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beeman commented on Briefly – A CLI that turns Git commits into changelogs and posts them to Discord npmjs.com/package/@jmscar... · Posted by u/jmscarpax

jmscarpax · 8 days ago

My team and I used to share weekly changelogs manually: backend, frontend, and design updates written into a team channel. It was useful for keeping everyone aligned, but it took effort to turn commit-level work into something product/design could follow.

Since we were already experimenting with AI, we decided to automate it. The result is *Briefly* – a lightweight CLI that:

- Collects commits from your repo - Summarizes them with OpenAI - Outputs a clean `briefly-summary.md` - Publishes directly to Discord via webhook

The workflow is simple: briefly setup briefly generate briefly publish

It’s available on npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@jmscarpa/briefly

Roadmap includes: aliases (`briefly g`), multilingual summaries, relative dates (`--since 7d|1w|2m`), dry-run for CI, and custom prompts.

We’ve been using it internally and it’s saving us ~30 minutes per week while producing more consistent updates.

Would love feedback from the community — especially around CI integration ideas or formats beyond Discord.

beeman · 8 days ago

This looks pretty nice, thanks for sharing. Is it available on GitHub?

beeman commented on Show HN: Generate random gradients like on OpenAI's website gradients.venki.dev/... · Posted by u/venkii

venkii · 17 days ago

Hey HN!

Check out this fun tool I built to make cover images for my blog. The main goal: interesting looking random gradients, that all draw from a single color palette.

I stumbled upon this post from Justin Jay Wang [1], who designed for OpenAI - describing methods for random gradients, including the one that shipped on OpenAI’s homepage from 2020-2022.

Since the post included ~10 SVGs, I was able to reverse engineer the SVG parameters, and decided to put up a generator. You can see the exact deets in my Github README [2].

I also use it to generate cover images for my Substack [3] - if you want to see what using a bunch of images generated by it looks like.

[1] https://justinjay.wang/methods-for-random-gradients/

[2] https://github.com/venkr/gradient-gen

[3] https://venkii.substack.com/

beeman · 17 days ago

Looks awesome! It would be good to add a license to your repo!

beeman commented on When the digital nomad dream turns sour theguardian.com/money/202... · Posted by u/robaato

vram22 · 2 months ago

Anyone here done it differently and better?

beeman · 2 months ago

I left my home country about 10 years ago when I got hired by a US-based startup that allowed me to work remotely.

Since then I've been living abroad and have often referred to myself and by others as a digital nomad, though some people might disagree.

I think the main thing that I did differently from a typical digital nomad described in the article is to not pursue continuous travel to new locations (that's what I take vacations for) but instead spend significant time each year in a few places around the world that you like, and come back to those places.

This allowed me to get to know a couple of cities pretty well. I got to know people and places, and it made it easier to get back in the flow when you come back, as you already know your way around, and you understand how things like money, groceries, transport and other services work.

Besides that I optimized for productivity. So I try to minimize the amount of time I need to depend on a coffeeshop by getting Airbnb's that have a desk or rent a desk in a co-working. I always bring a laptop stand, keyboard and mouse and sometimes use my tablet as a second screen to get max ergonomics.

I met my wife during one of these trips and we have been living and traveling together since 2018.

For the last 5 years we've rented several places for longer time that we call home. I typically spend around 6 months per year there, the rest I'm still traveling, my wife tends to spend a bit more time at home.

End of this year we'll move to SE Asia, we'll travel around for like 2 months before we decide where we want to rent a place to call home.

From there, we'll continue to explore the region and hopefully get to know some more amazing spots.

We feel we're not exhausted yet and are looking forward to what the next years will bring us

beeman commented on Apple Just Sherlocked Docker xeiaso.net/notes/2025/dub... · Posted by u/Tomte

beeman · 3 months ago

I've recently switched to Orbstack as a drop-in replacement for Docker on my MacBook and it’s faster and more efficient.

The main reason it works well for me is that I don't have to change anything about my workflow, commands like 'docker run' and 'docker compose up' still work, just faster and more efficient.

If Apple's container works the same they might 'sherlock' Docker and Orbstack.

beeman commented on Apple has announced its final version of macOS for Intel tedium.co/2025/06/09/appl... · Posted by u/mdp2021

apples_oranges · 3 months ago

Indeed. I still use my iPad 3 (15 years old or so) as a pdf and book reader and music player. The unnecessary obsolescence is annoying

beeman · 3 months ago

But what makes it obsolete if this is what you use it for?

beeman commented on Xata: Postgres at scale, with copy-on-write branching and anonymization xata.io/blog/xata-postgre... · Posted by u/mebcitto

beeman · 3 months ago

One of my mentees worked with Xata in their app using Prisma and it wasn't great. The need for a second db for the 'shadow' db that prisma needs, and they would throw Out of Memory errors frequently without any significant usage.

The app now moved to Prisma's postgres hosting and it works like a charm, only thing that changed is the db.

beeman commented on Show HN: A lightweight Node.js module for transcoding videos to web-friendly MP4 npmjs.com/package/@proful... · Posted by u/cranberryturkey

beeman · 4 months ago

Looks very interesting and complete. The repo had an MIT License and can be found here:

https://github.com/profullstack/transcoder

beeman commented on Synadia backs down from CNCF trademark dispute runtime.news/synadia-back... · Posted by u/ahl

beeman · 4 months ago

I wish Runtime News would have added a source for this claim.

beeman commented on Supabase raises $200M Series D at $2B valuation finance.yahoo.com/news/ex... · Posted by u/baristaGeek

socketcluster · 4 months ago

I built a 'serverless' platform that's similar, smaller but more focus on low-code than Supabase https://saasufy.com/

All the components are declarative HTML and update in realtime. Similar concept as HTMX but doesn't require any backend code. You can still implement complex UX, authentication, access control and filtered views (indexing and all).

I built this app with it over a few months as a weekend project: https://www.insnare.net/app/#/onboarding/country/All

beeman · 4 months ago

A 'serverless' platform that's "similiar". But not open source, and uses a token to 'own a piece of it'?

Care to explain what the idea behind this is and where you see the similarities?