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if both your mac mini and your phone are on the same tailnet, can't you just ssh to your mac mini from your phone's terminal emulator and have claude code/codex run on it?

I just use /remote-control. You can't do everything from remote but it's was easier just opening the Claude app than using ssh. And I don't need to be on my tailnet either.

The tech might be amazing, but the CEO comes across as an asshole

Sam is not an asshole. His twitter is great, he's definitely opinionated, and if you haven't had the luck of meeting him you might misread his tone as grumpy. It's not. It's sarcastic/dry humour and honest.

They build good stuff and care.


You can build good stuff, care, and be very opinionated...you can also be all of those things and still be an asshole.

being opinionated doesn't mean you can attack people you compete or don't like every other week

His X.com persona is def that of an asshole.

very kind of you to say tony

He's actually quite nice over zoom so he just comes off as funny on twitter once you've met him.

Perhaps he's quite nice over zoom, but since very few of us are going to meet him in that context, the rest of us are left to judge him by what he posts. And as they say, you never get a second chance to make a first impression.

Based on what I've read so far, with his shit-talking the competition, he seems like... a bit of an asshole.


> he just comes off as funny on twitter once you've met him.

Never heard of the guy before today, but his dickish, edge-lord aura (on X and in this thread) makes me not want to meet him. If I had to choose between buying from him, or some other random dude, I'll hear out the random dude first.


> If I had to choose between buying from him, or some other random dude, I'll hear out the random dude first.

If you have such luxuries, I bet you don't have enough scale to be really profitable for him.


Oh no, how am I ever going to avoid giving my custom to someone who has allegedly cornered the market on - checks notes - a db proxy? Give me a break.

I can think of at least 4 other ways of scaling horizontally without switching DB engines. I'd have to be mightily constrained to have this particular product as the only option.


Sure, I don't doubt your ability to do so yourself. I just question your ability to trust some random unknown figure with your data if you have enough scale. That's quite different, actually.

TBF, I hadn't heard of the guy before this thread either, but I don't hang out in the unexpected-scaling-demand-with-no-infra-team circles, which appears to he the target market.


I can fully understand why someone would think that.

There's obviously more to the story than outsiders are aware, but personally it just leaves a bit of sour taste in my mouth when the tech and blog posts you guys put out are amazing.

(I'm a paying PS customer)


Genuine question, since I'm a little out of the loop; why do you say that?


nothing i have said is untrue. a founder of a company leaving to compete out of greed is a bad thing and i am glad to call it out.

Did anyone say you said anything untruthful? No, they just called you an asshole. You can both be an asshole and be right.

PS - Just some advice that I learned in sales 101 early in my career...focusing on shit talking the competition generally isn't a strategy that works well.


> You can both be an asshole and be right.

"You're not wrong Walter, you're just an asshole." - The Dude


Unless you are at the basketball court where talking smack is a valid winnign strategy

> You can both be an asshole and be right.

Only petty people can hold that view.


In case you were unaware, if someone's defense against being called an asshole is to say "well nothing I said was false" they're almost certainly an asshole.

No one accused you of dishonesty.


I, for one, like it when CEOs let loose a bit and show some personality. It's better than everyone walking around talking like a media trained robot.

You've a tab from 9 days ago open? Maybe you should be closing your tabs more often :p


I have tabs from like 6 months ago. Modern browsers have gotten pretty good at hibernating unused tabs and restore when needed. And this website is extremely light, it gets restored in milliseconds.


I hording my tab in case I need them later (I don't, 99% of the case)

but I always have sense of fear that I might need it someday


Every 3-6 months I purge all my tabs, but always dump all URLs to an html file in case I will need them in the future. You never know!


I do that too but instead of html, I store them on discord and obsidian text file (double back up)

but I still keep it on my browser, maybe someday I would like to fetch LLM and describe my interest over time


That is just called your browser history?


The browser history contains a lot of junk and I don't want that saved forever. Curated tab history is a bit different. It's stupid for sure, but also a bit comforting to keep the most important articles and such. For anything I really care about, there's always ArchiveBox.


Bookmark?


Yes but why


How is github being down losing you guys money?


If you pay developers x money / day and one of their core tools is down for n hours during the day and they spend their money on HN instead that's pretty straight forward to calculate.


I meant more for their customers specifically


we push customer code on mondays. it is monday. code is not being pushed.

we do not bill.

the outages they promised their customers are now different.

this has costs for everyone downstream.


I was in the middle of a hot fix. Our pipeline goes through Github.


That's understandable, but surely there's a way to bypass it? You need to have a breakglass procedures lol


“lol just use a workaround” doesn’t work in an environment with hundreds or thousands of employees coupled with audit, security, and other legal requirements to ship software.


If you're actually bleeding money, you better believe you'll get permissions for a workaround, if you know what you're doing.

It all ties back to the OP, where the issue you've might not be as bad as you think. I have been in situations where we have dropped all procedures to push a hot fix because we were actively bleeding money, and in situations where you know there is an issue, and you let it be.


What an odd hill to die on. Maybe I just lost a $30M client because they wanted an issue fixed now. Maybe my company would get sued for violating their contractual obligations if someone went cowboy to bypass procedures.

Maybe I pay for a service and I want that service to work consistently during core business hours.


"Just recreate GitHub internally."


"just redo the whole CI/CD pipeline bro, it's easy"


Imagine Github being critical infrastructure for you... The ineptitude...


We use github quite a bit as well. Github being down currently is not actively losing us money, i.e. having customer impact.


How does this comment relate to the parent comment?


it shows an example of how their AI cannot perform a basic task, as simple as exiting a program.


What has that to do with the comment you replied to, which was about Jeff & Sanjay achieving so much?


Hosting the tournament has nothing to do with it. America is a lucrative market, and on top of that, FIFA can get away with charging insane ticket prices. I'm Canadian and soccer is my primary sport. Unfortunately, on a global level, nobody really cares about Canada or US when it comes to soccer.


Using total population is a bad metric considering India itself has about 2 out of 7 billion people.


Why wouldn't Indian people count?


it's arguable the "much of the rest of the world" could refer to number of countries rather than number of people, but I think "much of" applies to both so the author avoided the confusion.


they also don't drive on the left, they drive everywhere


> Left is right and right is wrong

one of cool road signs I saw years ago in Ladakh state on road from Manali to Leh. Funnily enough that 19h minibus trip sometimes went through valleys without any form of road, just used least uneven path. Not so funnily enough we had an obvious technical stop later when driver was banging with huge rock on some part of suspension for an hour, and luckily his caveman engineering worked well enough to get us moving again


The BRO signs: Border Roads Organisation. It's a semi-military organisation.


Not entirely sure, but the person vibe coding this does know Postgres really well tbf


If you're working at any decent scale, the journey is the opposite IMO.


> (Most) CRUD/OLTP applications don't delete data by timestamp; they delete by primary key. For those workloads, DROP TABLE (or dropping a partition) isn't a palatable option.

UUID v7 to the rescue!


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