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Personal blog · pocketarc.com · on HN as pocketarcaiprogrammingproductivity

PocketArC is a personal blog at pocketarc.com about ai, programming and productivity. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “My coworkers are GPT-4 bots, and we all hang out on Slack”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-02, and you can follow it by feed.

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11mentions?
3HN people?
2023–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2024

I write about learning, AI, software, and my personal projects.

The author on HN?

pocketarc · 2,808 karma · member since 2016

Senior Software Engineer, Team Lead @ Prompt Health. Lived in Portugal, Ireland, UK, and now in the US / New Jersey. Always happy to chat. You can reach me at hn@pocketarc.com.

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Most-linked posts?

  1. My coworkers are GPT-4 bots, and we all hang out on Slack
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-05-30

What Hacker News says?

  1. Location: Idaho, US Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Node.js, Vue.js, SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL), AWS, DevOps, Go, PHP Résumé/CV: https://pocketarc.com/cv.pdf Email: bruno@pocketarc.com Senior software engineer with 15+ years of experience in full-stack development. Strong background in React, TypeScript, and SQL, with a focus on automation and performance optimization.…

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2024)”
  2. Submitted My coworkers are GPT-4 bots, and we all hang out on Slack as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  3. I've seen this criticism a lot here in HN, and it's something that's always concerned me. There's a CloudFlare "essentially off" option that I've always hoped would make a difference when it comes to that. I always set it to that when setting websites up with CloudFlare, in hopes that it makes a difference. That way I can still make use of the CDN and all the other features of CloudFlare without actually bugging vis…

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: How to secure website for public launch”
  4. Submitted Grafana > Datadog as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  5. I wrote a blog post about it[0], but basically, I use the TMDB API to get all shows and episodes, which is free and has a generous rate limit. For the episode descriptions, I grab the plot summaries from IMDB and Wikipedia, with just HTML scraping, no APIs, and feed them to an LLM to get the 3 main plot points, so you don't have to read a bunch of rambling text when trying to quickly assess the episode you're lookin…

    Comment linking /posts/tv-sort-engineering-the-ultimate-tv-episode-ranking-system

    on “Show HN: I made TV Sort, a web-based game for ranking TV show episodes”
  6. Submitted Agentic coding makes strict static analysis non-negotiable as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. https://pocketarc.com - Personal blog, where I've been trying to write more. I've recently started keeping a personal devlog there as well.

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”
  8. Submitted The era of single-threaded human productivity is over as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. I've been generating a ton of images with Stable Diffusion using my desktop's GPU, and I needed a way to organise them all, so I built this! Just putting the finishing touches on it now. I also wrote a little article about how the app was built: https://pocketarc.com/posts/diffusion-depot-the-smart-image-...

    Comment linking /posts/diffusion-depot-the-smart-image-manager-for-stable-diffusion-midjourney-and-dall-e

    on “Diffusion Depot – Smart Image Manager for Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, DALL-E”
  10. Submitted My coworkers are GPT-4 bots, and we all hang out on Slack as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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