December 12, 2020 @06:04AM (#25397480)
(This is satire!)