Alex Yumashev

Jitbit condemns this war. I'm from Russia originally and I'm ashamed of my passport right now. Forgive us Ukraine 🇺🇦 💙💛

Finally bought my ticket to @MicroConf in Portland! Can't wait to see you all there. P.S. The hotel is sold out, darn... welp, guess I'm getting my steps in every morning!!

"Linkedin Speak" language in Kagi Translate is hilarious. P.S. And so accurate ☹️. This exactly what my Linkedin looks like...

@aarondfrancis I use a mechanical kbd with *actual* Home/End keys. PS. But Mac's support is so bad I need Karabiner to remap them to cmd+arrows, then a *second* hack in Ghostty to unescape cmd+arrows in the terminal. Two layers of duct tape just to go to line end hahah

Help me understand how you use hotkeys in terminals. Some people expect Cmd+Arrow to go to the start or end of a line, but Cmd is consumed by the terminal emulator, it never gets sent to the PTY. If it works, it’s because the terminal is remapping it What do you expect?

True story: me and my cofounder got tired of arguing about UI design for hours. So we literally created two agent personalities, named them "Alex" and "Max", described our tastes and let them do the fighting. Now, one main coding agent creates 2-3 design mockups, then "Alex" and "Max" fight and vote. Our Slack is waaaay less toxic now.

"You are an expert at XXX" is indeed outdated and makes zero sense for smarter models like Opus 4.6 or GLM-5 What does help tho!! is having multiple agent personalities doing code reviews for DESIGN. One agent creates some frontend mockups. Then 2 reviewing agents are (1) instagram addicted zoomer with ADHD (2) grumpy 50yo old micromanager. Grab some 🍿🍿🍿 and watch them fight. Sooo fun

I really dislike and actively avoid the LARP prompting method of: YOU ARE AN EXPERT [whatever] YOU ARE GREAT AT X … You are almost always more efficient just asking the model to do the thing.

@pmkoom @1Password all that heavy duty (encryption, storage etc) lives in a separate standalone app that the extension talks to. Extension just needs a couple of selectors. I'm basically paying $50 a year to make by browser 3X slower 😀

@jitbit @1Password wait they banned your entire account! password managers are pretty heavy duty it makes sense that they add a lot of weight. its not like it is a big surprise

Speedometer 3.1 test with 1Password extension disabled: 45.0 Speedometer 3.1 test with 1Password extension enabled: 15.5 Chrome, MS Edge - same results. No other extensions active. Posting this to @1Password subreddit got me banned from it. W T F

@einarvollset @1Password Browser benchmark browserbench.org/Speedometer3.1/

@jitbit @1Password Eh? What is this test?

@dwjorgeb @levelsio Because citizens get to vote? I'm literally in this boat. Been living in Europe for 13 years. Paying millions in taxes EVERY YEAR. I'd like to be able to vote please 😀

I don't understand why we need to easily grant citizenship to immigrants, regardless where they are from. Want to get residency here and work here and help the country? Sure, welcome! But why do you need citizenship? Why should it be easy to get an European passport? People work all their life in the UAE, Singapore or many other places without ever getting citizenship there, why is it such a big deal to grant European citizenship

Funniest part of it that this was mostly Brazilians with Italian heritage getting passports A demographic that's high educated and high income and culturally aligned with Italy and Europe, I mean they're genetically Italian! Instead they'll now give away passports to low educated welfare seekers without income from cultures that hate them It seems European governments enemy is immigrants that are a net positive addition to their culture while wanting to bring in more people that want to destroy their societies

@earthlingworks @jessethanley @dagorenouf (unrelated) I have a feeling SOC-2 is (maybe? slightly?) becoming irrelevant. Most big corps have an alternate route anyway. "Oh, you don't have SOC-2, no worries - here's our 100-page questionnaire. Feel free to use AI to fill it out wink-wink

@jessethanley @dagorenouf Same. We use Vanta and it’s fine but it’s not an automatic renewal for us each year. We may be paying even more than we should since we bought four years ago or so. Don’t make the time to go research everything myself again.

No time for outbound. This is my calendar with just inbound leads.

@CasJam This. "Internal software doesn't need any of that" - so true. Sick of hearing "but scaling..." "but security..." "but edge cases..." "but SSO with Goog/MS/Okta..." "but 500 integrations with xyz..." "but..." "but...'' Doesnt. Need. Any. Of that.

@aarondfrancis Deploying too

Releasing should also be as easy as pushing a button. *Everything* should be wrapped up into a GitHub workflow. Triggered manually, if you want. No remembering anything, and certainly no relying on my specific machine to cut a release!

@coreyhainesco Only for coders

Marketing is 100x harder than coding

*infrastructure* is a moat too. A transactional email app needs dozens of IP addresses with years of good reputation. A cloud storage app needs ... uhm... cloud storage. A network security app like CrowdSec needs 1000s of server installations reporting suspoicious traffic to one central repository. Etc. SaaS is not dead. CRUD is.

There used to be a time when "smart engineering" was a moat for SaaS founders. Well, I guess that's over. Most founders with actual revenue lean on agentic AI because it works. Any feature you like, anytime. So where is the new moat? I believe it's the only thing left: data. Code is a commodity. Algorithms are a commodity. The only thing that ACTUALLY sticks? Your data (and the data being produced by your users). Here's how to build a moat that AI can't replicate overnight. Today on the pod! tbf.fm/episodes/437-d…

@paoloanzn Cute take, the thing is - internal stuff DOES NOT need to scale. Vibecoded slop needs to survive one client - the company. Not “scale to all possible edge cases”

vibecoder asks claude code to build a chat app, gets a working prototype in 20 minutes, immediately tweets "just killed slack and discord"… brother you don't even know what a distributed system is. you don't know what database replication means. you have no idea how websocket connections behave at scale or what happens when 50k people are online at once and someone's message needs to show up in 200ms across 3 continents slack has engineers making $300k+ who have spent a decade solving problems you don't even know exist yet. race conditions, eventual consistency, message ordering, presence systems, file storage at scale, search indexing across billions of messages your app works on localhost with 2 connections. that's not the same thing as "killing slack" that's a college homework assignment the prototype is maybe 0.5% of what makes these products actually work in production. the remaining 99.5% is infrastructure, reliability, edge cases, and years of iteration on problems that only surface when real humans use your thing at scale and the worst part is the confidence. "yeah its not perfect but ai one-shotted it, just need to adjust a few things and deploy" - the few things you need to adjust IS the entire product. thats like pouring a foundation and saying you basically built a skyscraper, just need to adjust a few things ai is genuinely incredible for building tools and prototypes. i use it every day. but there's this weird thing happening where people who have never shipped anything to real users at scale now think the hard part of software is writing the first 200 lines of code it never was bro

@jamespotter HN is getting massively AIslopped too. We just don't see it b/c of Dang's work

It's no longer interesting to read the replies to other people's posts on this site anymore. 95% AI slop. Some of it cleverly disguised but still fundamentally slop. Sad. Hacker News comments are still mostly unclankered.

How is this a thing?!?!? Shut up and take my money

Project Hail Mary comes out next week and I've never been this obsessed waiting for a movie. Checking trailers, counting down release dates - nothing has done this to me. Not Star Wars in the 80s, not the LOTR releases. The book is incredible and the trailers look like they nailed the vibe!! PS. Half the tickets at our local IMAX are already sold out, whaaat

@michaelkoper @mitchellh Hahah, same :) Just realized that it SUDDENLY works today

@jitbit @mitchellh I noticed that it finally works, because my muscle memory still does Cmd+F every single day. I was like, wtf, Ghostty is nice but I use this all the f'ing time!

Ghostty 1.3.0 is quietly out last week and it FINALLY supports Cmd+F yay!! Thanks @mitchellh