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angristan

776 karma · joined September 10, 2017

https://stanislas.blog https://github.com/angristan
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angristan··on Mistral Large 4
Yes and OpenRouter
angristan··on Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS
I couldn't believe it either but when you enable it the settings of macOS you get this popup:

> When you dictate text, information like your voice input and contact names are sent to Apple to help your Mac recognize what you’re saying.

angristan··on Deno Sandbox
Very neat idea! I implemented it into my self hosted remote coding agent: https://stanislas.blog/2026/02/netclode-self-hosted-cloud-co...
angristan··on European Alternatives
Unfortunately Hetzner volumes have pretty low iops for databases
angristan··on Can Bundler be as fast as uv?
Maybe https://github.com/spinel-coop/rv will be the answer when it's ready
angristan··on Building a macOS app to know when my Mac is thermal throttling
It doesn't seem like they are available with `import Darwin` indeed
angristan··on Building a macOS app to know when my Mac is thermal throttling
I merged https://github.com/angristan/MacThrottle/pull/2 to make it work on macOS 15. macOS 14 probably works, feel free to try it out and open a PR to lower the required version if it's the case
angristan··on Building a macOS app to know when my Mac is thermal throttling
My M4 Max Macbook Pro can run for a while at like 105°C and fans to the max before throttling, when it starts throttling it doesn't exceed that threshold, and then the temperature goes down for a while before throttling stops
angristan··on Building a macOS app to know when my Mac is thermal throttling
Interesting, yeah iStat Menus reports the wattage of the charger, sometimes I've charged my mac with like a 5 or 10W charger and I didn't have that issue But now that rings a bell, I think a coworker had that issue recently. I wonder why that happens
angristan··on Building a macOS app to know when my Mac is thermal throttling
This one is my bad, I've exceeded the 100k free reqs/day (for https://stanislas.blog/2025/02/redirect-dead-links-hugo-imag...), and I didn't enable the setting to bypass it over that limit
angristan··on Building a macOS app to know when my Mac is thermal throttling
Agreed, half of these questions are answered in the post. Also, looking at the account's comment history confirms that it's karma-farming with comments or something like that
angristan··on Building a macOS app to know when my Mac is thermal throttling
Oh really? TIL, I thought it was dependant on the app developer. I can look into it, thanks!
angristan··on Building a macOS app to know when my Mac is thermal throttling
Oops, I fixed it, I have not very important Cloudflare Workers in front of the blog (which is on Cloudflare Pages) and somehow they were in fail closed mode and not fail open :(
angristan··on Building a macOS app to know when my Mac is thermal throttling
Indeed, that's why apps like iStat Menus, Stats, Sensei etc (for macOS at least) are very useful, I keep the CPU usage and power usage in my menu bar at all times, this is very useful on battery. For example I know that my Macbook Air idles at ~2W-5W, so if I'm doing nothing special and it's using 15W, a process is doing some funny stuff
angristan··on Building a macOS app to know when my Mac is thermal throttling
Thank you for the kind words :)
angristan··on Building a macOS app to know when my Mac is thermal throttling
Yeah! That's how I initially suspected that it was thermal throttling because I saw in iStat Menus that my wattage was going down for a constantly high CPU usage
angristan··on Building a macOS app to know when my Mac is thermal throttling
Ah! Yeah I did notice that using `ProcessInfo.processInfo.thermalState`, the state didn't update unless I restarted the process (reproducible even with a swift script). But this issue doesn't happen with the technique I use right now (the thermald notification)
angristan··on Building a macOS app to know when my Mac is thermal throttling
> but what are you able to do about it?

On Macbooks with fans, I started tuning my fan curve with iStat Menus (https://bjango.com/help/istatmenus7/fans/#custom-fan-curve) because I noticed the default curve was lagging behind and thermal throttling kicked in before the fan even reach max speed.

For Apple Silicon specifically, I recently discovered that there is a "high power mode" (https://support.apple.com/en-us/101613) that allows the fans to run at higher speed. So I don't use the custom fan curves anymore, it helped me a lot (but it does get quite noisy on a 14" M4 Max)

For a Macbook Air, not much you can do besides closing stuff, or elevating the macbook and pointing a fan at it or things like that... but yeah it's a bit desperate!

angristan··on Migrating my web analytics from Matomo to Umami
It's for my blogs, so it's mainly just for fun :) Seeing what's read over the years.
angristan··on GotaTun – Mullvad's WireGuard Implementation in Rust
Apparently the module is there: https://www.xda-developers.com/google-adds-wireguard-vpn-and...

But you need to be rooted to use it: https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2022-September/0...

angristan··on AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas'
Antigravity: https://antigravity.google/pricing
angristan··on How I blog with Obsidian, Hugo, GitHub, and Cloudflare
I found it very useful for proofreading. It's easier than copying/pasting the content into ChatGPT or similar, as it's right in the editor. I disabled the autocomplete though, as I found it breaks my flow of thoughts

(Wrote about this: https://stanislas.blog/2025/02/writing-workflow-llm/)

angristan··on We're bringing Pebble back
Weathergraph is the best weather app I've ever used, thank you so much for it!
angristan··on Hive: A Globally-Distributed Key/Value Store [pdf]
All new buckets are using Hive as their backend.
angristan··on Apple silicon M1 as-a-Service
It's 24h, as requested by Apple's EULA
angristan··on A distributed Posix file system built on top of Redis and S3
I've been using s3ql for a while, but this looks great. After testing it for a few hours, the performance seems solid. I'm glad it has a data cache feature like s3ql.
angristan··on Firefox beta supports Apple silicon natively
Can confirm: https://reddit.com/r/Safari/comments/jubu6m/anyone_noticing_...
angristan··on Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?
How do you do that?
angristan··on Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor
They just proxy it on the fly with camo: https://github.com/atmos/camo
angristan··on Show HN: Caddy 2
Counter-counterpoint: https://twitter.com/fuolpit/status/1257633475634626560 :)
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