these stacks are fundamentally distilled from their parents daily habits, but that means it isn't personalized to me. plus, part of what makes the developer's experience so fun is the unique lessons hard earned through trial and error - tailored to the way i think and work. i want my agents to understand me, not poteto :(
to capture that sentiment, i made deveggs to continuously build a portable basket of preferences, skills, and scripts that i can bring to any agent harness and try out. some habits don't stick in the long run while others become a core part of my workflow.
this is a learned, portable eggsperience through trial and error against every interaction with agents, so you don't have to keep manually prompting habits that should've been learned months ago.
https://github.com/kunggaochicken/deveggs/"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Deveggs \u2013 a self evolving developer eggsperience"}},"_tags":["story","author_kunggaochicken","story_50001225","ask_hn"],"author":"kunggaochicken","children":[50004486],"created_at":"2026-10-08T02:13:31Z","created_at_i":1791425611,"num_comments":0,"objectID":"50001225","points":1,"story_id":50001225,"story_text":"i've tried many agent stacks like \ngarry's gstack, \npoteto's pstack, claude superpowers, etc. while i generally love the experience, i know that i'm not using the majority of their capabilities.
these stacks are fundamentally distilled from their parents daily habits, but that means it isn't personalized to me. plus, part of what makes the developer's experience so fun is the unique lessons hard earned through trial and error - tailored to the way i think and work. i want my agents to understand me, not poteto :(
to capture that sentiment, i made deveggs to continuously build a portable basket of preferences, skills, and scripts that i can bring to any agent harness and try out. some habits don't stick in the long run while others become a core part of my workflow.
this is a learned, portable eggsperience through trial and error against every interaction with agents, so you don't have to keep manually prompting habits that should've been learned months ago.
https://github.com/kunggaochicken/deveggs/","title":"Deveggs \u2013 a self evolving developer eggsperience","updated_at":"2026-10-08T11:23:09Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"bitpatron-co"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["pstack"],"value":"Hello, I am launching several products and I am trying to improve SEO. Is publishing press releases still effective? It looks like I am losing money doing that without getting any return.
I posted for many apps I created, and doesn't seem to have much effect yet, It might take some time.
Photo Vault\nhttps://www.marketwatch.com/press-release/online-alternative-to-google-photo-launches-2019-12-24
Moodify\nhttps://www.marketwatch.com/press-release/moods-and-more-new-web-app-helps-users-to-track-moods-and-more-2019-12-24
pDrive\nhttps://www.marketwatch.com/press-release/pdrive-offers-powerful-document-storage-alternative-to-google-drive-2019-12-25
pBookmark\nhttps://www.marketwatch.com/press-release/protect-your-online-security-in-2020-with-all-in-one-bookmark-manager-from-pbookmarks-2019-12-25
Bitcoin4Photos\nhttps://www.marketwatch.com/press-release/bitcoin4photos-fairly-compensates-artists-for-their-work-with-bitcoin-2019-12-26
Secure Calendar\nhttps://www.marketwatch.com/press-release/secure-calendar-launches-free-encrypted-calendar-app-2019-12-26
MyPodium\nhttps://www.marketwatch.com/press-release/new-audio-only-share-platform-allows-users-to-post-messages-for-boos-and-cheers-2019-12-26
pNotes\nhttps://www.marketwatch.com/press-release/pstack-launches-pnotes-a-free-open-source-and-end-to-end-encrypted-note-taking-app-2019-12-25
SatsHI\nhttps://www.marketwatch.com/press-release/zero-fee-bitcoin-based-streaming-platform-2019-12-26
BitPatron\nhttps://www.marketwatch.com/press-release/bitpatron-announces-launch-offers-censorship-free-alternative-to-patreon-2019-12-26
pForms\nhttps://www.marketwatch.com/press-release/keep-surveys-anonymous-with-pforms-2019-12-26"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Publishing press releases, effective or not?"}},"_tags":["story","author_bitpatron-co","story_21887968","ask_hn"],"author":"bitpatron-co","created_at":"2019-12-27T00:08:03Z","created_at_i":1577405283,"num_comments":0,"objectID":"21887968","points":1,"story_id":21887968,"story_text":"Hello, I am launching several products and I am trying to improve SEO. Is publishing press releases still effective? It looks like I am losing money doing that without getting any return.
I posted for many apps I created, and doesn't seem to have much effect yet, It might take some time.
Photo Vault\nhttps://www.marketwatch.com/press-release/online-alternative-to-google-photo-launches-2019-12-24
Moodify\nhttps://www.marketwatch.com/press-release/moods-and-more-new-web-app-helps-users-to-track-moods-and-more-2019-12-24
pDrive\nhttps://www.marketwatch.com/press-release/pdrive-offers-powerful-document-storage-alternative-to-google-drive-2019-12-25
pBookmark\nhttps://www.marketwatch.com/press-release/protect-your-online-security-in-2020-with-all-in-one-bookmark-manager-from-pbookmarks-2019-12-25
Bitcoin4Photos\nhttps://www.marketwatch.com/press-release/bitcoin4photos-fairly-compensates-artists-for-their-work-with-bitcoin-2019-12-26
Secure Calendar\nhttps://www.marketwatch.com/press-release/secure-calendar-launches-free-encrypted-calendar-app-2019-12-26
MyPodium\nhttps://www.marketwatch.com/press-release/new-audio-only-share-platform-allows-users-to-post-messages-for-boos-and-cheers-2019-12-26
pNotes\nhttps://www.marketwatch.com/press-release/pstack-launches-pnotes-a-free-open-source-and-end-to-end-encrypted-note-taking-app-2019-12-25
SatsHI\nhttps://www.marketwatch.com/press-release/zero-fee-bitcoin-based-streaming-platform-2019-12-26
BitPatron\nhttps://www.marketwatch.com/press-release/bitpatron-announces-launch-offers-censorship-free-alternative-to-patreon-2019-12-26
pForms\nhttps://www.marketwatch.com/press-release/keep-surveys-anonymous-with-pforms-2019-12-26","title":"Publishing press releases, effective or not?","updated_at":"2024-09-20T05:24:36Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"harshreality"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["pstack"],"value":"Unfortunately too typical. You're keeping all the performance issues with a LA<database>P stack (high resource-use variance going from low to high traffic), and merely adding layers in front. Unless you need an apachehttpd-specific feature, you should look into moving to a nginx + php-fpm setup."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Nginx has replaced Apache as the most used web server among the top 10,000 sites"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"http://w3techs.com/technologies/cross/web_server/ranking"}},"_tags":["comment","author_harshreality","story_7799261"],"author":"harshreality","children":[7799501],"comment_text":"Unfortunately too typical. You're keeping all the performance issues with a LA<database>P stack (high resource-use variance going from low to high traffic), and merely adding layers in front. Unless you need an apachehttpd-specific feature, you should look into moving to a nginx + php-fpm setup.","created_at":"2014-05-26T12:35:20Z","created_at_i":1401107720,"objectID":"7799467","parent_id":7799417,"story_id":7799261,"story_title":"Nginx has replaced Apache as the most used web server among the top 10,000 sites","story_url":"http://w3techs.com/technologies/cross/web_server/ranking","updated_at":"2024-09-19T20:50:31Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"lifebeyondfife"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["pstack"],"value":"I totally understand this (and jnardiello and pstack's points too). As a counterpoint, I also know of at least one female dev who would think nothing of discussing an app like the one above and joining in the laughs.
I suppose the problem is, do we need to vet everyone for sharing the same humour and standards of acceptability as us? If we're joining the same football team or going to a comedy club and some beers, I wouldn't particularly enjoy hanging out with someone as dull/safe as I am at work. But is it ok to say to a woman, "We'd love to welcome you onboard so long as you don't mind the dick jokes constantly flying around the office."? (Whether explicitly or implicitly, I don't think it is ok).
If we really want to solve the clique-problem in tech, we need to either change the boundaries of acceptable humour and behaviour. No-one wants to spend 8 hours a day in a "sterile humorless environment". I know I had the most fun coding in my early 20s in an office where 90% of us were just out of university and male.
There are going to be more tradeoffs towards inclusiveness as we go forward. Even it reduces the fun sometimes, I think it's the right thing to do."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"'Titstare' app at TechCrunch: women in tech deserve better"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/09/titstare-app-women-tech-sexism"}},"_tags":["comment","author_lifebeyondfife","story_6352595"],"author":"lifebeyondfife","comment_text":"I totally understand this (and jnardiello and pstack's points too). As a counterpoint, I also know of at least one female dev who would think nothing of discussing an app like the one above and joining in the laughs.
I suppose the problem is, do we need to vet everyone for sharing the same humour and standards of acceptability as us? If we're joining the same football team or going to a comedy club and some beers, I wouldn't particularly enjoy hanging out with someone as dull/safe as I am at work. But is it ok to say to a woman, "We'd love to welcome you onboard so long as you don't mind the dick jokes constantly flying around the office."? (Whether explicitly or implicitly, I don't think it is ok).
If we really want to solve the clique-problem in tech, we need to either change the boundaries of acceptable humour and behaviour. No-one wants to spend 8 hours a day in a "sterile humorless environment". I know I had the most fun coding in my early 20s in an office where 90% of us were just out of university and male.
There are going to be more tradeoffs towards inclusiveness as we go forward. Even it reduces the fun sometimes, I think it's the right thing to do.","created_at":"2013-09-09T12:03:38Z","created_at_i":1378728218,"objectID":"6352928","parent_id":6352831,"story_id":6352595,"story_title":"'Titstare' app at TechCrunch: women in tech deserve better","story_url":"http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/09/titstare-app-women-tech-sexism","updated_at":"2024-09-19T20:01:41Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"junto"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["pstack"],"value":"I love the StackExchange Data Explorer. Even better is that the code is open source: https://code.google.com/p/stack-exchange-data-explorer/
Some really nice nuggets of code gems in there for people that want to learn ASP.NET MVC."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"A Query to Compare Size and Growth Trends for StackOverflow Tags"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"http://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/90306"}},"_tags":["comment","author_junto","story_5826403"],"author":"junto","comment_text":"I love the StackExchange Data Explorer. Even better is that the code is open source: https://code.google.com/p/stack-exchange-data-explorer/
Some really nice nuggets of code gems in there for people that want to learn ASP.NET MVC.","created_at":"2013-06-05T16:07:53Z","created_at_i":1370448473,"objectID":"5826499","parent_id":5826403,"story_id":5826403,"story_title":"A Query to Compare Size and Growth Trends for StackOverflow Tags","story_url":"http://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/90306","updated_at":"2024-09-19T19:36:20Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"jbert"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["pstack"],"value":"Seconded. That apache process is chewing cpu, is it spinning in an inf loop internally to userspace? No, strace shows it repeatedly doing backend conn/op/disconnect - aha!
Another trick in this vein is/was to use 'pstack' to pull a C backtrace from a looping process. If you do that every second for 10 secs, you'll probably find where the process is looping. As a bonus, it also acts as a poor-man's-retroactive profiler (process X intermittently takes 30s to handle it's job instead of 2s - watch for one and when it happens, strobe the process with pstack to see what it's up to). Can be used in production, no need to deploy profiling build and run for ever to catch problem, etc.
(And a variant of this trick for interpreted languages is to hook an unused signal (SIGUSR2?) in your language to say \"dump me a perl/python/etc backtrace to the log file\". Assuming the loop is in your app code this will give you a language-level backtrace if you strobe the process with the signal)
NB1: pstack doesn't do anything which scripted gdb couldn't do, it's just more convenient
NB2: pstack is unavailable on 64-bit arches?
NB3: pstack needs some symbols to work with in the binary, which probably won't be the case with your system apache+mod_xxx"},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"What I Wish I Had Known About Developing C/C++ From Linux Before I Started"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"http://derwiki.tumblr.com/post/98651197/what-i-wish-i-had-known-about-developing-c-c-from"}},"_tags":["comment","author_jbert","story_573127"],"author":"jbert","comment_text":"Seconded. That apache process is chewing cpu, is it spinning in an inf loop internally to userspace? No, strace shows it repeatedly doing backend conn/op/disconnect - aha!
Another trick in this vein is/was to use 'pstack' to pull a C backtrace from a looping process. If you do that every second for 10 secs, you'll probably find where the process is looping. As a bonus, it also acts as a poor-man's-retroactive profiler (process X intermittently takes 30s to handle it's job instead of 2s - watch for one and when it happens, strobe the process with pstack to see what it's up to). Can be used in production, no need to deploy profiling build and run for ever to catch problem, etc.
(And a variant of this trick for interpreted languages is to hook an unused signal (SIGUSR2?) in your language to say \"dump me a perl/python/etc backtrace to the log file\". Assuming the loop is in your app code this will give you a language-level backtrace if you strobe the process with the signal)
NB1: pstack doesn't do anything which scripted gdb couldn't do, it's just more convenient
NB2: pstack is unavailable on 64-bit arches?
NB3: pstack needs some symbols to work with in the binary, which probably won't be the case with your system apache+mod_xxx","created_at":"2009-04-22T08:03:03Z","created_at_i":1240387383,"objectID":"573664","parent_id":573598,"story_id":573127,"story_title":"What I Wish I Had Known About Developing C/C++ From Linux Before I Started","story_url":"http://derwiki.tumblr.com/post/98651197/what-i-wish-i-had-known-about-developing-c-c-from","updated_at":"2024-09-19T16:35:11Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"gosukiwi"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["pstack"],"value":"I use this one and it's ok https://github.com/cursor/plugins/blob/main/pstack/skills/br..."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"English \u2194 Claudish Translator"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://programasweights.com/claudish"}},"_tags":["comment","author_gosukiwi","story_49402907"],"author":"gosukiwi","comment_text":"I use this one and it's ok https://github.com/cursor/plugins/blob/main/pstack/skills/br...","created_at":"2026-08-22T22:19:40Z","created_at_i":1787437180,"objectID":"49404413","parent_id":49404384,"story_id":49402907,"story_title":"English \u2194 Claudish Translator","story_url":"https://programasweights.com/claudish","updated_at":"2026-08-22T22:25:07Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"m3h"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["pstack"],"value":"You're looking for Poteto's /unslop which cleans up sloppy AI writing.
Someone made a Claude version of her skills:
https://github.com/michael-denyer/pstack-claude"},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://github.com/adnanakil/nobuzz/blob/main/README.md"}},"_tags":["comment","author_m3h","story_49388752"],"author":"m3h","children":[49395110],"comment_text":"You're looking for Poteto's /unslop which cleans up sloppy AI writing.
Someone made a Claude version of her skills:
https://github.com/michael-denyer/pstack-claude","created_at":"2026-08-21T18:47:14Z","created_at_i":1787338034,"objectID":"49392316","parent_id":49388752,"story_id":49388752,"story_title":"Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article","story_url":"https://github.com/adnanakil/nobuzz/blob/main/README.md","updated_at":"2026-08-22T18:09:51Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"ramoz"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["pstack"],"value":"Claude Code, Codex, Pi clis all for varying levels of work. VS Code when needed.
I review agent messages, some specs/plans, and conduct local code reviews with Plannotator [1].
For skills, I have a bunch of custom ones for my own workflow. and for public skills I really only use the interrogate skill from cursor's lauren [2].
Key workflow stuff:
- Almost all work I do gets done in a git worktree.
- ghostty + Mac OS gives me all the organization I need for multi-agenting
- turn off all agent memory, this has only ever caused problems for me.
[2] https://github.com/cursor/plugins/blob/main/pstack/skills/in..."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow?"}},"_tags":["comment","author_ramoz","story_48413629"],"author":"ramoz","comment_text":"Claude Code, Codex, Pi clis all for varying levels of work. VS Code when needed.
I review agent messages, some specs/plans, and conduct local code reviews with Plannotator [1].
For skills, I have a bunch of custom ones for my own workflow. and for public skills I really only use the interrogate skill from cursor's lauren [2].
Key workflow stuff:
- Almost all work I do gets done in a git worktree.
- ghostty + Mac OS gives me all the organization I need for multi-agenting
- turn off all agent memory, this has only ever caused problems for me.
[2] https://github.com/cursor/plugins/blob/main/pstack/skills/in...","created_at":"2026-06-05T18:28:59Z","created_at_i":1780684139,"objectID":"48416366","parent_id":48413629,"story_id":48413629,"story_title":"Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow?","updated_at":"2026-06-05T18:36:11Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"emmelaich"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["pstack"],"value":"I miss Solaris for these. Linux has some of them (pstack, pmap, gcore) and some work-a-likes (strace, lsof) but they don't have the cohesive feel.
Lastly, you can implement pargs pretty cheaply:
xargs -0 -n 1 echo < /proc/$1/cmdline\n xargs -0 -n 1 echo < /proc/$1/environLastly, you can implement pargs pretty cheaply:
xargs -0 -n 1 echo < /proc/$1/cmdline\n xargs -0 -n 1 echo < /proc/$1/environTo give Microsoft some credit, at least you can run Windows in a VM pretty seamlessly. Low bar, I know, but Apple doesn't allow you to run macOS on non-Apple hardware IIRC. Using a Windows VM for a client that has a Windows-only (for now :P) stack, and the experience is a lot better than at that Apple-only place back then."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Microsoft has not stopped forcing Edge on Windows 11 users"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/windows-system-components-default-edge.html"}},"_tags":["comment","author_fhd2","story_37461449"],"author":"fhd2","children":[37466058],"comment_text":"So I'm not alone! Once worked for a Apple-only company using only Apple hardware and even their office and cloud stuff. Thought there can't possibly be a lot of those.
To give Microsoft some credit, at least you can run Windows in a VM pretty seamlessly. Low bar, I know, but Apple doesn't allow you to run macOS on non-Apple hardware IIRC. Using a Windows VM for a client that has a Windows-only (for now :P) stack, and the experience is a lot better than at that Apple-only place back then.","created_at":"2023-09-11T12:01:38Z","created_at_i":1694433698,"objectID":"37465968","parent_id":37465694,"story_id":37461449,"story_title":"Microsoft has not stopped forcing Edge on Windows 11 users","story_url":"https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/windows-system-components-default-edge.html","updated_at":"2024-09-20T15:04:53Z"}],"hitsPerPage":20,"nbHits":398388,"nbPages":50,"page":0,"params":"query=pstack&advancedSyntax=true&analyticsTags=backend","processingTimeMS":49,"processingTimingsMS":{"_request":{"roundTrip":20},"afterFetch":{"format":{"total":1},"merge":{"mergeLoop":{"prepareNextHit":14,"total":14},"total":14},"total":14},"fetch":{"query":3,"scanning":30,"total":34},"total":49},"query":"pstack","serverTimeMS":51}