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Actually, after reading more carefully, it seems that custom notifications won't be supported anymore in favor of the `subscriptions/listen` RPC endpoint. Maybe the upcoming extensions will make it possible?

Thanks for sharing this SEP. Yeah some system notifications will go away, but servers will still be able to send custom notifications. Those can be turned into push notification on the device of the user or even actions that the user's device can do programmatically.

Software like this make me questioning a lot the defensibility of products such as Wispr Flow.

A friend of mine created something similar with just a few prompts, allo working locally, and he's stopped using Wispr Flow

I actually took a lot of inspiration from sqlx, which is really nice. The main differences are:

- in JS/TS you don't have compile-time scripts that you can run like with Rust's macros, so you need to run a codegen command before running the type checks (disadvantage)

- I had to create a TS parser that goes and finds the tagged template functions with the sql statements, while sqlx has them "for free" because sql statements are the input to the macro itself (disadvantage)

- I use an in-memory Postgres (PGLite) to describe the queries, instead of requiring a running pg instance (advantage)

- I don't cache the statements and codegen for now like sqlx does, something that can be added later

I think they are similar in that they both substitute the dynamic params with no-ops like $1, $2, etc. before handing the sql statement to the pg's DESCRIBE function

I write Bun.sql with raw SQL and no ORM, and the one thing I kept missing was types. You write a query, get back `any[]`, and hand-write a row type that silently drifts from the actual columns. Drizzle/Kysely fix this by moving the query into TypeScript, but then you're not really writing SQL anymore.

bun-sqlgen goes the other way. You keep writing raw SQL queries, just give each one a name.

A codegen step reads your migration `.sql` files, stands up a throwaway Postgres via PGlite (so no Docker) or SQLite, prepares every tagged query against it, and writes a `.d.ts` that maps each query name to its real result type. After that, plain `tsc` does the rest: `user.notExistingField` won't compile, and `display_name.length` gets flagged because the column is nullable.

Nullability was the annoying part. Postgres's describe doesn't hand you per-column nullability, so I infer it from the query plan plus the catalog, with manual overrides for the cases that genuinely can't be inferred. SQLite works too.

The runtime stays 100% Bun.sql, the generated file is the only artifact (commit it), and codegen is fast enough to rerun on save.

It's early (v0.1, built it for my own projects) so I'd mostly like to hear where it falls over.

In the last couple of companies I've worked in, I've felt both overwhelmed by PRs to review and disappointed by my teammates that were just rubber-stamping my PRs

That's a good framework and I like that the creator took the same design choices as the FastAPI framework.

Although I think a type-safe language is a better fit for CLIs, to let coding agents iterate faster and have less runtime bugs (help messages not updated, unknown flags, etc.)

I've noticed that the TypeScript ecosystem around CLIs is fragmented, and for that reason (and because I love type-safe code), I've built parsh.

It's extensible by design, and you can test single commands atomically.

I think there's a good opportunity for it to become the Next.js/Vercel of CLIs.

Repo: https://github.com/ilbertt/parsh

It produces an arithmetic program but with wrong operands. The frozen LLM's hidden states for "two" and "2" are nearly orthogonal (cosine sim 0.09) in this context, so the head can't extract the right numbers. "2 plus 3" works fine and draws 5. The model understands the task structure but can't bridge word-form to digit-form without token generation

We built waclaw to let you host many OpenClaw instances behind a single WhatsApp Business. Inbound messages are routed to the right openclaw by phone number.

Good for personal use (one bot, one number) or for companies that want to give each of their users their own AI assistant reachable over WhatsApp.