I've been hacking on gaffer (https://gaffer.sh) as a way to learn and explore agentic development. It's been fun and I've even picked up a couple customers.

This just in; posting ridiculous amounts of personal information on the internet can lead to you being profiled correctly. Wild stuff.

We all know this, but in the past someone probably wasn't going to go through thousands of your comments unless you've really pissed them off. It's worth realising how much lower the activation energy is these days.

Yeah, it takes just one carefully worded comment to turn the majority of readers in this forum against you, particularly if the comment does not align with the majority's point of view. Definitely a place with a low melting point where my HN Karma, consistently takes a beating :)

You’re right about the speed; but it doesn’t change the outcome. If you don’t want it to be associated with you, you simply can’t put it out there.

There are emergent effects of technologies getting cheaper and more accessible.

Surveillance was always possible but it was expensive because a person or two had to literally watch a suspect. So it was rare in practice and suspects had to be chosen carefully.

Mass surveillance is not new in the sense that surveillance was always possible. What is new is the scope of power it gives to those who can use it.

Yes, and then people wonder why you are a gaping hole in the social media surveillance dragnet with your absence. It took 12 years for me to make my first comment on this account.

The real game starts when you use a tool like this to introduce a counter narrative. Now excuse while I’m off to play in my next professional basketball game.

I'll see you on the court, Victor Wembanyama.

There was an Irish mafia guy who was caught because his anonymous restaurant review profile got linked to him.

Christy Kinahan is still at large, in or around Dubai.

Not entirely correctly though, since there are forms of censorship even on HN, which selectively blinds any method of analysis in a systematically biased way.

Yeah, but now with AI. Because the shtick of this blog is "everything is ~~computer~~ AI".

Building a tool to make test reports useful - https://gaffer.sh

As far as the "what to do with flaky tests", I error on the side of just outright killing the tests. Unless it's an absolutely crucial business case, I'd rather have no test than a test that slowly degrades trust.

For what it's worth, I've been working on a side-project to try to help with almost this exact situation and would be really interested if it could help you; https://gaffer.sh

Sounds really interesting. What are you using for the tests/reports?

I'm a solo dev working on Gaffer ( https://gaffer.sh ) - Centralized Test Reports for Teams and Agents. It's been a fun side-project test out vibe-coding and cloudflare infrastructure.

I've been building Gaffer.sh, a tool for hosting, analyzing and sharing test reports.

https://gaffer.sh

Originally it started as an excuse to test out vibe-coding on a previously over-engineered side-project, but has turned into a fun little obsession.

Most people get LSD (and just about any other hallucinogens/empathogens) from the dark web.

Yea, I think that'll be one of the future steps if this thing goes anywhere.