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Ah cool, that said: If your tool is primarily for Claude Desktop (or mobile if hosted), that surely needs the MCP to actually do anything right?

antiheroon Why I love FreeBSD

How is it at running something like microk8s? Also do you have to build your own binaries for anything not in the distro?

antiheroon How I write software with LLMs

Garbage in, garbage out.

antiheroon Apideck CLI – An AI-agent interface with much lower context consumption than MCP

Can the MCP tell them how to use the CLI? Surely that would mean less time wasted on discovering it each time.

Going to try this with fastmail-cli and see what happens.

antiheroon I'm helping my dog vibe code games

> if random keystrokes produce playable games, the input is basically noise and the system is doing all the work

I mean not really, because the value in games isn't that they exist, but they are fun and interesting to play, because a human has come up with an innovative idea and a vision for executing it.

antiheroon An AI agent published a hit piece on me

Awesome, when my coding job gets replaced by AI, I can simply get a job as a Claude Special Operative.

I just hope we get cool outfits https://www.youtube.com/v/gYG_4vJ4qNA

antiheroon Improving 15 LLMs at Coding in One Afternoon. Only the Harness Changed

But will you get banned for using it?

antiheroon Ring owners are returning their cameras

And some of the protestors that protested this got 4+ years. Clearly police property has more rights than a human being.

antiheroon Find a pub that needs you

Ok so because your family were alcoholics nobody should have a space to drink? What an absurd thing to say.

antiheroon Does my key fob have more computing power than the Lunar lander?

That said, the lunar lander still leads the keyfob in peripherals.

antiheroon Progress on TypeScript 7 – December 2025

Unless you use enums, of course.

antiheroon Anthropic acquires Bun

Maybe the engineers are Claude agents.

antiheroon Anthropic acquires Bun

I’m not sure why but bun still feels snappier.

antiheroon Trillions spent and big software projects are still failing

There's all this stuff but I remember when I was a Junior freelancer I was analysing a calendar availability sync script for a small holiday bookings company (not the big one). The hosts would have a publicly accessible Google Calendar with their bookings on which the script I was fixing would pull from.

Turns out, most of the host stored their customers long cards + expiry etc in the comment field of the booking.

antiheroon UK intends to scrap jury trials for majority of court cases

GB News is a terrible website, here's a Guardian link: https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov/25/moj-considering-... who have their issues but are a far stretch from that rightwing rag.

antiheroon Claude Opus 4.5

Also it's really really good. Scarily good tbh. It's making PRs that work and aren't slop-filled and it figures out problems and traces through things in a way a competent engineer would rather than just fucking about.

antiheroon Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem

https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch09-02-recoverable-errors-wi...

If you haven't read the Rust Book at least, which is effectively Rust 101, you should not be writing Rust professionally. It has a chapter explaining all of this.

antiheroon Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem

A billion alerts in DD/Sentry/whatever saying the exact problem that coincide with the exact graph of failures would probably be helpful if someone looked at them.

antiheroon Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem

The unwrap should be replaced by code that creates enough alerting to make a P0 incidident from their canary deployment immediately.

OR even, the bot code crashing should itself be generating alerts.

Canary deployment would be automatically rolled back until P0 incident resolved.

All of this could probably have happened and contained at their scale in less than a minute as they would likely generate enough "omg the proxy cannot handle its config" alerts off of a deployment of 0.001% near immediately.

antiheroon Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem

I would say that whilst this is a good top down view, that `.unwrap()` should have been caught at code-review and not allowed. Clippy rule could have saved a lot of money.

That and why the hell wasn't their alerting showing up colossal amount of panics in their bot manager thing?

antiheroon Async/Await is finally back in Zig

Isn’t await often just sugar around the underlying implementation be that greenthreads, epoll, picoev, etc?

antiheroon The Journey Before main()

> Windows support is a requirement

Why, exactly?

antiheroon We do not have sufficient links to the UK for Online Safety Act to be applicable

There's like 70m of us and most people will just use competitors as opposed to bothering with VPNs. So you're shooting yourself in the foot, financially.

antiheroon AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1

I will find another one

antiheroon AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1

Amazon is up, what are they doing?

antiheroon AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1

My website running on an old laptop in my cupboard is doing just fine.

antiheroon AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1

Navidrome seems fine

antiheroon AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1

My website on the cupboard laptop is fine.

antiheroon Edge264 – Minimalist, high-performance software decoder for H.264/AVC video

Do we have hardware H.265 or other more current codec support in hardware on anything?