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New comment by realrocker in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"

realrocker — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 13:57:23 +0000

I am working on speeding up the review-refine loop of LLM generated artefacts between me and the LLM. i run my coding agent (claude code) in auto / full-permission mode, so it doesn’t stop for accept/reject — by the time it’s done i’ve got a pile of generated code, docs, sometimes ui to review. and the slow part for me is to refine it before push it to remote. i would copy-paste snippets to point at what i wanted changed, screenshot the ui, describe where the problem was in prose, one message at a time. its cumbersome.

so i built prereview to speed up that review-fix loop. you run it in your repo (or point it at a file, a dir, or a running dev server), click what’s wrong: a diff line, a markdown/html block, a region of an image, a box on a live site — and leave a comment. the comments go to a csv, your agent reads it and fixes things and tells you what it did via a comment or even posts suggestions which you can accept or reject. it ships with a claude code skill, but the handoff to llm is just an open csv protocol, so any llm cli can drive it. stuff that might interest people here: single static go binary, fully offline; it reviews docs/images/live ui as well as code; comments re-anchor when the file changes under them. it’s mit and still early but I use it everyday. Its here: https://github.com/livetemplate/prereview

New comment by realrocker in "Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?"

realrocker — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 21:22:35 +0000

I am using claude cli/tmux on a hetzner box and connecting to it via claude remote control. I have connected the box and my phone over telnet which allows me to view any UI work. Sometimes I do have to switch to my laptop for UI desktop layouts.

One gap which I kept running into on both mobile and desktop was refining the initial plan and then later refining the generated artifacts which involved lots of imprecise copy-paste. To scratch my own itch I built a review tool to improve the velocity of planning and refining generated artifacts. It has become my daily driver: https://github.com/livetemplate/prereview

New comment by realrocker in "Show HN: Codiff, a local diff review tool"

realrocker — Sun, 17 May 2026 07:22:09 +0000

exactly. LLM code output is so high that it has become unreasonable to review the code in terminal or ide

New comment by realrocker in "Show HN: Codiff, a local diff review tool"

realrocker — Sun, 17 May 2026 07:21:14 +0000

Yeah the project is right out of the oven so will add some usage gifs shortly to the repo. Meanwhile here are some screenshots on imgur: https://imgur.com/a/zxZo651

New comment by realrocker in "Show HN: Codiff, a local diff review tool"

realrocker — Sun, 17 May 2026 06:53:25 +0000

:) We are all converging on the same problems and tooling to fix them.

Built this in the last couple days to review changes done by claude on a hetzner box(over tailscale on my phone) and leave comments before pushing to remote : https://github.com/livetemplate/prereview.

Runs everywhere and can has a claude skill: /prereview which starts a new instance for the current changes. Has a “Hand-off” button to signal claude to process the comments.

UI is responsive. I use it on my iphone with claude mobile app + /remote-control to leave comments before pushing.Still requires polish but core features work.

New comment by realrocker in "Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML"

realrocker — Sun, 10 May 2026 10:44:44 +0000

that’s exactly the core value proposition of the tool I have been working on : https://github.com/livetemplate/tinkerdown

New comment by realrocker in "Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML"

realrocker — Sat, 09 May 2026 06:20:57 +0000

I am working on https://github.com/livetemplate/tinkerdown to leverage the the two effective outputs of LLMs : html and markdown . Still WIP

New comment by realrocker in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

realrocker — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 14:50:42 +0000

Recently started using: https://github.com/babonet/Markco (cant find the similar extension i used previously since it got uninstalled). I add inline comments in the markdown and I have a skill which uses the comments to update the plans and remove resolve comments.

New comment by realrocker in "Show HN: MDV – a Markdown superset for docs, dashboards, and slides with data"

realrocker — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 05:47:17 +0000

Good ideas. I am working on something similar but with a tiered complexity to fallback to html for complex use cases : https://github.com/livetemplate/tinkerdown, https://github.com/livetemplate/tinkerdown/blob/main/docs/gu...

New comment by realrocker in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

realrocker — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 01:58:32 +0000

excellent work. I have been using a vscode extension for this for an year.

New comment by realrocker in "I turned Markdown into a protocol for generative UI"

realrocker — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 13:11:05 +0000

No that makes sense. Waiting for feedback might lead to churn. Pretty cool idea.

New comment by realrocker in "I turned Markdown into a protocol for generative UI"

realrocker — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 06:17:34 +0000

That is super cool. Sorry to be nitpicky but would really like to know your mental model: I didn’t understand from the blog why user waiting for a functional UI is a problem ? isn’t the partial streamed UI non-functional ?

I can see the value in early user verification and maybe interrupting the LLM to not proceed on an invalid path but I guess this is customer facing so not as valuable.

"In interactive assistants, that latency makes or breaks the experience." Why ? Because user might just jump off ?

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New comment by realrocker in "I turned Markdown into a protocol for generative UI"

realrocker — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:04:29 +0000

The streamed execution idea is novel to me. Not sure what’s it significance ?

I have been working on something with a similar goal:

https://github.com/livetemplate/tinkerdown

New comment by realrocker in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

realrocker — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 22:54:02 +0000

Last time I wrote here was almost 6 years ago: https://honestmusings.wordpress.com. Not sure when I will write again.

New comment by realrocker in "Show HN: Build progressively enhanced reactive HTML apps using Go and Alpine.js"

realrocker — Wed, 10 May 2023 06:46:45 +0000

The first step counter button is supposed to reload the page. The second step buttons update the page w/o reload

New comment by realrocker in "Show HN: Build progressively enhanced reactive HTML apps using Go and Alpine.js"

realrocker — Wed, 10 May 2023 02:05:44 +0000

Hey. I have checked out pushup before. Its great. I guess I am taking a niche approach which not many would find useful. To clarify: What is adding more complexity? alpinejs ?

New comment by realrocker in "Show HN: Build progressively enhanced reactive HTML apps using Go and Alpine.js"

realrocker — Wed, 10 May 2023 01:59:44 +0000

Its locking and the state is shared. Didn’t expect a lot of interest for this or I would have built a better demo :)

htmx is great!

New comment by realrocker in "Show HN: Build progressively enhanced reactive HTML apps using Go and Alpine.js"

realrocker — Wed, 10 May 2023 01:58:22 +0000

The (claimed) value proposition is leveraging block/template to decompose the html page and bind its computation to browser events over a pubsub channel. Its a toolkit and not a framework so one can still use their favourite framework. The Go library isn’t doing anything earth shattering but re-implementing the aforesaid design would still need to be done in any framework.

New comment by realrocker in "Show HN: Build progressively enhanced reactive HTML apps using Go and Alpine.js"

realrocker — Wed, 10 May 2023 01:19:44 +0000

The state is shared between users for the demo. Its possible to separate state in the library per user but I haven't enabled it.

New comment by realrocker in "Show HN: Build progressively enhanced reactive HTML apps using Go and Alpine.js"

realrocker — Wed, 10 May 2023 01:02:19 +0000

Yeah I was afraid of that. Websockets are costly. Thankfully the approach doesn't completely depend on websockets so I have disabled it for now on the site.