Reminds me of AceJump for JetBrains IDEs:

https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/7086-acejump

This has been my experience as well.

- Claude writes User Stories, supervised by the PO.

- Claude is in charge of the implementation, supervised by the devs.

- Claude does the PR review.

- If a comment is made by a human, someone c/p what Claude thinks with a simple "not sure if AI is right".

We're just passing butter at this point.

My experience as well. It's happened a few times now that I'll ask a coworker a question about some system they built, and they tell me to just ask the AI.

I did ask the AI. I gave it several rounds. I got a summary of their diff from it. I skimmed their diff myself. I have a rough mental model of the work they did, plus what the AI did/didn't tell me. I'm asking THEM so THEY can confirm my mental model is correct to the code they supposedly authored.

I suspect the real problem is they vibed the whole thing and didn't even self-review it. So they don't know, can't answer, and the interaction is truly pointless. They are not the expert any longer. It's not worth asking them.

Currently having a big issue in some of our data pipelines because a lazy engineer vibe coded a bunch of slop that doesn't make much sense and the AI can't help. Looking like we're going to need to scrap all the code and start from scratch.

You know the funny thing is that, the lazy engineer can very likely ask you to just scrap all his code and vibe code again.

I usually switch between DuckDuckGo and Startpage. Both are good.

Been using DDG for about 8 years instead of Google search. Occasionally use google image search for matching an uploaded image. Use google maps for any local searches (credit to where credit is due its a superior map product).

Yandex seems to be better at image reverse search. Maps is the only one I still use Google for.

Yandex and TinEye satisfy all my reverse image search needs. Google Maps is the only Google service I use. There is simply no substitute for Street View and it is fantastically useful and interesting. Even so it is only a secondary option and I use maps from OpenStreetMap through Organic Maps 90% of the time. I am satisfied if that is the extent of my relationship with them.

DDG is a mediocre search engine. A mediocre search engine is still much better than whatever Google's become.

Honestly, the answer is so often a little toy search like Marginalia or going straight to the website in question now, its frightening.

Are we both blocking Google ads and scrolling past the AI summary?

Their business practices are just the worst. But are the first 10 blue links they show you usually bad? (Like you know that one of those 10 should be the exact thing you want, so you decide to rely on another search engine instead, & the alternative search succeeds where Google failed)

Yes, I am. And these days Google has become about as bad as DDG. And not because DDG has become better.

Have read this comment before multiple times, even a year or two ago. Hence my “unreasonable” demand for screenshots if someone has the minutes to script it. - Hmm, really should be a live site to track over time... Can make that and Show [Three People On] HN!

(Google could give better results to those unloyal to them, as one example, so testing needed! We could be getting wildly different results or just have starkly different usage tendencies, there’s just no way I could disagree with so many of y’all on something this basic assuming no DDG astroturfing or anything unless we’re looking at things differently one way or another)

Waiting for your screenshots. Do the legwork yourself first.

And obviously there is no astroturfing here from DDG. That you could have seen from a tiny look at my profile. I have a pretty public persona on the internet.

Thanks, and important to say beyond not accusing them I was _definitely_ not accusing you!

DDG is unusable compared to Google for searches not in English.

I've been generally satisfied with ddg for a few years now. Started using it when Google was had obviously turned to shit, didn't look further.

DDG works well enough for me. I wonder if people who pay for Kagi perceive it as being better to justify the money spent.

In my experience, DDG brings up relevant results, maybe a bit more so than Google does.

But often I'm searching for a phrase inside quotation marks and DDG hasn't crawled enough sites and gives me 0 or 1 result while Google gives me 5-10 results. Sometimes Google completely disregards the quotation marks, though.

> But often I'm searching for a phrase inside quotation marks and DDG hasn't crawled enough sites

Microsoft Bing bungles quotation marks so hard (???).

DDG catches the fallout.

> Sometimes Google completely disregards the quotation marks, though

Years ago I remember Google asking the person lodging a similar complaint for an example of a query because they found there was always an explanation. Noticed this no longer holds as of perhaps a few months ago if I’m not mistaken. Even this* fails:

+”omg just tell me no results if this exact string isn’t present come on I even put the plus sign”

Infantilizing for us, maybe optimizing for the 99.5% in reality (understandable, annoying)

*edit, made up example based on what I believe I’ve seen this year

edit:

> DDG brings up relevant results

Have you noticed, not if you misspell a proper noun? Spellchecking e.g. brand names, new/fad current event topics is apparently really hard (IIRC Bing not perfect here either?)

> Microsoft Bing bungles quotation marks so hard (???).

DDG was never good at quotation marks so I forgot to mention it also sucks at these.

> Have you noticed, not if you misspell a proper noun?

I haven't but I'd really prefer 2 options:

1) I may mispel thinks quote freqwently but gimme any sorta relevent result

2) I know what I am searching for. Maybe add a "Did you mean X?" link but still show me the results containing the misspellings. If I search for "motorolla" or "mottorolla" (misspellings for "Motorola") in quotes, DDG gives me 1 incomplete page for that misspelling. Google (StartPage) gives me mostly misspellings but with "Motorola" included in some results. Without the quotes both engines treat me as a moron who can't type. If I search for

"mottorolla" phone 2026

DDG still shows me "mottorolla", not "motorola" while Google has decided I am indeed someone who can barely type even though I've put in quotes.

Whattttttt this is a few bucks of request from some open source model, just been lazy

Edit: have to do the work, get the screenshots, & analyze my own patterns. How often do I just need the first link from any search engine (like searching $majorBrand to look for their homepage), how often do I search something esoteric where DDG falters, how often do I search something essentially unique but simply not indexed by Bing (DDG) even though it was submitted to Google just fine, etc.

None of that says anything about ddg being bad. What does esoteric even mean in this context? I stand by it being a great private search engine.

Startpage is a disenshittifier for Google. I switched to it some years ago because of exactly that feature, but I also wonder how much longer Google will allow it to operate as such.

I really need to find the time to properly test Zed. I'm mainly using PHP Storm and I love what it can do, especially when it comes to code discovery and auto-completion. I'm not a huge fan of having a bloated toolbox, I never use PHP Storm's included terminal or database browser.

Zed was super impressive when I first started it, but I don't know yet how it compares with PHP Storm.

PHP Storm is a proper IDE, Zed is a souped-up editor.

It wont be the same experience at all, the debugging and deployment stuff will be strictly inferior and the jump to code might be less impressive.

Zed has LSP support though, so if you have a good LSP then you’ll get some nice IDE features, but they’re not really comparable.

I bought a used laptop with the help of ChatGPT last month and was amazed. It helped me narrow the model that suited my needs based on my prompts. I needed to renew my old Thinkpad T480. It also helped me find an ad and negociate with the seller.

I ended up with a T14 Gen 4 and I'm super happy with it.

Like many I've been looking for the best note-taking app for years. And somehow I always come back to a bunch of markdown files inside a Git repo.

> And somehow I always come back to a bunch of markdown files inside a Git repo.

Others have mentioned this but if you want to keep this workflow, the best app I've found is Obsidian + Git Plugin. It works fantastically well on desktop though it does require a little work to get it working on iOS.

Are there options to see the current state of the repo? What I mean is, for example, I like that in VS Code I instantly know the current state because the git sidebar icon shows a notification of uncommitted changes. If I don't have a visual reminder, I'm more likely to not make commits when I should, and I also don't want an auto-committer firing after each change. I find the visual reminder keeps me anchored to my git status.

Heck, maybe I should just use code for notes. One plus would be web access with code server, since Obsidians only docker image that I know of uses VNC.

Anyone compared these two tools and have a decent write up? The biggest item which comes to mind would be referencing other notes and the features built on top of that?

> Are there options to see the current state of the repo?

Yes...always visible in the status bar. Fyi: https://github.com/Vinzent03/obsidian-git

> Others have mentioned this but if you want to keep this workflow...

If I want to keep this workflow why shouldn't I just continue using this same workflow?

How do you use Obsidian + Git on iOS?

There are a couple methods - I use Working Copy to manage the git stuff on iOS. Far from perfect, but it works.

a-shell is another way you can do this. Takes a bit of finagling to set up and wire in plugins and the like but is relatively stable afterward.

An example solution, well explained: https://meganesulli.com/blog/sync-obsidian-vault-iphone-ipad...

Compared to something with automatic bidirectional sync between all devices, something where one has to manually commit/push/pull a new/edited note feels archaic.

OTOH you get version history, with commit messages if you care to write them. And the full power of git to explore the history. You can edit the same file on two (offline) devices, then resolve the inevitable merge conflict.

"Automatic bidirectional sync between all devices" scares me. How does it deal with merge conflicts? How am I sure I'll be able to revert to a previous version? Can I see the full history of a file? I don't know, perhaps it'd be ok. I certainly wouldn't learn git just for note taking! But, I know how to use my hammer, so everything look like a nail...

But you can still have the full power of git with Obsidian still, since they're just MD files at the end of the day.

You can automate commits and push on save. I had a similar setup for vimwiki before migrating to a web-based wiki system (dokuwiki).

I thought it would be a problem as well but it turns out I absolutely never edit my notes on two machines at once. The commit/push/pull is done via a simple bash script that I'm running as a build command inside VS Code.

I like it as I consciously enjoy sort of checking in.

I also store in a onedrive folder for automatic sync and backup in case I have a crash before I do a git commit.

Is that really useful? How often do you need to revert a commit?

Might be worth trying this free and open source note-taking app (disclaimer: client of mine).

https://github.com/cybersemics/em/

"em is a beautiful, minimalistic note-taking app for personal sensemaking."

No webpage. No screenshots. Not even Releases?

I'm not trying this app.

The readme is more about the technical details of the code than the actual features of the app. Where do I go to see what this thing can actually do?

Do people expect me to run the program just to see if I want to run the program?

There are some demos in the Docs [1] linked from the README, but I believe that's still very useful feedback. I will pass it along. Thank you!

[1] https://github.com/cybersemics/em/wiki/Docs

I did take a look at that, which is probably more than most people would have done, and by take a look I mean a skimmed for images because I'm not reading 2000 words of text for an app I don't even use yet. The only images I found showed how drag and drop works.

I know this is common with projects that think Github is a replacement for a website, but I genuinely wonder how does it get so bad that a 5 year project with 9000 commits and 60 contributors doesn't have a single screenshot. Nothing personal or particular about this project specifically, just... the whole open source culture of dropping something on Github and not even doing the bare minimum to have other people get to know the project.

It feels like such a waste. It could be an amazing project but who is going to bother with it if they can't see what it looks like?

For me, it's the same way, except that instead of Markdown, I use plain org-mode files sprinkled with a bit of org-roam tags when needed.

I oscillate between Apple Notes and a bunch of markdown files, which is a pretty painful thing to do.

I like how future proof a folder of markdown files is. But I like the design, simplicity, and deep features for capture and media support offered in Apple Notes.

The more a markdown app supports extra stuff, the more proprietary it starts to feel, as any app to read it will also need to support those things.

A while back I told myself I was going to stick to Apple Notes, as going back and forth to other things is painful, and doing it proactively means more pain, rather than maybe having some pain in 10 years of the app goes away. However, where I am again, in the middle of a largely manual migration back to Obsidian for my folder of markdown files. I used an export, but the formatting is so bad that I need to clean up every single note.

The inability to export, as well as the lack of anything more than the bare basic formatting options (at least at the time a few years ago) pushed me off apple notes.

I’ve been able to export since early, early iPhone. They’re just txt files. Surprisingly, Apple notes have been the most durable as Apple has migrated them from every iPhone I’ve had for the past 15-20 years or whatever.

Basic formatting is a plus for me. Although now notes has really advanced formatting and even sketching.

Have you found a solution to mass export notes?

I built a tool for this a while back: https://github.com/dogsheep/apple-notes-to-sqlite

I just tried it and it still works:

  uvx apple-notes-to-sqlite /tmp/notes.db
  # in another terminal while that's running
  uvx datasette /tmp/notes.db

I ended up using Exporter from the App Store. I didn't work great. I have an export, but there are a lot of issues with it. I'm finding it is often easier to copy the note and use the Rich Text to Markdown action in Shortcuts, then paste into Obsidian. If I spent more time with Shortcuts there is probably a way to automate this way a bit more.

I think https://github.com/threeplanetssoftware/apple_cloud_notes_pa... might do the trick. This is "user friendly" as long as you are a programmer or work in digital forensics. :D

There are plenty of tools for exporting, and I’ve tried to leave Notes several times and had no issue getting the notes out.

But trouble free sync between machines, the ability to ‘scan’ documents, adding basic maths support, the ease… it always sucks me back in.

I wish it kept the date of creation and edits readily available, and supported markdown. But it’s damn close to what I want.

Why can’t Apple Mail do search as well as notes?

Strong rec to keep using markdown files in a git repo -- and start using Obsidian to edit and manage them.

I switch between VS Code and MarkText. It does the job perfectly.

org-roam inside git

...accessed through Obsidian (esp on mobile) -- On Android, you can "Open folder as vault"

Or neovim with FzfLua (on laptop)

I have an idea. Coming soon!!

Obsidian + Git plugin? :)

I personally use a hard drive in my house, and a cold storage solution (Glacier) from a reputable provider.

Yeah disc rot is a real problem. CD/DVD-R are great when it comes to physically store drives (they don't take much space on a shelf and are easely sent via mail) but I'd rather use a hard drive and the cloud for my backups now.

The problem goes away if you burn slow, no faster than half the disc's max speed, to adequately affect the dye. I have CD-Rs and DVD-Rs that are 20 years old and work great. Inherent rot is mainly a problem with pressed discs which use aluminum instead of silver or gold for the reflective layer.

I burn my CD-Rs at a very low speed, like someone else mentioned below, so the laser does a better burn. I don't use CD-Rs as primary backup. I have 10 external hard drives, 20 thumb drives, and do a CD-R only once every couple of weeks. I just feel better having multiple different hardware devices used.

As others said, the only thing you should be looking for is a drive that works with Accuraterip. Ripping discs from my local library is a hobby of mine and I've discovered so much music from there. I still buy CDs from thrift shops and the occasional garage sale, but having my music collection neatly organized and ripped/verified in FLAC is something I enjoy a lot.

I'm in a never-ending cycle of wanting to find a better monospace font, spending countless hours looking through various alternatives and coming back to the one I'm currently using.

After using Ubuntu Mono for many many years I've switched to IBM Plex Mono and basically can't find a better font for me. At this point it's like my eyes are so used to this font I could never use anything else, despite the fact that my brain wants to try something new. So it's my default choice for any monospace font that I can set up.

Completely agree that it's hard to beat IBM Plex Mono. And although it doesn't matter much in many contexts in which I use a monospaced font, it has really nice italics, which most monospaced fonts don't.

Fira Mono is also extremely well done, as you'd expect for a typeface from Erik Spiekermann.