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torvald commented on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)    · Posted by u/david927
tonymet · 2 months ago
torvald · 2 months ago
Lol, yes.
torvald commented on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)    · Posted by u/david927
torvald · 2 months ago
https://clubemate.place

Crowd source where to find Club-Mate shops.

torvald commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)    · Posted by u/david927
torvald · 3 months ago
Yesterday's shenanigans: https://clubmate.place/ - find (and/or register) where you find your ClubMate! Just click on the map to add a store.
torvald commented on My sourdough starter has twins   brainbaking.com/post/2025... · Posted by u/Tomte
iainmerrick · 4 months ago
I'd like to add one piece of advice that I don't see very often.

You tend to see pictures of sourdough starters in big jars. But you don't need a big jar! A tiny amount of starter is enough to get going.

Each time you feed it, the size multiplies, so you can start with a teaspoon of starter and make enough for a big loaf in just a day or two. When I'm in a bread-making routine, I keep like 10g of starter. One feed brings it up to ~50g, another feed to ~150, and that's enough for a loaf (saving 10g for next time).

If you keep your starter in a big jar, it'll just go to waste. Keep it small and you'll never need to throw any away.

On more than one occasion, I've made sourdough pancakes or something, and forgotten to save some of the starter. The tiniest scraping of uncooked batter from a leftover spoon is enough to keep it going -- just mix it with flour and water and the magic happens.

torvald · 4 months ago
> If you keep your starter in a big jar, it'll just go to waste. Keep it small and you'll never need to throw any away.

I tend to make «sourdough discard crackers» if I have leftovers. It works well timing wise, I'm in the kitchen doing the initial stretching of my loaf anyways.

torvald commented on If you believe in "Artificial Intelligence", take five minutes to ask it   svpow.com/2025/02/14/if-y... · Posted by u/lycopodiopsida
torvald · 7 months ago
I like think of it less as artificial intelligence and more like a combination of a lossy zip file of the internet and like a pretty coherent word generator.

I recall my AI professor in uni telling us during the first lecture that «Artificial intelligence is this target, that, and once we get there it, is it no longer artificial intelligence, is just an algorithm» – and this still feels like the case.

torvald commented on How to setup self hosted wiki for your startup   themythicalengineer.com/h... · Posted by u/sks147
torvald · 9 months ago
I cannot recall why i did not go for wiki.js myself, I tried, but I kept looking. Ended up with https://docmost.com/ and I've been quite happy. It's probably more equal to Notion then Wikipedia, but as a internal knowledge base it seem to be hit the right spot in terms simplicity and features.
torvald commented on How do you deploy in 10 seconds?   paravoce.bearblog.dev/how... · Posted by u/mpweiher
torvald · 10 months ago
This is a great approach if you have an idea or startup and just want to get things done -- one I would choose 10 out of 10 times when starting something new. You'll know when it’s time to move on, and you can likely postpone that step a bit longer as well.
torvald commented on My IRC client runs on Kubernetes   xeiaso.net/blog/2024/k8s-... · Posted by u/xena
jeanlucas · a year ago
Is IRC still a thing? I mean seriously, do communities hang around there? I stopped using in 2016.
torvald · a year ago
Yes and yes.
torvald commented on Ask HN: Why does everyone need to be an "Engineer" these days?    · Posted by u/demosthanos
foobarbaz33 · a year ago
Status and titles are important to many people. Bestowing a title is a free way for companies to satisfy that itch for their employee. "Engineer" is not a formal credential or legally protected title in the USA.

All sorts of jobs have rebranded.

    Janitor -> Janitorial Engineer
    Garbage Man -> Sanitation Engineer
    Cheater -> Rules interpretation Engineer
    Guard -> Correctional Officer
    Programmer -> Software Engineer

torvald · a year ago
I actually just refer to myself as a Digital Janitor these days, even though I'm hired as SRE. Funny enough, it's met with much more understanding, and it is ironically kind of fitting as well.

u/torvald

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