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Comment · 6 months ago
I was around during the dot-com bubble. When it popped it popped pretty quickly. It wasn't a slow leak. Everything needed to be a dot-com and everything was centered around being a dot-com no matter what the business actually did. Money was pouring and almost anything dot-com was getting funding.

I moved to a dot-com right at the tail end of it. We built a pretty decent startup from scratch within the first two months and debuted at one of the largest trade shows in the world. We had our own private label factoring credit card and we did credit card transactions over the internet and with handheld cellular devices. It was built to scale, colocated, and we were getting customers. When the floor dropped out it was done in less than two months. dot-com was a very negative thing for a while after that.

Comment · 6 months ago
I made a really big flowchart diagram of all of our services and how they interrelate by giving Claude Code the description of what I wanted starting at the entry point project and working its way through the entire system to the data ingestion point. I gave Claude my GitHub access token so it could look through or clone each repo it needed. I also had many of the projects already cloned in my workspace folder through years of working on the various projects.

Claude was able to determine the project, analyze the code, and infer the infrastructure. It worked through the projects as it went drawing a higher level diagram first. Then I iteratively asked for more detail around the sections I thought needed more detail.

This was just an experiment that I spent a few hours on. Months later I misplaced the mermaid markdown file so I asked Claude to reproduce the mermaid markdown from the png image so I could have it add more detail around another section that looked incorrect because it encapsulated the database and worker for one of the systems in a single box. The detail made the diagram in that area much more clear.

To me it is very good at writing/reading/reverse engineering mermaid diagrams.

Comment · 6 months ago
The limits seem higher on Ollama Cloud to me than paying for API access. I don't have solid stats on that though. I have an OpenRouter account and the service I am creating is going to need to use that. I will have better measuring stick then.
Comment · 6 months ago
I am using GLM-5.1 in pi.dev through Ollama Cloud. I am able to get by on the $20 plan. I use it a lot and the reset is hourly for sessions and weekly overall. This is the first week I got close to the limit before reset at about 85% used. I am probably using it about 4 hours a day on average 6 or 7 days per week.
Comment · 6 months ago
I have been using GLM-5.1 with pi.dev through Ollama Cloud for my personal projects and I am very happy with this setup. I use pi.dev with Claude Sonnet/Opus 4.6 at work. Claude Code is great but the latest update has me compacting so much more frequently I could not stand it. I don't miss MCP tool calling when I am using pi.dev; it uses APIs just fine. I actually think GML-5.1 builds better websites than Claude Opus. For my personal projects I am building a full stack development platform and GLM-5.1 is doing a fantastic job.
Comment · 10 years ago
Comment · 10 years ago
Location: Las Vegas, NV

Remote: Yes (experienced)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Full Stack, Java, TDD, JavaScript, JQuery, Backbone, RequireJS, Handlebars, Bootstrap, HTML, REST, NoSQL (Google Datastore low-level), MySQL, SQL Server, Google Cloud Platform, Agile, Git.

Resume/CV: http://stackoverflow.com/cv/binklynch

Email: bink [dot] lynch [at] gmail [dot] com ([email protected])

About Me: I am an accomplished, team­-oriented full­-stack web developer, fluent in all levels of the architecture, specializing in Agile software development, product development, user experience, database design, and unit and acceptance testing.

Comment · 10 years ago
This is great! One feature I would love, the ability to edit the markup in the left pane, see it "live" in the right pane, get it the way I like it, then copy.

Nice work!

Comment · 11 years ago
Comment · 11 years ago
We implemented a "point-in-time" database architecture to accomplish similar behavior based on this document:

https://www.simple-talk.com/sql/database-administration/data...

The article describes two columns, dateEffective and dateEnd. If dateEnd is null, the row is still effective. When the row has been updated or deleted, the dateEnd field is set.

This was implemented in a regulated industry where we had to show the state of the system at given points in time. It worked well for this purpose.

Comment · 11 years ago
Comment · 13 years ago
What great timing. I was just looking for this. Thanks!
Comment · 13 years ago
We have recently been dealing with this not even knowing it existed prior. We adopted a flat-coated retriever from Kingman, AZ and he was soon diagnosed with a blown-out knee that required radical surgery. Luckily, my wife did some research and cancelled the morning of the surgery as his behavior was not consistent with a bad knee (lame sometimes, run like crazy others). Almost a year later, still lame off and on, my wife felt odd swelling on his leg bone. A new vet took more x-rays and found large lesions just above his ankle. We are lucky it did not affect his lungs, but it settled in his bones which seems painful. He has been on fluconazole for a couple of months and the masses on his leg are shrinking. He has not limped for a couple of weeks now, but I still have to carry him up and down the stairs because the weak leg could break and it would not heal. Treatment will take at least one year.

Arizona was on the top of our list for our next home. Not anymore.

Comment · 13 years ago
It's just before you hit the space bar to begin playing the game, "404 Error! Press space to start," then it goes away. I missed it too until I saw your comment, then I went back and checked.
Comment · 13 years ago
Just downloaded this. Looks great!

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