Hacker News: OddMerlin

New comment by OddMerlin in "India and EU announce landmark trade deal"

OddMerlin — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 17:27:06 +0000

"Should know" and expecting a logical outcome is wishful.

New comment by OddMerlin in "Claude Code On-the-Go"

OddMerlin — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 08:02:54 +0000

Why not use Claude App in GitHub (if your code is in GitHub)?

I kick off a prompt as a GitHub issue, Claude fires away on this issue, provides updates as comments and a PR is created for me at the end for review.

It also notifies me throughout, and I can look at the pipelines to see the thinking behind the action.

New comment by OddMerlin in "What the heck is going on at Apple?"

OddMerlin — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 14:00:46 +0000

I recently purchased an iPad Air and am blown away at how bad the UX is. Notes is incredibly buggy, the iOS is not optimized for the pencil pro (seems like it delivers very little value outside of visual arts programs), the Siri +gpt experience is laughable, and I can go on…

I’m a long time Apple user and I’m concerned with the state of things.

Im considering returning this piece of junk.

New comment by OddMerlin in "Claude Code 2.0"

OddMerlin — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 18:36:40 +0000

How is this any different from just using claude-cli? The example on the npm page is something you could easily do from within claude-cli...? Sorry, I must be missing the point on this??

New comment by OddMerlin in "Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot"

OddMerlin — Thu, 22 May 2025 18:58:58 +0000

I'm with you. I think it's great that Mozilla is trying/tried to extend their value beyond just the browser.

I found pocket immensely useful. Having the ability to have my kobo e-reader sync pocket articles to read off-line was such a useful feature.

I don't understand the Mozilla hate on this board. I think it's wildly overblown.

New comment by OddMerlin in "Anything threatening to be a subculture is commodified before it can walk (2014)"

OddMerlin — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 23:20:13 +0000

Also check out The Rebel sell by Joseph Health and Andrew Potter. Another great read in the same vein https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Sell.

New comment by OddMerlin in "Doom-htop: The classic DOOM game over htop"

OddMerlin — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 13:03:21 +0000

I’m genuinely curious how people have time to do this. I feel less and less sure of my abilities the more I see wonderful stuff like.

I can’t imagine the effort involved in this. Someone did mention this takes advantage of prior work just rerendering in ascii and mapping to procs but that’s not a negligible amount of work. How long did this take? I feel like I know nothing and I’ve been in this industry for more than I’d like to say.

This is awesome but I feel incredibly stupid.

New comment by OddMerlin in "My deployment platform is a shell script"

OddMerlin — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 12:55:29 +0000

I’m with you on the usecase. Simple server deployment on a VM, bash script is fine, in fact I recommend it. It’s when you start dealing with 5+ VMs that I would start looking into using a tool like Ansible.

New comment by OddMerlin in "My deployment platform is a shell script"

OddMerlin — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 11:54:32 +0000

Why not use Ansible for something like this?

Don’t get me wrong, I love bash scripts like any other old hat, but Ansible scratches this exact itch.

You’ve got playbooks that can execute shell, provide logging, better management, history of execution, fleet management, and it’s light weight. And there’s a robust community of shared modules, etc.

New comment by OddMerlin in "New models and developer products"

OddMerlin — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 04:00:25 +0000

Is langchain still relevant with the release of AssistantAI? It seems managing the context window, state, etc is now all taken care of by Assistant AI.

I guess langchain is still relevant for non-OpenAI options?

New comment by OddMerlin in "Show HN: Gitgpt – Natural Language Git"

OddMerlin — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 21:31:20 +0000

OP here. I love this feedback. I agree this is definitely something I should work towards.

Keeping the commands as succinct as possible as well as "natural language" as possible. Even the word commit might be too git-y?

Thanks for the feedback.

Show HN: Gitgpt – Natural Language Git

OddMerlin — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 17:50:50 +0000

Hey folks,

Here's a quick and dirty tool to use natural language to get git to do what you want.

Example: $gitgpt create a new branch called feature/test add all the files and commit with msg creating feature test then push to origin

I haven't put it through the wringer yet, however it's worked well with some pretty straight forward day to day git usage.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34959565

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New comment by OddMerlin in "IBM acquires Red Hat"

OddMerlin — Sun, 28 Oct 2018 18:23:22 +0000

This is terrible news. I hope its not true.

New comment by OddMerlin in "The web at maximum FPS: How WebRender gets rid of jank"

OddMerlin — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 18:38:19 +0000

Great write up.

New comment by OddMerlin in "Show HN: Gorillaz – Andromeda Music Video in WebGL"

OddMerlin — Wed, 09 Aug 2017 03:22:41 +0000

My 2011 MacBook Air 4Gb ram, i5 could not run it :(

New comment by OddMerlin in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2017)"

OddMerlin — Tue, 14 Mar 2017 18:30:41 +0000

Government of Ontario | Senior Ops and Architect | Toronto, ON | Full-time, onsite

Stack: MEAN/LNMP/Drupal/AWS

Senior Ops: https://www.ontario.ca/page/senior-devops

Application Architect: https://www.ontario.ca/page/application-architect

More info: https://www.ontario.ca/page/do-you-want-make-government-bett...

New comment by OddMerlin in "Why I hate frameworks (2005)"

OddMerlin — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 17:44:57 +0000

The whole killing girlfriend thing is not so cool. I would remove those pieces, they don't add much to the story.

New comment by OddMerlin in "William Gibson has written a comic"

OddMerlin — Tue, 31 May 2016 14:33:28 +0000

Why is this on here?

New comment by OddMerlin in "Questions to Ask a Potential Tech Employer"

OddMerlin — Thu, 14 Apr 2016 19:42:47 +0000

This is everything thats wrong with (web)developers today.

Why is this available in more than one format? Why on earth is there a filter.sh and render.py?!? This is just awful. If you can't read through a simple text list and select the appropriate questions then you're already doomed.