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I use VSCode and for the past few months the release notes have been largely about AI features. I use Copilot to autocomplete some code (the passive tab autocomplete feature) and sometimes generate unit tests with right…

I’m working on a CLI tool to automate integration tests declaratively (think: test API calls and their results, manage DB fixtures, make assertions on anything observable you can think of). I would like to monetize it…

LLMs are notoriously non deterministic, which makes it hard for us developers to trust them as a tool in a backend, where we usually expect determinism. I’m in a situation where using an LLM makes sense from a technical…

I’m still figuring out how to use passkeys properly and I’m struggling a bit to find a workflow that works for me. For now I’ve decided to use passkeys only as a 2FA mechanism for some critical account, where I can also…

Threads was the next big thing, but after a few months I don’t hear anything about it anymore. Is it already dead?

I finally installed Copilot to see what the fluff was about, and I have to say I’m pretty disappointed so far. The suggestions are either completely nonsensical, or mostly correct but it takes me more time to review the…

In the last hour I searched in French for "laine de verre" (glass wool), "pompe à chaleur" (heat pump) and a few others, and the Wikipedia link is nowhere to be found on the first page. If I make the same searches in…

I recently started using AWS for my new job, and am currently stuck with CloudWatch for logs. I used to dislike Graylog because of the clunky interface, but I just cannot extract anything from CloudWatch! My logs are…

I'm interested in a list of CLI tools with embedded analytics, and how to disable them. For example, Homebrew analytics can be disabled with: export HOMEBREW_NO_ANALYTICS=1 Is there such a list?

I'd like a MongoDB GUI tool with query autocomplete but can't find anything that doesn't have ridiculous pricings (Studio 3T for example is great but $200 a year is way above my price range, it's more expensive than a…

I’d like to start keeping track of the good blog articles I’ve read, especially the ones I think could be useful later. For now I use Safari’s read later list but it doesn’t feel efficient and mixes what I want to read…

What’s the simplest way to deploy a Docker container? By this I mean I have build my image and uploaded it to a registry. Now I want to deploy it somewhere with some basic conf, a few environment variables and maybe…

I’d like to filter the HN submissions where the provided URL ends in .fr, to find blogs or personal websites of Frenchies. Is that possible? I tried the obvious /from?site=*.fr but it doesn’t seem to be available

I want to learn K8s but I have 2 constraints: - I’m a developer so I don’t want to deploy or administrate a cluster myself, I just want to learn how to deploy and manage my pods - I want well written resources,…

I just read "11 Tips for Better Signup / Login UX"[1] from the front page earlier today and liked the format. Is there a reference of good UI/UX practice for various components? Tables, pagination, whatever, these are…

For the past year, I've noticed Google Translate becoming worse and worse. Every single time I search for what I know is a false friend, Google Translate systematically returns the obviously wrong translation. The last…