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Related: Which programming languages are most token-efficient? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46582728 - Jan 2026 (91 comments)

Great writeup! I've been using `jj parallelize` [1] a lot (and wrote about it here [2]) to fan out a sequence of commits to set up a megamerge, but your stack alias sounds super us…

Post author here: thanks! It helps that I stare at code daily, so the urge to create a typeface for code is strong

Do it! It's an amazing experience.

Congrats on the launch! I imagine it will be really hard to compete with completely free alternatives like FreeSign[1]. Have you considered giving a free tier, or at least a free t…

And the "taskbar" at the bottom too!

I've always thought that NixOS is a new distro because of the recent hype, but apparently it is older (by about a year) than Ubuntu!

`make` is a great tool, but specifically for this use case (creating a distributable CLI), `just` has lots of batteries-included features such as * a way to list all available comm…

I have a short blog post here that describes some of my basic workflows: https://blog.chay.dev/basic-jj-workflows

Do elaborate! I thought antirez is a pretty well respected programmer.

Interesting.. according to https://community.fly.io/t/fly-gpus-are-here/16110 , these machines use Cloud Hypervisor. I wonder what makes Cloud Hypervisor play better (vs Firecracke…

One nice thing about WSL: GPU "passthrough" (via GPU-PV) is handled out-of-the-box. There are some solutions (such as https://github.com/jamesstringerparsec/Easy-GPU-PV ) that make…

Looks oddly similar to https://headshotai.studio/ , some of their FAQ answers are exactly the same too. Not sure if they are owned by the same person, or if one of them copied the …

A similar project by the Tailwind team: https://heropatterns.com/ though it's not customisable

I would love to try fly.io but unfortunately it doesn't support GPU workloads yet. Waiting eagerly!

For Neovim users that use LSP + completion + snippets, it is slightly unfortunate that the Pyright team does not plan to support snippets on Pyright (but open to supporting it on P…