mmcclure

20 days agodiscuss

God damn it, Donut.

25 days agodiscuss

The policies around blanket ambiguity for rejections is to avoid any kind of messaging that could lead to potential legal retaliation. Frustrating, absolutely, but most employers just aren't willing to flirt with the risk.

mmcclure

25 days agodiscuss

As a kid I didn't get carsick at all. I could work on my laptop, read, whatever while my parents drove. As an adult, at some point I started to barely be able to do anything but keep my eyes on the road without feeling bad.

Turned these on recently, and they work bizarrely well...unfortunately. Downside is that I feel like I lost an excuse to avoid devices for a few minutes while traveling.

mmcclure

26 days agodiscuss

I'm not sure if this is sarcasm, but I've been blown away by the thoughtful responses I've gotten from dang. They don't always come quickly, but I would expect that given how crazy I assume that inbox is.

mmcclure

last monthdiscuss

I've been using mise as a pure version manager for a pretty long time, and I had no idea you could use it for general tools like this.

mmcclure

last monthdiscuss

The product looks great and I'm really interested in trying it out. Very cool, congrats on shipping! Also...as a parent of young kids: this name made me laugh out loud. The OG image on the marketing site is a fun easter egg.

For those here without young kids in their life: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paw_Patrol

mmcclure

2 months agodiscuss

The new owner's plan is...to sunset the paid product immediately and give customers access to tooling to be able to continue generating SDKs on their own. From Stainless's post:

    As we focus on Claude Platform capabilities and connecting agents to APIs, we’ll be winding down all hosted Stainless products, including our SDK generator. Starting today, new signups, projects, and SDKs will not be available.

    If you’re a Stainless customer, visit app.stainless.com/transition for help transitioning from Stainless-managed products to other options. As always, you own the SDKs you’ve generated to date, and have full rights to modify and extend them however you wish.

As a customer, all-in-all, we were pretty pleased with the outcome. Stainless was a great partner to us, even in "the end," and I'm really happy for the team.

mmcclure

3 months agodiscuss

MoQ is “Media over QUIC,” although I suspect it’ll eventually go the npm path and just end up being MoQ means MoQ.

Depending on the use case you could think of it as an alternative to WebRTC with lower level control, but honestly it’s a lot more open ended than that.

mmcclure

3 months agodiscuss

I was extremely confused before realizing I think that link is for the wrong Pencil. You probably meant to reference this one: https://www.pencil.dev/

mmcclure

4 months agodiscuss

Ah...you're scratching at some scabs with this totally reasonable question.

We learned some tough lessons with media-chrome[1] and Mux Player, where we tried to just write web components. The React side of things was a bit of a thorn, so we created React shims that provided a more idiomatic React experience and rendered the web components...which was mostly fine, but created a new set of issues. The reason we chose web components was to not have to write framework-specific code, and then we found ourselves doing both anyway.

With VJS 10 I think we've landed on a pretty reasonable middle ground. The core library is "headless," and then the rendering layer sits on top of it. Benefit is true React components and nice web components.

[1] https://github.com/muxinc/media-chrome

mmcclure

4 months agodiscuss

I'm a little shocked that someone like 1Password hasn't released a vault access + approvals model. There are a lot of little menial tasks that I'd love for an agent to take care of ("book me a hair appointment next week when my calendar says I'm free"). Agent has access to a locally synced calendar and can see the existence of a password for the booking portal in my vault, asks to use it, I get a push notification and can approve.

These kinds of things aren't common enough for me to want to set up a programmatic policy, and are also low sensitivity enough that I don't mind giving access to complete the task. If it later asks to log into my bank, I decline.

I know the devil's in the details for how to actually do this well, but I would love if someone figured it out.

mmcclure

4 months agodiscuss

Big +1 to Pi[1]. The simplicity makes it really easy to extend yourself too, so at this point I have a pretty nice little setup that's very specific to my personal workflows. The monorepo for the project also has other nice utilities like a solid agent SDK. I also use other tools like Claude Code for "serious" work, but I do find myself reaching for Pi more consistently as I've gotten more confident with my setup.

[1] https://github.com/badlogic/pi-mono/tree/main/packages/codin...

mmcclure

4 months agodiscuss

    generate_gazette.sh Calls OpenAI to generate "The Civ Chronicle" — an era-appropriate, unreliable wartime newspaper article for each turn.

For a long-running game like this, that's a pretty clever little twist to keep the group engaged. I have extremely low confidence I could convince enough friends to do it with me for long enough to get through a game, but this seems like such a fun idea.

mmcclure

4 months agodiscuss

Definitely a sign of the times that (pre-edit) I thought, "oh this person's thinking of the wrong claw, IronClaw is the Rust one"

mmcclure

4 months agodiscuss

We don't use New Relic or Datadog (and never have, afaik), so I'm not sure what post you could be referring to for those two? We have talked publicly about our Grafana use, though, and going from an in-house stack to their cloud product. Actual OP can probably hop in later with a better answer, but it was hitting rate limits on the logging agent, not the logging system.

mmcclure

4 months agodiscuss

I went down this path a bit the other night, curious what OP's answer is. My mental model was that they could be complimentary? Jido for agent lifecycle, supervision, state management, etc, LangChain for the LLM interactions, prompt chains, RAG, etc. Looks like you could do everything in Jido 2.0, but if you like/are familiar with LangChain it seems like they could work well together.

mmcclure

4 months agodiscuss

I haven't used Jido for anything yet, but it's one of those projects I check in on once a month or so. BEAM does seem like a perfect fit for an agent framework, but the ecosystem seeming limited has held me back from going too far down that path. Excited to see 2.0!

Just a heads up, some of your code samples seem to be having an issue with entity escaping.

    name: &quot;my_agent&quot;,
    description: &quot;A simple agent&quot;,

mmcclure

4 months agodiscuss

This is an interesting writeup, albeit not quite what I was hoping for. I love Elixir and have been following Gleam for a while now, so I clicked through hoping this was talking about Gleam baking this into their ecosystem a bit better. I was a little disappointed to see it's ultimately talking about how to build a Gleam project and then use the resulting build ecosystem to create a binary (Gleam -> JS -> JS build tool, or Gleam -> escript -> elixir-burrito).

It would have been interesting to see some high level commentary from the author on the results of each one on top of the general workflow. Build time, binary size, startup time, whatever.

mmcclure

4 months agodiscuss

It's on the high side, but...honestly not absurd? "Party" implies one night rager, but the source says "in-person company event." That seems more like a multi-day company onsite to me, and the total bill per person there probably includes travel, accommodations, food on top of any overall event costs.

Bringing a remote employee to SF just to work out of an office for a few days can easily cost a few grand.

mmcclure

4 months agodiscuss

Square is still a much, much bigger portion of the business than CashApp.

    Square’s ecosystem is expected to contribute $1.77 billion, while Cash App is expected to provide $58.3 million to transaction revenues.

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