Hackers' Pub

Syntax	Description	Examples
`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

Hwee-Boon Yar @hboon@mastodon.social

3/10/2025, 6:45:43 AM

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@cheeaunChee Aun 🤔 @hongminhee洪民憙 (Hong Minhee) I've only tried Cursor a little because I tried VS Code a few times over the years but I couldn't get into it and hence Cursor (due to vim), so I can't compare it directly to Cursor.

I used https://aider.chat (with 3.7 Sonnet) with Neovim and WebStorm. It has a composer-ish (but not agentic) and cmd-K like modes. I have started using Claude Code much more recently and it has replaced the composer part of my workflow, but I still use Aider for the cmd-K part.

Hwee-Boon Yar @hboon@mastodon.social

3/10/2025, 6:45:59 AM

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@cheeaunChee Aun 🤔 @hongminhee洪民憙 (Hong Minhee) …
When I started out, I tried running both tasks in both Aider and Claude Code and the latter is often at least 2x more expensive but it usually does what I want it to do and when it doesn't, I don't spend too much trying to convince it; I manually fix it instead. It also seems to know better what tools I use or my preferences compared to Aider despite using the same model.

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