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drewda commented on OpenFreeMap survived 100k requests per second   blog.hyperknot.com/p/open... · Posted by u/hyperknot
Ericson2314 · 16 days ago
Oh wow, TIL there is finally a simple way to actually view OpenStreetMap! Gosh, that's overdue. Glad it's done though!
drewda · 15 days ago
The OSM Foundation has been serving raster tiles for years and years (that's what's visible by default on the slippy map at www.openstreetmap.org): https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap_Carto

After on and off experimentation by various contributors, OSMF just released vector tiles as well: https://operations.osmfoundation.org/policies/vector/

drewda commented on Traccar: an open source GPS tracking system   github.com/traccar/tracca... · Posted by u/saikatsg
RonanSoleste · a month ago
Id have to register my own account with my personal data and connect my private phone to send my location to a server i know nothing about. Lets not.
drewda · a month ago
It's a great open-source option, but I'd also skip using their hosted service given that Traccar is a Russian company.
drewda commented on Observable Notebooks 2.0 Technology Preview   observablehq.com/notebook... · Posted by u/mbostock
svieira · a month ago
Out of curiosity, why `<notebook>` as an element and not a standard web-component `<observable-notebook>` or something like that if the goal is to go all-in on "normal" web development?
drewda · a month ago
I was wondering the same.

FWIW, the HTML custom elements spec does require a hyphen: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/custom-elements.html#...

drewda commented on Show HN: Pogocache – Fast caching software   github.com/tidwall/pogoca... · Posted by u/tidwall
drewda · a month ago
Always great to see his open-source creations, like:

- a Redis like cache purpose built for real-time spatial locations: https://tile38.com/

- go package for reading JSON: https://github.com/tidwall/gjson

drewda commented on Builder.ai Collapses: $1.5B 'AI' Startup Exposed as 'Indians'?   ibtimes.co.uk/builderai-c... · Posted by u/healsdata
zachncst · 3 months ago
Isn’t this what they always tell startups to do? Fake it and get product market fit. I recall the stories of task rabbit where the founder was delivering all the meals.
drewda · 3 months ago
"Do things that don't scale" to quote Sir PG.
drewda commented on We’ll be ending web hosting for your apps on Glitch   blog.glitch.com/post/chan... · Posted by u/js4ever
DannyPage · 3 months ago
I really enjoyed using Glitch as it allowed me to quickly publish and iterate on various experiments or try out new libraries like Datasette or HTMX.

I am curious what Glitch will look like after July. If they aren’t hosting apps, will they still be hosting code and letting it deploy elsewhere? It says it’s not a full shutdown, but it doesn’t appear to say what will be left to do on Glitch after that date.

drewda · 3 months ago
Glitch was acquired by Fastly a few years ago, so perhaps the user-facing brand will continue on for a while on top of some Fastly hosted services...
drewda commented on LLM function calls don't scale; code orchestration is simpler, more effective   jngiam.bearblog.dev/mcp-l... · Posted by u/jngiam1
obiefernandez · 3 months ago
My team at Shopify just open sourced Roast [1] recently. It lets us embed non-deterministic LLM jobs within orchestrated workflows. Essential when trying to automate work on codebases with millions of lines of code.

[1] https://github.com/shopify/roast

drewda · 3 months ago
Nice to see Ruby continuing to exist and deliver... even in the age of "AI"
drewda commented on Mako: Fast, production-grade web bundler   makojs.dev/... · Posted by u/kenfai
drewda · 6 months ago
FWIW, previously discussed under https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40853845
drewda commented on Cities can cost effectively start their own utilities   kevin.burke.dev/kevin/nor... · Posted by u/kevinburke
drewda · 7 months ago
Interesting analysis.

Sounds like an argument for ABAG to expand its energy related services into a full utility (at least on the electricity side): https://abag.ca.gov/our-work/energy-infrastructure

drewda commented on 20k federal workers take "buyout" so far, official says   axios.com/2025/02/04/trum... · Posted by u/djoldman
Molitor5901 · 7 months ago
I would not leave. Getting into the federal system was hard before, it's going to be near impossible now. For people who are not AI experts, engineers, doctors, etc. the federal government offers pay and benefits unparalleled to anything those same people would find in the private sector. Not to mention the job protections that really don't exist in any other private sector American company.
drewda · 7 months ago
Here's a detailed look at how total compensation compares between the private sector and federal positions by education level: https://www.cbo.gov/publication/60235

The key takeaways:

- staffers with high school or some college make more, on average, working for federal gov't, primarily due to the benefits. But it's an exaggeration to describe the difference as "unparalleled"

- comp is roughly equivalent for holders of bachelor's

- comp for holders of professional degrees or doctorates (JD, MD, MBA, PhD) is significantly lower on average for federal jobs

u/drewda

KarmaCake day2563August 24, 2009View Original