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New comment by nicoritschel in "Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases"

nicoritschel — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:15:50 +0000

Check out mdnb.app if you want similar but truly native for macOS

New comment by nicoritschel in "Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases"

nicoritschel — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:15:26 +0000

If you want proper native for macOS, check out mdnb.app

I built it with this exact ethos, a curated set of "extended" functionality instead of a plugin system.

What plugins do you rely on in Obsidian?

New comment by nicoritschel in "Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases"

nicoritschel — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:13:17 +0000

Check out mdnb.app, a true native markdown app for macOS.

New comment by nicoritschel in "Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases"

nicoritschel — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:11:46 +0000

Yes, check out mdnb.app

New comment by nicoritschel in "Used La Marzocco machines are coveted by cafe owners and collectors"

nicoritschel — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:34:42 +0000

If you're ever in Florence, Italy and love coffee (and La Marzocco) do yourself a favor and visit the museum https://lamarzocco.com/mktcenter/visit-us-in-italy/

New comment by nicoritschel in "ggsql: A Grammar of Graphics for SQL"

nicoritschel — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:37:48 +0000

If you're familiar with the percent format for jupyter notebooks, something like that— so things gracefully degrade in a more "basic" execution context.

# %%

foo = 1

# %%

print(foo)

Above is notebook with two "cells" & also a valid Python script. Perhaps it matters less with SQL vs Python, but it's a nice property.

New comment by nicoritschel in "ggsql: A Grammar of Graphics for SQL"

nicoritschel — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:39:10 +0000

This is neat. I do wish there was a way for this to gracefully degrade in contexts without support for the grammar, though.

I devised a similar in spirit (inside SQL, very simplified vs GoG) approach that does degrade (but doesn't read as nice): https://sqlnb.com/spec

New comment by nicoritschel in "Apideck CLI – An AI-agent interface with much lower context consumption than MCP"

nicoritschel — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:42:10 +0000

While I generally prefer CLI over MCP locally, this is bad outdated information.

The major harnesses like Claude Code + Codex have had tool search for months now.

New comment by nicoritschel in "Big Data on the Cheapest MacBook"

nicoritschel — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 13:12:41 +0000

> compared to 3–5 GB/s

Their numbers are a bit outdated. M5 Macbook pro SSDs are literally 5x this speed. It's wild.

New comment by nicoritschel in "When does MCP make sense vs CLI?"

nicoritschel — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 21:31:28 +0000

MCPs were always for chat apps, not coding agents. Benefit is auth for normies + can serve UI through ChatGPT + Claude.

New comment by nicoritschel in "Ghostty – Terminal Emulator"

nicoritschel — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 20:16:54 +0000

Did a double take on this one since my Ghostty has had panes for a while now (I run tip/nightly). Didn't realize it's not part of the current release.

Also, Zellij is nice.

Memory in Coding Agents

nicoritschel — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 20:34:18 +0000

Article URL: https://nicoritschel.com/writing/memex/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47114372

Points: 2

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Sidemantic: Universal Metrics Layer

nicoritschel — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 20:27:44 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/sidequery/sidemantic

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47114329

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Show HN: mdnb, a 100% native macOS markdown editor

nicoritschel — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 15:54:57 +0000

I historically have switched between Apple Notes and Obsidian.

I built mdnb as a hybrid of both— it's a fully native mac app that lets you edit markdown with the same interaction as Obsidian. I plan to keep it minimal & have no plans to add a plugin system like Obsidian. Instead will build a curated first class featureset into the editor, not unlike Zed editor.

It will always be free to use. Feedback is welcome!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46935379

Points: 2

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When Software Engineers Don't Look at the Software

nicoritschel — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 18:14:51 +0000

Article URL: https://nicoritschel.com/writing/when-software-engineers-dont-look-at-the-software

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46848051

Points: 3

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New comment by nicoritschel in "Show HN: Ghostree is a Ghostty fork with worktree management built in"

nicoritschel — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:18:59 +0000

Thanks; will clarify that

New comment by nicoritschel in "Show HN: Ghostree is a Ghostty fork with worktree management built in"

nicoritschel — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 22:17:20 +0000

While worktrunk is oriented at AI, it very much is a nicer abstraction on git worktrees that also happens to be ergonomic for you and I.

You can use Ghostree without AI at all and still get the benefit of worktree management bubbled up to the UI layer.

Show HN: Ghostree is a Ghostty fork with worktree management built in

nicoritschel — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 21:47:54 +0000

With agents, I have I found myself using worktrees more and more. First manually, then with conductor.build, then with worktrunk.dev.

I prefer using coding CLIs instead of UI wrappers as the terminal tends to be more performant (depending on the agent you choose) and you get access to new features immediately.

Ghostty is a bit challening to automate today— I considered building a complementary app to Ghostty at first. But since I have been building native mac apps on the side lately (as well as tools for agents, consuming their logs etc) I figured I would just modify Ghostty to have native worktree management.

You can download with homebrew via: brew install sidequery/tap/ghostree

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46758682

Points: 3

# Comments: 5

New comment by nicoritschel in "Using PostgreSQL as a Dead Letter Queue for Event-Driven Systems"

nicoritschel — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 18:55:59 +0000

lol a FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED post hits the HN homepage every few months it feels like

New comment by nicoritschel in "LG UltraFine Evo 6K 32-inch Monitor Review"

nicoritschel — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 04:22:42 +0000

I have one sitting in front of me and the panel is perfect. No notes.