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chrisvalleybay··on The systems that no one will test
My way of thinking about that has been that if it happens to me, it happens to «everyone». So it's symmetric.
chrisvalleybay··on Herdr Studio
Thanks for mentioning it. Glad to see it's by @mitchellh. Excited! Personally I'm a fan of the inline textbased window(tab)/session style in Tmux and not native tab bars etc. but we'll see.
chrisvalleybay··on Ask HN: I've quit six systems for tracking my illness. What works?
The most important thing is to make this as simple as possible to track.

The more data you have to collect, the more tiresome it becomes. The more tiresome it becomes, the harder it is to build a habit.

Start with one. Then go to two. Then go to three. If you notice you start dropping off again go back to two.

chrisvalleybay··on The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party
If you know that he will spend his money in support of that party, and you still buy services from him, you are helping him promote whatever views he holds. As simple as that. There is no cop out.
chrisvalleybay··on Native Instant Space Switching on macOS
+1 for FlashSpace. I used to be an i3 user and MacOS workspace management drove me mad. For years we had TotalSpaces, but that is no longer being maintained. With FlashSpace I finally have a great setup.

My solution has been binding a key Hyper+[a-z] for my applications. When used in conjuction with FlashSpace I get a usable setup. I also heavily rely on native MacOS binding Cmd+` (backtick) to cycle the currently focused application, and mission control for the current workspace.

Let me know if this is interesting; I've been considering creating a YouTube-video about this setup.

chrisvalleybay··on Grief and the AI split
I think in part because we have a black hole in our chest, and we are searching for ways to fill it. We attempt to fill it through worship at the altar of materialism, celebrity, etc. We are doing this to quiet the roar from the black hole. Actually stepping away would require us to sit with stillness, and then to forge a new path, a new life. It's frightening.
chrisvalleybay··on Grief and the AI split
I think there's a piece missing here. Capital owners are humans too, and what humans want (perhaps especially the ones who accumulate capital), is to be at the top of a hierarchy. But a hierarchy needs participants. If nobody else is playing the game, there's no top to be on top of. Strip away the people willing to compete, admire, envy, or just show up, and the whole structure collapses. It's not clear that a world of pure capital-on-AI-labor actually gives them what they're after. It sounds lonely and meaningless to me. I don't think that it would feed the black hole in their chests.
chrisvalleybay··on Show HN: cmux - Ghostty-based terminal with vertical tabs and notifications
I tried this, but found it annoying that it will add a slight delay. Totally makes sense if you've been running on caps lock -> escape for a long time. I've bound caps lock -> ctrl and left ctrl -> escape.
chrisvalleybay··on AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it
I think this could help in the future. This becomes documentation that other AI agents can take into account.
chrisvalleybay··on Communities are not fungible
Campfire by 37Signals [0] might be interesting to you. This can also serve as a foundation to add your own features on top of.

[0] https://once.com/campfire

chrisvalleybay··on The $100B megadeal between OpenAI and Nvidia is on ice
Just fantastic. Hadn't seen it. Thanks for sharing that!
chrisvalleybay··on The $100B megadeal between OpenAI and Nvidia is on ice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDNyFN_eMec
chrisvalleybay··on Code is cheap. Show me the talk
The best definition of art I've read is the one from "What is Art?" by Tolstoy. I haven't read it myself, but came across it in a Van Neistat video recently.

Tolstoy argued that art is essentially the transmission of feeling from the artist to the audience. He claimed that when an artist experiences an emotion and then, through their work, evokes that same emotion in others, that is art.

chrisvalleybay··on Show HN: An iOS budget app I've been maintaining since 2011
Thank you! I agree, it's so motivating to read stories like this. Thank you for sharing :)
chrisvalleybay··on Show HN: Agent-of-empires: OpenCode and Claude Code session manager
Cheers! This happened in ghostty. Also posted a comment on GH.
chrisvalleybay··on Show HN: An iOS budget app I've been maintaining since 2011
Thank you! Yes, it definitely could. I haven't thought about holiday apartments.. Thank you for the good idea!
chrisvalleybay··on Show HN: Agent-of-empires: OpenCode and Claude Code session manager
WARNING! I tried this and it corrupted my entire tmux session, leaving me to have to recreate the entire thing....

Steps to reproduce the bug that broke my tmux:

1. `aoe add .`

2. `aoe`

3. Attach to the session that was added

4. Close that pane with `<Prefix> x` then `y`

5. Tmux closes down

6. Attempt to reattach to any session within tmux: `open terminal failed: not a terminal`

7. `tmux kill-server` is the only viable option, losing all my sessions

chrisvalleybay··on Show HN: An iOS budget app I've been maintaining since 2011
I love this. I also built a business like that[0]. It's super niche. I have maintained this small business for soon to be 13 years now. Most of what has worked has been maintaining great relationships with the few customers I have. I think the most important thing for me have been offering amazing support. I always reply to all e-mails right away and make it my top priority giving them my best help.

Congratulations on your success, and best of luck going forward!

[0] https://www.mino.no.

chrisvalleybay··on Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions
Very interesting! What do you mean by personal tools? Do you have any examples of something you've built with this?
chrisvalleybay··on Tell HN: Happy New Year
Happy New Year from Oslo!
chrisvalleybay··on Show HN: Automatically set real iOS alarms for calendar events
Fantastic! I use alarms to run my entire life. I've been wanting to build something with the alarms for so long. So happy to learn that AlarmKit now exists. Thanks!
chrisvalleybay··on From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent
If we look at how involved DHH has been with Rails since its inception, I trust Omarchy will follow the same path. This is his daily driver, and I don't think that will change after what happened with 37Signals vs. Apple.
chrisvalleybay··on Cursor CLI
Thanks for mentioning this. These are the kinds of features that are 100% required for me to even consider Codex.
chrisvalleybay··on How I use Claude Code to implement new features in an existing complex codebase
One perspective could be that this is a moment to leverage. Subsidized LLMs won't be around forever, so this is a great time to build something that you wouldn't have had the time to build otherwise.
chrisvalleybay··on How I use Claude Code to implement new features in an existing complex codebase
I mostly do the same. My workflow is usually like this: 1. Supply CC with a simple user story with light spec / business logic, asking it to write a specification for the feature and ask me any questions that need to be answered to make it complete. 2. Build up the context with all relevant files that I want to use. In Ruby on Rails it means refercing models, views and controllers that show the structure we are going to use. 3. Write the code and tests.
chrisvalleybay··on The future is not self-hosted, but self-sovereign
It was also unthinkable that everyone would have their own desktop computer at some point. If we were able to make self-hosting be as simple as having a desktop, it might be possible.
chrisvalleybay··on Kiro: A new agentic IDE
Not sure why you are being downvoted. I appreciate this!
chrisvalleybay··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
Building this as a Word add-in is very clever. Good work!
chrisvalleybay··on Show HN: Ephe – A minimalist open-source Markdown paper for today
Like that you're using CodeMirror! With CodeMirror you can very easily add VIm-support as well [0], which many might enjoy.

[0] https://github.com/replit/codemirror-vim

chrisvalleybay··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
I'm building a cross-over between Linear and Obsidian. Think Linear for personal use but with full VIM-support in the editor. Every action in the application can be bound to a key.

I still don't have a landing page, but if you are curious you can test it out here: https://lindon.app

If you do test it out you can see all keyboard shortcuts with 'Shift+?' and you'll have to enable VIM-support in the settings (Cmd + K to open).

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