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New comment by LVB in "From Git to Fossil (2025)"

LVB — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 07:34:09 +0000

And this highlights my frustration. I don’t want to have this debate. The tool should allow its operator to set whatever level of strictness or purity they want for their project. Fossil already offers a million settings. Add another and make me turn on “dangerously-unsafe-rebase” to get the feature if need be.

New comment by LVB in "From Git to Fossil (2025)"

LVB — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 05:35:17 +0000

Though I just vented in another comment about fossil, I'll admit that all of my experience was in the pre-agentic era. Since an agent won't be as easily annoyed (heck, it happily belts out sqlite's tedious schema alternation dance without pause), I'm curious to try pointing it fossil as the scm for a project.

New comment by LVB in "From Git to Fossil (2025)"

LVB — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 05:29:13 +0000

Fossil is extremely frustrating to me. There are so many parts that I'm drawn to, but then are there showstoppers that prevent real adoption (by me). I've used it in earnest a number of times. Their immutability stance is at the root of the problems. Lack of rebase is most infamous, but you can't even edit a ticket description! Make a typo or error in the description, and you're expected to append more notes, or delete and recreate the ticket.

I really love the idea of a powerful, shrink-wrapped scm + ticketing etc. system, and I'm a sqlite fan, but fossil hasn't worked out for me.

New comment by LVB in "Htmx 4.0"

LVB — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 20:34:01 +0000

For me, I know backend development really well, and HTML/CSS passably. HTMX has been much lower friction for me than learning JS frameworks, which tbh I didn't really enjoy, and they were constantly changing. But now, I had mostly leave the JS to Claude, and the HTMX draw has diminished a bit.

The turbulent AI era is here

LVB — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:55:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.gatesnotes.com/a-turbulent-ai-era-and-critical-choices-to-make

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49451313

Points: 364

# Comments: 6

GitHub Stacks in Jujutsu

LVB — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 19:49:00 +0000

Article URL: https://alan.norbauer.com/articles/github-stacks-with-jujutsu/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49379289

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by LVB in "Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?"

LVB — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 23:32:28 +0000

Seam

New comment by LVB in "Golang proposal: container/: generic collection types"

LVB — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 04:56:43 +0000

I don’t feel like the learning curve has shifted dramatically for mainstream development. Besides generics—which tend to not show up that often in app code even now—I can’t think of any substantial language change since I Iearned it in 2014. (Well, modules, but that’s more tooling.) Where I do see the shock is jumping to def of a std lib function and landing in indecipherable type soup.

New comment by LVB in "Staging patches with git add (2024)"

LVB — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 22:05:57 +0000

Use 'e' in -p mode and you can edit the hunks as you wish, choose lines, etc.

New comment by LVB in "Delayed Gratification – Proud to Be 'Last to Breaking News'"

LVB — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:22:18 +0000

I've lapsed my subscription because it has, in my opinion, gotten a bit too clickbait-y and many of the articles are sort of thin rehashes of already covered material. It is still better than most, but also fairly pricy.

New comment by LVB in "Removing React.js from the codebase and adapting Htmx for UI interactivity (2023)"

LVB — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:31:00 +0000

Swag looks interesting and I'm definitely gonna give it a try!

New comment by LVB in "Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radix"

LVB — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 13:51:33 +0000

Tone/style bit aside, a real problem is length. Scroll waaay down and look at most older updates and see how brief and too-the-point they were. Often they look rushed, some essential links, and that’s it. Fine by me! That’s the real state of things… people usually don’t want to write bc it’s a lot of effort.

I see the same phenomenon at work. A year ago I’d read your two-sentence daily update in slack, all riddled with the quirks and oddities that made it yours. Today when I see the page of headings and emojis describing the couple things you did yesterday, I wince because now I’m the one who has to sift through the fluff to get to the point.

New comment by LVB in "Migrating from GNU Stow to Chezmoi"

LVB — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 20:05:44 +0000

I never did get used to the Chezmoi workflow. `chezmoi edit` never became muscle memory, and I was constant finding myself resolving diffs and what not.

New comment by LVB in "Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot"

LVB — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:06:06 +0000

40+ year glasses wearer here who learned this perhaps only 10 years ago, I think this is the correct way. The one annoying part is the difference that the glass coating makes. The water just falls off some of my glasses with barely as much as a light tap. Others length tend to hang onto the water in beads, so I have to actually wait for it to dry (or walk around with water spots, which I also do when impatient...)

New comment by LVB in "American Wealth, Sliced Up"

LVB — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:20:52 +0000

I want to see the breakdown of fascist vs. non-fascist VCs, too!

New comment by LVB in "AI Agent Guidelines for CS336 at Stanford"

LVB — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:18:00 +0000

Seeing my own kids (teens) go through some of this, I'm becoming slightly less pessimistic as it all shakes out. Among their peer groups there does seem to be an opinion forming that sure, anyone can just ask ChatGPT for quick answers on assignments, but actually knowing stuff is a bit of a "flex" that's respected.

New comment by LVB in "From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth"

LVB — Thu, 07 May 2026 06:04:13 +0000

And then the client asks for SAML & OIDC support, and codes via SMS, and god knows what else.

New comment by LVB in "Do I belong in tech anymore?"

LVB — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 05:34:34 +0000

Can definitely relate. It is no more complicated than I really enjoyed designing and writing code by hand, and get very little joy out of agentic processes. I use the tools and see the velocity increase, but it has just become… bland work. I completely get others’ excitement around the tools and the newfound “super powers”, but it hasn’t much resonated with me.

That’s ok! I was fascinated by coding when many others weren’t and found a great career as a result. A different cohort will love Development 2.0.

New comment by LVB in "Introduction to Obsidian"

LVB — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 05:54:37 +0000

Impossible to tell! Even when I have established patterns, I do take alternatives for a spin… usually a solid week to give them a chance. Most times I’m just reaffirming that I like what I’ve got, but I do occasionally discover features that are new/interesting.

New comment by LVB in "Show HN: PeriodicTableOfElements.org"

LVB — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 06:10:55 +0000

It’s funny… my initial reaction to your comment was that it’s a bit persnickety to expect that. However, I’m coming around to agreeing. I recently spent a non-trivial amount of time responding to a PR into one of my projects. I did have a sense it was mostly AI, but the changes were reasonable with a bit of adjustment. Wrote some feedback and guidance for the first time contributor and bam, they closed the PR, haven’t heard back.