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tajd commented on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)    · Posted by u/david927
tajd · 3 days ago
I've been building out my portfolio at https://verdient.co.uk/ and writing more blog posts about applied maths on my blog at https://tom-dickson.com/

Most recently I've been having fun extending the functionality on a website I use to host tools that help me structure and plan workouts - https://ironvolume.com/

tajd commented on Dagger: Define software delivery workflows and dev environments   dagger.io/... · Posted by u/ahamez
tajd · 4 days ago
This looks interesting but I’m trying to understand it in more layman’s terms. Is it more about providing abstractions for llms to work within to do things?
tajd commented on Pocketbase – open-source realtime back end in 1 file   pocketbase.io/... · Posted by u/modinfo
throwaway77385 · 20 days ago
I see Pocketbase, I upvote. Using it in a few production apps and it's been a very solid experience. Some breaking changes from time to time, but generally very solid. Also has a lot of extensibility built in. Sometimes you might hit a scenario where it doesn't provide what you need, which is when things can get a bit hairy, but nothing a skilled dev can't work around.
tajd · 20 days ago
what sort of prod apps are you running from it? keen to learn by what other people are doing
tajd commented on Over-regulation is doubling the cost   rein.pk/over-regulation-i... · Posted by u/bilsbie
tajd · a month ago
There has got to be opportunities here for abstracting over regulation to make it easier to comply with and prove compliance so that risk owners/govt can enact change faster. Now to figure out who would pay for that.
tajd commented on Kubernetes Is Your Private Cloud   oneuptime.com/blog/post/2... · Posted by u/ndhandala
tajd · a month ago
I feel like articles like this need to come with a diagram like this to put it in the context of relevant tradeoffs.

                       High Scale/Revenue
                              │
                              │
      Managed Services        │      Self-hosted K8s
      (Overpaying but         │       (article is
      no choice)              │       pitched here)
                              │
  ────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────
      Low capacity            │         High capacity
                              │
                              │
      Managed Services        │      Managed Services
      (Right choice -         │      (Wasting money on
      focus on product)       │       platform team)
                              │
                        Low Scale/Revenue
Or something like that. Maybe as a function of time as well but that might be harder to do in 2d.

Sure I can absolutely manage my own k8s, but there is no doubt it's easier for me to spin up postgres and ship faster on my own. At enterprise scale it's definitely a lot easier to do everything in k8s and be able to manage as many aspects as possible. I have experience of both.

tajd commented on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)    · Posted by u/david927
tajd · a month ago
Looking at an ancient game called Trias/Ternii Lapilli and learning/using maths to figure out if it can be solved https://tom-dickson.com/blog/trias-game-investigation/

It’s similar to tic-tac-toe but slightly different of course.

Found it a great opportunity to learn about new areas of maths. Trying to figure out where to go next with it.

tajd commented on Deploying to Amazon's cloud is a pain in the AWS younger devs won't tolerate   theregister.com/2025/11/0... · Posted by u/raw_anon_1111
tajd · a month ago
Life is easy when you don't want to think about scale or security. Until you have to, that is.
tajd commented on Next.js is infuriating   blog.meca.sh/3lxoty3shjc2... · Posted by u/Bogdanp
oDot · 4 months ago
I wouldn't say I agree with those circumstances, but even if they did indicate a match with Next.js, they are not worth the reduction in productivity and maintainability that comes with it.

I use Gleam's Lustre and am not looking back. Elm's founder had a really good case study keynote that Next.js is basically the opposite of:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl1UQXgtepE

tajd · 4 months ago
this is a really interesting talk - thank you for sharing!

u/tajd

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