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Ben Bachem

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Digital Generalist • Founding Engineer @ superchat.com • Based in Berlin, Germany https://github.com/bezbac

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Oh wow, this looks *methodical*. Very cool!

27.02.2026 09:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

What model did you use to generate these images?

27.02.2026 09:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Where it‘s at

21.02.2026 09:25 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Does match the unix philosophy of „Make each program do one thing well.“ better though, right?

20.02.2026 10:39 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The animations are so clean 👀

18.02.2026 10:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I'm a big fan of oxlint and biome. We're in the process of migrating to biome for formatting. The codebase has a lot of custom ESLint rules though so switching to another tool entirely would be even more work 🥲

18.02.2026 10:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Since ESLint 10 is out, I decided to finally reserve some time to migrate from ESLint 8 to 9 @work. This definitely is a whole lot of work...

17.02.2026 15:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Just finished the audiobook. Really enjoyed it, especially the earlier chapters.

15.02.2026 16:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Ben Bachem Hey there! I'm Ben. I build all kinds of digital things.

I just published a new blog post www.benbachem.de/blog/typescr...

14.02.2026 11:12 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Giving a AI coding agent a robot voice just makes it feel so much more futuristic 😂

12.02.2026 10:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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GitHub - tonyyont/peon-ping: Warcraft III Peon voice notifications for Claude Code. Stop babysitting your terminal. Warcraft III Peon voice notifications for Claude Code. Stop babysitting your terminal. - tonyyont/peon-ping

This is what made me do it: github.com/tonyyont/peo...

It's currently the top post on HN

12.02.2026 10:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Custom notification sounds for claude code / opencode are fun! I just quickly configured opencode to use some voice lines from the StarCraft Adjutant grabbed from here: youtu.be/YD2aq2MbboE

12.02.2026 10:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I was not aware of pub-search.woaw.tech but it looks amazing!

11.02.2026 16:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Insane numbers. Congratulations! 🚀

10.02.2026 15:11 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

To be fair, I don't think many React developers would argue that CLI applications are a good fit for React.

10.02.2026 10:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Could you name some counterexamples of apps that don‘t use React and feel great to use? Ideally web apps so it’s not an apples to oranges comparison.

10.02.2026 08:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I think it’s too early and too niche of a topic too ask for something that is „stable and mature“.
- livestore.dev is still in beta
- zero.rocicorp.dev is still in alpha
- jazz.tools is also still at a 0.x release

Give it time, I‘m confident local first will win in the long run.

07.02.2026 09:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

This looks really interesting! Do you have a longer demo video showcasing the app somewhere?

06.02.2026 08:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Agree! I do the same. It messes with my head a bit every time I need to type on someone else’s machine, thats why I posted.

05.02.2026 22:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"Exhalation: Stories" and "Stories of Your Life and Others" by Ted Chiang are equally good, if not slightly better.

05.02.2026 19:07 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I read this a couple of years ago too and really enjoyed it. I assume you have already read them but "The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories" by @kyliu99.bsky.social is also great.

05.02.2026 19:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Seriously, who needs a caps lock key?

05.02.2026 19:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

We do both ✅

29.01.2026 13:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It sounds to polished to me to be AI, but maybe I'm just not aware of the current state of the art.

Most of the artists in the playlist have a generic name, no bio except a mention of mention neorecordings@gmail.com and only a single released song. They also all share a similar style of logo

29.01.2026 12:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'm a little puzzled to what is happening on Spotify right now.

Yesterday, I was doomscrolling on Instagram and got an ad with a link to this playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/1RC...

Is it all AI?

29.01.2026 12:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Lastly, this also makes running tests selectively much easier. `pnpm vitest --run "Button.stories.tsx"` now just works. This is a really big DX improvement for us and also allows coding agents to write and run component tests. Very impressed with the library.

29.01.2026 08:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The new approach integrated with vitest simplifies this drastically. Now we simply need to run vitest, that's it, even merging the coverage is handled automatically.

29.01.2026 08:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

We used to have the following process for running Storybook tests in the CI:

1. Build storybook
2. Run a local web server and the storybook test runner concurrently
3. Merge the generated coverage with the unit test coverage from jest

29.01.2026 08:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Vitest addon | Storybook docs Storybook is a frontend workshop for building UI components and pages in isolation. Thousands of teams use it for UI development, testing, and documentation. It's open source and free.

The storybook vitest addon is absolutely incredible. storybook.js.org/docs/writing...

28.01.2026 17:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Immutable Infrastructure, Immutable Code - The Phoenix Architecture Why "Never Upgrade in Place" Now Applies to Software

You might have seen the post already but I think it explores some similar thoughts: aicoding.leaflet.pub/3mbaguyrjek2g

I'd say it even goes one step further than your observations, claiming that code itself basically has almost any value at all if it simply can be regenerated.

27.01.2026 13:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0