chrisweekly (u/chrisweekly)

chrisweekly commented on How to build a coding agent ghuntley.com/agent/... · Posted by u/ghuntley

ghuntley · a day ago

I'd love to see you build your own agent and then share it here in HN as a show HN.

Thank you for sharing.

And remember to avoid feeding the trolls.

chrisweekly commented on Static sites with Python, uv, Caddy, and Docker nkantar.com/blog/2025/08/... · Posted by u/indigodaddy

superkuh · 2 days ago

The best way to make static sites is to install nginx/caddy or whatever basic static webserver from your repos. Then put the .html and files in directories on your filesystem in the web root folder. Done. No overhead, no attack surface, no problems with software changing (deps, etc, etc), lasts forever. Super easy interface (it's your filesystem!).

This project seems more like something you'd do to demonstrate your skills with all these tools that do have use in a business/for-profit context working with groups but they have absolutely no use or place hosting a personal static website. Unless you're doing it for kicks and enjoy useless complexity. That's fair. No accounting for taste in recreation.

chrisweekly · 2 days ago

The author wrote a comment in another thread^1 just a few min before yours.

Also, starting any comment with an unqualified "The best way..." is probably not the best way to engage in meaningful dialog.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44993875

chrisweekly commented on Static sites with Python, uv, Caddy, and Docker nkantar.com/blog/2025/08/... · Posted by u/indigodaddy

ahmedfromtunis · 2 days ago

At this point, why not use a wordpress container? With a minimalist theme, it would be way easier and faster to deploy, and still be blazingly responsive.

This level of complexity would've been acceptable if this was about deploying one's own netlify type of service for personal use. Otherwise, it's just way too complicated.

I'm currently working on a Django app, complete with a database, a caching layer, a reverse-proxy, a separate API service, etc. and still much simpler to deploy than this.

chrisweekly · 2 days ago

wordpress is php is a non-starter for many of us

chrisweekly commented on My experience creating software with LLM coding agents – Part 2 (Tips) efitz-thoughts.blogspot.c... · Posted by u/efitz

bgwalter · 2 days ago

His profile says: "I'm a technology geek and do information security for a living."

The blog post starts with: "I’m not a professional developer, just a hobbyist with aspirations."

Is this a vibe blog promoting Misanthropic Claude Vibe? It is hard to tell, since all "AI" promotion blogs are unstructured and chaotic.

chrisweekly · 2 days ago

Hmm, to my eye those descriptors (profile and blog post intro) aren't contradictory.

chrisweekly commented on From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent ssp.sh/blog/macbook-to-ar... · Posted by u/articsputnik

kaladin-jasnah · 2 days ago

Interestingly, I really don't like MacBook trackpads. The actuation force is too high for my taste. Maybe this has changed.

chrisweekly · 2 days ago

It's adjustable

chrisweekly commented on Developer's block underlap.org/developers-b... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

BinaryIgor · 2 days ago

Besides mentioned by others walks and sleep I found meditation to be really helpful; you often can get the benefits, ideas-generation-wise, of a full-night sleep doing solid 30-minute session. There are other benefits of meditating too :)

chrisweekly · 2 days ago

Agreed -- and IME even a 10m zazen session is helpful. Also, a 20m nap can be surprisingly restorative. Physical movement (even a couple min of stretching) goes a long way, as does changing the environment (switching rooms, and/or writing design notes by hand instead of typing).

chrisweekly commented on Developer's block underlap.org/developers-b... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

ChrisMarshallNY · 2 days ago

> Release early, release often

I’m big on this.

I find it efficacious to have an integrated product going as soon as possible, even if it’s a field of stubs.

It’s my experience that I almost never know what the end product will look like, no matter how much upfront planning time I devote, so being able to test and iterate the whole system, as soon as possible, is pretty vital.

It’s also one reason that I like to use test harnesses a lot[0].

[0] https://littlegreenviper.com/testing-harness-vs-unit/

chrisweekly · 2 days ago

Your linked post about test harnesses is outstanding; thanks for sharing!

chrisweekly commented on Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City cnbc.com/2025/08/22/waymo... · Posted by u/achristmascarl

groggo · 3 days ago

It feels less fair though. When everyone is driving x mph over the limit but only you get pulled over, it sucks. So I agree for efficiency of enforcement, but I'd rather see 100% enforcement (automated if possible), with more warnings and lower penalties.

chrisweekly · 3 days ago

It doesn't just "feel" less fair, it often is -- bc it's not truly random, it's selective enforcement which leads to things like "driving while black".

chrisweekly commented on Copilot broke audit logs, but Microsoft won't tell customers pistachioapp.com/blog/cop... · Posted by u/Sayrus

Faark · 5 days ago

What's the solution then? Chain 2 AIs, the first one is fine tuned on / has RAG access to your content telling a second that actually produces content what files are relevant (and logged)?

Or just a system prompt "log where all the info comes from"...

chrisweekly · 5 days ago

Someone please confirm my idea (or remedy my ignorance) about this rule of thumb:

Don't train a model on sensitive info, if there will ever be a need for authZ more granular than implied by access to that model. IOW, given a user's ability to interact w/ a model, assume that everything it was trained on is visible to that user.

chrisweekly commented on Candle Flame Oscillations as a Clock cpldcpu.com/2025/08/13/ca... · Posted by u/cpldcpu

chrisweekly · 6 days ago

> Now, it’s a curious thing that we try to emulate the imperfections of candles. After all, candle makers have worked for centuries (and millennia) on optimizing candles NOT to flicker?

This reminds me of teenage me circa 1990 exploring electric guitar distortion and having an interesting conversation w/ my dad, who'd done a pretty serious paper on eliminating audio distortion as part of his CSEE degree from MIT.