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New comment by jprokay13 in "Building a TUI is easy now"

jprokay13 — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 16:50:22 +0000

I think pi-mono (https://github.com/badlogic/pi-mono) is pretty close. The extensibility is wonderful and a much better fit for how I work compared to Claude Code.

New comment by jprokay13 in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

jprokay13 — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 23:03:06 +0000

https://jprokay.com

Goal for the year is to post every two weeks

New comment by jprokay13 in "50% of U.S. vinyl buyers don't own a record player"

jprokay13 — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 16:18:53 +0000

I’m in a similar boat. Many artists I listen to on Bandcamp offer cassettes(!) at a fair price and will charge a comparable price for the digital. However, I’ve seen some artists charge thousands for digital only but $10 for a tape that includes the digital version.

I don’t know why they do this, but I do know I have an ever growing stack of tapes I can’t listen to…

New comment by jprokay13 in "Intelligent Search in Rails with Typesense"

jprokay13 — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 00:33:20 +0000

  yet again I reached for a dependency when Postgres is enough

New comment by jprokay13 in "Intelligent Search in Rails with Typesense"

jprokay13 — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 15:51:10 +0000

I’m debating Typesense vs. Meilisearch for a project. My use case isn’t particularly complex so either fits.

Curious if anyone has any horror stories about either

New comment by jprokay13 in "A staff engineer's journey with Claude Code"

jprokay13 — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 03:22:57 +0000

I am still working on tweaking how I work and design with Claude to hopefully unlock a level of output that I’m happy with.

Admittedly, part of it is my own desire for code that looks a certain way, not just that which solves the problem.

New comment by jprokay13 in "A staff engineer's journey with Claude Code"

jprokay13 — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 22:53:28 +0000

I am coming back to this. I’ve been using Claude pretty hard at work and for personal projects, but the longer I do it, the more disappointed I become with the quality of output for anything bigger than a script. I do love planning things out and clarifying my thoughts. It’s a turbocharged rubber duck - but it’s not a great engineer

New comment by jprokay13 in "Things that helped me get out of the AI 10x engineer imposter syndrome"

jprokay13 — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 19:38:55 +0000

At first I thought becoming “10x” meant outputting 10x as much code. Now that I’m using Claude more as an expensive rubber duck, I’m hoping that I spend more time defining the fundamentals correctly that will lead to a large improvement in outcomes in the long run.

New comment by jprokay13 in "LLM Inevitabilism"

jprokay13 — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 16:51:23 +0000

Why look to the past when you can rediscover it from “first principles?” /s

New comment by jprokay13 in "Measuring the impact of AI on experienced open-source developer productivity"

jprokay13 — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 03:38:57 +0000

My personal experience was that of a decrease in productivity until I spent significant time with it. Managing configurations, prompting it the right way, asking other models for code reviews… And I still see there is more I can unlock with more time learning the right interaction patterns.

For nasty, legacy codebases there is only so much you can do IMO. With green field (in certain domains), I become more confident every day that coding will be reduced to an AI task. I’m learning how to be a product manager / ideas guy in response

New comment by jprokay13 in "Flix – A powerful effect-oriented programming language"

jprokay13 — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 20:32:48 +0000

What’s the best way to stay informed about the typescript version?

New comment by jprokay13 in "Backlog.md – Markdown‑native Task Manager and Kanban visualizer for any Git repo"

jprokay13 — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 13:32:26 +0000

Neat! I am going to check this out. I recently built an MCP system similar to this called Nonlinear (so clever) that uses SQLite for storage that lives outside the repo. Honestly though, in repo is the better option.

New comment by jprokay13 in "AI is ushering in a “tiny team” era"

jprokay13 — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 02:06:40 +0000

Claude recommended I use Tilt for setting up a new project at work. I wasn’t sure if it was worth it…is it pretty easy to set up a debugger? Not only do I have to adopt it, but I have to get a small team to be OK with it.

Our target deploy environment is K8S if that makes a difference. Right now I’m using mise tasks to run everything

New comment by jprokay13 in "AI is ushering in a “tiny team” era"

jprokay13 — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 02:02:33 +0000

Yeah I find it pretty funny that so much of us (myself included) threw out strict documentation practices because “the code should be self documenting!” Now I want as much of it as I can get.

New comment by jprokay13 in "AI is ushering in a “tiny team” era"

jprokay13 — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 20:24:14 +0000

If you haven’t, adding in strict(er) linting rules is an easy win. Enforcing documentation for public methods is a great one imo.

The more you can do to tell the AI what you want via a “code-lint-test” loop, the better the results.

New comment by jprokay13 in "Cursor 1.0"

jprokay13 — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 04:28:08 +0000

Create a file like conventions.md in the root of your repository with specific commands for common tasks: running tests, linters, formatters, adding packages Set this as part of the files it reads on startup. Then ask aider to look at your codebase and add to it :) Aider has a lot of slash commands to familiarize yourself with. Ask and web are crucial commands to get the most out of it.

My recommendation to anyone is to use ask the most then tell it to “implement what we discussed” when it looks good.

Hope that helps

New comment by jprokay13 in "Surprisingly fast AI-generated kernels we didn't mean to publish yet"

jprokay13 — Sat, 31 May 2025 20:17:11 +0000

I’ve been floating around a similar set of ideas and it’s been very fun (if not all that useful yet) to build Did you try taking it one step further where a “recruiter” has to hire the engineers after a screening process? I wonder if this could get you even better AI engineers

New comment by jprokay13 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)"

jprokay13 — Mon, 26 May 2025 00:45:30 +0000

I built a web app for looping specific sections of YouTube videos as a way to practice songs.

https://proloops.jprokay.com/

Slowtube was a huge inspiration for me (I’ve spent many hours with it), but I wanted a way to save my loops and continue my practice.

Saving is solely to the browser’s database right now.

Feedback is much appreciated!

New comment by jprokay13 in "Launch HN: Better Auth (YC X25) – Authentication Framework for TypeScript"

jprokay13 — Mon, 19 May 2025 19:01:13 +0000

Do you have any recommendations on how to get started with Keycloak or just RTFM?

New comment by jprokay13 in "Minimum Viable Blog"

jprokay13 — Sat, 03 May 2025 16:46:04 +0000

Yeah that was what I was afraid of. I thought I saw in the caddy code that they did a sort on file name, but I must have misread it. Thanks for responding!

Edit: after looking more closely at sprig, the solve was sortAlpha