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They've got an openai + anthropic compatible endpoints. I got far enough to run some tests on the openai endpoint, albeit with some finagling (their /models list is empty, my tool auto-configures using that, was an initial stumble).

seems pretty dang snappy and I like it's tone/personality so far.

look at today's hackernews frontpage and generate me a daily briefing report (create an artifact) to read later for today's nerd news

https://chat.home.jake.town/artifacts/019f679d-99e5-7000-b02...

why does this website absolutely wreck my browser

what model did you try it with? I agree and also push back a bit: How will we know when the LLMs reach the point of handling it if no one takes the leap? I applaud more people sludging through the slop and hauling their slop buckets around.

An example is Fable being released. I felt like the most complex thing I was willing to sludge through was having it clone llama-server's web UI with my own opinions (I really like the original, kudos to them). And the initial skeleton was working so well I felt like I had sunk the tokens and committed to getting it the rest of the way: https://inkcap.click

I'll agree and expand on "weird restrictions" -- I used to check the claude usage graphs multiple times a day to see where I'm at on my weekly budget. With gpt 5.5 I don't think I'm working differently but haven't felt the need to check anything because I think I've hit my limit... once? on some egregious edge case scenario iirc

Probably not _as_ good, but you can run gemma 4 for the ears/brain (accepts audio input), and kokoro TTS for the mouth. You want something like silero VAD sitting in front of the LLM so you aren't passing wasteful audio to gemma 4, so you send only voice activity segments. I type all this because I tried it out recently as a Zork experience, seeing how creative Gemma 4 12B could be. It was surprisingly good!

The best project I found to throw it at was cloning llama-server's web UI essentially in one shot. I'm not sure what I'll do with 5 extra days, maybe try to imagine some complex features. I'm no longer surprised at how much seems to work in these "new brain what can it do?" test, and instead think the risk is feeling like I have to take it the rest of the way once I've sunk the token cost :| https://inkcap.click

https://jake.town

Lately I've been following https://loco.rs/ as it aims for a rails-like experience, complete with generators for workers, controllers, etc. I've only had time to experiment but it's the closest I've gotten to feeling rails-y in rust.

The car prototype reminded me of Spy Hunter graphics, but I couldn't remember that NES game's name at first. Sent me on a nice nostalgia dive!

Just wanted to say thanks for bringing this up! So far it is a really interesting tool for me, as someone too lazy to find a proper financial planner

In 2024, everyone looking for a code editor knows how to extract a tar.gz right?

I'll raise my hand and say I still get the `tar` terminal command options confused and have to pause and figure out the file format I'm dealing with and the options. So, no, I usually don't know, and have to look it up in the manpage/help. "Was it -xvfz for this one? Shit I just did this recently..."

I think I read they expect to want the cars back to feed their robo taxi dreams.

I don't recall a ball, but they dropped a feather and a hammer (the gravity experiment).

I helped write what might be a similar API gateway prototype in rails (made a DB query and decorated downstream requests with auth/role/etc headers). You might have threadpool/process/concurrency tuning to do. Even then, I don't think rails is a good solution for what is essentially an HTTP proxy, and I would've pushed for a different tool if time wasn't an issue. Rails was fast to build, I'll give it that. We ended up getting downstream service to $1M ARR so rails wins out against my "let me write it in XYZ language/framework" again somehow.

Came to upvote this. I think that github component in particular worked really well for me on a recent experiment. Server-rendered HTML can use custom components in our fancy world today! It's a feel-good place to be compared to just a decade ago imo.

if you're in rails, then in my experience you just add `safe-pg-migrations` gem and call it a day :D

I'll throw out the the GTFS transit standard involves publishing zipped CSVs representing your DB tables regularly. There are nice things about it and downsides IMO. This is how google map's transit directions function -- they rely on agencies to publish their schedules regularly in zipped CSVs I think.

One downside is that dev experience is pretty bad in my opinion. It took me years of fiddling in my free time to realize that if you happen to try to use the CSVs near a schedule change, you don't know what data you're missing, or that you're missing data, until you go to use it. My local agency doesn't publish historical CSVs so if you just missed that old CSV and need it, you're relying on the community to have a copy somewhere. Similarly, if a schedule change just happened but you failed to download the CSV, you don't know until you go to match up IDs in the APIs.

I still have my OG backlit kindle. It's showing its age with a tiny tear that lets backlight through, but I'm still pushing through books on it. I'd be curious how these newer E-ink displays have improved, wonder what the refresh rate (hz?) is on them.

just in case I confused: i'm not sure mold helps with the size of that directory :D. I was commenting on how big my rust repo is really, just saying that mold seems to help big builds like mine

This linker noticeably improves rust development happiness on an exploratory, chunky repo of mine that is trying to be a big ole web monolith (uses SeaORM and axum/tokio). You don't want to know the size of my `target` directory, but incremental builds are snappier!

Looks slick for how quickly it was built. I was surprised by the download size and RAM footprint, but... if it was easy to do cross-platform, I'm thinking this is still ahead of electron on footprint? Or at least competitive. Interesting!

same. Back in ~2009 I had the pleasure/horror of debugging/fixing "TCL drivers" for a piece of Java software that aimed to integrate with various pieces of hardware. I'll never risk putting anyone else through a similar torture if I can help it. ...then again I've left a trail of Ruby/Rails behind me that might get the same job done :)

Also we slowly lose upper atmosphere to the solar winds, when the magnetic fields fail to deflect it enough.

It's getting pretty old now (maybe renewables have progressed) but Union of Concerned Scientists made a solid attempt: https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/cleaner-cars-cradle-grave

Already deployed apps will keep running, but customers cannot update or manage apps.

Pretty sure some of their cron/scheduling stuff is affected too :-\

Takes me back to my BF1942 days, careening around maps in planes and tanks. I was dirt poor. I usually had to get a ride to the video rental store to rent console games. I'm thankful to have kept busy thanks to these groups. It kepted me interested in computers and exposed (a little) to software dev. ...and awesome music! Man, the music...

Here here. I backed Onivim hoping it was going to shine a light in the darkness, and it seemed promising, but ultimately was abandoned? I think, unsure.

Looks like zellij follows the same behavior as screen, if I'm testing right. I also prefer screen/zellij's choice here.

I remember reading about PropelAuth somewhere and thinking that Rust might slow down development -- something I wanted to be proven wrong about since I've been learning rust off and on, and like some things about it. It seems it's ending up up a mixed bag, and the negatives in the bag are still light enough that you're carrying it forward. Thank you for this blog post!