Ian Macartney

@ianmacartney

friendly engineer. works at https://convex.dev former infra lead for previews @ Dropbox 🦋 https://bsky.app/profile/ianmacartney.bsky.social

California

Joined April 2008

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Ian Macartney@ianmacartney · Jun 17

Rate limiting LLM chat per-user with `useRateLimit` const { status } = useRateLimit(api.rl.getRateLimit) Full code in 🧵 Algorithms: Sending messages: fixed window Token usage: token bucket courtesy of @convex-dev/rate-limiter + @convex-dev/agent (components)

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Ian Macartney@ianmacartney · Jul 23

5 different package releases in 5 hours. Alphas are great for shipping fast

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Ian Macartney@ianmacartney · May 28

UI nit from iOS days: Activity indicators with linear rotation vs. steps ❌ animation: 1s linear infinite spin ✅ animation: 1s steps(10) infinite spin

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Ian Macartney@ianmacartney · Jul 19

That was a doozy! Docs and examples galore, will share more soon github.com/get-convex/age…

ianmacartney's tweet card. to start it includes a few other PRs that will get landed sooner Fixes #81 By submitting this pull request, I confirm that you can use, modify, copy, and redistribute this contribution, under the...

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Ian Macartney@ianmacartney · Jul 2

Naming is hard

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Ian Macartney@ianmacartney · Jun 10

The Agent Component can now manage files sent to / generated by your LLM call. Via Convex storage, tracking refcounts via sha256 hash, w/ vacuuming controls, etc.

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