Hacker News: davish

Ideas for an Agent-Oriented Programming Language

davish — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 19:20:38 +0000

Article URL: https://davi.sh/blog/2026/02/markov-ideas/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47026550

Points: 12

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What I Like About Nix

davish — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 13:14:16 +0000

Article URL: https://davi.sh/blog/2023/12/what-i-like-about-nix/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38626836

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by davish in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

davish — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 19:52:40 +0000

https://davi.sh/blog -- Mostly technical content, but every once in a while I write about something else that grabs my attention.

I'm still trying to make writing regularly more of a habit. I don't have much of a backlog of topics, so trying to work on that a bit.

Honing Your Craft

davish — Sun, 21 May 2023 14:02:45 +0000

Article URL: https://davi.sh/blog/2023/05/craft/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36020962

Points: 1

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Asking the Right Questions to ChatGPT

davish — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 18:43:18 +0000

Article URL: https://davi.sh/blog/2023/03/gpt-right-questions/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35377213

Points: 1

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Configuring VSCode as a Keyboard-Centric IDE

davish — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 16:08:40 +0000

Article URL: https://davi.sh/blog/2023/01/vscode-like-emacs/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34520004

Points: 6

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New comment by davish in "Obsidian Dataview: Turn Obsidian Vault into a database you can query from"

davish — Tue, 17 May 2022 12:45:39 +0000

I moved from Emacs org-mode to Obsidian with the help of the obsidian-tasks plugin, which lets you write queries for tasks similarly to Dataview. I used a few of those queries to build up an Agenda view that matched my custom agenda buffer in org-mode. I put together a little write up here: https://davi.sh/blog/2022/01/obsidian-one/

New comment by davish in "Twitter acquires Quill"

davish — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 16:19:15 +0000

Stripe was founded by Patrick and John Collison. I’m guessing you’re confusing it with Square, another payments company, which was co-founded and still run by Jack Dorsey.

New comment by davish in "Intel Problems"

davish — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 20:49:31 +0000

The closest I've found is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_Relations_Act

Not guaranteed "mutual defense" of any sort, but the US at least has committed itself to helping Taiwan protect itself with military aid. The section on "Military provisions" is probably most helpful.

New comment by davish in "Intel Problems"

davish — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 20:41:15 +0000

I think we can look to mobile to see how feasible this might be: consistently over the past decade, iPhones have matched or exceeded Android performance with noticeably smaller capacity batteries. A-series chips and Qualcomm chips are both ARM. Apple's tight integration comes with a cost when it comes to flexibility, and, you can argue, developer experience, but it's clearly not just the silicon itself that leads to the performance we're seeing in the M1 Macs.

New comment by davish in "Ask HN: Which companies work like Gumroad?"

davish — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 17:21:19 +0000

I believe he's referring to this article[0] which was discussed on HN yesterday.

[0]: https://sahillavingia.com/work

New comment by davish in "Show HN: Twitch controls Minecraft"

davish — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 22:19:06 +0000

The meme on Twitch started with Twitch Plays Pokemon[0], which went viral back in 2014.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitch_Plays_Pok%C3%A9mon

Hotwiring the Web: What Does Basecamp’s “New Magic” Bring to the Table?

davish — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 15:42:26 +0000

Article URL: https://davi.sh/blog/2020/12/hotwiring-the-web/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25528426

Points: 6

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New comment by davish in "Hotwire: HTML over the Wire"

davish — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 17:46:51 +0000

If you're used to SPA-style frontend development with React, Vue, or any similar framework, then yes, this will probably be a big mental/development shift.

Turbolinks (the project at Basecamp that Hotwire grew out of, now it seems it's called Turbo Drive) was a way to bring single-page style load times to traditional, server-rendered apps. Hotwire is the evolution of that: Turbo Frames let you dynamically replace certain parts of the page on the frontend, rather than having to throw the baby out with the bathwater on every page action. If you're used to developing server-rendered applications without much JavaScript using Ruby on Rails, Django, or a similar "batteries included" backend framework, then you'll be able to add a more dynamic feel to your web app without much of a mental shift: certain template partials (basically the components of your frontend) will be wrapped in this `turbo-frame` HTML tag, which will be slotted in to your page dynamically by Turbo.

New comment by davish in "Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform"

davish — Wed, 27 May 2020 00:33:27 +0000

Just found this module as a GitHub action:

https://github.com/marketplace/actions/s3-sync

Shouldn't be too difficult to hook this up to a build command for hugo, jekyll, or whichever static site generator you'd prefer. But this gets away from the self-hosted part of what you were saying a bit.

New comment by davish in "Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform"

davish — Tue, 26 May 2020 23:38:12 +0000

You could use GitHub actions to do the build and send it off to some CDN to deploy, or if you were self-hosting the whole thing, you could have a Flask app listen for a webhook and re-build your site when that's received. Or simply pull in from the git origin and rebuild with a cron job.

New comment by davish in "Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform"

davish — Tue, 26 May 2020 22:41:54 +0000

Netlify CMS uses the GitHub (or bitbucket, etc) API to modify your repository with the new/updated content. You can self-host the entire system, or have netlify handle the GitHub auth while you self host your website.

New comment by davish in "Software will eat software in a remote-first world"

davish — Mon, 25 May 2020 13:46:01 +0000

I think it's difficult to say how many merchants went from hosting their own e-commerce site that engineers built for them from scratch, and transitioned to Etsy, Ebay, etc., laying off the developers they hired in the process. Without numbers to back myself up, I would say that there are certainly many more developers and engineers working on E-Commerce today than ten or twenty years ago. Services like Stripe certainly help businesses focus less on setting up common parts of a website or online business, but that just leaves people more time to focus on the "business logic" that is unique to them.

The "current stack" may certainly be ripe for disruption. But I'd predict that rather than put developers out of work, it will simply bring even more businesses into the fold who may not have had the resources for developing their own solutions beforehand. There will always be companies with the resources to demand custom solutions to fit their particular business needs.

New comment by davish in "Using VueJS Alongside Django"

davish — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 22:09:23 +0000

Looks like your profile just has an hnchat verification code, but would love to check out the project and help out if I can. It sounds really interesting!

New comment by davish in "Show HN: Zero – A fast, zero-configuration server for React, Node.js, Markdown"

davish — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 16:02:08 +0000

Looking through the code on github found a .py file handler in the works: https://github.com/remoteinterview/zero/blob/master/packages...

Any idea of a timeline on this feature? I think it could be really awesome to be able to prototype with python in addition to js.