Hacker News: monkey26

New comment by monkey26 in "OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent"

monkey26 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 19:02:14 +0000

I do like OpenCode, and have been using it in and off since last July. But I feel like they’re trying to stuff too much GUI into a TUI? Due to this I find myself using Codex and Pi more often. But am still glad OpenCode and their Zen product exist.

New comment by monkey26 in "Wired headphone sales are exploding"

monkey26 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 01:42:39 +0000

A couple months ago, the battery in my Sony wh1000xm3’s failed to hold any charge at all. Was an easy replacement tho and they’re as good as new.

New comment by monkey26 in "Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion"

monkey26 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 15:29:39 +0000

50s here. I love building and designing software to solve problems. For years now I haven’t liked the actual coding part. AI has given me a super power.

New comment by monkey26 in "Pi – A minimal terminal coding harness"

monkey26 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 23:42:23 +0000

I do this with an extension. I run all bash tools with bwrap and ACLs for the write and edit tools. Serves my purposes. Opens up access to other required directories, at least for git and rust.

I think I published it. Check the pi package page.

New comment by monkey26 in "MinIO repository is no longer maintained"

monkey26 — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 02:02:40 +0000

Do you feel the same way if the CLA is to assign copyright to an non profit foundation that is a steward of that open source project?

New comment by monkey26 in "Why I'm all-in on Zen Browser"

monkey26 — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 23:31:50 +0000

This initially excited me, but its pretty poor compared to what Chrome and Chrome based browsers provide.

New comment by monkey26 in "Why I'm all-in on Zen Browser"

monkey26 — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 15:13:38 +0000

I want profiles. For example, work and personal. Different bookmarks, different plugins. Even some different settings.

New comment by monkey26 in "Anandtech.com now redirects to its forums"

monkey26 — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 17:29:45 +0000

Not free after a certain point then gets expensive fast as you move out to CDNs.

New comment by monkey26 in "Launch HN: Hyprnote (YC S25) – An open-source AI meeting notetaker"

monkey26 — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 17:17:28 +0000

I recently tried Vibe (https://github.com/thewh1teagle/vibe) from a recording of a meeting taken on one side. It was able to identify the speakers. As Speaker 1, 2, etc. But still useful to see.

New comment by monkey26 in "Claude Code is a slot machine"

monkey26 — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 23:40:53 +0000

I’m grateful for the likes of you out there.

New comment by monkey26 in "Claude Code is a slot machine"

monkey26 — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 17:32:49 +0000

I fall into the 25 year of experience category. Probably a few more. For me, this agentic coding couldn’t have come at a better time. I still love thinking about solutions to problems and creating those solutions. I’m becoming less and less interested in the implementation details of those solutions.

I tend to use Claude Code in 2 scenarios. YOLO where I don’t care what it looks like. One shot stuff I’ll never maintain.

Or a replacement for my real hands on coding. And in many cases I can’t tell the difference after a few days if I wrote it or AI did. Of course I have well established patterns and years of creating requirements for junior devs.

New comment by monkey26 in "Assisted dying now accounts for one in 20 Canada deaths"

monkey26 — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 06:50:05 +0000

Both of my wife's parents died with cancer in their 60s before MAID. These days we're seeing the parents of others, and even our peers choosing MAID. It breaks my wife's heart every time that MAID wasn't available to her parents.

New comment by monkey26 in "Ask HN: If you are starting in 2024, what is the most productive solo dev stack?"

monkey26 — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 16:15:40 +0000

Solid-Start.

New comment by monkey26 in "When 'open core' projects reject contributions for competing with the EE"

monkey26 — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 15:39:11 +0000

I work on a fully open project that sustains itself… And we really push for a ticket before any major work is done just to make sure it fits our scope.

At the end of the day most contributions come from people as part of their job, and they move on. We’re left to maintain it.

New comment by monkey26 in "Ask HN: Best resources on starting a lifestyle business?"

monkey26 — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 01:53:05 +0000

I don't want to hijack this thread, but what does Django do?

I ask, cause I have a service that is a Rust backend (kind of specialized in what it does) + a SolidJS frontend... But I've seen a potential area for growth, I didn't imagine at first, and that would be stuff like user profiles, authentication, and managing stuff. And I really don't want to cut all this more "CRUD" like stuff in Rust and an SPA. I don't know Ruby, but have done some rather large Python projects in the past, just never ventured into Django land.

New comment by monkey26 in "Unison Cloud"

monkey26 — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 00:53:41 +0000

A great tool I still use everyday.

New comment by monkey26 in "Duplicity: Encrypted bandwidth-efficient backup"

monkey26 — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 18:01:55 +0000

I've been using Restic since 2017 without issue. Tried Kopia for a while, but its backup size ballooned on me, maybe it wasn't quite ready.

New comment by monkey26 in "Removing official support for Red Hat enterprise Linux"

monkey26 — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 16:45:20 +0000

I do the RedHat side of support for our open source project. And when I do have to spin up real RedHat for something, it’s always a pain of fixing up some licensing or another.

New comment by monkey26 in "Building a Personal VoIP System"

monkey26 — Sat, 27 May 2023 20:48:33 +0000

I use Callcentric for this. Ported a land line over years ago. It now has SMS which I can do using the Callcentric app. And it forwards voicemails to me with email. Otherwise I don’t use that line for actual calls anymore.

New comment by monkey26 in "Exciting SQLite Improvements Since 2020"

monkey26 — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 23:35:31 +0000

Can you expand on that a little?