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Re:Google copybara: moving code between repositories on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @11:01AM (#48747971)
We used Copybara to setup a hub-and-spoke model at Dagster where public-facing repos can live within our larger internal monorepo, and while it worked we had to do a lot of hacky things.

https://dagster.io/blog/monorepos-the-hub-and-spoke-model-an...

Re:Hammerspoon on Friday March 13, 2026 @10:30PM (#47372694)
Agreed, I never considered it a selling point but I did enjoy having an excuse to explore the language in Hammerspoon (and Neovim too).
Re:Hammerspoon on Friday March 13, 2026 @10:27PM (#47372675)
Thank you for your work on Hammerspoon! I’ve been using it for years.

Would you mind elaborating on your vision for v2? Was there a certain limitation in the previous architecture that you’re trying to avoid this time around? Was there something in particular that drew you to choosing JavaScript for this version?

Re:What I've Learned from JJ on Friday May 02, 2025 @09:06PM (#43876046)
Surprised no one has mentioned https://graphite.dev/ yet. Our team uses it for stacked PRs, and it works really well.
Re:Ask HN: How do you communicate in a remote startup? on Friday November 15, 2024 @03:57PM (#42150948)
When we tried it, gather.town set an awkward expectation that team members had to stand at their virtual desk, otherwise they weren't _actually_ online / working.
Re:OpenBSD Based Challenge Day 3 on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @09:42AM (#29795238)
I use the `tmux-resurrect` plugin (https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-resurrect) to restore my tmux session after a reboot. I highly recommend it.