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New comment by jpeeler in "Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow?"

jpeeler — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 02:57:45 +0000

The kitty developer is philosophically against multiplexers, but he also has concern about performance (which I share somewhat as well). Herde is not quite as fully featured as zellij/tmux, so that partially is biasing me. I think that a native app could be potentially nicer to avoid all those concerns, along with my setup (only in Linux really) of a tiling manager handling the windowing instead of that being part of the solution. A big part of the value add of Herde is actually the monitoring of the Claude session and not so much the multiplexing reimplementation. One of my patches allows jumping to the next blocked/finished session so I can quickly give feedback or observe different agents. I can envision a GUI solution for that workflow being something better than what a terminal easily allows.

New comment by jpeeler in "Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow?"

jpeeler — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:20:42 +0000

I'm currently using herde[1] to handle/supervise multiple agents (with some patches I need to try to upstream) along with Nono[2] for sandboxing. This sandboxing approach avoids use of a microVM, which lets me use tooling I already have installed inside the sandbox. The downside is getting all the policies correct as it seems every project needs some new type of access, though Nono does try to make policy writing easy.

I've been considering switching my approach to using a microVM through microsandbox[3]. The pro of this approach is you can essentially skip the policies and rely on the security of the VM boundary. The negative is that now you've lost all your installed tools, so you need to either provision at runtime or build something (like an image) beforehand to match your dev environment.

I still don't know which is less maintenance. And while I think herde is pretty well thought out, I do think about something that works outside the terminal may be nicer.

[1] https://github.com/ogulcancelik/herdr

[2] https://github.com/always-further/nono

[3] https://github.com/superradcompany/microsandbox

New comment by jpeeler in "Before GitHub"

jpeeler — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 03:58:54 +0000

I was hoping that by now we would have an up and coming DVCS replacement that functioned as a "github in a box" (pretty sure fossil has been described as that, but it's too much on the cathedral side). Being able to mirror an entire project though version control would significantly help with mirroring if we go back to a decentralized world. Maybe going back to decentralized project hosting is just another pendulum swing similar to how compute moved to the cloud...

New comment by jpeeler in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

jpeeler — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:18:16 +0000

Wish it supported coreboot. It seems hard to find modern hardware that does.

New comment by jpeeler in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

jpeeler — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:10:24 +0000

Maybe because 64 GB is $849.

New comment by jpeeler in "Make Tmux Pretty and Usable (2024)"

jpeeler — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:14:17 +0000

I was going to say, but zellij doesn't connect the session to the GUI. However, I did not know about kitty's --use-foreground-process, which doesn't solve the problem completely but may be good enough.

https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/sessions/#more-complex-sessi...

New comment by jpeeler in "Zellij 0.44.0: Remote Sessions, Windows Support, CLI Automation"

jpeeler — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 17:02:17 +0000

Seems like a big release? As a non-user currently, I had missed that 0.43 also includes the ability to access sessions over HTTPS. Almost all of the release notes for this one left me saying, "Yes, I want that."

New comment by jpeeler in "macOS's Little-Known Command-Line Sandboxing Tool (2025)"

jpeeler — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 18:04:48 +0000

I've been collecting a list of sandboxing related projects as well, some lower level than others. I wish I had time to evaluate them all:

- https://github.com/jingkaihe/matchlock

- https://github.com/mishushakov/libkrun-go

- https://github.com/earendil-works/gondolin

- https://github.com/butter-dot-dev/bvisor

- https://github.com/amlalabs/amla-sandbox

- https://github.com/eryx-org/eryx

- https://github.com/containers/bubblewrap (not new)

- https://github.com/coplane/localsandbox

- https://github.com/sd2k/conch

- https://github.com/Gerharddc/litterbox

- https://github.com/finbarr/yolobox

- https://github.com/coventry/sandbox-codex

- https://github.com/osks/ctenv

- https://github.com/tianon/gosu

- https://github.com/colony-2/shai

- https://github.com/rcarmo/agentbox

- https://github.com/coder/httpjail

- https://github.com/bytecodealliance/componentize-py

- https://github.com/tursodatabase/agentfs

- https://github.com/always-further/nono

- (another list on HN Deno Sandbox: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46876022)

- Did not check if any/all of these are here: https://github.com/arjan/awesome-agent-sandboxes

Zed editor switching graphics lib from blade to wgpu

jpeeler — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 14:03:14 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/46758

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47002825

Points: 317

# Comments: 308

New comment by jpeeler in "Msgvault: fast private email archive and search system"

jpeeler — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 21:16:27 +0000

I keep meaning to switch to either immich or ente, but can't decide.

New comment by jpeeler in "GitHub Actions is slowly killing engineering teams"

jpeeler — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 14:40:04 +0000

I work in a monorepo at work, which of course increases complexity and build time due to more work being done. But I keep wondering even with better CI options that properly handle dependencies if solving the problem at that level is too low.

Currently evaluating using moonrepo.dev to attempt to efficiently build our code. What I've noticed is (aside from Bazel) it seems a lot of monorepo tools only support a subset of languages nicely. So it's hard to evaluate fairly as language support limits one's options. I found https://monorepo.tools to be helpful in learning about a lot of projects I didn't know about.

New comment by jpeeler in "Voxtral Transcribe 2"

jpeeler — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 18:40:18 +0000

Yes, appreciate this.

I noticed that with both models voxtral-mini-transcribe-realtime-2602 and voxtral-mini-2602 filler words are ignored. I'd like to be able to count words/sounds, specifically "um" or "uh" for improvement purposes. Any good models that handle that?

New comment by jpeeler in "Bunny Database"

jpeeler — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 04:02:47 +0000

Your activity comparison isn't wrong, but it's because they are focused on doing a complete rewrite instead of focusing on the libSQL fork.

https://turso.tech/blog/we-will-rewrite-sqlite-and-we-are-go...

New comment by jpeeler in "Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work"

jpeeler — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 21:44:51 +0000

I'm embarrassed to say this is the first time I've heard about sandbox-exec (macOS), though I am familiar with bubblewrap (Linux). Edit: And I see now that technically it's deprecated, but people still continue to use sandbox-exec even still today.

New comment by jpeeler in "GotaTun – Mullvad's WireGuard Implementation in Rust"

jpeeler — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 14:36:51 +0000

Very cool. I may use this, but also curious what the best choice would be if you don't need encryption. I'm specifically wanting to enable some local container networking using apple's new container tool [1]. I know I could just use Docker...

[1] https://github.com/apple/container/issues/670

New comment by jpeeler in "Niri – A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor"

jpeeler — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 14:38:46 +0000

Wouldn't you have the same problem with changing workspaces? Sounds like you can't keep track of anything not currently present on the screen, which before the overview was a lot harder to deal with. One thing that could help is to create a "temporary terminal" keybinding to launch in floating mode so you'll never forget to close it. Or create a focus-or-launch bind that switches to an existing terminal (tools like Nirius can help minimize scripting). The other thing that may help is adjusting your struts so you can see that windows exist to the left or the right. More of general workflow tip than one related to just terminals.

New comment by jpeeler in "I ditched Docker for Podman"

jpeeler — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 13:18:12 +0000

Haven't tested this yet, but --link support was just added:

https://github.com/containers/buildah/issues/4325#issuecomme...

New comment by jpeeler in "Thingino: Open-Source Firmware for IP Cameras"

jpeeler — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 12:43:06 +0000

I'm seeing $9.66 on Temu. The description update on this video explains that it's due to tariffs (is it cheaper outside the US?): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfeA8wOEe34

New comment by jpeeler in "Show HN: Companies use AI to take your calls. I built AI to make them for you"

jpeeler — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 12:45:24 +0000

That is quite an unexpected benefit to such a serious bug.

New comment by jpeeler in "OpenAI delays launch of open-weight model"

jpeeler — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 14:26:08 +0000

Netflix needs to do a Black Mirror episode where either a sentient AI pretends that it's "dumber" than it is while secretly plotting to overthrow humanity. Either that or a LLM is hacked by deep state actors that provides similar manipulated advice.