John Forte

Full-stack architect. Prev @vercel + @advanceauto. Building AI/SaaS systems. Writing about software architecture and applied AI.

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@chetan7764 Typescript and Holy-C cause...

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@shl As someone that isn't a musician, I know a lot of musicians due to software engineering.

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@initjean This is so petty behavior, but I am sure GPT 5.5 can take an openAPI spec and turn it into an SDK that is nature.

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@chamath Kinda hard when they want to eat all the software. Wish they focus solely on inference and model capabilities not to be the everything app.

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@yacineMTB Data quality is the expensive part, most people don't know how to collect good data quality.

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@matvelloso :O the funs of sql injections LOL

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@mattyglesias I think giving counties access to the models like @ChatGPTapp plus as part of the benefits of having a data center would be awesome. Like what malta and UAE.

Even throw in some prompt engineering courses for free and that seems like a win-win.

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@brankopetric00 Yaml, I am always in the camp of more context is better.

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@lewiscarhart I actually just switched Next for @honojs for apis and vite index.html on vercel. Next has just been come too heavy for me.

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@mcuban Wealthy people will do anything but lobby to fix the tax code. How about instead of adding a token tax to users we tax corporations correctly on profits made?

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@frankdegods Yep if your only moat was compiling data and showing pretty pictures your NGMI

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I do this as well (without it coding next to the live site, still use @vercel).

But I have a golden AWS AMI with @opencode installed and spin up AWS EC2s to do coding with tmux and some other magic.

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I laugh when I see people in holding their laptops half open so their Claude Code doesn't shut off

All my projects run on a @Hetzner_Online VPS with Claude Code installed next to the sites/apps that I work on and I just SSH in with @TermiusHQ and it keeps going forever even if I disconnect (I use Mosh or Tmux or I just /resume)

My MacBook Pro battery life is also much better as everything happens on the server not my laptop

I work so incredibly fast now, it's like having a secret benefit over everyone else who are still AI coding on a laptop, then deploying to their server, while their battery life dies and they can never close their laptop

And whenever I want I can just switch to Termius on my iPhone and continue working!

My workflow is literally: I have a bug or feature, I open Termius, I type it in the project tab, it fixes it, every fix it auto commits to GitHub but it doesn't actually deploy from there anymore because it's editing the site on the server live

I don't recommend that to everyone, but I do recommend getting a VPS you can code from and then use as staging and test and deploy from there to your production server

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@CaptainInsightX It isn’t Apache couldn’t solve it they just believed a different view of sockets which was 1 thread on the CPU should be 1 socket open.

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@garrytan But posthog has sql abilities, why rebuild your own infrastructure and especially on big query which is expensive.

Cool agent but the rest was not needed.

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@unclebobmartin on a financial platform... if you had money there, be moving it today.

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@stockxsucks Yes less greasy.

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@robj3d3

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@nalinrajput23 Dev environment AWS parameter store pretty straight forward and allows devops to roll if needed.

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@rutu_3 You can just change the ordering and it will be fixed.

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@aussieflya @resetbasis I love when people make these predictions then you drop this image. Which is 1900's prediction of 2000's ballon supported walking.

"When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail."

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Smart defaults are hard in payments, every business has different risk tolerance. Even myself, no two stripe accounts use all the same radar rules.

I have one account that has a high ticket ~$100 per month subscription, those rules are extremely strict cause any reversal would probably put me over threshold and get my account ban.

Yet I have an account that is pretty open due to the amount of transactions and price point being pretty low ~$15. I can tolerant the few reversals I get.

The UX for finding what you need is pretty poor, but I use this https://t.co/9tdiTtnrtf to find my attributes. But with AI I can't imagine why they haven't added in an AI so natural language could be used to create the rules.