Hacker News: splitbrain

New comment by splitbrain in "Work with the garage door up (2024)"

splitbrain — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 12:57:55 +0000

> it’s giving a lecture about the problems you’re pondering in the shower; it’s thinking out loud about the ways in which your project doesn’t work at all.

I'd love to do this. But I have learned that my brain does not work this way. The moment I explain my shower thought project to anyone, I immediately lose all interest in actually building it. I don't know why.

If I want to succeed building a new thing, I can not talk to anyone before I have actually built the first fully working version of it.

New comment by splitbrain in "Claude-Code Automode"

splitbrain — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 02:36:22 +0000

Is that available somewhere? Maybe as a blog post on how you set this up?

Ask HN: How do you AI code from your phone?

splitbrain — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 09:59:37 +0000

I would like to find a good way to use coding agents like claude or codex to code from my (Android) phone. But I can't find any tools that work.

What I tried:

An ssh terminal app on my phone. This works, but a TUI interface is far from what I would call "comfortable" on a mobile phone.

Happy Coder (happy.engineering) promises to be the solution but I found it rarely works reliably, it can't deal with claude's new question format and (judging from issues and discussions) seems a bit abandoned.

Ideally I would want something selfhosted with a mobile optimized web interface that let's me start different coding sessions (bonus points if each session runs in its own docker container). Important would be that I am not just being dropped into a console but that the interface is actually optimized for phone use.

What are you using to control coding agents on the go? Did I miss an obvious choice?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46742298

Points: 7

# Comments: 3

New comment by splitbrain in "Ask HN: What have you built/shipped with Claude Code?"

splitbrain — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 06:06:11 +0000

A password hasher PWA (JavaScript) https://www.splitbrain.org/blog/2026-01/02-password_hasher_p...

A GUI for the notmuch email indexer (PHP) https://www.splitbrain.org/blog/2026-01/09-gmail_backup_notm...

An AppImage installer (Go) https://www.splitbrain.org/blog/2026-01/20-appy_an_appimage_...

All three just this month. Each of them took me several hours, because they're not vibe coded but carefully reviewed and refined until I was reasonably happy with the resulting code. Could I have written them myself? Sure. Would I ever have started without claude? Hell no.

New comment by splitbrain in "RSS.Social – the latest and best from small sites across the web"

splitbrain — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 08:40:21 +0000

  Learn how it works. -> This page is incomplete

A pity. It's obvious what the "latest" would be, but what is the best? How is that decided?

Shameless plug: for randomly discovering IndieBlogs check out https://indieblog.page/

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

splitbrain — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 06:07:08 +0000

All kinds of personal blogs are welcome at https://indieblog.page no matter your fame on Hackernews.

Show HN: Cloudflare-like are you human check using Apache mod_rewrite

splitbrain — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 15:18:07 +0000

I needed a simple way to block a whole bunch of AI bots running amok on my site without having to introduce a reverse proxy setup. This solution uses mod_rewrite and a small go tool for fast RewriteMaps.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46326763

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by splitbrain in "Blogging in 2025: Screaming into the Void"

splitbrain — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 06:20:43 +0000

Shameless plug as always when the topic comes up: submit your blog to https://indieblog.page to be discovered. subscribe to its RSS feed or mastodon account to discover indie blogs one random post at a time.

New comment by splitbrain in "10 years of writing a blog nobody reads"

splitbrain — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 06:15:01 +0000

Shameless plug: Submit your blog to https://indieblog.page and you'll get the occasional random reader who might even become a RSS subscriber.

New comment by splitbrain in "Rebecca Heineman has died"

splitbrain — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 08:22:13 +0000

Offtopic: several of the embedded Bluesky posts at the end of the article show "The author of the quoted post has requested their posts not be displayed on external sites." Seems not to phase the PC Gamer "journalists".

New comment by splitbrain in "Compare Single Board Computers"

splitbrain — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 07:31:28 +0000

I wish there were any SBCs under 10 bucks. Remember the promise of the RPi Zero being 5$? That promise never came true.

New comment by splitbrain in "Compare Single Board Computers"

splitbrain — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 07:28:58 +0000

Unfortunately it seems not to have any wireless connectivity.

New comment by splitbrain in "I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse"

splitbrain — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 09:25:35 +0000

I was in the same boat and built my own commenting system. It has an importer for disqus (so you don't lose your old comments) and also imports Mastodon replies.

https://www.splitbrain.org/blog/2025-03/26-meh_another_comme...

An open letter to the Rails Core team and Ruby community

splitbrain — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 06:57:43 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/Plan-Vert/open-letter

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45369990

Points: 10

# Comments: 4

New comment by splitbrain in "Show HN: Search the IndieWeb, one query at a time"

splitbrain — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 11:55:25 +0000

A few years ago there was an Ask HN thread asking people here to show off their personal sites (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30934529). Reading that thread gave me the idea to build indieblog.page (previously discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31002171). The list of blogs grew to nearly 5000 in the last years.

Alex Schroeder suggested to add a search engine on top of people's feeds as a way to search the Indieweb without adding even more crawlers to our collective infrastructure. I think it's a pretty cool way to quickly see what others have written on any given topic.

Show HN: Search the IndieWeb, one query at a time

splitbrain — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 11:43:51 +0000

The indie blog directory born from an idea here at Hackernews now also has it's own search engine. Unlike other engines it does not run crawlers, but simply indexes the blogs' RSS feeds.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45167109

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by splitbrain in "ReMarkable Paper Pro Move"

splitbrain — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 04:25:59 +0000

I am using the original RM1 nearly daily for the last 8 years or so as my primary note taking device. I bought it used because it was ridiculously expensive new. I was grandfathered in when they introduced the subscription. I really love the device, but I would never buy it with connectivity locked behind a subscription.

New comment by splitbrain in "AI web crawlers are destroying websites in their never-ending content hunger"

splitbrain — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 05:00:23 +0000

No, the traffic is not caused by client requests (like when your chat gpt session does a search and checks some sources). They are caused by training runs. The difference is that AI companies are not storing the data they scrape. They let the model ingest the data, then throw it away. When they train the next model, they scrape the entire Internet again. At least that's how I understand it.

New comment by splitbrain in "How Not to Buy a SSD"

splitbrain — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 12:10:48 +0000

I built a NAS off them. They're in a ZFS mirror and important stuff is backed up offsite.

New comment by splitbrain in "How Not to Buy a SSD"

splitbrain — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 09:46:59 +0000

I recently bought two SSDs from Chinese brands I had never heard before. My thinking being that they were reasonably priced (a bit cheaper than name brands but not by much) and that probably no-one would fake no-name brands. Reviews seemed to be mostly genuine as well. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ so far they seem to work fine, we'll see.