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cjlmon Show HN: Hacker Atlas - A map of what Hacker News talks about

hey hey, get in touch if you want a better embedded graph

https://garphield.com as seen on https://gdb-engines.com/graph/query-languages/

cjlmon I don't want to read what you didn't write

I wonder where this discourse is headed, we[0] keep making the same observations over and over again.

[0] myself included https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESbQHrOzAViiJizn8otPF3AAeE...

cjlmon Show HN: LatticeDB – Like SQLite but for graph databases

Nice, I’ll get it added to gdb-engines.com

cjlmon Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)

https://aportee.ca - interactive walkability maps for Canada where you can pick and mix the amenities that are important to you.

cjlmon Pre-2022 Books

Yeah, I’m attempting to “solve” this with WriteTrack.dev as I think it’s the only reasonable approach we have going forwards.

cjlmon Show HN: HelixDB – A graph database built on object storage

The feature scores are from a paper cited on the site. The ranking features are proprietary to dissuade gaming but are a blend of open public data across a number of different sources.

cjlmon Show HN: HelixDB – A graph database built on object storage

Currently #5 on gdb-engines.com - definitely worth a look.

cjlmon Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

nowplaying.cjlm.ca - CFUV radio station song identification, basically shazaming every few minutes from a fly.io instance

cjlmon Slop Cop

I find it funny that all of these little tools lean into the slop = poop dynamic.

I'm building writetrack.dev - a writing signal sdk that helps folks understand proof of process. It takes a different approach to writing analysis and I'm pretty sure the logo will never feature a brown turd.

cjlmon Zooming UIs in 2026: Prezi, impress.js, and why I built something different

I think about this space a lot, see Eagle Mode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6yPQKt3mBA

cjlmon Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide

I prefer this mapping from Nikita @ CosmoGraph: https://run.cosmograph.app/public/dfb673fc-bdb9-4713-a6d6-20...

cjlmon Grafeo – A fast, lean, embeddable graph database built in Rust

Yes, I have the "embedded" kind in there but a dedicated column would be nice. Thanks!

cjlmon Grafeo – A fast, lean, embeddable graph database built in Rust

I was inspired by https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24758 and collated their assessment into a table and then just kept adding databases :)

Claude helped a lot but it's all reviewed and curated by me.

cjlmon Grafeo – A fast, lean, embeddable graph database built in Rust

Serious answer: limiting to just Open Source: JanusGraph, DGraph, Apache AGE, HugeGraph, MemGraph and ArcadeDB all meet that criteria.

cjlmon Grafeo – A fast, lean, embeddable graph database built in Rust

Overwhelmed by the sheer number of graph databases? I released a new site this week that lists and categorises them. https://gdb-engines.com

cjlmon AI coding is gambling

Totally agree, wrote something similar last year: https://cjlm.ca/posts/it-feels-like-gambling/

cjlmon Willingness to look stupid

cjlmon Mermaid ASCII: Render Mermaid diagrams in your terminal

See also graph-easy.online (https://github.com/cjlm/graph-easy-online)

cjlmon Tell HN: 2 years building a kids audio app as a solo dev – lessons learned

On the topic of Yoto I made an app[0] that helps you load audio from Youtube into playlists

[0]https://github.com/cjlm/yoto-playlist-creator

cjlmon Wikipedia: WikiProject AI Cleanup

Turned this into a ruleset[0] for vale.sh[1]

[0]: https://ammil.industries/signs-of-ai-writing-a-vale-ruleset/ [1]: https://vale.sh/

cjlmon ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering

Very impressive blogpost. No wonder it took 6 months. Makes me think I need to step up the game with my photo ASCII art compositor, printscii.com

cjlmon Ask HN: Share your personal website

cjlm.ca

cjlmon ASCII-Driven Development

Spending a lot of time building tools inspired by and using ASCII nowadays...

graph-easy.online printscii.com

cjlmon The port I couldn't ship

Looking forward to seeing how you get on ;-)

cjlmon I ported JustHTML from Python to JavaScript with Codex CLI and GPT-5.2 in hours

Not all AI-assisted ports are quite so successful[0]

[0] https://ammil.industries/the-port-i-couldnt-ship/

cjlmon Show HN: An MCP server that gives LLMs temporal awareness and time calculation

The sycophancy from Claude is incredibly jarring. I agree with Ethan Mollick that this could turn out to have more of a disastrous impact than AI hallucination.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/emollick_i-am-starting-to-thi...

cjlmon macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)

aerospace is good!

cjlmon Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?

cjlm.ca

cjlmon Show HN: Side-Project: FlowChartGPT – Turn Text into FlowCharts

see also https://flowchart.fun for a working version of this idea

cjlmon Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

https://leaving.live - a site that tells you when other people leave the site