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porker··on Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]
With RAM prices where they are, I'm expecting to see a lot more of this in the next year.

We've been transitioning in-memory caching for web apps to tiered or on-nvme caching. It's an order of magnitude slower, but no one really noticed.

porker··on Hitachi launches CO2 heat pump water heaters with solar-friendly tariff controls
> Japanese houses/apartments also typically have a house ventilation system, meant to run when it's humid.

Do they have Mechanical Ventilation and Heat Recovery (MVHR) or is this more like Aircon? I've recently moved somewhere more humid and I'm looking to get a grip on what other countries do.

porker··on Shopify acquires Tailwind
Spot on.
porker··on Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article
How well is your code review skill doing at detecting and correcting these? History in comments in git is so annoying! As is missing why A didn't work but B does. None of the models I've tried get this right
porker··on Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open
> Why? Because it has more/better features. Or you mean something else?

I mean something else. Zoom out, why do people need, or want, a tool like herdr?

What has led people to this point? Is it because they need terminal multiplexing to spawn agents, instead of using built-in subagents? Do they like cute sheep icons? What made having multiple terminals open unappealing? Is it the built-in alerting when attention is needed? Is it only applicable to people running their agents on remote machines?

When I look at these kinds of tools, that is the question I can't answer because I suspect I haven't run into the pain points they address yet, despite running multiple LLM sessions in multiple projects simultaneously.

porker··on Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open
It answers the "What" but not the "Why?"
porker··on Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open
herdr users (and all the other terminal multiplexer users): what am I missing?

I use cmux because I like tabbed terminals on macOS grouped by project, saves messing with our daft window management.

What is it that makes herdr et al so popular with LLM users?

porker··on Flint: A Visualization Language for the AI Era
How would you quantify the magic of these older charts? What is it that makes them have charm and character?
porker··on Qwen 3.8
It's always fun to see what works for others, because for my work it'd have to be Sol > Fable. Fable makes too many mistakes.

Coordinating agents though? Fable any day.

porker··on Codex Resets
Some of these resets were because of bugs in the 5.6 launch that caused subagent-users to burn _a lot_ of extra tokens. It was placating customers.

It is impressive they've got the capacity to do so.

porker··on Migrating a production AI agent to GPT-5.6: 2.2x faster, 27% cheaper
> Fable 5 is sick. [It] solves almost any task from start to finish, the way it should be done — no errors, perfect code. It's a miracle.

> As for GPT-5.6 Sol — it doesn't even come close. I honestly don't understand why people even try to compare them.

What kind of problems are you working on? I like Fable but when planning work on a complex C codebase it's making more mistakes than 5.6 Sol xhigh for me.

In what scenarios is Fable giving you "no errors, perfect code"?

porker··on GPT-5.6 Sol, along with Terra and Luna, will launch publicly this Thursday
For gpt-5.5 I build up that session context into a markdown file, and then I start a new session and give it the markdown file with the instructions for what to do.

I'm guessing this works better because it can always go back and re-analyze the saved context.

porker··on Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model
Yes, I've just come to the end of implementing all the planning I did while Fable was available. And nothing now comes close to creating plans that could be coded and just worked like it did.

On a large C codebase, Claude hallucinates constantly, and GPT 5.5 gets there are with a lot of help, but still gets things wrong.

porker··on Show HN: Semble – Code search for agents that uses 98% fewer tokens than grep
Congratulations on the release!

Could you add fff to the benchmarks?

porker··on What British people mean when they say 'sorry'
We like our sarcasm and disappointment.
porker··on System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]
What is RE in this context?
porker··on Wired headphone sales are exploding
I've yet to find a set of Bluetooth headphones or earbuds that don't have a level of background hiss that I can hear.

Particularly for spoken word, it's annoying and distracting.

porker··on Notes on Baking at the South Pole
> It's also hard to brew coffee if you tend to use off-the-boil. The best you'll get is about 93 C.

That sounds ideal for off-the-boil coffee brewing? At sea level I (and all the speciality coffee shops round here) aim for 91C, and I'll drop that to 88-89C for medium roast and lower if it looks on the dark side. Brew methods: Aeropress and cafetiere.

porker··on Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015
Let's say you're thrown into a website you've never worked on before and asked to fix a styling problem. You can look in the browser tools, but the website will only be running the compiled production version, and if the team knows what they're doing there won't be source maps available.

So you've now found selectors in DevTools that you think are causing the problem, and you want to find them in the source code. In the case of many projects, that means searching through hundreds of small CSS files.

That's why you grep selectors, and where the pain comes. You have to start with the most specific rules that you found in DevTools, then start deleting parts from them until you find a non-nested rule that's in the source, yet still specific enough that you haven't got hundreds of matches to go through.

It would be great if something like ast-grep could take a CSS rule copied from DevTools and search for nested CSS that would compile to match it.

porker··on Improving 15 LLMs at Coding in One Afternoon. Only the Harness Changed
Link?
porker··on Everything – Locate files and folders by name instantly
Cardinal: Fastest and most accurate file search app for macOS. https://github.com/cardisoft/cardinal

It's slower to start-up than Everything but just as useful once running.

There are a few Mac oddities like OneDrive files appearing twice because macOS is convinced they exist in two locations, but that's a minor annoyance.

porker··on Dash: Open-source implementation of OpenAI's in-house data agent
FYI all your posts are ending up as [dead] on HN, but I think the concept of learning is interesting enough that this deserves a chance.
porker··on Claude Code's new hidden feature: Swarms
> due to Anthropic's ToS change.

Not a change, but enforcing terms that have been there all the time.

porker··on Cloudflare acquires Astro
https://mastrojs.github.io/ was the one I couldn't recall.
porker··on Cloudflare acquires Astro
https://lume.land/ a good, straightforward SSG.

There's one other I've seen recently that looked good but I have misplaced the link

porker··on X (Twitter) Is Down
Thought the UK had been cut off from X, good to know it's everyone :D
porker··on Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients
> Basically, I need Claude Code with a proper review phase built in. I need it to slow-the-fuck-down and work with me more closely instead of shooting mountains of text at me and making me jam on the escape key over and over (and shout WTF I didn't ask for that!) at least twice a day.

It sounds like you want Codex (for the second part)

porker··on How Markdown took over the world
If you use GMail: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/markdown-here/elifh...
porker··on Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team
> The truth is, business opportunities are rarely eternal, usually they are just an opportunity to make money within a short window of time, such as a decade or two. Sometimes even shorter than that, perhaps even only a year or two.

Agreed, and Adam and Steve made a life-changing amount of money from Refactoring UI and then Tailwind UI. That's a great outcome on its own.

porker··on Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team
FWIW I found Practical UI [1] a more actionable book than Refactoring UI. Both are similar but I found it covered the material in a more accessible way.

1. https://www.practical-ui.com/

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