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New comment by tomjuggler in "The Art of Money Getting"

tomjuggler — Sun, 24 May 2026 08:43:39 +0000

Thank you for the link - I was just thinking that there were some core principles missing imo and yet there they are in the full text

For me "Persevere" is probably the main one, many people in the comments here mention the difficulty of making it in a niche field, one that you love and are good at. Personally I lived in a tent/garage for 5 years before finally becoming successful.

Also "Location" resonates. I had to move to a new city when I was starting out due to over saturation in my field at home.

New comment by tomjuggler in "DeepSeek V4—almost on the frontier"

tomjuggler — Sat, 02 May 2026 10:47:32 +0000

So I'm involved in an open source AI cli coding assistant called Cecli (cecli.dev) which is specifically designed to work well with DeepSeek.

DeepSeek is a great model, and Cecli is all about efficiency. It works great for my purposes - agentic programming on a budget.

New comment by tomjuggler in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""

tomjuggler — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:08:29 +0000

LOL DeepSeek V4 just reduced their price to less than $1 per million tokens for Pro and people are worried about Claude

New comment by tomjuggler in "Iguanaworks has closed and our products are no longer sold"

tomjuggler — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 18:11:50 +0000

Awww I have one of those. It still works after more than 10 years!

Maybe that's what happened, everyone who needed one bought and we don't need an upgrade

New comment by tomjuggler in "Every single board computer I tested in 2025"

tomjuggler — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 06:30:00 +0000

Same here. I really wanted Orange Pi to work, tried, but after getting my raspberry pi 4 it's night and day.

New comment by tomjuggler in "How important was the Battle of Hastings?"

tomjuggler — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 10:17:08 +0000

The battle of Hastings features prominently in my house, it's one of the first history subjects we taught the kids about.

Tom Hastings

New comment by tomjuggler in "FreeCAD"

tomjuggler — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 19:35:56 +0000

I started learning CAD with Free cad and never looked back. Yes it's clunky but it's free, and does the job!

New comment by tomjuggler in "Cord: Coordinating Trees of AI Agents"

tomjuggler — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 18:55:49 +0000

Looks like everyone is trying to solve the same problem - here is another example I've been trying to wrap my head around lately:

Brainfile - An open protocol for agent-to-agent task coordination.

https://brainfile.md/

Well worth a look imo

New comment by tomjuggler in "The bare minimum for syncing Git repos"

tomjuggler — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 16:12:17 +0000

Cool! I wrote a similar blog post last year when I decided to "Cut GitHub out of the loop"

https://www.circusscientist.com/2025/07/23/cutting-github-ou...

My motivation was mainly the fact that Bitbucket cut their free tier, and who knows how long GitHub will be free? So I tried and found out how easy git actually is to sync without third parties

New comment by tomjuggler in "Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents"

tomjuggler — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 10:12:59 +0000

There's a gap in the market here - not me but somebody needs to build an e-commerce bot and call it Santa Claws

New comment by tomjuggler in "OpenClaw is changing my life"

tomjuggler — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:38:50 +0000

I got into embedded 10 years ago, there really is something about driving hardware directly that is just so rewarding.

For AI I've been using Cecli which is cli and can actually run the compile step then fix any errors it finds - in addition to using Context7 MCP for syntax.

Not quite 10x yet but productivity has improved for me many times over. It's just how you use the tools available

New comment by tomjuggler in "Cecli AI Coding Assistant"

tomjuggler — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 13:56:14 +0000

Cecli (pronounced like "Ceclily") is a new AI coding assistant. Originally forked from Aider but now over 1000 commits ahead of the old project, Cecli has evolved to be much more.

Now with MCP, tools, skills, built-in TODO list, repo map, ask-code workflow OR agentic OR in-line coding. Includes the git integration, auto linting and testing that you need.

Open Source, built with Python, actively developed.

Cecli AI Coding Assistant

tomjuggler — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 13:56:14 +0000

Article URL: https://cecli.dev

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46959759

Points: 3

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New comment by tomjuggler in "Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?"

tomjuggler — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 14:00:12 +0000

Personally I use "agent mode" in Cecli for almost everything - I don't know about other AI coding agents but you can easily set up tests to run and validate the output.

Since MCP came out the quality of code has improved since there is always context7 and fetch to look up syntax.

But yes at some point you need to look at the code yourself just to be sure

New comment by tomjuggler in "Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone"

tomjuggler — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 21:12:31 +0000

https://github.com/dwash96/cecli

It's a fork of Aider but with agent mode, MCP, skills, task manager and more. Very active development team!

New comment by tomjuggler in "Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone"

tomjuggler — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 20:16:32 +0000

Pretty cool idea, I'm going to be trying this only using open source Cecli (with DeepSeek API) instead of Claude CLI because I don't have infinite $$$

New comment by tomjuggler in "Google is dead. Where do we go now?"

tomjuggler — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 11:40:27 +0000

For posterity, if anyone can ever find this comment amongst all the others:

We went with Instagram ads, where we have the most followers. The result: 4 paid bookings in 48 hours - all confirmed leads from the new Instagram ad campaign.

Blog post updated.

New comment by tomjuggler in "Google is dead. Where do we go now?"

tomjuggler — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 09:21:40 +0000

Oh right Battlestar Galactica! I watched that like 3 times already, best sci-fi ever

New comment by tomjuggler in "Google is dead. Where do we go now?"

tomjuggler — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 14:25:06 +0000

20 Years now. I'm from Cape Town, but the weather here is better. And no need for a wetsuit!

New comment by tomjuggler in "Google is dead. Where do we go now?"

tomjuggler — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 14:22:55 +0000

It's fine now, somehow got to #1 on Hacker News and 1000's of visitors did that. Learned something new about Cloudflare Cache Settings, it won't happen again