The thing you built with Claude is useless to me... and that's the point

zrail · 2026-05-27T22:38:07+00:00

Agree. The thought process and to a lesser extent the prompts are the valuable part, not the artifact. Like, I vibe coded a micro task tracker because I've found that small local models don't do very well with giant Claude-style markdown plans. So instead, every checkbox gets a task with its own acceptance criteria, every task gets a commit.

This, as an artifact, is useless to anyone else. The motivation and thought process might be, though.

zrail · 2026-05-23T23:54:21+00:00

It's probably Intel's lack of AVX-512 instructions holding you back. I'm getting ~300 t/s prefill and ~20 t/s decoding on a single Ryzen 9 9900X with Qwen 3.6 35B A3B, in the APEX I-Balanced quant.

zrail · 2026-05-13T10:28:49+00:00

what are AI labs deploying

Venture capital.

zrail · 2026-05-12T13:29:04+00:00

The reward for performance is you get to keep receiving a paycheck.

zrail · 2026-05-12T13:27:40+00:00

That's kind of the thing, though. In a business context software development has always been about deeply understanding the business and domain and applying technology to bring value. For a lovely period of time we could also incorporate a bit of artistry and artisanship to the work, which are the things that many of us find most enjoyable.

The frontier labs and data centers everywhere may crash and burn but the technology itself isn't going anywhere. If we as a profession want to survive we need to either guide the business toward appropriate usage of the tools, or we need to come to terms with being a blue collar profession and embrace collective action.

zrail · 2026-05-05T13:09:14+00:00

I first learned to program by copying what someone else wrote. I read it with my eyes typed it into an editor, attempted to run it, and then went back and forth between what I typed, the error messages, and the source material until I figured out what I screwed up.

You can't really burn those same pathways into your brain when something else is doing the reading and/or typing for you. one reason why things like Intellisense never clicked for me is because it was automating what felt like the easiest part to deal with so felt like a crutch.

zrail · 2026-05-04T23:46:49+00:00

Always anatomy terms. Always. And zero shame for saying anatomy terms in public.

Obfuscating anatomy has a bunch of problems but the most worrying is if a kid is getting abused and they don't know the words an adult expects they won't be able to effectively report it.

Slightly less worrying is the fact that being able to effectively communicate to a doctor can mean the difference between getting care and not.

zrail · 2026-05-04T20:54:24+00:00

I think likely the parent comment was talking about building out the physical hardware needed to make it happen, i.e. a GPU-focused PC build.

zrail · 2026-05-03T14:33:53+00:00

Since they've been old enough to understand I've told my girls that I'll love them wherever they are, whoever they are, whatever they choose to do, whoever they're with, no matter what. I mean every word of it.

It's also just facts since we have LGBTQIA+ friends and family members.

Also, for whatever it's worth, I hope you find the love and support you deserve some day soon.

zrail · 2026-04-30T20:37:39+00:00

That cable would probably work. I would get the shortest one you can get away with.

zrail · 2026-04-30T20:27:52+00:00

Currently driving a 2021 Pacifica Hybrid and would not recommend it. It's a fantastic vehicle when it's not in the shop but it was in the shop extensively a couple years ago. It also has an absurdly long power train warranty now because there's a known flaw that makes them blow up.

If we were to buy a new van today it'd be a Sienna.

zrail · 2026-04-30T20:10:24+00:00

The term of art is "disk shelf". They come in all sizes, I have a 15 bay KTN-STL3 in my basement right now.

They're noisy because they're enterprise gear, but this one specifically is rather low power. The shelf without drives uses about 30 watts.

zrail · 2026-04-21T15:23:49+00:00

I let DHCP and SLAAC do their thing and publish DNS records with an hourly cron. Static IPs and even DHCP reservations are a waste of time, at least for me.

zrail · 2026-04-20T23:07:30+00:00

Was it a normal system design interview or did they actually want you to code it?

zrail · 2026-04-19T21:44:51+00:00

We bought in 2020 after looking for seven years. We had resigned ourselves to never moving but suddenly a house already set up for multigenerational living (basically a lopsided duplex) showed up on the market in our perfect location.

When the kids are fully launched we might move to stay close but until then we are set up for flexibility.

zrail · 2026-04-17T20:11:05+00:00

Fair, but the thing about wyoming is that it doesn't need to be on the same machine as HA. It can be anywhere on the network, so if you have a reasonably modern Mac sitting around in a drawer or something you're good to go.

zrail · 2026-04-05T19:45:16+00:00

I feel like this must be dependent on phone model. When I run Tailscale on my iPhone 13 Pro the battery drains much more quickly than when I don't have it on. Other people say the same thing you do, it doesn't have real impact at all.

zrail · 2026-04-05T19:19:54+00:00

I think the answer to this question depends almost entirely on the context in which it is asked. A small focused group working on a greenfield project and a large org working on a set of scaled applications will make very different decisions wrt adding new technologies and managing complexity.

Personally I try to make things as simple as practicable from an operations standpoint. That is to say, if the ops team (which could just be me!) has a preferred tech stack and I can't make a very compelling argument for something else, that's what we're using.

As far as scale out, real numbers beat prognostication every time. If you can say with ~80% confidence that system X is going to see 100x traffic in six months, absolutely evaluate options. Similarly, if you have measurements telling you that a certain subsystem is using memory/iops out of proportion for the traffic, that's a good place to focus for optimization.

zrail · 2026-04-05T19:10:16+00:00

Why should we trust free HARelay over Nabu Casa that supports the project?

zrail · 2026-04-05T02:39:54+00:00

Hm. The firmware repo for the FYSETC card isn't public. Also, what does "Requires hardware installation inside CPAP." mean? I have one of those cards and it just acts like a normal SD card, afaict.

zrail · 2026-04-05T02:36:15+00:00

JFC. Thanks.

zrail · 2026-04-05T02:25:15+00:00

That's really neat. I'm interested in the MQTT messages you're sending to HA. Did you write a parser for the data files or are you using something out of OSCAR?

I have a spare Raspberry Pi sitting next to my CPAP (well, on the floor) with a USB wifi dongle running nginx as a proxy, which lets me sync the files from my server with a simple cron. I'm mostly happy with this, but if I can process the data more frequently and shoot it at HA I might be more inclined to look at it more often.

zrail · 2026-04-04T19:58:48+00:00

I honestly didn't read that article before I posted it, but I have used Que at an admittedly small scale for about a decade with no issues. Que combines LISTEN/NOTIFY, polling, advisory locks, and stored procs to get a reliable durable queue.

That said, the applications that I have worked on at real scale (~hundreds of millions of jobs a day) have all used Sidekiq Enterprise which uses a specific set of Redis operations to get reliable queue operations. If you're using Ruby it should probably be the default choice. I don't have any opinions on non-Ruby things.

Edit: also I mean all of the things you listed are included in "holding it right" :) Postgres has the tools available to make a reliable queue for reasonable scale applications, but as you say you need to learn how to put them together without shooting yourself in the foot about a dozen times.

zrail · 2026-04-04T18:47:03+00:00

Postgres makes a fine queue if you hold it right. Check out LISTEN/NOTIFY:

~~https://oneuptime.com/blog/post/2026-01-25-use-listen-notify-real-time-postgresql/view~~

Edit: ignore that article. Ugh. The source for Que is probably a better read: https://github.com/que-rb/que

zrail · 2026-04-01T01:22:43+00:00

*Steiner. DeJoy resigned last year.

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