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reddit_clone··on Herdr: One terminal to rule them all
That ship has sailed boss.

I don't think you can avoid those much longer.

reddit_clone··on Costco is the anti-Amazon
Yes! When you order a washing machine (I did couple months ago), everything was included. Somebody brought it, lugged it up 3 stairs, fixed it all up and took the old one back.

They even rebated $100 because it got scuffed during installation :-)

reddit_clone··on Costco is the anti-Amazon
This is an important point for me. I am too lazy (too much executive dysfunction) to research products. I trust Costco to do the product research and offer us a good quality/price match up.

Return policy is also pain free. You can pretty much return anything you don't like. Just take it back.

They used to have amazingly generous return policy for electronics. Since some people abused it, bit tighter now.

reddit_clone··on Herdr: Agent multiplexer that lives in your terminal
Yep. Realized that as soon as I looked at the product page :-)
reddit_clone··on Herdr: Agent multiplexer that lives in your terminal
Nice!

Does anyone know anything like this for Ghostty?

reddit_clone··on If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort
> Give a cursory answer

That may be enough in some cases.

Sometimes people are not looking for fully fleshed out high-effort answers. They want a pointer (to documentation, or a repo) to get going from someone more experienced.

Google search may throw up too much information and it is hard to make a choice. A one sentence answer from an expert may be enough to set them on the right path.

reddit_clone··on How to setup a local coding agent on macOS
>64 GB

Thats the rub. I have an M4 with 48G. I wonder if it is worth testing this out.

My past attempts (with Ollama and various LLMs) were too slow to use.

reddit_clone··on Claude Fable 5
Converted all the tabs to spaces? :-)

You are right, this is not a rewrite like the Bun case.

The real news is, at 50M LOC, it is able to handle and do _something_ coherent.

reddit_clone··on Life is too short for a slow terminal
If it is a one-off task, it doesn't matter if you use GUI or Terminal commands to do it. But more than once, terminal starts paying off IMO.

Here are some advantages.

  - It is repeatable, you can do the same exact thing you did before. With ZSH history + FZF, recalling a command is a breeze.

  - Auditability. The command in your shell history is there for you to revisit and servers as a permanent record of something you did (or didn't do).

  - A command line doesn't make a mistake at 10th time, due to fatigue, inattention etc.

  - Reusability. You may have to repeat the same command for different folders (or remote servers). A slight modification of the previous command will do it for you.
reddit_clone··on Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows
I am currently trying something called ShortCat, this is not just for the browser but works in other Mac applications too!

Look Ma, No mouse !

reddit_clone··on Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows
Vimium extension does that. Works well too. Works on Chrome and Firefox.
reddit_clone··on Agents need control flow, not more prompts
Perl has powerful regular expressions, but it only goes so far. Doing multiline/nested structured parsing is too painful.

Perl6/Raku has built in grammers that can do that idiomatically.

If you have a couple minutes, give this a glance. It will give you an idea.

https://andrewshitov.com/2018/10/31/a-simple-parser-in-perl-...

I am no expert in haskell either. But parsec is similar in concept.

reddit_clone··on Agents need control flow, not more prompts
I noticed that too. Unless you _ask_ for a script, they throw away the scripts they write.

They are particularly bad at complex multiline parsing. Writing all sorts of weird/crude python/awk scripts and getting confused in the process.

I wish they would use Perl6/Grammer or Haskell/Parsec or similar and write better parsing scripts.

reddit_clone··on PyInfra 3.8.0 Is Out
Does this abstract over the package management systems (apt, yum , apk etc.)? Or do we still have to write distro specific install commands?
reddit_clone··on Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model
What can I run on a M4 Pro with 48 GB or RAM?
reddit_clone··on Tim Cook's Impeccable Timing
That.

And I had to look down every time I had use it. I am glad to see it go.

reddit_clone··on Opus 4.7 to 4.6 Inflation is ~45%
Not just _wrong_. It is confused! It is actually right in the second sentence. This was Friday, Opus 4.6.

>I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?

Walk. It's 50 meters — you're going there to clean the car anyway, so drive it over if it needs washing, but if you're just dropping it off or it's a self-service place, walking is fine for that distance.

reddit_clone··on Claude Opus 4.7
To me Claude Opus 4.6 seems even more confused.

I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?

Walk. It's 50 meters — you're going there to clean the car anyway, so drive it over if it needs washing, but if you're just dropping it off or it's a self-service place, walking is fine for that distance.

reddit_clone··on Emacs and Vim in the Age of AI
>functionally useless skills

The dog would disagree! :-)

I admire your mother. She is a real hacker.

reddit_clone··on Emacs and Vim in the Age of AI
I am reduced to keeping Emacs and VSCode open on the same files/project :-) Use the LLM from VSCode and switch back to Emacs for regular editing!

Currently trying out various Emacs packages. I got 'claude-code.el' actually working. But there is some flickering and also the interface is a bit wonky.

I will try other packages mentioned in the article.

For the life of me, I can't _edit_ with VSCode. My Emacs/Doom/Evil muscle memory is too ingrained.

reddit_clone··on Hammerspoon
Cmd+Shift+m mutes/un-mutes your Mic when focus is on teams window.

I think GP is asking about a global (from any application) mute/unmute teams Mic. I have wished for one for ever.

reddit_clone··on I Wrote a Scheme in 2025
Well CL is supposedly the programmable programming language. So none of this is surprising..
reddit_clone··on My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020)
Yep. Org-gtd, Org-Roam and Org-journal user here. Haven't needed anything else. All local, searchable with deft and old fashioned grep.
reddit_clone··on Show HN: A Minimal Monthly Task Planner (printable, offline, no signup)
Very nice!!

Does it not print the notes? I tried to print a month and it is not showing any notes in the preview.

reddit_clone··on Advent of Code 2025
I have used Raku (Perl 6) with good results.

Common Lisp. Using 'iterate' package almost feels like cheating.

I have done half a year in (noob level) Haskell long ago. But can't find the code any more.

Most mind blowing thing for me was looking at someone's solutions in APL!

reddit_clone··on What Killed Perl?
Few years into Perl 6, they should have recognized the writing on the wall, forked off Raku and let Perl 5 grow on its own.

One of the biggest fumbles in the history of computing. (With hindsight ofcourse..)

reddit_clone··on What Killed Perl?
Same here. I use Raku instead.
reddit_clone··on What Killed Perl?
I use Raku on a regular basis. I think it is the best language to write DevOps (for lack of a better term) scripts.

Perfect for people who find Bash too sharp and fragile and Python too tedious.

reddit_clone··on Why I love OCaml (2023)
Ocaml can be as imperative as you need it to be. Or as functional.

It has no dogmatic inclination towards functional. It has a very pragmatic approach to mutation.

reddit_clone··on Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down
We have moved all our stuff to Bruno nowadays.
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