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Haha, well, let’s say the experience motivated me to learn how to run nginx and uwsgi on my own :)

(And as a result that, with ansible, continues to be my preferred way to deploy while the rest of the world passed me by…)

Dotcloud was a PaaS:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2032821

Then it pivoted to docker:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6634002

I was a dotcloud customer around 2012. You might have responded to one of my many support emails.

Thank you for the write up! Question: do you notice that you’re getting spam from unrelated companies after signing up for an alias? (Like, you sign up for a grocery store loyalty program and somehow end up getting pharmacy spam?)

I’m building a tool that lets me organize sheet music, rehearsals, and share with groups I play with.

Also building a Golang middleware to record analytics (saved into a local duckdb)

For composition I use musescore.

In my case, I’m not actually arranging or writing music - I’m just taking existing music PDFs, separating pages, and creating new PDFs along with page numbers and table of contents. The use case is to have a nice booklet of music for an upcoming performance.

Everything for typst was generated via LLM. The template itself takes json as input and then uses the typst template language to render. It works very very well.

This is awesome! I’ve been excited about the new bundle feature for months.

I use typst to format sheet music. Given a folder of PDFs, I currently have a script that generates a booklet of music for each person in the ensemble. Hopefully now I can just run a single typst file which outputs multiple PDFs.

Also using it to generate printable programs for concerts: https://concert-programs.projects.jaygoel.com/

I’m building a little tool to organize my sheet music, let me share it, organize rehearsals, and manage performances.

This is really cool! I built something very similar only I replicated the AWS sqs protocol instead.

https://github.com/poundifdef/smoothmq

Side project to generate good-looking programs for recitals and concerts: https://concert-programs.projects.jaygoel.com

For people who use Fora for travel, a tool that uses AI to create google calendar events from travel itineraries: https://itinerary.projects.jaygoel.com

Is there a feasible way to run this in a different language? (Go, in my case?)

I just built a little tool that takes a Fora itinerary as input and creates a google calendar (.ics) feed as output.

https://itinerary.projects.jaygoel.com/

What have you done for email?

In the early 2000s, we had a camera that saved to an internal hard drive. The only way to watch videos was to either copy them to the computer or hook an RCA cable from the camera to the TV. You could also go from VGA to RCA with the right set of cables.

However, everyone did have a DVD player! So I, similar to the author, wrote scripts to take videos, generate DVD isos, and then burn to DVDs.

I learned about message queues (rabbitmq) with that project and had connected a bunch of old laptops with Linux VMs installed.

I never finished the project and nowadays there are a hundred ways to share and stream digital video. I hadn’t anticipated, at the time, that casting videos wirelessly to our TVs would become the norm.

For testing, consider https://github.com/localstack/localstack

I work at Ramp and have always been on the “luddite” side of AI code tools. I use them but usually I’m not that impressed and a curmudgeon when I see folks ask Claude to debug something instead of just reading the code. I’m just an old(er) neckbeard at heart.

But. This tool is scarily good. I’m seeing it “1-shot” features in a fairly sizable code base and fixes with better code and accuracy than me.

In the same vein, here are some goodies:

- Jon Skeet facts: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9134/jon-skeet-fact...

- Chuck Norris facts: http://www.betterprogramming.com/chuck-norris-programming-fa...

I have just now learned about exe.dev and it looks awesome.

I really hate that modern development means not having persistent disk. I’m glad there are new options coming out which let you do this in and easier way than managing my own EC2 instances!

Could you clarify what this actually is?

Would I think of this as an EC2 instance which automatically and quickly scales to zero, with pricing only for resources consumed? (CPU and RAM when up, and disk all the time?)

I wrote an article on how to model a ledger with a DB. https://www.jaygoel.com/posts/building-a-scalable-accounting...

It addresses how to model dr/cr in a DB with positive and negative numbers, but still produce reports with positive numbers as expected

It depends on the “normal balance” of the account.

For Asset and Expense accounts, yes. For Liabilities, Equity, and Revenue it is the opposite.

Isn’t this the nature of all software abstractions? They often introduce a less performant way of executing a task at the tradeoff of user convenience?

I’m building a netsuite competitor (having spent a lot of my career on accounting and erp implementations.)

The trick (one trick) is to allow LLMs to provide an audit/accounting/compliance playbook, along with customizations, based on the user describing their business model.