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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026) on Sunday August 09, 2026 @02:57PM (#49234478)
I have two personal projects at the moment.

First, https://agency.nu/ a personal agent platform for people who aren’t necessarily developers, but still want to connect multiple Gmail, Calendar, and other accounts and automate workflows across them. Spent a lot of time making the interaction easy and natural, so it supports chat, realtime voice and telegram.

Second, https://vinarium.one/ something I primarily built for myself to keep track of the wines in my wine fridge, when to drink them, and what pairs well with a particular dish.

Both are very much scratching my own itch, but I’m curious if either resonates with anyone else here.

Re:Herdr: Agent multiplexer that lives in your terminal on Monday June 29, 2026 @06:08AM (#48717189)
I switched from tmux to Zellij a while back, and lately added a stop hook that sends a terminal ping to the correct tab when the agent is done (and I'm not looking at the tab). It has been pretty convenient so far.

Added an example here:

https://johnny.chadda.se/zellij-stop-hook/

Very nice!

I created `ygg`[0] a while back to easily spawn a new worktree when working with Claude/codex, and it also spawns that in a dedicated zellij tab. I think making the terminal multiplexer pluggable, so it would be easy to integrate something like this.

[0] https://github.com/joch/ygg

Re:Is anyone actually using OpenClaw? on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @05:21PM (#47785409)
I tried it a bit, and while the potential is huge, I mostly just use a cli agent (claude/codex) via Blink shell (iPhone/iPad) with Wireguard for technical work or https://agency.nu for any automations using integration, voice chat etc.
Re:CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @03:20AM (#47583843)
PragmataPro looks great, thanks for the tip!

I didn't necessarily select the one closest to what I currently use in the game, but more looking at the shapes of different characters to see what looked the "nicest".

Re:CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @03:18AM (#47583830)
I go for the Iosevka Nerd Font Mono these days to get the nice icons everywhere.

https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/tree/master/patched-...

Re:CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font on Monday March 30, 2026 @04:55PM (#47579602)
Missing my favorite, Iosevka: https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka

Playing the game gave me Jetbrains Mono though.

Hey HN! I built ygg to make git worktrees easy to work with day-to-day with multiple Claude Code in the same repo. By running ygg new my-feature, it creates a worktree and a tab in zellij (if available) and you can get right to work. It even copies untracked files, so your .env files etc follow. When done, ygg remove will remove the current worktree and close the zellij tab.

Install via Homebrew: brew tap joch/ygg && brew install ygg

Demo video: https://youtu.be/8Q8iZ4TkUUc

GitHub: https://github.com/joch/ygg

Hope you find it useful! Would love to hear what you think!

Re:"Car Wash" test with 53 models on Monday February 23, 2026 @04:08PM (#47128857)
Agreed, even for humans, context-free logic is a challenge.
Re:QA-use-MCP: MCP for E2E testing on Friday October 10, 2025 @02:13PM (#45542032)
Claude code comes to mind: `claude mcp serve`
Re:Show HN: SuperSplat – open-source 3D Gaussian Splat Editor on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @02:15PM (#42067707)
Performance is surprisingly great, but of course it’s not as sharp/high res as you would get on a PC.
Re:Show HN: SuperSplat – open-source 3D Gaussian Splat Editor on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @08:59AM (#42062365)
There's an app for Quest 3 called Gracia, which allows you to see these in 3D space:

- https://www.meta.com/en-gb/experiences/gracia/25784099001234...

- https://www.gracia.ai

Re:F.lux, but for Your House on Monday November 07, 2022 @02:18PM (#33510861)
I would like to recommend Adaptive Lighting in favor of Circadian Lighting. It has the added benefit of being able to detect if someone manually adjusts the brightness or color, and then stops the automatic adjustment for that light.

https://github.com/basnijholt/adaptive-lighting

Re:The Perfect Media Server on Sunday January 03, 2021 @04:10AM (#25620625)
Sounds like using mergerfs together with snapraid would work similar to the popular Unraid software but more diy.
Re:Happy New Year HN on Thursday December 31, 2020 @04:57PM (#25597643)
Gott nytt år! Looking forward to a better 2021.
I agree, but I'm ok with adding a title manually.

Speaking of missing features, what I do miss though is the automatic title naming based on current calendar events. It was a perfect way of tracking meeting notes, but that feature has been removed.

I have been using Evernote for over 10 years now. The core note taking experience has never been close to good, but two things have made me stick by it through the years (powered through the nagging for business subscription)

1. Web clipper, which I use as a bookmark replacement, as well as for keeping copies of articles. Great for searching and knowing that I will always have a copy if a site suddenly disappears.

2. PDF ocr / search. I store a lot of receipts, contracts, invoices, manuals and other docs in Evernote, most of which are in PDF. I find the search-in-pdf feature indispensable.

I would love to move to something simpler like Bear (http://www.bear-writer.com), which has a superior writing experience. However, the two points above always make me come back to Evernote.

Edit: Also forgot to include the ability to take unstructured notes and sketches using the Apple Pencil on an iPad, while a bit cumbersome in Evernote, at least works.

Re:I returned my 2016 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @10:08AM (#13365304)
Even though the Esc key is indented, the empty space on the left still functions as Esc, meaning that the key is quite wide in practice.
Re:Why Apple Music is So Bad When the iPhone is so Good on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @02:48AM (#11720225)
> - I can play music on any device logged into the account from any other device logged into the account

This is the only reason for me sticking with Spotify instead of Apple Music. It lets me have the Spotify app running on my htpc and I can easily control it from any device running Spotify. No need for AirPlay, Bluetooth etc.

I have switched to an lchf based diet, and I have seen some tremendous health benefits such as lower weight, better mood and higher overall energy.

I saw a movie recently called That Sugar Film that explores this kind of eating. One of the key takeaways is it actually important where the calories come from and not just the amount.

http://thatsugarfilm.com/film/synopsis/

Re:The Search for the Perfect To-do List on Friday March 25, 2016 @06:12AM (#11359289)
Thank you! There are so many way of implementing GTD and countless posts on parts of everyone's setup, so I just figured I just post my entire setup in one single article.
Re:The Search for the Perfect To-do List on Thursday March 24, 2016 @01:53PM (#11354857)
I recently published my current OmniFocus/GTD workflow, which has been working really well for me. http://johnny.chadda.se/the-2016-omnifocus-setup-and-workflo...
Re:What Happened: Adobe Creative Cloud Update Bug on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @01:58AM (#11108312)
Thanks for the tip! Looks like they have a perpetual license. :)
Re:What Happened: Adobe Creative Cloud Update Bug on Monday February 15, 2016 @06:17PM (#11106808)
Is there a viable alternative to Lightroom? It's the only reason I'm stuck with Creative Cloud.
Re:Show HN: Plain Email – An app for one-touch email processing on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @02:28PM (#11028980)
I like the approach! I'm a GTD user and would love for the app to integrate with OmniFocus, meaning that defer and delegate are added to the appropriate place within my contexts and projects.
Re:Git2Go – GitHub client for iPhone and iPad on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @05:30PM (#10461293)
Did some testing and the user experience is surprisingly great! Didn't think git on iOS could be this easy, but I haven't tried resolving a merge conflict yet.

Looking forward to support for custom git repositories, or even better, private Gitlab servers.

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