Hacker News: Degorath

New comment by Degorath in "The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC"

Degorath — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 22:37:40 +0000

Well, stacking is one thing, doing it well is another (see github) ;)

But that's good to hear.

New comment by Degorath in "The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC"

Degorath — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 22:15:58 +0000

As someone trying to compete in this space: will ERSC make the change/commit their unit of code review? It's one of the pet peeves I have with GitHub et al.

New comment by Degorath in "The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC"

Degorath — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 22:12:02 +0000

Thought I saw that announcement on LinkedIn a few weeks back already!

New comment by Degorath in "Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative"

Degorath — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:50:00 +0000

Unfortunately I wouldn't know how to do that.

But just saying that I would probably argue against any new forge at my workplace if it didn't adopt the jujutsu model for changes. While agents can wrangle git better than 90% of developers, jujutsu just works much better for both.

New comment by Degorath in "Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative"

Degorath — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:07:30 +0000

Does it support jujutsu natively?

New comment by Degorath in "Flutter 3.47"

Degorath — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 07:13:31 +0000

There's simply a ton of teams that also never updated. My previous team was not using RTK and our redux setup was extremely confusing to me (a backend engineer).

New comment by Degorath in "Flutter 3.47"

Degorath — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:09:54 +0000

Ah, that's a shame to hear. I would only like to add that at least for Android apps that I've been "hanging around" (my team never really worked on them), the teaching materials that are provided have generally made them a lot more pleasant compared to the RN stuff.

New comment by Degorath in "Flutter 3.47"

Degorath — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 08:34:49 +0000

While all of the points you brought up are valid, I've hated every react native app I've ever had to work on. Not because of react native itself, but because they usually take random react developers to work on these apps and the structure they create is absolutely horrible to work with (compared to, for example, native apps).

What was your experience on that aspect with Flutter?

New comment by Degorath in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

Degorath — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:14:39 +0000

Bit late to the thread, but I'm building a EU native jujutsu forge that optimises for productivity and ability to deliver your features faster.

I saw that tons of companies are still on GitHub, using their unproductive tools that have no vision to how they work together and I want to do something about it.

The landing page will be up soon, but for now I am actually looking for a cofounder with a technical product management or engineering management background (the multitasker hustlers that know tech), so do reach out if that sounds interesting to you!

New comment by Degorath in "Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub"

Degorath — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 08:29:18 +0000

That's really cool! I tried getting on board with ERSC, but the timezone difference proved too much :(. At least it gave me the kick to try and build my own company, though!

New comment by Degorath in "Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub"

Degorath — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 07:41:14 +0000

Already working on that!

New comment by Degorath in "Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub"

Degorath — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 19:08:09 +0000

My experience is that in companies that rely on this flow, these assumptions are generally hashed out during design doc review/discussions. I have never had it happen to me that I need to discard the rest of the stack for an assumption that did not hold. From another angle, if I fear that this might be the case, I hold off on sending parts of the stack to review until I am sure of the assumption holding OR I instead have a "workspace ball of mud" from which I can `split` out well-formed commits. I found this to be an incredibly productive workflow.

New comment by Degorath in "Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub"

Degorath — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 19:00:54 +0000

Not sure if it makes you feel better, but it seems there's at least a few startups trying to get a jujutsu-native forge going, by people who have seen and used the way Google's (and other big tech's) systems work.

New comment by Degorath in "Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub"

Degorath — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 18:57:28 +0000

Jujutsu makes the author-side of it all fairly nice, indeed. But the reviewer-side has been so horribly abandoned by github that it has been frustrating me for a long while now.

New comment by Degorath in "If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?"

Degorath — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 18:11:40 +0000

I would like to add that CachyOS also supports Niri, a scrolling tiling WM. As someone who long had "papercuts" from floating WMs I've had great success with it and even prefer it to something fully tiling like hyprland.

New comment by Degorath in "OpenAI and Anthropic unite against open-weight AI risks to their bottom line"

Degorath — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:36:48 +0000

Depending on the country, it's not even that difficult to fire in the EU... (e.g. Estonia and Poland)

New comment by Degorath in "Anthropic's Method to Losing Goodwill in a Few Easy Steps"

Degorath — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 20:24:01 +0000

Well, they are wishing to lock you into their ecosystem, so that switching would be a high-friction decision. And then they can simply raise prices without you leaving.

New comment by Degorath in "Swift at Apple: Migrating the TrueType hinting interpreter"

Degorath — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 07:55:21 +0000

Do you folks also hire outside the US?

New comment by Degorath in "A History of IDEs at Google"

Degorath — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:39:57 +0000

Not anymore they don't (usual caveats apply: no longer work there; big company so YMMV). It was an option for a while, but getting it to work with the remote filesystems for the monorepo was a bit annoying (e.g. you'd create a new project in IDEA where you'd have to pick what parts of the monorepo you wanted to have in there, but it all happened up front).

New comment by Degorath in "Appearing productive in the workplace"

Degorath — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:09:30 +0000

I just want to mention that in my personal anecdotal experience, every codebase I have ever worked on, except 1, was underengineered and not overengineered. The last one was just "engineered".