Hacker News: felciano

New comment by felciano in "Show HN: Hob - Open-source, on device alternative to Claude Cowork and ChatGPT"

felciano — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 16:01:42 +0000

Excellent, concise overview of stuff to explore—

New comment by felciano in "Show HN: Engrim – A universal, local-first SQLite memory engine for AI CLIs"

felciano — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 16:37:28 +0000

Very cool. Does it work with SQLite-sync so you can work across laptop and desktop for example?

New comment by felciano in "Embracing the parallel coding agent lifestyle"

felciano — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 10:03:18 +0000

Do any of these tools support remote access eg via Zellij and/or easy spin up and management of project-specific contains/isolation spaces? That triad seems like it it would be particularly compelling

New comment by felciano in "Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed"

felciano — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 12:53:38 +0000

I’ve been using PRD specs at kick things off, but curious about how to a “work log”. Are there examples of how to do this with CC?

New comment by felciano in "Dropbox backs of on macOS changes to allow external drives"

felciano — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 20:01:27 +0000

Looks like Dropbox may be looking into other options for maintaining MacOS compatibility but still allowing for DB files to sit on external drives (which is very helpful for implementing 3-2-1 backups).

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34650987 for discussion on why this change was problematic.

Dropbox backs of on macOS changes to allow external drives

felciano — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 20:01:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Storage-Space/Disaster-Dropbox-removing-external-disk-support-for-Mac-users/m-p/660964#M10412

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35202104

Points: 1

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Ask HN: Local reading-list apps / hacks across devices?

felciano — Fri, 13 Feb 2015 18:57:36 +0000

Are there any apps that help manage an offline reading queue that includes local files (e.g. Office docs) rather than online web pages, without having to upload them to a distinct service beyond perhaps DropBox / Box / etc? I want to be able to save or drop files into a folder, organize them into a queue, have them show up on other devices, and check them off somehow after I've read them on iPad or similar. Some are sensitive so I'd like to avoid uploading them to shared services like Instapaper or Pocket.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9046342

Points: 2

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New comment by felciano in "Cloud Hosting Single Point Of Failure - Your Credit Card"

felciano — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 04:52:10 +0000

Same thing happened to us, but with http://www.crashplan.com: out of the country for 2 weeks that happened to overlap with the expiry of our annual subscription. Because the credit card on file had expired, CrashPlan tried to contact us via email for a week and then deleted all of the backups!

This does seem like a key aspect of the "service" component of SaaS, in particular for cases where data is deleted or is otherwise difficult to restore (i.e. recovery involves more than just a new, valid credit card number). Maybe we need some sort of SaaS evaluation or ranking system that took these types of policies (grace periods, etc) into account...

New comment by felciano in "Wingman: Git + GitHub + OS X"

felciano — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 21:13:57 +0000

So is there an equivalent for Mercurial, i.e. automates best-practices recipes for common dev workflow steps?

New comment by felciano in "Ask HN: tools to create feature-level comparison matrices?"

felciano — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 18:53:50 +0000

Nice! I always wondered what Squared might be good for pragmatically. I've played around with it a bit since yesterday and the parsing is pretty raw, esp for spec sheets from the Dell site (which surprised me). But you can save it to Google Spreadsheets and go from there, so it looks like a nice way to get started. Thanks!

Ask HN: tools to create feature-level comparison matrices?

felciano — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 21:32:02 +0000

We've been using Excel to create feature matrices to compare different tech components, listing both technical features as well as fit to our needs (e.g. using 1-5 stars to indicate how it fits our requirements). We've done this for storage devices, cell phones, and are now considering switching from PC to Mac and are trying to compare across the two. Creating these sheets is time-consuming and brain-deadening, and made me wonder whether there aren't some web-based tools that do this for you (e.g. scrape feature listings for a Dell and a Mac PC to let you compare / contrast). Any ideas?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1486424

Points: 4

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