sbrother (u/sbrother)

sbrother commented on Build durable workflows with Postgres dbos.dev/blog/why-postgre... · Posted by u/KraftyOne

mmcclure · 17 days ago

Just curious, if you’re already in Elixir and using Postgres, why not use Oban[1]? It’s my absolute favorite background job library, and the thing I often miss most when working in other ecosystems.

[1] https://github.com/oban-bg/oban

sbrother · 17 days ago

Oban is so good! My startup has an extensive graph of background jobs all managed by Oban, and it's just rock solid, simple to use and gets out of the way.

sbrother commented on Emailing a one-time code is worse than passwords blog.danielh.cc/blog/pass... · Posted by u/max__dev

abustamam · 19 days ago

I want to like passkeys but I haven't had any success getting them to work. Every time I click on "sign in using passkey" both my browser (Firefox or Chrome, on Android/Win/Mac) and Bitwarden are like "no passkeys found" and I'm never given an option to create one.

I feel like I'm doing something stupidly wrong or missing a prompt somewhere, or maybe UX is just shitty everywhere, but if I, a millennial who grew up programming and building computers, struggle with this, then I don't expect my mom, who resets her password pretty much every time she needs to sign into her bank, to get it to work.

sbrother · 19 days ago

I'm in the same boat. I just cannot get them to work; they work sometimes on some browsers, but a solid majority of the time I click on "use passkey" I get a generic error message and end up going back and using the password flow.

I haven't invested more time in this because if it's so unusable for me as an engineer, it's a non-starter for the general public.

sbrother commented on So you want to parse a PDF? eliot-jones.com/2025/8/pd... · Posted by u/UglyToad

BobbyTables2 · 22 days ago

Kinda funny.

Printing a PDF and scanning it for an email it would normally be worthy of major ridicule.

But you’re basically doing that to parse it.

I get it, have heard of others doing the same. Just seems damn frustrating that such is necessary. The world sure doesn’t parse HTML that way!

sbrother · 22 days ago

I've built document parsing pipelines for a few clients recently, and yeah this approach yields way superior results using what's currently available. Which is completely absurd, but here we are.

sbrother commented on Qwen3-Coder: Agentic coding in the world qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwe... · Posted by u/danielhanchen

kentonv · a month ago

Ugh, why is Apple the only one shipping consumer GPUs with tons of RAM?

I would totally buy a device like this for $10k if it were designed to run Linux.

sbrother · a month ago

You can buy a RTX 6000 Pro Blackwell for $8000-ish which has 96GB VRAM and is much faster than the Apple integrated GPU.

sbrother commented on How Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) rewrites the rules of search a16z.com/geo-over-seo/... · Posted by u/eutropheon

sync · 3 months ago

Definitely a bit buggy but looks promising! Try the onboarding flow yourself as a real user (also on mobile!) - particularly leaving the site to research a competitor that is mentioned and then coming back (I got kicked out and had to start from the beginning, at which point it just paywalled me)

It also says I have canceled my subscription at the bottom of the paywall when I never had one. Still, these are little things and I think the bones are theee

sbrother · 3 months ago

Thank you so much for giving it a spin and reporting those issues :)

Also if you're interested, here is what your dashboard looks like (the onboarding flow is sadly the buggiest part of the app right now): https://imgur.com/a/eysQzjT

sbrother commented on How Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) rewrites the rules of search a16z.com/geo-over-seo/... · Posted by u/eutropheon

maltelandwehr · 3 months ago

How is ellm different from the more established tools in the market (Profound and Peec AI)?

sbrother · 3 months ago

So the short answer is that this space is so early still that there’s plenty of space for more competition. But currently both of those market leaders are targeted at enterprise and have little to no penetration of the SMB/self-serve market. Ellm has a self serve onboarding flow, a $20/month monitoring only tier, and a $100/mo self-serve optimization tier — none of which require scheduling a call with a sales team.

sbrother commented on How Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) rewrites the rules of search a16z.com/geo-over-seo/... · Posted by u/eutropheon

sbrother · 3 months ago

I launched a product in this space to beta customers just last week -- https://ellm.co -- and the response has been way more positive than I could have hoped for. Every SMB owner I talk to is thinking about this and looking for ways to be ahead of the curve on it even though the number of commercial AI search queries is still dwarfed by Google. It feels like a race, and we are figuring out the rules as we run it.

sbrother commented on Writing A Job Runner (In Elixir) (Again) (10 years later) github.com/notactuallytre... · Posted by u/rhgraysonii

sbrother · 3 months ago

FYI if anyone is looking for a production ready job runner in Elixir, I strongly recommend Oban. They have a paid pro version but the open source version is still absolutely fantastic.

sbrother commented on Introducing the Llama Startup Program ai.meta.com/blog/llama-st... · Posted by u/mayalilpony10

adamloving · 3 months ago

Quick summary: Apply for up to $6K reimbursement per month for up to 6 months for Llama usage (wherever you use it). Incorporated startups with less than $10 million USD in funding are eligible. (disclosure: I work at Meta as Llama Partner Engineer)

sbrother · 3 months ago

Will payments to OpenRouter for hosted llama calls qualify?