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by duggan 7mo ago
It does, you're just running a command over ssh, so if you've a particularly long build then something more involved may make more sense.
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by duggan 7mo ago
A directory over SSH can be your git server. If your CI isn't too complex, a post-receive hook looping into Docker can be enough. I wrote up about self hosting git and builds a few weeks ago[1]. There are heavier solutions, but even se
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Microgpt on the ESP32 – But Why?(duggan.ie)
4 points by duggan 7mo ago|0 comments
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AI-generated art can’t be copyrighted after Supreme Court declines review(theverge.com)
193 points by duggan 7mo ago|151 comments
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by duggan 7mo ago
Journalists, anyway. I think I originally heard it from Casey Newton on Hard Fork, but it was a month back so not 100% sure. But there's loads of people who would be stumped by a for loop, yet can easily work their way through a setup
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by duggan 7mo ago
I've heard it described as the first time many non-programmers have been able to make computers "do things" without it being defined by someone else (app interface, developer, etc). It's a hugely empowering development f
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by duggan 7mo ago
I've been tinkering away on one of these myself, https://rockstar.ninja . I expect there are a hundred others out there, going to be interesting to see what the end shape of these tools is.
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by duggan 8mo ago
Motivated novices will just learn differently, and produce different kinds of systems for different audiences with different expectations. Some will dig into obscurities that LLMs don't or can't touch, others will orchestrate the
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by duggan 8mo ago
I’ve used Claude to write custom firmware in Rust for an ESP32-driven desktop clock. Turned it into a Stripe revenue dashboard and notifier. Even bought a couple more, flashed them, and gave to my cofounders, complete with AI written (perso
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by duggan 8mo ago
Like any service outage out of their control, people will find other things to do until it’s over.
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Cognitive Debt in AI Coding(duggan.ie)
2 points by duggan 8mo ago|0 comments
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by duggan 8mo ago
> In any case, there's a huge difference between "the barrier to entry has been lowered" and "those who don't use LLMs will be left in the dust". I think the latter is ridiculous. Yeah, it’s a bit incendiary
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by duggan 8mo ago
My take is more optimistic. I think it will make prototyping and MVP more accessible to a wider range of people than before. This goes all the way from people who don't know how to code up to people who know very well how to code, but
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by duggan 8mo ago
Not the person you asked, but my interpretation of “left in the dust” here (not a phrasing I particularly agree with) would be the same way iOS development took off in the 2010s. There was a land rush to create apps. Basic stuff like the fl
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I built a terminal monitoring app and custom firmware for a clock with Claude(duggan.ie)
1 points by duggan 8mo ago|0 comments
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by duggan 8mo ago
I was very impressed with vBulletin’s use of bitmasking for permissions (of which there were many possible combinations) when I first encountered it. Would love an excuse to use it, but one has not come up in like 15 years since, hah.
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by duggan 9mo ago
https://duggan.ie A personal blog with a mixture of technical posts and other essays. No AI content. Every time I write a post I find myself adding little features here and there, which is what I always wanted to be able to do w
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Second Thoughts on James Burnham (George Orwell, 1946)(orwellfoundation.com)
4 points by duggan 9mo ago|0 comments
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Self-hosting Git and builds without running a bunch of web services(duggan.ie)
1 points by duggan 9mo ago|0 comments
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by duggan 9mo ago
"Robot boots 30,000 feet above the ground" doesn't have quite the same ring to it.
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by duggan 9mo ago
Yeah, any outright dismissal of a perfectly reasonable idea like this smells of market opportunity.
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by duggan 9mo ago
I thought I was going to disagree with this; on the surface I think the icons are something of an improvement, but the rest of the post is persuasive. This is a bad sign for design at Apple. It suggests a fundamental lack of attention to de
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by duggan 9mo ago
Hardly. Just pointing out that water is wet, from my perspective. But there is an interesting looking-glass effect at play, where the truth seems obvious and opposite on either side.
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by duggan 9mo ago
I spent so much time tuning the WAP site for the forum I worked for back in 2008. I had some sort of Nokia running on whatever 2kbps networking was going then, and would shave absolutely anything I could to make the forums load slightly fas
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by duggan 9mo ago
LLMs work very well for a variety of software tasks — we have lots of experience around the industry now. If you haven’t been convinced by pure argument in 2026 then you probably won’t be. But the great thing is you don’t have to take anyon
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by duggan 9mo ago
Yep, that’s not a bad approach, either. I did that a lot initially, it’s really only with the advent of Claude Code integrated with VS Code that I’m learning more like I would learn from a code review. It also depends on the project. Work c
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by duggan 9mo ago
I mean sure, that could happen. Either it's worth $200/month to you, or you get back to writing code by hand.
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by duggan 9mo ago
Search “centre a div” in Google Wade through ads Skim a treatise on the history of centering content Skim over the “this question is off topic / duplicate” noise if Stack Overflow Find some code on the page Try to map how that code wil
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by duggan 10mo ago
It was a real facepalm moment when I realised we were busting the cache on every request by including date time near the top of the main prompt. Even just moving it to the bottom helped move a lot of our usage into cache. Probably went from
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AI vending machine was tricked into giving away everything(kottke.org)
145 points by duggan 10mo ago|13 comments

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