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Show HN: Straight-to-video, for client-side video remuxing/transcoding

searlsco.github.io
2 points·by searls·vor 8 Monaten·0 comments

Certified Shovelware

justin.searls.co
1 points·by searls·vor 10 Monaten·1 comments

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searls
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
Akira showed me this work in progress in January and I was pretty amazed by it, but I have to be honest—as someone who prides himself on clever OSS repo names, he just absolutely put me to shame. English as a second language but he's a first class punner.
searls
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
Read this:

> Every time any of LinkedIn’s one billion users visits linkedin.com, hidden code searches their computer for installed software, collects the results, and transmits them to LinkedIn’s servers

And thought, "no way in hell this gets by Safari."

And then, under "The Attack: How it Works":

> Every time you open LinkedIn in a Chrome-based browser

Shocker. If you use a Chromium-based browser, you should expect to be trading away your privacy, IME.
searls
·vor 4 Monaten·discuss
I'm glad to see this comment and the parent comment and the grandparent comment voted so near the top. I've had the same experience.

I honestly would love to be able to give my Kagi key to the ChatGPT or Claude clients (or more realistically, configure a proxy) just to have it be their primary tool for searches—respecting my site rankings/lists
searls
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
LOL, no, dumbing down was when I paid two months of subscription with the model literally struggling to write basic functions. Something Anthropic eventually acknowledged but offered no refunds for. https://ilikekillnerds.com/2025/09/09/anthropic-finally-admi...

I care A LOT about the details, and I couldn't care less that they're cleaning up terminal output like this.
searls
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
lol, just yesterday a friend asked me if he should move his business to Railway from Heroku. Welp.
searls
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
This feels a bit like when some Hubbers broke off to work on PlanetScale, except without the massively successful, proven-to-be-scalable open source tool to build off (Vitess).

If you're approaching this problem-space from the ground up, there are just so many fundamental problems to solve that it seems to me that no amount of money or quality of team can increase your likelihood of arriving at enough right answers to ensure success. Pulling off something like this vision in the current red-ocean market would require dozens of brilliant ideas and hundreds of correct bets.
searls
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
Agree, extremely poorly reported out across numerous outlets.
searls
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
This is true of the CLIs that start with `xcode` but not of the CLIs that start with `swift`. As `swift-format` and `swift-test` have come into their own, they're just as reliable as any other language ecosystem. And the difference is indeed staggering. I wrote this guide last summer on extracting all your app's code into a (nonsensically necessary) Swift package dependency simply so you can test it with Swift Testing https://justin.searls.co/posts/i-made-xcodes-tests-60-times-...
searls
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
This is madness. Some stories actually have good guys. I don't know Adam directly, but we have plenty of second degree connections. I've benefited immensely from his work, have never heard anyone say a single negative thing about him, and I genuinely believe he's done more to push the web forward with Tailwind than the larger players have done (certainly more than Facebook did with React and Google has done with Angular/AMP/etc).

Reflexively assuming that unanimous positive sentiment towards someone is itself an indication of a problem is exactly the reason people are writing posts as recently as (double checks) _yesterday_ titled "65% of Hacker News Posts Have Negative Sentiment, and They Outperform" https://philippdubach.com/standalone/hn-sentiment/
searls
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
FWIW, "write markdown, publish to my static site, and cross-post to social media" is exactly what I built POSSE Party to do. All your site needs is an Atom feed to read from https://github.com/searlsco/posse_party/blob/main/docs/feed....

https://justin.searls.co/atom.xml gets flung to 8 social accounts
searls
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
POSSE Party (http://posseparty.com) supports syndicating YouTube Shorts and Instagram reels, but trying to syndicate longer form video just didn't make sense IMO
searls
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
I created POSSE Party because I had similar concerns. Truncation and spacing are highly customizable. You can add a posse:post sidecar element containing JSON that formats exact presentation for each platform exactly as you want it. The built-in truncation can be configured at the account level. And how you count characters, naturally, differs by platform, which the app handles pretty well.
searls
·vor 7 Monaten·discuss
OpenAI doesn't let you change your email address, either.
searls
·vor 7 Monaten·discuss
It would be funny if OpenAI turns for-profit, faceplants, and then finds new life (as Mozilla did) as a non-profit sharing its tools for free.
searls
·vor 7 Monaten·discuss
Funny, had it tell me the same thing twice yesterday and that was _with_ thinking + search enabled on the request (it apparently refused to carry out the search, which it does once in every blue moon).

I didn't make this connection that the training data is that old, but that would indeed augur poorly.
searls
·vor 9 Monaten·discuss
At what point in history have you owned a particular piece of hardware for use with a particular piece of never-to-be-updated software and installed a major OEM operating system release a full 7 years after release without issue?

I doubt such a thing has ever happened in the history of consumer-facing computing.
searls
·vor 9 Monaten·discuss
As somebody who picked up Backbone after Sammy and other earlier attempts, when React came along and took the world by storm, I more or less decided to nope out of JavaScript development and go back to Rails.

Every generation needs to learn the same lessons in their own time, but people often asked me why I’d go from speaking at national JavaScript conferences to essentially disappearing. The answer was the overwhelming popularity React and Webpack. Life is short and I don’t have time for this shit.
searls
·vor 9 Monaten·discuss
This is a great reminder and I need to start doing this. Bullet point plans aren’t enough for lots of vertical slice work unless it fits really neatly into well known buckets (e.g. Rails MVC)
searls
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
In early September, Mike Judge's post challenging the productivity potential for coding agents by asking where the supposed AI shovelware is. It's been stuck in my craw for the past couple weeks, because I keep running into programmers of all stripes who refuse to engage with any of this newfangled AI tooling on the grounds that it's useless.

I realize people are all processing the AI boom differently, and there are many valid reasons to be really mad about all of it, but—as someone who's seen his productivity skyrocket with Cursor, then Claude Code, and now Codex CLI—it seems a little ridiculous to claim that the tools simply aren't capable.

Of course, if we never identify which projects were facilitated thanks to coding agents, we'll never have clear social proof of what they're capable of. That's why I put up this /shovelware page on my blog and started hosting a GitHub badge.
searls
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
Yeah, I went to Dogo Onsen last year and after the fact people told me it was inspiration for Spirited Away and I literally didn't believe them. I've been to countless riverside onsen resorts in the middle of nowhere that look more similar.

Agree this kind of article is really reductive and misses the point, but what're you gonna do.