Andrew Duffy

@a10y.dev

SYSTEMS HACKERS SOLVE THE BEAR MENACE

Being highly online and exposed to diverse information streams used to help with creative thinking. Now being online makes you more average and incapable of original thought. Some people have realized this but a lot still haven't.

i'm in the trenches. i'm at war. i'm in the arena. i'm an operator. i'm a killer. i move mountains. we're winning. we're revitalizing. we're reindustrializing. we're the shield of western civilization - guy doing LLMs for procurement

Just burned a couple hours debugging a handheld Pi project, seeing HAT not getting power. Then got out my probe and ran continuity test. "hmm that's weird, why are all of these holes sharing a node..." I ordered stripboard instead of perfboard 🤦

billionaire being interviewed: i havent listened to a single note of music in 27 years. think about it, music was basically invented, what, maybe 50 years ago? interviewer: this is really interesting

It's still hilarious that when I ask Claude to draft up a plan for a complex task, it gives me human-time estimates. "Part 1: Months 1-3. Part 2: Months 4-6" But then you just tell it to go and it finishes everything in a few minutes lol

Look, I get it, Lobsters is sort of the un-HN. Which is cool, I've been a lurker/occasional submitter for over a decade now. The vibecoding tag drama is annoying though. Coding agents are obviously technically/culturally interesting, the repeated attempts to censor it seem misguided

Perfect snow day activity: making a toothbrush stand for our small bathroom. Part 1: designing the support bracket and doing a test print