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With the battle of AI versus human agency raging I have a prediction that local-first desktop apps are going to make a comeback. It's nice to see something like this make it easier.

Very cool!

I can't help wonder what this would look like for humans. Imagine, set one of these up at a party and it has the means to identify anyone on the invite list. When it hears the person it displays a photo, brief bio, and relationship status.

Nicely done! I'm a fan

There's Quake merchandise available on Nine Inch Nails (nin.com) store right now. I'm not affiliated with either. Just a fan of the band and the game.

I feel exactly the same. The CF services I do use are DNS and R2. I'd be curious if there's a guide somewhere that lists their services through the lens of lock-in. For example, R2 is somewhat S3 compatible so it's less risky to use because I can swap providers.

nanu nanu

Did you mean 5 months? :)

Best line: "Engineering has no time to stop and rethink their approach, because stopping isn’t in the backlog."

Not really news until it's widely available.

Anyone know the latest around Fable being re-released after gov smackdown?

I'm glad to see this feature and looking forward to see how it evolves.

Many of the product decisions that Zed's made caused me to switch to Zed for my daily driver IDE (previously JetBrains). The recent AI agent threads and improvements around diffs really solidified the move.

TPUs

"A little less conversation, a little more action please"

I've been thinking about this a lot lately as well but from a different vantage point. I put together an "ast-crdt" project combining Abstract Syntax Tree and Conflict-free Replicated Data Types) which allows multiple agents to effectively merge multiple code changes. The initial thought was to answer the question "what would it look like to allow modifications to the same code project by multiple agents in a safe way without relying on git semantics (and the inevitable merge conflicts)?" It also touches on the idea of "what if humans are removed entirely from the commit-PR-merge workflow?" All of this to say git-centric forges as we think about them today would start to look very different.

Since when has that stopped companies from mishandling of data? :)

Like any good company off-site. Strippers and steaks

Can you share how you're running it?

For the signal to noise reason, I start with Claude Code reviewing a PR. Then I selectively choose what I want to bubble up to the actual review. Often times, there's additional context not available to the model or it's just nit picky.

Pretty cool and related to another path of work I'm following from Steve Yegge: https://medium.com/@steve-yegge/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16...

Supabase seems to be killing it. I read somewhere they are used by ~70% of YCombinator startups. I wonder how many of those eventually move to self-hosted.

I had a lot of fun reading the articles about Gas Town although I started to lose track of the odd naming. Only odd because they make sense to Steve and others who have seen the Mad Max, Water World movies.

I promptly gave Claude the text to the articles and had him rewrite using idiomatic distributed systems naming.

Fun times!

Before I clicked on this I was optimistic and thought this was going to be about how we've turned a corner and the web stack pendulum is now swinging back to the easier days before frontend frameworks.

Same! Right there with "every day must begin with coffee"

A web app platform written in Rust with the primary focus on zero-dependency apps and using Pingora as a forward and reverse proxy. Targeting Hetzner for hosting and Cloudflare for DNS. I love Rust but don’t like the long compile times which led me down this rabbit hole (zero dependencies make for fast compiles).

For a while, the O'Reilly subscription was included in the $99/yr ACM membership. Then they stopped offering O'Reilly for a bit. Then they brought it back as part of the $75 skills add-on.

I feel like this is a little known secret (discount via ACM) that more folks should know about. Hopefully this post helps spread the word.

Immediately read this as "prostate" and proceeded to spit out my coffee. Carry on

Please provide a trivial example of the code and the generated sketch front and center on your front page.

I recently gave up on Proxmox for my home lab needs after a failed upgrade from 8 to 9. I also never liked the feeling of not having an easy to use API.

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This resonates with me. I'm also around the same age and have the same amount of experience.

I love AI and use it for both personal and work tasks for two reasons:

1. It's a way to bounce around ideas without (as much) bias as a human. This is indispensable because it gives you a fast feedback mechanism and validates a path.

2. It saves me typing and time. I give it one-shot, "basic work" to do and it's able to do accomplish at least 80% of what I'd say is complete. Although it may not be 100% it's still a net positive given the amount of time it saves me.

It's not lost on me that I'm effectively being trained to always add guardrails, be very specific about the instructions, and always check the work of AI.

I like Podman with it's API for hosting (no k8s) but I reverted back to Docker for local because of docker-compose incompatibilities. This was a year or more ago so it may not still be an issue.