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I tried out Codex over the past few days. It's good, and the one feature that I really liked was the ability to review the diff inside the app and leave inline comments. No more re…

Unfortunately I have started to feel that using AI to code - even with a well designed spec, ends up with code that; in the authors words, looks like > [Agents write] units of chan…

I've been an oh-my-zsh user for many years now, being very happy with the very small set of features I use from it. Previously I could never think of trying to figure out how to re…

Thanks for responding and your thoughts! Generally agreed with all you said. However, I feel like maybe a different approach could be to store all the app state in the DB, and then…

Love this! I haven't used Beanhup, but was a user of text based accounting systems (beancount, hledger) for many years to track personal expenses. I stopped doing it when I realize…

I hated configuring multiple Hosts/aliases in my ~/.ssh/config for Github/Bitbucket when dealing with different keys for different clients. I ended up creating a "SSH environment" …

My somewhat limited understanding of this is that from your perspective, an increase in your asset/cash account would be a debit. A big confusion for me initially was that my banks…

Most of the listed features are incremental updates over the previous model; the MK3. However, as someone who's been using 3D printers for about 3 years, I'd say the biggest improv…

A personal story about how writing helped me make a decision. A few months back, I was job hunting due to tech layoffs and ended up with two offers from different startups. One was…

Hi. I'm evaluating an offer from a brand new startup (raised a decent pre-seed round and have runway for 2-3 years) that will be joining a YC batch. I'm already working in a simila…

I'm sorry you feel this way, but maybe my experience can give you hope. I moved countries in 2013, and barely had 1 friend after I moved. I had a few office colleagues I was friend…

A CLI app that converts my Excel based banking statements into a CSV that can be imported into the "You Need A Budget" budgeting app. I needed this because my UAE bank (Emirates NB…

I usually try Advent of Code ( https://adventofcode.com ) every year with a new language I'm interested in. So far it's allowed me to get respectable knowledge of: - Go - Rust - Cl…