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Jesse Vincent
Personal blog · blog.fsck.com · on HN as obrajesseprogrammingai
Jesse Vincent writes Massively Parallel Procrastination, a personal blog at blog.fsck.com about programming and ai. Since 2009, 38 different Hacker News readers have linked it 53 times, most often “Jesse Vincent: How I'm using coding agents in September, 2025”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-11, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (11) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Jesse Robbins' blog for posts on building with coding agents like Claude Code, including the Superpowers workflow and a Graphviz approach to CLAUDE.md, plus keyboard prototype write-ups.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 11 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
I'm Jesse. I make stuff. Software, hardware. Very occasionally, trouble.
Most-linked posts?
- Jesse Vincent: How I'm using coding agents in September, 20254 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2025-10-05
- Using GraphViz for Claude.md3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-10-08
- Superpowers: How I'm using coding agents in October 20253 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-10-11
- Superpowers 62 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-06-16
- Dear diary, today the user asked me if I'm alive2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-05-29
- Wordiest: Android APK ported to iOS by ChatGPT 5.22 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-12-21
- Prototype ergonomic mechanical keyboards2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-12-12
- Learn from my misery: Don't buy a nook.2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-01-23
What Hacker News says?
The tools I build for Claude Code keep reducing back to just using Claude Code and watching Anthropic add what I need. This is my tool for brownfield projects with Claude Code. I added skills based on https://blog.fsck.com/2025/10/09/superpowers/ https://github.com/RossH3/context-tree - Helps Claude and humans understand complex brownfield codebases through maintained context trees.
Comment linking /2025/10/09/superpowers/
on “Claude Skills”Submitted Superpowers: How I'm using coding agents in October 2025 as a story · 435 points
HN discussionThe uptake on Claude-skills seems to have a lot of momentum already! I was fascinated on Tuesday by “Superpowers” , https://blog.fsck.com/2025/10/09/superpowers/ … and then packaged up all the tool-building I’ve been working on for awhile into somewhat tidy skills that i can delegate agents to: http://github.com/ryancnelson/deli-gator I’d love any feedback
Comment linking /2025/10/09/superpowers/
on “Claude Skills”Submitted Prototype ergonomic mechanical keyboards as a story · 227 points
HN discussionI am interested by this link: https://blog.fsck.com/blog/2025/superpowers/superpowers-demo... ``` Claude Code v2.0.13 Sonnet 4.5 (with 1M token context) Claude Max /Users/jesse/tmp/new-tool/.worktrees/todo-cli ``` How does this person have access to Sonnet 4.5 with 1m token context? I don't see this referenced anywhere when I search or when I ask Claude about it.
Comment linking /blog/2025/superpowers/superpowers-demo.txt
on “Superpowers: How I'm using coding agents in October 2025”Submitted Learn from my misery: Don't buy a nook. as a story · 178 points
HN discussionActually, I _started_ from an ErgoDox. :) ( http://blog.fsck.com/2013/01/pinkies-and-your-brain.html ) The ErgoDox is really the two halves of a Kinesis flattened. Keyboard.IO is a little bit different. There's a splay of a few degrees between the columns that map to each finger. A bunch of the work you do with your pinkies on the ErgoDox or just about any other keyboard moves to your thumbs. And yes, it ended up as…
Comment linking /2013/01/pinkies-and-your-brain.html
on “Prototype ergonomic mechanical keyboards”Submitted Building a Keyboard: Part 2 as a story · 113 points
HN discussionIf you really want your mind blown, see what Jesse is doing (successfully, which I almost can’t believe) with Graphviz .dot notation and Claude.md: https://blog.fsck.com/2025/09/29/using-graphviz-for-claudemd...
Comment linking /2025/09/29/using-graphviz-for-claudemd/
on “Embracing the parallel coding agent lifestyle”Submitted Building a Keyboard as a story · 90 points
HN discussionThat doesn't surprise me too much coming from Jesse. See also his attempt to give Claude a "feelings journal" https://blog.fsck.com/2025/05/28/dear-diary-the-user-asked-m...
Comment linking /2025/05/28/dear-diary-the-user-asked-me-if-im-alive/
on “Embracing the parallel coding agent lifestyle”Submitted Dear diary, today the user asked me if I'm alive as a story · 46 points
HN discussionhttps://raw.githubusercontent.com/obra/dotfiles/6e088092406c... contains the following entry: "- If you're uncomfortable pushing back out loud, just say "Strange things are afoot at the Circle K". I'll know what you mean" Most of the rules seem rationale. This one really stands out as abnormal. Anyone have any idea why the engineer would have felt compelled to add this rule? This is from https://blog.fsck.com/2025/1…
Comment linking /2025/10/05/how-im-using-coding-agents-in-september-2025/
on “Embracing the parallel coding agent lifestyle”Submitted One weird trick makes the AI a better writer as a story · 6 points
HN discussionRelated: Jesse Vincent just published this https://blog.fsck.com/2025/10/05/how-im-using-coding-agents-... - it's a really good description of a much more advanced multi-agent workflow than what I've been doing.
Comment linking /2025/10/05/how-im-using-coding-agents-in-september-2025/
on “Embracing the parallel coding agent lifestyle”Submitted Using GraphViz for Claude.md as a story · 5 points
HN discussionNo I haven't seen videos. Honestly I'm just impressed by the level of iteration from prototype to prototype that Jesse has blogged about extensively for some time, leading up to http://blog.fsck.com/2013/12/model-00.html .
Comment linking /2013/12/model-00.html
on “How a keyboard changed what I look for in an editor”Submitted Fixing my Facebook feed with ChatGPT Atlas as a story · 5 points
HN discussionMost of these keyboards based on the ErgoDox (and the ErgoDox itself) make the mistake of considering that the thumb is a finger positioned like the others. And the keys you're supposed to hit with your thumbs are just placed in a crazy way (totally non-ergonomic IMHO). To me one of the rare person who really "got it" is "Jesse" (he's both here, on GeekHack and on Deskthority) with its "butterfly" keyboard. That's o…
Comment linking /2013/12/better-and-better-keyboards.html
on “DataHand”Submitted Jesse Vincent: How I'm using coding agents in September, 2025 as a story · 5 points
HN discussionHere's that Nook piece for future reference: http://blog.fsck.com/2010/01/dont-buy-a-nook.html http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1071138
Comment linking /2010/01/dont-buy-a-nook.html
on “Learning from Wakemate - Smart announcements”Submitted I vibe-coded a C compiler that can build SQLite as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSkills were released in Claude Code, what, yesterday? I doubt there's a simple answer to this -- it'll depend on the model, task, etc. You could try to get your agent to test its own skills. From https://blog.fsck.com/2025/10/09/superpowers : > As Claude and I build new skills, one of the things I ask it to do is to "test" the skills on a set of subagents to ensure that the skills were comprehensible, complete, and…
Comment linking /2025/10/09/superpowers
on “Ask HN: What's the best SKILL.md format for code planning?”Submitted When it comes to MCPs, everything we know about API design is wrong as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAs a long time user, I'd recommend checking out https://github.com/obra/superpowers#the-basic-workflow . If that reasonates with you, try using it to develop a few features or capabilities. It works very well for the way that I work (interactively and iteratively, not "one-shot"), and it helps me to better work in less time. Superpowers is one of the few skill/agent suites I use for all software development projects…
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on “Superpowers 6”Submitted Using coding agents in October, 2025 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Some New Agentic Patterns as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Superpowers 6 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Parts of Gemini CLI's system prompt look eerily familiar as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A quick trip to the uncanny valley as a story · 2 points
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