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While learning jj, I realize how Git habituated me into being ok with its unique jargon and prickly command line interface. Unlearning Git is refreshing.

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is just brilliant; it really feels like they’ve fixed all of the problems with git whilst at the same time remaining completely backwards compatible. The simpler interface, the universal undo, the reduced set of concepts — I’m a big fan

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Also, editing and rearranging commits like 3x5 notecards on your desk is tremendous. It makes using an SCM feel more like editing your work than lumbering forward.

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Testing, testing…

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You forgot the “one, two, three”. :-)

created a quiz:

programmer emergency: production is down. You change absolutely nothing and restart the server. It works. What did you fix?

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Team vim, team emacs, or team “my editor doesn’t start wars”? One line, no essays. Go!

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vim/neovim with vim keys everywhere else -- once you learn it text editing with any thing else feels slow

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Team vim, it still works even in the worst internet connection. Saved my ass many times during emergencies.

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Team vscode with spacemacs bindings, but I kinda do wanna be team nvim in the future

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Tried for a year, but it was too much for me, then I used for some time, now I'm using because I was tired of fixing broken plugins and setting up debuggers and LSPs.

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! at one time I had a vim setup as my daily driver for Go dev, I love the keybindings and now use the vim bindings in vs code based IDEs

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- Is there a way to get an atom version of the “for-you” feed? I’m guessing this is complicated by needing to be authenticated.

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Exactly, it makes it way more complicated that's why it's not there yet. Not against the idea though.

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hi o/ im from south america, i see the on HN. I really like the vibes and the idea. Ill probably be posting here often, while in the office. cya

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"If you don't think of yourself years ago as an idiot... Perhaps it is because you still are one." In that spirit I started to write down my own thoughts. I think I am meant to call it a blog. Years from now I can read my old words and cringe at them. www.gruntsoft.com/words/

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Another little corner of the internet. Anything using fixed-width fonts and without pictures has surely got to be promising in this day and age, surely...

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my today’s list:

wake up

make coffee

work

and possibly later:

contemplate existence

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A thing I've been doing lately is trying to come to the same conclusions others have without looking their the direct techniques and code. Last night I tried to figure out why people do vector based retrieval for RAG and ended up running these experiments: n0tls.com/…/2026-09-03-i-think-…rag-with-grep.html I'm still going to do an explore agent.

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Here's a follow up from last night: n0tls.com/…/2026-09-05-fine-tuning-…tiny-retriever.html This has been a great way for me to learn in this space. Learning with AI has been such a fun time for me.

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I'm a simple man. I see a new platform, I grab my handle. 😎

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why am I awake so early?

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textlog brain worm! cheers!!

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As I’ve gotten older, my mind has turned on in ways that prevent me going back to sleep. Hope you get the rest you need!

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I’m at the point where I understand half of what the AI tries to explain to me, but anyway, the feeds pages should load 10 times faster now.

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In other news, I'm circling what sure looks like GCP overbilling us by over $1M/year going back as far as I can see.

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Dear alerts-that-interrupt-the-restarting-of-my-computer: haha the harassment filters in this site won't let me post what I think of thee

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The more I use Terraform the more I don't like it. Can I just get the option to track state with Ansible?

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Say more. I've been using it this year "at scale" and it sucks in the way that everything sucks when the whole company starts using it for everything. I haven't used Ansible in over a decade, but am curious what you like about it better.

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Ansible just melds with my way of thinking better. I have a really hard time wrapping my head around nested loops in HCL and the overall "ugliness" of the language. Plus, I kind of like being in control of the order things are created.

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haha cool! uhm perhaps we should detect hashtag and get rid of the line spacing

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implemented, hashtag now gets compact lines!

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I'm employed again. Once again through someone I know and not through LinkedIn. Still not feeling productive and comfortable.

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After a decent break, cannot not notice how much of my time I have to sell for a "traditional" job.

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These days Ive been learning how to deal with guilt and feeling gulti about things I didn't cause. NGL is hard man, how do you start cntl-z your brains on that

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Frustrated with my phone usage again tonight, I uninstalled several pointless and time-consuming apps. It’s a cycle I repeat every few months. During this cycle, I wasted a lot of time on one of those puzzle-matching games. I'm considering switching to Ubuntu Touch at this point

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