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Came to linux much later but absolutely agree.

While being able to customize everything is nice, I prefer a curated experience that nails the defaults so I don't have to tweak it.

macos used to be that way from leopard to mountain lion IME. Now I'm considering switching back to a linux workstation bc I can't stand liquid glass and the devolution of a desktop OS becoming a mobile OS

Frameworks getting there. Display and keyboard aren't as good as macbooks or thinkpad, but repairability and Linux support are top notch

Didn't know codex was supported in opencode! After anthropic's shenanigans earlier this year I didn't even try to get it working

He won the popular vote the second time around, not the first.

The electoral college is deeply undemocratic.

Strong argument the States are neither democratic, nor republic; they're a plutocracy. Exacerbated by Citizens United.

Haven't tried, but you could try building from source: https://codeberg.org/GramEditor/gram

I used gram predominately on the macbook neo and it worked well as a low-spec devbox

> TTS - for Piper TTS, trained to speak like SHODAN

I didn't know I wanted this! Can just imagine asking how to make a Trinidad Sour and being called an insect lmao

This matches my use cases. Poor speech to text recognition so I don't trust siri to do anything non-trivial

Love my 13 mini. Wish they'd 86 the SE and add USB-C to the mini instead.

Intrigued by the Duo though

100%

Not a fan of java/spring boot, although kotlin is nice.

Currently all of my greenfield work projects are using alpine and tauri (rust). It's more complex than the django web apps, but already seeing strong performance gains and better runtime guarantees.

I've built a couple non-trivial, cross-platform apps with alpine.js and htmx with tauri as the sole backend with ipc. Claude is very good at full-stack with the tauri mcp driving harder e2e tests that leverage platform APIs.

Same. Been using orbstack for a couple years now

> define AGI as "better than humans at the vast majority of valuable knowledge work"

Isn't that superintelligence?

Good thinking! The multiline paragraph comments drive me up the wall.

No amount of agents.md / commit to memory updates has stopped agents from littering the code base with useless comments.

Think I'll add it to pre-commit hooks getting called by posttooluse

Skimmed the article. Pretty close to my workflow using fastlane with tauri.

Useful sanity check!

Hats off to you on the ham license! My friend just got hers too!

Re: markdown and hugo, that's an excellent combo. You could easily setup a raspberry pi or $5/mo vps to serve it behind caddy/traefik/nginx and have a working multipage app (mpa) in a weekend.

Or a few minutes with AI haha

I've found that one of the areas I enjoyed least is now what I spend a lot of time on now: testing!

Property-based testing in particular has uncovered a number of invariants in every code base I've introduced it to.

tbf depending on the agent/model a lot of the tests end up being thrown out so it's possible I _should_ handwrite more tests, but having better prompts and detailed plans seems to mitigate that somewhat

Good description of my thoughts on vibe coding / agentic engineering.

Spend a lot more time on architecting and testing than hand rolling most repos now.

Hats off to people who enjoy the minutia of programming everything by hand, but turns out I enjoy the other aspects of software development more.

This is my experience too. I'm primarily a python dev, but have been routinely using other backend languages (rust, go, etc) that I'm familiar with but not at the same level.

Just having ~13yrs experience heavily weighted in one language with some formal studying of others makes directing llms a lot simpler.

Learning syntax, primitives, package managers, testing, etc isn't that much of a lift compared to how I used to program.

Was helping a non-dev colleague who's using claude cowork/code to automate reporting the other day. They understand the business intelligence side well, but were struggling with basic diction to vibe code a pyautogui wrapper to pull up RDP and fill out a MS Access abstraction on a vendor DB.

Think we'll be fine for another 5-10 years as a profession

I've been a fan of the em dash since college. Only recently learned what the shortcut on macos is (opt-shift-dash) but setup text expansion a decade ago.

Think we need better AI tells than that

Big mise fan. Basically took the baton from asdf and added way better performance and dx.

Odd that aube is missing deno from their benchmarks though

Been following zed for at least a year now.

Tried switching multiple times from vscode but it's just not feature complete for my use cases. Off top:

- no expanding tabs to fill the window until another one is clicked

- file picker hides .gitignored files

- vertical terminal tabs would be nice

- restart doesn't automatically load the previous window (most recent project)

- while faster/more responsive than vscode on large codebases, still pretty heavy compared to its AI-averse fork, gram; thus I can't use it on the macbook neo

Until some/all of that is improved, it's just uncanny valley territory with no particular killer feature to migrate. Appreciate all the work they've put into it (especially remote ssh parity!) though and like what they're doing in broad strokes

I remember the OG XPS 13 had what Dell called "project sputnik". To my knowledge, it was the first time a Dell laptop shipped with Ubuntu, if not Linux.

Really wanted one, but was a poor recent college grad at the time.

Chaos agent hahaha

> I think it would be unhealthy for Linux in the long term

Mostly agree until this line. MS enshittifying their ecosystem is the resting state and if you believe in the free market (I don't btw), customers voting with their money or data (since they're the product) should be applauded.

TBF Apple does this too on macOS and arguably iOS. I think a lot of their longstanding pushes to merge the two OSes is hostile to their user base who want stronger separations of concerns; a desktop OS has different requirements and capabilities than a phone or a tablet.

Would love to have a Neo with Sequoia which in itself is a step back from Sonoma, but I haven't truly loved any of their OSes since Mountain Lion.

100%

With ssh access to the underlying arch/fedora fork, it'd be an easy fix with AI

The only two moats MS has for desktop OS usage are:

1) Kernel-level DRM for multiplayer games (looking at you, Marathon)

2) Intentionally nerfed MSO 365 apps on web and macOS

You could make a strong case that MDM (which InTune uses as well) negates the AD + GPO advantages of the past 20+ years in enterprise.

browserstack might be a good option to test a bunch of browsers and their different versions on real devices.

Never used it personally, but might get some mileage out of the free plan before their time-based usage expires.

https://www.browserstack.com/docs/automate-self-hosted/getti...

Been running cachyos for months, drama-free

Are you me?? I'm literally building highly personalized and/or idiosyncratic software with claude to solve personal and professional problems.

Thanks to tauri, I've now made two desktop apps and one mobile app for the first time in the last two months.

None of this was nearly as feasible just a year ago

I've also used "do you need affirmation or advice."

I like your 3 H's though!