thecodemonkey
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Comment · 1 month ago
I totally agree! I usually combine it with the ask user question tool in Claude Code which makes decision-making a breeze.
Comment · 5 months ago
Really love this approach. And I’m all in for making websockets cheaper and less painful.
Comment · 6 months ago
Fun! I was just reading about the star tracker in "Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed". Really fascinating when you're thinking about how this all happened in the 50's and 60's.
Comment · 7 months ago
Running the same codebase for 10+ years with a small team is what finally made me fully internalize these rules.
I've always been a KISS/DRY person but over a decade there are plenty of moments where you're tempted to reach for a fancier database or rewrite something in a trendier stack. What's actually kept things running well at scale is boring, known technologies and only optimizing in the places where it actually matters.
We wrote our principles down recently and it basically just reads like Pike's rules in different words: https://www.geocod.io/code-and-coordinates/2025-09-30-develo...
Comment · 7 months ago
I'm working on Chief [1], a CLI that autonomously works through a PRD using AI coding agents like Claude Code.
You write user stories, start it up, and it loops through them one at a time. Fresh context per story, progress tracked in markdown between iterations. One clean commit per completed story. Has a TUI for watching it work and supports running multiple PRDs in parallel via git worktrees.
Built it because a lot of the "autonomous coding" tooling out there felt overly complex and opaque. Chief is intentionally lightweight and transparent. Everything is just markdown files and git. No magic.
Comment · 11 months ago
We are also 100% customer-funded. AWS makes sense for us for the enterprise version of Geocodio where we are SOC2 audited and HIPAA-compliant.
We are primarily using Hetzner for the self-serve version of Geocodio and have been a very happy customer for decades.
Comment · 11 months ago
Hahaha. I'll update the post once I hear back from them. One could hope that they might consider an account credit.
Comment · 11 months ago
That was truly my hope with this post! Glad to hear that
Comment · 11 months ago
Haha, yep we were lucky to catch this early! It could easily have gotten lost with everything else in the monthly AWS bill.
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