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minikomi

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minikomi··on Show HN: I made a flight simulator, except you're just a passenger
You have to turn on airplane mode
minikomi··on Karpathy’s Pelican
We just need to go one layer deeper:

    Generate an SVG of an ai generating an SVG of a pelican on a bicycle.
https://chatgpt.com/s/t_6a6fc59ae00081918095322a63e1503c
minikomi··on How JPEG works: Interactively explore JPEG's lossy compression methods
Low quantized jpeg is such a recognizable and nostalgic aesthetic.
minikomi··on My Emacs Configuration (Dired)
wgrep-mode lets you collect matches from `grep` or `rg` into an editable buffer. Once you’ve finished editing, it propagates the changes back to the original files.
minikomi··on Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?
Does the openai logo look like that because .. OpenAI? Then others followed suit?
minikomi··on The lost joy of music piracy
Thank you! Something about the site allowed for wonderful serendipity for finding music. I had a blast.
minikomi··on The lost joy of music piracy
Very fond memories of using Audiogalaxy, and also soulseek.

Soulseek especially had a community where you found someone who was into the same kind of music as you (obscure breakcore! japanese garage punk!) and could browse their collections, and chat to them also! What a wonderful way to make music friends and get good recommendations.

minikomi··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
A clojure / fennel dsl for generating pure data patches, looking to make a small drum machine in love2d and being able to live update the internal patches would be fun.
minikomi··on Show HN: 18 Words
I think it might be fun if the words told a story
minikomi··on Various LLM Smells

    <somebody> just <did something>. 
    
    And it changes everything.

Is my favorite linkedin-ism. Wish LinkedIn had a regex block option.
minikomi··on A Tiny E Reader
I have one, it's great

Crosspoint just released a new version

https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader/relea...

With:

- custom fonts

- better syncing

- quick-press refresh

Etc etc

minikomi··on Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged
Now translate it into zig!
minikomi··on The Emacsification of Software
Hello from eww
minikomi··on Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise
Sometimes it's better

To keep it all in a clump

Than spread it about

minikomi··on Flue is a TypeScript framework for building the next generation of agents
It's like a heavier commone colde
minikomi··on The More Young People Use AI, the More They Hate It
Or that they hate the project more than using AI
minikomi··on I have officially retired from Emacs
Cheers mate I added one at https://poyo.co/feed.xml
minikomi··on I have officially retired from Emacs
Asolutely. It doesn't have to be an either-or. I use gptel and org mode when I was to be really hands on driving the development. It's a very different mode of interacting with models, and the way newer models are trained to play nice with harnesses makes them very obedient.

https://poyo.co/note/20260202T150723/

minikomi··on Google Flow Music
Thank you for sharing.
minikomi··on Google Flow Music
Would you be willing to share some artists? I'm curious
minikomi··on Google Flow Music
The descriptions generated from the prompts are almost always great, but the generated music is always terrible. The sound pallete seems so limited.
minikomi··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)
A generalized llm prompting library for clojure, and seeing what falls out from that. I wanted something which was fun to use in an interactive way, but not too abstracted.

- Introduction: https://poyo.co/note/20260318T184012/

- Tool loops: https://poyo.co/note/20260329T034500/

- Playing with receipt extraction: https://poyo.co/note/20260323T120532/

- Use with async flow: https://poyo.co/note/20260410T164710/

minikomi··on From zero to a RAG system: successes and failures
Yep. Semantically distinct and meaningful chunks wins every time over any kind of windowing or slice and dicing.

Unfortunately, many people are looking for a fire and forget solution over an existing rats nest of documentation debt..

minikomi··on A Japanese glossary of chopsticks faux pas (2022)
I think it's number 9 in the list
minikomi··on Lies I was told about collaborative editing, Part 2: Why we don't use Yjs
Component library page in the docs gives 404
minikomi··on Emacs and Vim in the Age of AI
I don't let it execute emacs lisp itself, but elisp generated in org mode babel blocks which is instantly executable is a fine way to have gptel improve itself.

( See "meta tooling" in https://poyo.co/note/20260202T150723/ )

minikomi··on Ask HN: How are people doing AI evals these days?
The more you can afford to build up your understanding of the problem space and define what inputs & outputs look like, the more flexible you can be with evals. Unfortunately, this is a lot of work and requires thinking and discussion with your team and those involved.

https://poyo.co/note/20260217T130137/

I wrote about general ideas I take towards simple single prompt features, but most of it is applicable to more involved agentic approaches too.

minikomi··on How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution
I agree, and this is why I tend to use gptel in emacs for planning - the document is the conversation context, and can be edited and annotated as you like.
minikomi··on Evolving a Modular Dev Experience in Emacs
Given the recent surge of popularity in home-grown coding agents ala pi-coding-agent, I thought it would be nice to share my setup for semi-hands-on coding.

It's not a replacement for a more sophisitcated coding agent harnesses, rather an alternative interaction mode, and tools to support it.

Although the content runs fairly emacs-centric, consider it rather a nudge toward building your own small, self-owned tools.

minikomi··on What if writing tests was a joyful experience? (2023)
When writing Janet, i enjoy the judge[0] style of testing because it's so interactive. I added emacs helpers, one for running existing tests and one for updating the tests. It made for a nice repl-like experience, especially nice when writing grammars[1].

[0] https://github.com/ianthehenry/judge

[1] https://github.com/minikomi/advent-of-code/blob/d73e0b622b26...

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