Hacker News: dividedcomet

Why Patagonia?

dividedcomet — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:11:27 +0000

Article URL: https://hec.works/blog/why-patagonia/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48221362

Points: 4

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New comment by dividedcomet in "Toast gets a website redesign to celebrate its system theme"

dividedcomet — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:27:02 +0000

toast has seen some more active development as I have found my footing as a dad. The thing I wanted most was a nice system theme that worked with how my terminal felt. So I added that and also gave the landing page a little redesign to celebrate it. I'm now using toast for my IDE ~70% of the time, for everything except long sessions of staring into the ~void~ code. I'll noodle on what it would take to get it up to 100%.

Toast gets a website redesign to celebrate its system theme

dividedcomet — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:27:02 +0000

Article URL: https://paradise-runner.github.io/toast/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48207372

Points: 1

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New comment by dividedcomet in "Feels Like GitHub Status"

dividedcomet — Mon, 11 May 2026 20:16:38 +0000

The unofficial status page for GitHub provides an un-biased look at overall reliability for the platform. I think you get an even better picture for how the platform feels when you filter by when you're interacting with it. You'll have a much different picture if you're using it during US business hours than nights/weekends. This is a little way to prove that, yes it can feel like GitHub is wholly unreliable during my working day.

ShowHN: Feels Like GitHub Status

dividedcomet — Mon, 11 May 2026 20:16:38 +0000

Article URL: https://paradise-runner.github.io/feels-like-github-status/#tz=America%2FDenver&m=AAAAAP4BAP4BAP4BAP4BAP4BAAAA&s=EwE

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100094

Points: 1

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New comment by dividedcomet in "New (Twin) Dad Advice"

dividedcomet — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:42:50 +0000

You’re probably right. My wife and I like to joke about what a different experience a singleton would be

New comment by dividedcomet in "Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?"

dividedcomet — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:12:48 +0000

Not anymore. After the claude shut off I decided to look around since I found it heavy. I’m on Hermes now with StepFun 3.5 Flash. I mostly just use it as a glorified calendar manager over signal. That being said, it feels like it meets the cross roads “of a cheap executive assistant”. Granted it’s not wired up to my work slack or anything. StepFun is a good enough model for tool calling that so far has been incredibly cheap that I’m happy with it. I suspect I won’t crack $5 of api cost to run it. But I also don’t think the Hermes harness is good enough for development-via-text like openclaw+opus is. I still find myself in the terminal using open code for that.

New comment by dividedcomet in "New (Twin) Dad Advice"

dividedcomet — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:38:52 +0000

Mmm I'd say bath supplies? You're only ever doing one baby at a time. So one baby tub, comb, etc. They can even share a towel for the first few months.

The Cheap (Actual) AI Assistant Era Is Almost Here

dividedcomet — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:12:56 +0000

Article URL: https://hec.works/blog/ai-assistant-era/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47778519

Points: 2

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New comment by dividedcomet in "New (Twin) Dad Advice"

dividedcomet — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:17:56 +0000

As of ~5 months ago, I became a father to a beautiful boy and girl. During my few months getting ready I saw little twin content marketed to dads (fair, moms do vastly more work!), so I figured I would share my experience and a few little tools and tricks that has made life a little easier.

If there is any dad in hackernews having a rough time, my email is at the bottom. Please reach out, support can make a world of difference.

New (Twin) Dad Advice

dividedcomet — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:17:56 +0000

Article URL: https://hec.works/blog/new-twin-dad/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47771653

Points: 2

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New comment by dividedcomet in "Pro Max 5x Quota Exhausted in 1.5 Hours Despite Moderate Usage"

dividedcomet — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:34:49 +0000

imo that’s what I’m doing. Trialing the Hermes harness since I can hook it up to signal. StepFun 3.5 Flash for general assistant stuff and Kimi/Minimax for software development

New comment by dividedcomet in "Open Source LLM Comparison – Is Opus Cooked?"

dividedcomet — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:47:07 +0000

I'm moving off of Claude Code due to constant limit hits. I use it for some personal software development, but I mostly use it for simple personal assistant queries via the Hermes harness and signal.

As I was moving off, I wanted a quick and easy way to compare what Opus would produce with what some open solutions can do. So I spun up a little comparison markdown and generated a webpage from it. I'll update it as new open models come online and I can hit them from OpenRouter.

Right now I'm really jazzed about how cheap StepFun 3.5 Flash for these basic personal assistant tasks that feel like the really valuable part of all of this.

Is Opus cooked? For complex engineering work I'm still unsure, but for front-end design I think it still comes out ahead. I do think you can get a digital assistant that when wired up with the right harness, you could probably run for under ~$5 a month.

Open Source LLM Comparison – Is Opus Cooked?

dividedcomet — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:47:07 +0000

Article URL: https://paradise-runner.github.io/frontier-comparison/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47725898

Points: 2

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Show HN: Toast – An In-Terminal IDE (lite)

dividedcomet — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:10:13 +0000

Toast is an attempt to make file editing and navigating as pleasant in the terminal as an IDE. I had messed around with nvim and plugins but couldn’t find an easy way to get what I wanted, which was mostly a file tree and an editor with some syntax highlighting that looked nice.

I will say a lot of this is written by Claude, mostly because I have two new born twins so this project wouldn’t exist otherwise.

I hope someone finds it feels a niche like I do!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47639693

Points: 3

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New comment by dividedcomet in "Ask HN: What is your dev set up like?"

dividedcomet — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 22:01:49 +0000

I use Claude Code for getting things done, Zed for general IDE viewing of long form documents, and I’m also building my own in-terminal IDE-lite called toast (https://github.com/paradise-runner/toast still very early development!!) that id like to be able to replace zed with.

New comment by dividedcomet in "Tell HN: Happy New Year"

dividedcomet — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 15:04:06 +0000

Happy New Year from Fort Collins, Colorado USA!

New comment by dividedcomet in "A desktop app for isolated, parallel agentic development"

dividedcomet — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 02:05:43 +0000

I made a TUI to do something similar. It’s taking a backseat during parental leave, but it’s a fun project to see n number of agents iterating on the same problem and to see how they differ.

https://github.com/paradise-runner/kaleidoscope

New comment by dividedcomet in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"

dividedcomet — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 13:48:23 +0000

https://github.com/paradise-runner/kaleidoscope

A multi-agent TUI that uses opencode and tmux to help me solve the frustrating LLM slot machine problem. I find that running 3 agents in parallel on even tough problems is enough to have one that builds what I want.

It’s also been a fun challenge to build a tool that can be used to improve itself

Show HN: Kaleidoscope – A Parallel AI Agent TUI

dividedcomet — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 23:45:41 +0000

I was running into the problem with opencode where I wanted to try a prompt against 5 different models at once, but didn't want to do the work to manage the worktrees and get things running in each instance. So I built up Kaleidoscope, a way to run multiple agents against a single problem, to make the AI slot machine a little easier to get better results out of.

It works best for problems that can be verified by inspecting a running result. It depends on opencode and tmux to do the heavy lifting of agent running and pane management, so it acts as more of the "turbo" for AI to get the result you want or to explore different possibilities.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45766805

Points: 2

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