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New comment by juddlyon in "Ask HN: Is Codex really on Par with Claude Code?"

juddlyon — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 01:11:36 +0000

Can you elaborate on your CLI issue tracker? I’ve been wanting a todo list tailored to agentic coding that will work with CC, Codex, Gemini, etc. Simple, but more than markdown.

New comment by juddlyon in "I wanted to build vertical SaaS for pest control, so I took a technician job"

juddlyon — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 01:21:04 +0000

This made me laugh. “We’ll computerize it and get filthy rich! They’re stuck in 2015!”

I’m guilty of this type of thinking and occasionally get reminded when I’m way out of my lane.

New comment by juddlyon in "Recovering Anthony Bourdain's Li.st's"

juddlyon — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 17:46:31 +0000

I love Bourdain but wanted to note he did have a culinary school background. Also came from a wealthy family.

New comment by juddlyon in "Anthropic acquires Bun"

juddlyon — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 21:11:56 +0000

I had the same impression: bottom line up front, didn’t bury the lede, no weasel language.

New comment by juddlyon in "Juneteenth in Photos"

juddlyon — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 23:24:40 +0000

There are some wonderful photos and stories here, salute to the people at Texas Highways for putting this together.

From the article:

"The day was dubbed Emancipation Day but, slowly, the term Juneteenth — a portmanteau of June and 19th — took hold."

Debating the name instead of appreciating the holiday and gravity of the topic is missing the forrest for the trees. Just wow.

New comment by juddlyon in "Building Effective AI Agents"

juddlyon — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 19:05:35 +0000

Thank you for the extra notes, this is top of mind for me.

New comment by juddlyon in "Jules: An asynchronous coding agent"

juddlyon — Tue, 20 May 2025 02:33:05 +0000

Claude Code has been creating and cleaning up lots of Git messes for me.

New comment by juddlyon in "Stax Museum Bob Abrahamian Collection"

juddlyon — Sat, 17 May 2025 14:56:52 +0000

Definitely! One of the best museums I’ve ever been to.

New comment by juddlyon in "Show HN: Basecoat – shadcn/UI components, no React required"

juddlyon — Tue, 13 May 2025 23:54:08 +0000

Yep, I’ve used Alpine extensively and HTMX here and there. Lots of Vue.

There are not sets of polished, battle-tested UI libraries made for server side. Bootstrap ships with JS, but most of the CSS and template frameworks assume you’re using a headless setup.

I thought Web Components might spur things, but not really. React has continued to dominate.

New comment by juddlyon in "Show HN: Basecoat – shadcn/UI components, no React required"

juddlyon — Tue, 13 May 2025 20:26:25 +0000

There’s a huge need for this, thank you! I build server-rendered marketing sites and there’s a huge gulf between the jQuery and React era.

New comment by juddlyon in "Sora is here"

juddlyon — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 20:07:43 +0000

YouTube Shorts are full of AI animal videos with distorted proportions, living in the wrong habitat, and so on. They popped up on my son’s account and I hate them for the reasons you outline. They aren’t cartoonish enough explain away, nor realistic enough to be educational.

New comment by juddlyon in "Best Documentaries You've Ever Seen"

juddlyon — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 21:35:58 +0000

I saw Meru in a theater and sat in the parking lot afterwards wondering what I just watched.

New comment by juddlyon in "Best ecommerce UX practices from mcmaster.com"

juddlyon — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 16:22:30 +0000

One advantage is that they keep the same design for many years so each time you use it you get better/faster. You know what to expect.

New comment by juddlyon in "The “je ne sais quoi” of TikTok"

juddlyon — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 04:56:29 +0000

TikTok is the spiritual successor to Vine, but with YouTube scale.

New comment by juddlyon in "Moving from React to htmx"

juddlyon — Sun, 16 Oct 2022 02:25:55 +0000

htmx is deceptively powerful for how easy it is to use.

New comment by juddlyon in "Ask HN: What's is your go to toolset for simple front end development?"

juddlyon — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 14:30:54 +0000

Check out shuffle.dev, they have generators and components for the most popular frameworks. A great way to learn is to create the same pages with different libraries and observe the similarities and differences.

New comment by juddlyon in "Brave Search passes 2.5B queries, allows users to choose search rankings"

juddlyon — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 17:24:16 +0000

I’ve been using Brave + Startpage for a few years on mobile. I couldn’t get used to DDG or other search engines. Adblocking is quite good but also catches legit some tooltips and modals.

New comment by juddlyon in "Software Engineering Insights from 10 Years at Google"

juddlyon — Thu, 19 May 2022 15:01:37 +0000

These are some really uncharitable takes. A lot of us have found value in the author’s writing and code contributions over the years, many of which he made on his own time. This type of post is subjective by nature, give the guy a break.

New comment by juddlyon in "FormKit: Form building framework for Vue 3"

juddlyon — Fri, 13 May 2022 15:40:50 +0000

The product and the website are really slick, but there is nothing about who made this other than "FormKit, Inc." in the footer. Is this a group, an individual, a subsidiary, or what?

New comment by juddlyon in "Meld is a visual diff and merge tool targeted at developers"

juddlyon — Sun, 20 Mar 2022 18:24:23 +0000

Kaleidoscope on macOS isn’t cheap but has a great DX.