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codazoda
4,738karma·1,614submissions·March 24, 2014
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Software engineer, entrepreneur, serial hobbyist, and writer.
Over 500 technical articles on joeldare.com generating over 10k monthly views. Creator of Neat CSS, the minimalist CSS framework with over 700 stars on GitHub. Author of Write & Publish Your Book, rated 5-stars on Amazon.
Joel Dare
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Balance Buckets helps you quickly answer the question: “How much is safe to spend right now?” You setup a few buckets then drop in your current balance. It immediately shows you what’s left. It’s loca…
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I evaluated a lot of the comments here and wrote some of my own take-aways to improve my future posts. https://joeldare.com/how-i-plan-to-write-better-show-hn-post... …
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Love it. I try to follow an absolutely minimal process. Even more minimal than this. I even built my own “second brain” tool to make my own writing absolutely frictionless. A dump of all files in one …
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I tipped the waitress, who was perfectly attentive the whole time.
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I recently had an entire meal at Chili’s comped by the manager, because I waited an hour for food. I guess their system flagged it, or they just noticed, because I didn’t complain. I was hanging with …
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I also cut my own hair, but sometimes I’m lazy and just hit up the Barber shop. She charges me $15! I tip +$25 and it’s still a cheap haircut. My haircut has to be one of the simplest around, but 9 ou…
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Ive been working on Peen, a CLI that lets local Ollama models call tools effectively. It’s quite amateur, but I’ve been surprised how spending a few hours on prompting, and code to handle responses, c…
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Peen, an experimental “Claude Code”-style CLI that talks to Ollama over HTTP and can run shell commands so tiny/local/free models can inspect and modify projects. https://github.c…
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So, say you want this. How do you do it with Claude Code?
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That is my experience from a year ago but I no longer feel that way. I write a few instructions, guide an agent to create a plan, and rarely touch the code myself. If I don’t like something, I ask the…
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“Most of us are doing sand art. The tide comes in and it’s gone.” I’m putting that on my wall.
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“We’ll miss creating something we feel proud of” I still feel proud when skillfully guiding a set of AI agents to build from my imagination. Especially when it was out of my reach just 6-months ago. I…
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I'll be here answering questions for a couple hours.
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You mean Qwen3-Coder-Next? I haven't tried that model itself, yet, because I assume it's too big for me. I have a modest 16GB MacBook Air so I'm restricted to really small stuff. I'…
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That might work, but I keep seeing people talk about this, so there must be a simple solution that I'm over-looking. My solution is to write my own minimal and experimental CLI that talks JSON to…
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I can't get Codex CLI or Claude Code to use small local models and to use tools. This is because those tools use XML and the small local models have JSON tool use baked into them. No amount of pr…
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I feel like "prompting language" doesn't translate over perfectly either. It's like we become experts at operating a particular AI agent. I've been experimenting with small lo…
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It's crazy that we're having such different experiences. I purchased the Google AI plan as an alternative to my ChatGPT (Codex) daily driver. I use Gemini a fair amount at work, so I thought…
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I've used Gemini CLI a fair amount as well—it's included with our subscription at work. I like it okay, but it tends to produce "lies" a bit too often. It tends to produce language…
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Something to check is if you’re opted into the test for the 1M context window. A co-worker told me this happened to them. They were burning a lot more tokens in the beta. Seems like creating a new acc…
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PoiZoN BBS Sysop chiming in. I ran the BBS on a free phone line I found in my childhood bedroom. I alerted the phone company and a tech spent a day trying to untangle it, but gave up at the end of his…
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Since you were forced, are you getting good results from them? I’ve experimented, and I like them when I’m on an airplane or away from wifi, but they don’t work anywhere near as well as Claude code, C…
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I have ALWAYS had this problem. It's like my brain thinks places I frequent are unimportant details and ejects them to make room for other things. I have to visit a place several times and with r…
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I might be able to use this, especially in LLMs where I ask them to give me things in code fences all the time. If I ask for markdown in a code fence, it all falls apart. If, however, I asked for mark…
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https://joeldare.com Scroll to “bypass” my “paywall”. :)
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Phone’s have these settings already. I don’t know if people know how or bother to use them. https://support.apple.com/en-us/105121 …
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I wonder how well that works as a prompt.
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Awesome, thanks for joining.
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Shameless plug, I’m writing the book on how to publish YOUR book with Markdown. https://www.48hourpress.com/publish-with-markdown/ …