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by irskep 1mo ago
I use git worktrees daily. I'm surprised by how hard it can be to explain them to people who have never used them. Lately I've settled on "like clones, but sharing a .git directory." The article tries to get this across
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by irskep 5mo ago
aube was about 30% slower than pnpm in my testing on our hundreds-of-dependencies monorepo, but I'm giving it time and keeping a testing branch around. (hi jdx yes I am that guy.) Honestly this speaks to how good pnpm is more than sayi
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Show HN: Dependicus, a dashboard for your monorepo's dependencies(descriptinc.github.io)
6 points by irskep 6mo ago|1 comments
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by irskep 9mo ago
Working on mrjob was a big part of my first job out of college. Fun to see it get mentioned more than ten years later. What some commenters don't realize about these bureaucratic IO-heavy expensive tools is that sometimes they are used
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by irskep 11mo ago
Today I'm hacking on automate-terminal, a command line program and Python library that abstracts the various terminal emulator automations (iTerm2, WezTerm, Kitty, tmux) into a single API. Mostly made for use by other tools. https:&#x
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by irskep 11mo ago
I'm really excited by this development! Material for MkDocs has raised the quality level of so many projects' docs, my own included, by making good navigation the default. It's by far my favorite system to browse as a reader,
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by irskep 1y ago
I'm working on autowt, a git worktree manager that happens to make LLM coding workflows easier. https://steveasleep.com/autowt/ It has some rough edges, but I use it a ton and get a lot of value out of it.
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by irskep 1y ago
> AI editors should look into letting you operate on multiple git branches simultaneously Git worktrees are great for this. I built a little tool to make them more ergonomic: https://steveasleep.com/autowt/ You real
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by irskep 1y ago
Letting Cursor pick the model for you is inviting them to pick the cheapest model for them, at the cost of your experience. It's better to develop your own sense of what model works in a given situation. Personally, I've had the m
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by irskep 1y ago
I was once a heavy user of Cursor with Gemini 2.5 Pro as a model, then a Claude Code convert. Occasionally I try out Gemini CLI and somehow it fails to impress, even as Cursor + Gemini still works well. I think it's something about the
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by irskep 1y ago
I'm working on a little wrapper that solves this problem. I have similar needs with .env files, and in my case running 'uv sync' to install dependencies. I linked it elsewhere in this thread so I won't repeat the URL (au
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by irskep 1y ago
I've been working on a tool for exactly this purpose: https://steveasleep.com/autowt/ I'm the only user at the moment, and I really enjoy the workflow. I run about four claude-codes at once this way. It'
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by irskep 1y ago
"Compactions" are just reducing the transcript to a summary of the transcript, right? So it makes sense that it would get worse because the agent is literally losing information, but it wouldn't be due to context rot. The thi
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by irskep 1y ago
I threw together a vibecoded tool to do this, as a personal experiment. It splits the guide into several runs, each focusing on a different style guide section. Here's the diff it gave for the Claude-authored README for the tool, which
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by irskep 1y ago
What advantage do you get from this being an MCP server rather than simply a command line tool? Genuinely curious, as I'm trying to develop my mental model of when to use one or the other. Lovely project!
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by irskep 1y ago
It was actually about customers and incentives. You're right that I shouldn't have said "users;" I should have said "customers." It's rational for businesses to do things that make them money, and to not d
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by irskep 1y ago
Which apps do you avoid in particular which are associated with a service you are required by your job to use? Or, what purchasing decisions have you made on behalf of your company that took Electron-ness into account?
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by irskep 1y ago
Electron apps are already out of place. In the space of Mac-apps-for-SaaS-products such as Linear, Slack, Notion, Asana, Figma, GitHub, and Spotify, they inflict the company's own design system on Apple's OS rather than try to shi
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by irskep 2y ago
One thing I do to avoid this problem is to ask the LLM to make a plan and write it to a doc. Then in a new session, have it read the doc and tell it to implement a specific part of the plan. It saves you almost as many brain cycles as just
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by irskep 2y ago
I see you're getting downvoted (wrongly, because you're discussing in good faith), but I agree with the sentiment. 5% is a bit harsh, but having been on multiple iOS teams where AutoLayout is essential, it has always been a challe
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by irskep 2y ago
In my case, it's because all my client devices are laptops, or locked down like Apple TV. It's nice to have a low-stakes experimentation box that can also be a Jellyfin server. On the other hand, I don't go to the trouble t
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by irskep 2y ago
In that case, I apologize for misunderstanding, and would edit my original comment if I could.
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by irskep 2y ago
It sounds like you're referring to app-launch time, which is different from screen-load time. Very different things!
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by irskep 2y ago
It all depends on whether the number includes network roundtrip or not, which they don't state. I read it as not including a network request, i.e. all CPU and local I/O.
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by irskep 2y ago
Replying to myself for clarification: I did not read their 500ms number as including waiting for a network. It sounded like that's how long it was taking React Native to load local data and draw the screen. If that's not the case,
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by irskep 2y ago
I agree with most of the other comments here, and it sounds like Shopify made sound tradeoffs for their business. I'm sure the people who use Shopify's apps are able to accomplish the tasks they need to. But as a user of computers
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by irskep 2y ago
racenis, what program did you use to draw the header graphic? I dream of a Mac port, but it's beyond my skills.
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by irskep 2y ago
This is my favorite syntax for technical writing, but unfortunately the only complete implementation is in Python. There are half-finished JS projects (last I checked) but nothing else. I really wish they were complete so we could use this
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by irskep 2y ago
It's not really true to say "very little has been done." Thousands of person-hours have been invested into this problem! But the results have been mixed. At least uv is nice! https://docs.astral.sh/uv/
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by irskep 2y ago
> Any solution that's 80% accurate just doesn't work for most applications. And yet people use LLMs, for which "80% accuracy" is still mostly an aspiration. :-) I think it's reasonably likely most people companie

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