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New comment by devrob in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)"

devrob — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 20:53:29 +0000

I'm trying to build a simple, local, and semantic code + context search for coding agents like Claude Code.

I noticed that when trying to work with Claude Code I burned my token allocation really quickly and with parallel agents, no better. But when I looked at the other repos things felt really complex, for me at least.

I call it "contextd" and imagine it kind of like a context daemon you can always query in your repository for implementation plans, specs or code, etc. I always liked that git lived in your repo in the .git file, so I wanted this to work like that too but without 3rd party hosted databases or multi-repo pollution.

It's written in python at the moment, uses some local models and lanceDB but I might have it re-written in rust for speed :)

https://github.com/aquaflamingo/ctxd

The Republic of Rose Island

devrob — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 05:51:51 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Rose_Island

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46270907

Points: 3

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New comment by devrob in "Who killed the rave?"

devrob — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 18:01:54 +0000

The freedom and optimism is always rooted to the communal and ritual release in dance, the freedom to be as you are, or dance as you are. This gets harder and harder when there is fear of "documentation', if one can't "dance right" or "doesn't fit in".

Don't beat yourself up too hard though, you can always pickup a DJ controller and start again :)

And too: the scene has radically shifted, so being a promoter is a large part of the work. It's kind of like eSports in a way.

New comment by devrob in "Who killed the rave?"

devrob — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 17:58:35 +0000

Oof - beautiful writing.

That sounds like it was out of Last Night A DJ Saved My Life [1]!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Night_a_DJ_Saved_My_Life_...

New comment by devrob in "Who killed the rave?"

devrob — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 17:55:40 +0000

Indeed, I've written about this a little bit [1], they are growing in popularity due to a number of factors, one of which being, living in the moment. DVS1 has spoken with great eloquence on this subject as well [2]. These policies are the norm in Berlin places like Tresor. The industry culture has been really saturated by social media, live sets and destination sets [3], so many events are differentiating themselves by taking an different approach. It was a cool strategy when it started with Be At TV (RIP), (old) Boiler Room & (maybe) BBC R1 but it's lost its novelty at times I feel.

[1] https://www.instagram.com/p/DDkjBJhP1Sh/?utm_source=ig_web_c... [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISoPHerYsn4&t=1181s [3] Think Cerce, Boilerroom

New comment by devrob in "Who killed the rave?"

devrob — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 21:54:53 +0000

I think there's a lot of nuance here. I teach DJing (house/techno mostly) and there's never been more interest in electronic music & DJing. Folks who thought I was a bit out there in high school for liking electronic & dance music, have recently all now become more interested in DJing and raving. The DJ today is continuing to grow into the modern rock-star (albeit, in terms of real $ of music money, it's no where close).

Moreover, as several commenters have pointed out there has been a big growth in festivals and awareness. Lots of people talk to me about "house music" now, whereas before it was a relatively "underground" thing.

Now, I think there's a question about whether the scale of such events have maintained the same cultural ethos as the early rave days, and that, though I'm not old enough to have participated, is likely a categorical no. There's a greater focus on 'documenting' experiences at these events rather than living it. Here's a clip of an rising group called Kienemusik [tik tok link](https://www.tiktok.com/@as.anca/video/7359750430345186593?q=...), where you can see there's more video taping than dancing. I would venture to say, we are so filled with wonder sometimes that we forget that part of experiencing awe is letting go of ego and just experiencing.

Show HN: Sync with Terry Your New Satirical AI Product Manager

devrob — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 22:15:25 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/aquaflamingo/syncwithterry

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42322639

Points: 3

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Show HN: Toy Tech Debt Calculator

devrob — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 17:53:21 +0000

Article URL: https://toy-tech-debt-calc-dgsb.vercel.app/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41628699

Points: 1

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Ask HN: What Was It Like Working in IT 1 Year Before Y2K?

devrob — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 20:55:33 +0000

Was it a rolling panic and tension or did things only really escalate 4-6 months leading to the new year?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41196158

Points: 2

# Comments: 7

New comment by devrob in "Show HN: I built a client side Chrome extension to manage your ChatGPT prompts"

devrob — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 13:46:29 +0000

Hi there, no offense taken! As in the copy or the design? The design is a very stripped down NextJS Boilerplate template I use for launch pages :) https://github.com/aquaflamingo/nextjs-product-boilerplate

Show HN: I built a client side Chrome extension to manage your ChatGPT prompts

devrob — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 01:25:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.promptzilla.xyz/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41052785

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by devrob in "Show HN: Godspeed is a fast, 100% keyboard oriented todo app for Mac"

devrob — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 19:40:33 +0000

u/lifeisstillgood look into "Building a Second Brain" and Tiago's PARA method, could help?

New comment by devrob in "Show HN: Godspeed is a fast, 100% keyboard oriented todo app for Mac"

devrob — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 19:35:21 +0000

Somewhat off topic, does anyone use Paper/Pencil (specifically bullet journals), Apps and Digital Calendars with what feels like not much effort? I haven't been able to come to a happy medium between them all.

Also Concern #3, is there a subscription for things? o.O

Wazoku Crowd

devrob — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 17:48:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wazokucrowd.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39747575

Points: 1

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Ask HN: Is there a robots.txt equivalent for LLMs? like LICENSEME.txt?

devrob — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 13:54:08 +0000

If you run a blog and don't want to allow LLM crawlers to train on your content, do you have options?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39641054

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by devrob in "A Writer's Ruby"

devrob — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 17:50:45 +0000

Side tangent: I love Ruby, but strongly dislike and discourage `unless` in the code base. It still trips me up having written Ruby 5 years at this stage. Maybe its just me but I still pause every time for myself when looking at `unless` with a multi conditional. Example:

def do_the_thing

  return do_not_do_it unless first_conditional || second_conditional

  okay_actually_do_it

end

Glad that Rubocop is shipping with Rails though!

Tool – personal goals report card

devrob — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 23:42:10 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.robertsimoes.org/posts/tool--personal-goal-report-card/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38777322

Points: 1

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Tool – Too Many Ideas Quick Evaluation Framework

devrob — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 19:40:10 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.robertsimoes.org/posts/tool--idea-evaluation-framework/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38268468

Points: 4

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Ask HN: Is Google changing navigation button ordering based on what you search?

devrob — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 13:44:45 +0000

I think I'm in an A/B test but I'm noticing that when I make a G search now, the familiar navigation items like "News", "Images", "Shopping", etc are now being replaced with contextually "relevant" words.

Example: https://www.google.com/search?q=Test+speed&uds=GyEA-I3UWq037NLJSXQMKMAMAuze-kMgoIoRGgUM5dKRm2HK_Q&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiisd-vm_r_AhV6LTQIHRTEBdAQxKsJegQIDRAB&ictx=0&biw=2400&bih=1096&dpr=0.8

Anyone else seeing this, any way to disable it?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36615648

Points: 3

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

devrob — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 21:17:53 +0000

https://blog.robertsimoes.org/

Lot's of random stuff from tools, to troubleshooting, to how-tos to random essays mostly with a philosophical bent I guess

- Tool: Indexed Book Note Taking https://blog.robertsimoes.org/posts/tool-indexed-book-note-t...

- Notes: How Dropbox scaled 2007 to 2023 https://blog.robertsimoes.org/posts/notes-how-dropbox-scaled...

- Social Network Behaviour and Taxation Strategies https://blog.robertsimoes.org/posts/social-network-behaviour...

- Four wings of a Software engineer: https://blog.robertsimoes.org/posts/four-wings-of-software-e...

- Return on Intelligence: Transhumanism, Stagnation or Bureaucracy? https://blog.robertsimoes.org/perspectives/on-return-on-inte...