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zikohhon Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

Gitlab SaaS released features at a slow cadence as end user. Great big ball of mud prob from a dev pov. As an end user it worked but never saw new features released

zikohhon Staging patches with git add (2024)

I find splitting hunks a pain. I wish I could just split by line, would be a great feature.

zikohhon Go Analysis Framework: modular static analysis by go team

It's spam look at the users history. They just comment the same thing everywhere

zikohhon Free SQL→ER diagram tool, runs in the browser, nothing uploaded

Is there a way to generate these SVGs via CLi. I really like it, I also liked vscode's postgres extension which can do similar things although locked to vscode, but again no exportable cli option so you can store it in a repo.

zikohhon Accidentally deleted subscriptions for chat integrations (Slack and MS Teams)

https://isgithubcooked.com/

zikohhon UK Fuel Price Intelligence – Market analytics from reporting stations

Love the site. I do wonder why waze hasn't adopted the UK govt new API to give better fuel info as you drive.

I prefer Google maps but they never had petrol prices....

Any Waze Devs here? Tried to raise a feature request but it was such a pain

zikohhon Grafana Foundation SDK – build dashboard in programming language

Why not perses?

zikohhon How I Use Home Assistant in 2025

@ingve I'm interested in your plan for your new TRVs. Why would you check the temperature of the nest hub if the TRV is in a different room? Or do you also have "nest sensors" and those report to the nest hub?

Would love to see a blog post about HA and TRVs

zikohhon Ask HN: What's Your Experience with eSIMs?

Yeah, I learnt this the hard way.

zikohhon Ask HN: What's Your Experience with eSIMs?

Dent looks really cool thanks for sharing!

zikohhon Ask HN: What's Your Experience with eSIMs?

Two years later, I've experienced the same issue as someone else https://community.o2.co.uk/t5/Apple/Urgent-Help-Needed-iPhon...

zikohhon How to build quickly

Another term for this is delivering vertical slices. I like the way this explains that.

zikohhon Show HN: Xcapture-BPF – like Linux top, but with Xray vision

That's like most of Grafana's documentation

zikohhon Show HN: Jb / json.bash – Command-line tool (and bash library) that creates JSON

How is this different to this https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jc

zikohhon Show HN: Glasskube – Open Source Kubernetes Package Manager, alternative to Helm

Have you tried the rendered manifests pattern ? https://akuity.io/blog/the-rendered-manifests-pattern/

zikohhon I kind of like rebasing

I agree 100%. I also like using FF only. Reviewing commits is part of the code review process - their to title, description and code. If the commits are not atomic and clear I don't approve the merge request (MR); I believe the MR is a full snapshot of what will go to main.

It's so frustrating to see 7 commits for one MR and it's a 10 line change.

zikohhon Preview of Explore Logs, a new way to browse your logs without writing LogQL

Grafana cloud is better for querying logs. Grafana cloud is probably a bit better for querying metrics. Grafana cloud is terrible at finding traces or even loading them. Datadog is lightyears ahead. For alerting I feel datadog has better features but is overwhelming with all the different options.

grafana is very quirky for searching for traces. And has a huge learning curve.

zikohhon Amazon ditches 'just walk out' checkouts at its grocery stores

How just walk out works https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/retail/how-does-amazon-just...

zikohhon Difftastic, a structural diff tool that understands syntax

Delta is a drop in replacement with git diffs. Why is this not possible with difftastic? I.e it suggests to create aliases etc https://github.com/dandavison/delta

zikohhon Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)

I've had my eye on Bruno for a while but this issue with path parameters is somewhat annoying. https://github.com/usebruno/bruno/pull/484

zikohhon I hacked a train toilet

The fact that not all trains say please lock the door and the bad UX mean I've seen plenty of people open the door and when they shouldn't have.

zikohhon What's that touchscreen in my room?

Do a follow up plan with the grafana bit. I'm intrigued

zikohhon Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various operations on PDFs

I like using https://www.pdftool.org/en

zikohhon Gooey: Turn almost any Python command line program into a full GUI application

Does this work with any OS?

zikohhon NilAway: Practical Nil Panic Detection for Go

Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38300425

zikohhon NilAway: Practical Nil Panic Detection for Go

Already posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38300425

zikohhon WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight