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Is claude code or codex subscription supported by pi?

onorca.dev. I used herdr before now Orca has fully replaced it. (I'm not affilianted with Orca in any way except I use it every day). Orca also supports separate hosts. My setup Orca running in my Mac. Orca running in my home proxmox lxc (orcabox). I have few different projects, Rails, PHP, etc. In Orca, I open these projects and point it to my local folder as well as the folder remotely.

I usually start a codex or claude session on the remote host, close my mac, even restart Orca desktop on mac, but when I start Orca, I can watch the Orca on my remote host working through.

It's similar to Claude remote session, but just easier to manage, easier to create worktree, easier to navigate, open multiple tabs etc.

bibsthaon I hate you Microsoft

Silly that the error message doesn't convey that, right? I recently got added to a company's Teams account as a guest. I do a bit of software contract work and have used Slack with no issue until now, this is what Teams show me:

- Client says they added me already, but I have no email with an invite. Turns out I didn't have an account that had previously joined Teams with a personal account.

- But even after I created a teams account, due to the order of events (added to corp account as guest, then created a teams account), I still don't have access and need to be readded.

- I can't upload images on groups because I don't have OneDrive access, WTF?

- I cannot download transcripts of meetings I join because I don't have permission.

How bad can a software be? Really?

bibsthaon Connecting the machines

Onorca.dev is very similar but has a desktop UI that I prefer to herdr. I find it easier to work with. Being UI, it has markdown reader, a native browser integration, linear or github built in integration. So working with multiple different unrelated projects feels natural. Go to linear, select a ticket -> start in X workspace, go to github, select an issue and start in Y workspace.

The limitation of Orca or Herdr is that they don't have integration for multi project work. Here is what I wanted

Telegram/OpenClaw → Single Linear Account Control plane with multiple projects → route each task to be completed and PRs open for review across multiple repos.

This is where Cyrus helps. You setup labels and routing so cyrus knows which gitrepo to build worktrees from, and the labels can help you pick up the right model (codex-sol/astro or claude-opus/fable). This has helped me be more hands off.

So I use both Orca and Cyrus. Cyrus for automation (telegram ingress) vs Orca if I want anything hands on.

bibsthaon Connecting the machines

Worth giving onorca.dev a try. That already supports this with nice UI. Also atcyrus.com is interesting to delegate tasks too.

bibsthaon Launch HN: Nori Robotics (YC S26) – A low-cost humanoid robot for development

Can it climb stairs on a multi level house?

bibsthaon Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork

What do you use to pair it with web search?

bibsthaon Running Kimi K3 on a M1 Max

It applies to speed too. The project paves way for more optimization at many layers overtime.

bibsthaon EU fines Temu €200M for allowing sale of illegal products

Europe has plenty of dollar store equivalent.

bibsthaon A Periodic Map of Cheese

> Yak Milk Gruyère

> If a Nepali dairy cooperative partnered with an Alpine affineur, this could be extraordinary — dense, butterscotch-rich, with a savory depth that cow milk can't match.

I believe Himalayan French Cheese is doing this already. https://www.facebook.com/himalayanfrenchcheese/

bibsthaon All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027

Me and partner are both on iPhone 14 Pro. And this is more than powerful and sufficient for our daily use, except the battery is around 82%. I'd happily replace the battery right now for a more powerful one.

bibsthaon OpenClaw’s memory is unreliable, and you don’t know when it will break

I actually quite enjoy the OpenClaw. Although the recent CC crackdown has caused me to try different LLM providers which aren't that reliable but anyways, here are few things I do with it, in all separate groups.

* Telegram Health Group, created an agent to help me track sleep, recommend my supplements based on my location, remind me in the morning and evening to monitor my food. I send it images of what I eat and it keeps track of it. * Telegram Career Group, I randomly ask it to find certain kind of job posts based on my criteria. Not scheduled, only when I like to. * Telegram Coder Group, gave it access to my github account. It pulls, runs tests and merges dependabot PRs in the mornings. Tells me if there are any issues. I also ask it to look into certain bugs and open PRs while I'm on the road. * Telegran News Group, I gave it a list of youtube videos and asked it to send me news every day at 10am similar to the videos.

So far, it's a super easy assistant taking multiple personas. But it's getting a bit painful without CC subscription

bibsthaon Apple Studio Display and Studio Display XDR

Which mount do you have? I've got a 24" as well and I've never imagined I'd fit 2 monitors.

bibsthaon Qwen3.5 122B and 35B models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers

You don't need a coding version of model from Qwen? the 3.5 works?

bibsthaon Stop Putting Secrets in .env Files

Nice. One more benefit of this is when using LLM tools like Claude Code or Codex to do something and run tests on a worktree, this solution would work seamlessly.

bibsthaon Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year

It's free now, they released it for free in most recent Railsconf.

bibsthaon The Frontend Treadmill

I maintain an app that was originally written in 2011 in Rails, and a lot of old code looks very similar to what we have in Rails 2025. It's very easy to dig into existing code. Feels really good.

bibsthaon What's New in Ruby on Rails 8

This will answer your question: https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/52335#issuecomment-22395...

> I think there can be some overlap between rake tasks and one-off scripts and opinions may vary. In the related discussion Okura Masafumi mentions that rake tasks are one way but they can be executed multiple times, and I tend to agree, leaving rake tasks for code that is intended to be run multiple times.

> So script/ can hold one-off scripts, for example Basecamp uses script/migrate which I am guessing they use for updating data, and we had a similar folder at my previous company.

> But script/ is not only for one-off scripts, it can hold more general scripts too, for example rails generate benchmark already generates benchmarks in script/benchmarks, and at my previous company we had script/ops which had a bunch of shell scripts and ruby scripts for various ops-related things.

So really not so clear description. It caters to those who feel like they have a script that doesn't really fit in the Rake file.

bibsthaon What's New in Ruby on Rails 8

Very much. I still heavily use rails generators as the defaults do quite a bit already. Generates nice forms, models, migrations, jobs, scripts, and test files. It doesn't feel much, like it's just generating a bunch of files with basic defaults in the right folder, but when you do that quite a bit overtime, you appreciate how little you have to think about those things.

bibsthaon Okay, I Like WezTerm

I recently moved from Kitty+Tmux to Tmux only setup. I think the maintainer has implemented most of the features in tmux like split panes, switching, changing layouts etc and is probably why says what he says.

For me, I've found Kitty quite configurable enough to have everything except the remote server thing. I used this as my guide: https://www.reddit.com/r/KittyTerminal/comments/z2p2sh/ditch...

bibsthaon Tau: Open-source PaaS – A self-hosted Vercel / Netlify / Cloudflare alternative

Love Caprover. Using this on production to host many docker containers.

bibsthaon HTML-first, framework-agnostic implementation of shadcn/UI – franken/UI

Interesting, just gave this a try and looks pretty decent.

bibsthaon HTML-first, framework-agnostic implementation of shadcn/UI – franken/UI

This is exactly what I was looking for. I love Stripe's UI and I was looking for a library of unified components that I can copy paste with my Rails app. Then I saw shadcn and was disappointed that it was only for React.

I'm mostly a backend developer and TailwindCSS really enabled me to be bold with working with frontend CSS. So far I've been copy pasting examples from Tailwind or Flowbite. But "franken" really looks much closer to what I was looking for, a cleaner opinionated unified interfaces that I can put together, works with Tailwind and can be used with Rails.

Thanks for the work on this.

bibsthaon Show HN: Bigcapital - A open-source alternative to QuickBooks

I second this to how difficult it is to deploy the app.

My feature request is to be able to deploy sth like this on heroku or other paas and to string all of the dependencies with env variables.

bibsthaon Saint Helena Island Communications

What made you choose St Helena for your travel? Did you feel like you got to see most of the island in 10 days?

bibsthaon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2023)

  Location: Canada and Boston, MA
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Docker, K8S, AWS, MySQL, Mongo, Javascript
  Resume: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lFeua5yngwlkqmk9JLnB--d-lavnpbBHRDkYXKtf95w/edit?usp=sharing
  Email: bibek@hey.com

bibsthaon Rogers network outage across Canada hits banks, businesses and consumers

Are you using Wifi calling to receive 2FA? What would you change to?

bibsthaon US travel firm $4.5M ransom negotiation open chat

Something to do with Firefox. The images load fine in Chrome.

bibsthaon Why Use OpenStreetMap Instead of Google Maps?

> What if Google decide to "hide" or "highlight" certain kind of shops for instance

Doesn't google already do this? Shops with paid advertisement come much higher than unpaid shops.

bibsthaon Canada's immigration website crashes on election night

What's the average tech salary for a 5 years+ experienced programmer (ruby, golang, etc)?