Hacker News: toastalhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=toastalHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 15 May 2026 08:48:13 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by toastal in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)"]]>

    Location: Eastern Thailand
    Remote: Yes, can travel every so often
    Willing to relocate: No
    Technologies: Nix, NixOS, OCaml, PureScript, Elm, JavaScript, CSS
    Résumé/CV: https://toast.al/skills/
    Email: toastal+hn@posteo.net
Looking to transition off of front-end work & into devops. I can help monitor systems from Asian time zones. Flexible hours help & I don’t mind being up at “odd hours” as I am a night owl.

]]>Fri, 01 May 2026 16:46:21 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47976926toastalhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47976926https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47976926<![CDATA[New comment by toastal in "We need a federation of forges"]]>The snapshot-based system requires that the patch order matters which Darcs/Pijul don’t require so long as the patches apply since they commute. This means you can pull in patches from other users at an time in any order & still get the same stable reference. If you apply patches in a different order in Git, you will get a different reference hash & some entity ends up needing to be the centralized source of truth when doing deployments & stuff—which is probably why everyone ends up having some code forge for their code base on a centralized server to “sync” the state.

And with rebase, how are the commits immutable? Seems like MS GitHub found a way to mutably drop commits recently…

]]>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 10:43:45 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47960611toastalhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47960611https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47960611<![CDATA[New comment by toastal in "Before GitHub"]]>If it got proper tooling this would be true—but the community will need to build it. Darcs has more out of the box & more existing ecosystems to work with. Pijul is barebones by design, ready to be scripted, there’s just not much out there.

]]>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:45:32 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47949170toastalhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47949170https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47949170<![CDATA[New comment by toastal in "We need a federation of forges"]]>Why do we need to stick to Git? We need better tooling around the Patch Theory-based VCS which are better for decentralized working to begin with.

]]>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:42:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47949133toastalhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47949133https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47949133<![CDATA[New comment by toastal in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"]]>Xit has a better “take” on Git. Pijul & Darcs still have better fundamentals.

]]>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:41:23 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47941221toastalhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47941221https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47941221<![CDATA[New comment by toastal in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"]]>We are finally getting closer to me getting to delete my last account with Microsoft. Nixpkgs: please follow suit.

]]>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:39:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47941205toastalhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47941205https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47941205<![CDATA[New comment by toastal in "Show HN: MDV – a Markdown superset for docs, dashboards, and slides with data"]]>reStructuredText & AsciiDoc are so, so much better than Markdown since they have rich feature sets to actually build documentation, blogging, & so on. It’s a massive shame everyone would prefer _yet another Markdown fork_ like the OP.

]]>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 20:57:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47819472toastalhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47819472https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47819472<![CDATA[New comment by toastal in "Show HN: CSS Studio. Design by hand, code by agent"]]>There is no