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825 karma · joined February 13, 2008

http://pere.quintanasegui.com

my public key: https://keybase.io/pqs; my proof: https://keybase.io/pqs/sigs/EKQ2TcI4uRKYGR_sSH7VBigdJsURy2H5ilq652oLE84

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pqs··on Vite+ an excellent toolchain for AI agent development
I find this style of writing off putting. And it is invading internet. Maybe I'm getting old (45), but I miss the prose of a few years ago.
pqs··on The people holding up the internet
On desktop it is very difficult to read.
pqs··on I Could've Rickrolled the FIFA World Cup. All I Needed Was My ID
These comments don't help much. AI is here, not everybody can write well, AI is gonna be used.
pqs··on Google's Antigravity bait and switch
Google hasn't handled this well, it is obvious.

But I have to say that I never understood the Antigravity IDE. I much prefer using Gemini CLI in combination with vscode. It works like a charm. Now, I'll do the same with Antigravity CLI and vscode. It works fine.

pqs··on TurboQuant: Redefining AI efficiency with extreme compression
There is also the possibility that the article when through the hands of the company's communication department which has writers that probably write at LLM level.
pqs··on Tin Can, a 'landline' for kids
Mine, in Spain, is surprisingly free of spam. I receive spam on my mobile phone, which is often blocked by Android, but I don't receive spam on my landline. Strange, isn't it?
pqs··on Tin Can, a 'landline' for kids
Well, I'm sure my landline is not a landline anymore, I'm sure it is some sort of VoIP system, but it doesn't matter, it is a phone with a number, that doesn't leave the living room.
pqs··on Tin Can, a 'landline' for kids
Why not using the actual land line? I still have one. My 13 year old son, who has no phone, uses it and it works. I'm just curious.
pqs··on Launch HN: Spine Swarm (YC S23) – AI agents that collaborate on a visual canvas
I had to read this text in order to understand what this tool does, because I could not know from the website (without watching a video). You should use Spine to improve your website. ;-)
pqs··on Two Years of Emacs Solo
Indeed. I always used Emacs, but not, thanks to AI agents, Emacs is better than ever, as it can write the lisp I can't write, and it can read the docs I don't have the time to read.
pqs··on The death of social media is the renaissance of RSS (2025)
I’ve left social networks behind and returned to RSS, and I couldn't be happier. I’m using Delta Chat as an interface with FeedsBot, so the whole setup feels just like Telegram channels, but without Pavel Durov reading everything. It’s been a great experience so far.
pqs··on AI's real superpower: consuming, not creating
This is the right approach. I exported my 25k Evernote notes to markdown (I'm using Emacs' Howm mode) and I use Codex CLI to ask questions about my notes. It is great and powerful!
pqs··on Verifying your Matrix devices is becoming mandatory
I've been using Delta Chat with a lot of success. It is easy, it works, bots are easy and the concept is improving. They even plan to have forward secrecy. So, give it a try. If you explored it a long time ago, try again, many things have improved in that ecosystem.
pqs··on Why Self-Host?
With Delta Chat nowadays you can easily host your own federated and secure chat service. It is great.
pqs··on Unix philosophy and filesystem access makes Claude Code amazing
I do the same with Emacs and howm-mode. My system has improved a lot since I started using Claude Code. Now I implemented all the features I missed from Evernote!
pqs··on Designing NotebookLM
I came here to say exactly the same thing. Now the I have Claude Code and Codex CLI I just creat a folder with all the documents I need and I work from there.
pqs··on Obsidian Bases
Now I'm using Emacs Howm for task management. It is based on text files and it is great. Org-mode is also great.
pqs··on Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context
I'm not a programmer, but I need to write python and bash programs to do my work. I also have a few websites and other personal projects. Claude Code helps me implement those little projects I've been wanting to do for a very long time, but I couldn't due to the lack of coding experience and time. Now I'm doing them. Also now I can improve my emacs environment, because I can create lisp functions with ease. For me, this is the perfect tool, because now I can do those little projects I couldn't do before, making my life easier.
pqs··on I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file
I see that nobody mentions Howm for Emacs. I find it more simple than Org-mode and its task sorting algorithm just works well for my brain. I really recommend it to those interested in a zettlekasten like note system with integrated tasks, all in text files.

https://kaorahi.github.io/howm/

pqs··on When we get Komooted
I agree. And Evernote has improved a lot since then.
pqs··on Visa and Mastercard: The global payment duopoly (2024)
In Spain we have Bizum. You can send money to any phone number. It's instand and, as I understand, it works on top of SEPA.
pqs··on How to live on $432 a month in America
I like this proposition, but the article didn't mention health services in the area. I'm European and I don't fully understand the US health sector but I want to know what would happen in case of severe illness, living this way.
pqs··on A cycling desk / Zwifting with a split keyboard
This is precisely what you shouldn't do. This is what the "system" wants you to do, to work while you exercise, to work while you're with your family, ... What you should do is work the hours you have to and not one more, then you get up, take your bike and enjoy nature.
pqs··on Building a Local Perplexity Alternative with Perplexica, Ollama, and SearXNG
I tried Perplexity a few times, but I cannot see the point. Are you using it? How is it better than other tools?
pqs··on Cure for male pattern baldness given boost by sugar discovery
Years to cope? I fully accepted it, as my father and my grand father. Fighting against nature seems pointless to me.
pqs··on Meetup just raised its prices over 100 percent – and their reason is appalling
You can still export your Evernote data as an enex file, even if you don't pay. Your comment is inaccurate.
pqs··on Popular Mac app 'Bartender' acquired by new unknown developer
It does now.
pqs··on Ask HN: How to transcribe 1000s of handwritten notes
But the fact is that they are improving it!
pqs··on Former University of Iowa hospital employee used fake identity for 35 years
I think that in Spain, or any other country with a national ID card, this would be mucho more difficult. Police has fingerprints of everyone. In case someone says someone else is using his identity, the police just need to check the fingerprint with the national ID database.
pqs··on Show HN: macOS Reminder Sync for Obsidian Tasks
Well, I suggest you check the Evernote product lead's X account.

https://x.com/fedesimio

You'll see that they are working on many improvements, some of them are already in the app.

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