ivanvanderbyl

Joined 16 years ago

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160
Member since
Sep 25
Co-Founder Ensignia. Previously founded Flood IO (Acquired), Early engineer at DigitalOcean, and did a bunch of other things.
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Comment · 11 days ago
Why is it in Fahrenheit with no obvious way to change it? Only 5 countries use F unit of measurement. It should default to Celsius or at least the prominent units of your current location.
Comment · 1 month ago
My father did the same thing. He used to smoke a pack a day and the day that I was born he quit and never touched it again, and then when I was old enough to understand cigarettes, he taught me to never start smoking and I never have.
Comment · 3 months ago
Agreed, ADK is really well designed. We’ve used it as the harness for our main product since about January and it’s been solid.

Instead of writing a Go converter to use it with AI SDK Elements, we added this client side and use ADKs SSE streaming and recovery out of the box.

Comment · 3 months ago
Do you guys provide ZDR? We’ve been waiting for someone to offer inference in Sydney on decent GPUs for a while but we’ve got strict no logging or retention requirements.
Comment · 4 months ago
Comment · 4 months ago
I bought a FujiFilm X-E5 recently, which is an amazing camera for size and money, but I shocked at how miserable their iOS app is. It takes several minutes per photo to transfer. The camera and phone run out of battery before a small memory card is transferred.

So I got Claude to help me reverse engineer their protocol using a mixture of BT and Wifi capture tools, then built a native app in Swift that works on Mac and iOS and by disabling a bunch of on camera processing I got it to transfer a photo in about 3 seconds over wifi bridge. I’ve been able to multithread this to 3 concurrent downloads without crashing the camera.

Comment · 5 months ago
It’s too “load bearing”
Comment · 7 months ago
I did, they asked me to open a support ticket, which I did, and the last response I got was:

> We've reviewed the details you provided and updated your case with the necessary information. It is now being routed to the appropriate team for further support.

That was July 2025!

Comment · 7 months ago
Has anyone here used Telnyx? I tried to build a product against their API last year and 3 weeks after signing up they banned my account and made it impossible to get an answer as to why or re-enable it.
Comment · 8 months ago
This is VERY new, like nothing more than some AI written docs and a readme.
Comment · 1 year ago
The last time I applied for a credit card (about 4 years ago) in Australia, the bank used an app that read the photo page and chip of my passport to verify that it was a real document. That process does verify the authenticity of the document.
Comment · 1 year ago
I’ve been playing around with Zed, supports local and cloud models, really fast, nice UX. It does lack some of the deeper features of VSCode/Cursor but very capable.
Comment · 1 year ago
I’m curious to see if this exists on O2 in NZ. I switched to them last week because they do free roaming in Australia, and VoLTE calls.
Comment · 1 year ago
Service account file vs API Key have similar security risks if provided the way you are using them. Google recommends using ADC and it’s actually an org policy recommendation to disable SA files.

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