Hacker News: bckmn

Moving the Critic into My Editor

bckmn — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:16:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.joshbeckman.org/blog/practicing/moving-the-critic-into-my-editor

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47576210

Points: 2

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Three LLM Agents for My Knowledge Garden

bckmn — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:51:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.joshbeckman.org/blog/practicing/three-agents-for-a-knowledge-garden

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47564849

Points: 2

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README, Don't AGENTS.md Me

bckmn — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:20:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.joshbeckman.org/blog/practicing/readme-dont-agentsmd-me

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47364095

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

My Blog History as Calendar Events

bckmn — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 17:40:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.joshbeckman.org/blog/ical-feeds-for-a-jekyll-site

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47050368

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by bckmn in "GitHub is down again"

bckmn — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:45:56 +0000

Prompting

> Let's make a timeline chart of https://www.githubstatus.com/history for the past 1yr and upload it as a gist

yields [GitHub Status Incident Timeline — Feb 2025 to Feb 2026](https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://gist.githubuserconten...)

219 total incidents across 12 full months, averaging 18.3/month. January 2026 was the worst month, and August 2025 was the calmest.

Client-Side Encrypted Posts in Jekyll

bckmn — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 17:14:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.joshbeckman.org/blog/encrypted-post

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46888500

Points: 1

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Links That Survive the Printer

bckmn — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 18:09:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.joshbeckman.org/blog/practicing/links-that-survive-the-printer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46722941

Points: 1

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Gh-nvim-username-keywords: GitHub -mention Autocomplete in Your Neovim Editor

bckmn — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 19:58:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.joshbeckman.org/blog/practicing/ghnvimusernamekeywords-github-mention-autocomplete-in-your-neovim-editor

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46330155

Points: 2

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gh-Wrapped Is Your GitHub Wrapped Year in Review, on Demand

bckmn — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 17:00:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.joshbeckman.org/blog/practicing/ghwrapped-is-your-github-wrapped-year-in-review-on-demand

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46328095

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Contributing to open-source should be required, like jury duty

bckmn — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 17:41:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.joshbeckman.org/blog/practicing/contributing-to-opensource-should-be-required-like-jury-duty

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45890370

Points: 56

# Comments: 76

New comment by bckmn in "I Want You to Understand Chicago"

bckmn — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 02:02:55 +0000

It's all really happening. Pretty much every meeting with friends touches on what their recent sightings or stories of ICE terror have been. Everyone who hasn't seen it first hand has a second hand story.

Absolutely everyone I talk to is against ICE's actions and that is the thing giving me hope that it will be defeated by the citizenry.

Making MCP Tool Calls Scriptable with mcp_cli

bckmn — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 17:21:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.joshbeckman.org/blog/practicing/making-mcp-tool-calls-scriptable-with-mcpcli

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45848643

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Earning the Right to Be Illegible

bckmn — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 16:25:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.joshbeckman.org/blog/practicing/earning-the-right-to-be-illegible

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45559415

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by bckmn in "Two things LLM coding agents are still bad at"

bckmn — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 17:09:59 +0000

I think asking your questions in that form is akin to "sorting prompts" that I learned about from https://mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/is-the-llm-response-wro... and I have been using successfully when when writing code (e.g. [as a Claude code slash command](https://www.joshbeckman.org/notes/936274709)).

Essentially, you're asking the LLM to do research and categorize/evaluate that research instead of just giving you an answer. The "work" of accessing, summarizing, and valuing the research yields a more accurate result.

Don't Forget: Remote MCP Servers Are Just Curl Calls

bckmn — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 16:32:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.joshbeckman.org/blog/practicing/dont-forget-remote-mcp-servers-are-just-curl-calls

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45451909

Points: 3

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New comment by bckmn in "Ask HN: What programming podcasts or newsletters do you follow?"

bckmn — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 16:34:28 +0000

[Accidental Tech Podcast](https://atp.fm/) has been valuable to me for years.

The Box Model: A Framework for Role Clarity

bckmn — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 16:32:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.joshbeckman.org/blog/practicing/the-box-model-a-framework-for-role-clarity

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45374982

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Directed Notifications for Claude Code Async Programming

bckmn — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 16:30:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.joshbeckman.org/blog/practicing/directed-notifications-for-claude-code-async-programming

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45264463

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

UI vs. API. vs. UAI

bckmn — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 16:11:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.joshbeckman.org/blog/practicing/ui-vs-api-vs-uai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44865916

Points: 87

# Comments: 53

New comment by bckmn in "The Whispering Earring"

bckmn — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 17:31:00 +0000

Not that story specifically, but maybe a modern reinterpretation of it was [this episode of Rick and Morty](https://rickandmorty.fandom.com/wiki/Death_Crystal).