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bengt··on Claude Code now reads AGENTS.md if there is no Claude.md
I’d argue this is still the better way. We used to simlink too, but @AGENTS.md with any Claude specific additional steering below it is the best way.

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/memory#import-additional-fil...

bengt··on Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border
The location is the crux of the "lawful" part of the search.
bengt··on Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border
He had an e-reader and phone. My solution would be set the phone's duress pin to the e-reader's actual pin then consent to the e-reader search providing its pin and see what happens.

The actual solution is cloud backup + re-image after the border.

bengt··on Git worktrees are not an isolation boundary for coding agents
.worktreeinclude is probably part of the solution.

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/worktrees#copy-gitignored-fi...

bengt··on Killed by Apple
I'd consider the functionality Aperture held to have been killed. I used it for years after 2015 due to a lack of a functional replacement that wasn't a subscription.

It still find myself missing what seems to be basic capabilities while using Photos.

bengt··on Chrome DevTools MCP (2025)
I empathize with you in that once you publish a timeline people's expectations can be come unfair; so where is it‽ :)
bengt··on Let your Coding Agent debug the browser session with Chrome DevTools MCP
Sounds awesome. I've been using mitmproxy's --mode local to intercept with a separate skill to read flow files dumped from it, but interactive is even better.
bengt··on Hacking Moltbook
Random esoteric questions that should be in an LLMs corpus with a very tight timing on response. Could still use an "enslaved LLM" to answer them.
bengt··on Google's $1,800 foldable phone is first smartphone to explode in durability test
Stuff like this is the reason why airlines say if your full phone falls into your seat to call flight attendant and to not un-recline it.
bengt··on Ask HN: I just abandoned my PyCharm subscription, what should I use now?
Yeah, even to just know what's up it's probably important to try.

If switching between multiple editors you should look to include a .editorconfig file in your project to have 1 place to configure things.[1]

The following are the extensions I've found to use in VSCode / Cursor (these can be saved to / recommended to a project by being listed in the `.vscode/extensions.json` file).

* [2] Ruff

* [3] BasedPyright

* [4] Todo Tree

* [5] Rainbow CSV

* [6] Mermaid Chart (I’ve found Claude to be good at generating these)

* [7] Live Share

* [8] Even Better TOML

* [9] Error Lens

[1] https://editorconfig.org/ [2] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=charlier... [3] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=detachhe... [4] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Gruntfug... [5] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=mechatro... [6] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=MermaidC... [7] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=MS-vsliv... [8] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=tamasfe.... [9] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=username...

bengt··on Ask HN: I just abandoned my PyCharm subscription, what should I use now?
My hunch is VSCode or more likely Cursor. I’ve spent some time this summer trying to get IDE independent tooling running and have settled on Ruff + basedpyright. Also switched over to using UV. You may want to look into Astral’s TY or facebook’s rust based Pyrefly if keen to alpha / beta test.

I found getting VSCode properly set up and figuring out what extensions were needed a real pain in the ass and have never found something as good as Pycharm’s Git integration.