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ruairidhwm

335 karmajoined 11 lat temu
Eng Manager. Founder of https://winlog.dev

Contact - ruairidhwm[AT]gmail[DOT]com

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Show HN: Halftrace – See the shape of your agent's failures from your logs

halftrace.dev
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Show HN: WinLog – Automatically capture your work wins for reviews and 1:1s

winlog.dev
1 points·by ruairidhwm·5 miesięcy temu·1 comments

Ask HN: How do you market a side project?

15 points·by ruairidhwm·5 miesięcy temu·12 comments

Ask HN: What do you want for Christmas?

3 points·by ruairidhwm·7 miesięcy temu·3 comments

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ruairidhwm
·2 godziny temu·discuss
A dumb vibe-coded GTA III parody set in my city of Glasgow: https://glasgow-brawler.vercel.app/
ruairidhwm
·28 dni temu·discuss
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ruairidhwm
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
I managed to find that Haiku outperformed Sonnet on some tasks...don't want to blog spam but if anyone is interested: https://www.ruairidh.dev/blog/sonnet-4-6-drops-format-rule-o...
ruairidhwm
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
I recently made halftrace - point it at your OpenAI/Anthropic/LangSmith agent logs and it tells you what shape your agent's rule-following has, why, and what to try. I built it to try and find smooth decay over trajectory length on Claude.

https://halftrace.dev
ruairidhwm
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
Ricoh GRIII / IV is absolutely perfect for this imo
ruairidhwm
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
I guess just a spell-check in the repo? But yes, I'd imagine that they have an effect. Even running the same input twice is non-deterministic.
ruairidhwm
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
I literally just posted a blog on this. Some seemingly insignificant words are actually highly structural to the model. https://www.ruairidh.dev/blog/compressing-prompts-with-an-au...
ruairidhwm
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
Also seen this several times.
ruairidhwm
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
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ruairidhwm
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
To be fair, I suspect he doesn't make his own tea xD
ruairidhwm
·5 miesięcy temu·discuss
Hi HN,

I built WinLog because I kept seeing good engineers undersell themselves during reviews and promotions. Not because they weren’t doing great work, but because they simply forgot what they’d shipped over time.

WinLog helps you capture your "wins" as you go:

- You can log wins manually in a few seconds, or

- Passively capture candidates from Slack channels you choose (nothing is stored without approval)

Each win is rewritten into a concise, professional bullet you can use for:

- Performance reviews

- 1:1 prep

- Promotion packets

- Brag docs / weekly updates

It’s early, but I’ve been using it as my own tool and found it to be very helpful!

Would love feedback, especially from people who’ve struggled with review season or managing reports.

Link: https://winlog.dev
ruairidhwm
·5 miesięcy temu·discuss
It has, but there are always new perspectives.
ruairidhwm
·5 miesięcy temu·discuss
I'd say ICs and Team Leads in eng organisations. So far I'm thinking Reddit and HN? Maybe a bit of LinkedIn
ruairidhwm
·6 miesięcy temu·discuss
$0 so far (just launched).

I recently launched https://winlog.dev, a Slack-first tool to help engineers capture their work as it happens so they’re better prepared for reviews and promotions.

It’s early days, but I’m using it with my own reports and so far it's been really helpful. The goal for 2026 is to grow this into a meaningful side-business, but if not, then it's useful to me!
ruairidhwm
·9 lat temu·discuss
I interviewed with Stripe early this year, and whilst sadly we couldn't go forward due to the fact that I'm British and was too late for an H1B - it was one of the most pleasant interviews I have ever had.