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c-hendricks··on Ghostty 1.4
Ooooo, will this end up in Konsole / konsolepart? Or will it be a new app?
c-hendricks··on A farewell to Arc browser
And when VC services enshittify so that the VC funders can get their money back, the market won’t also respond with vibing their own version?
c-hendricks··on OpenCode Hacked: User credentials leaked
All the comments I've seen about warning signs point to opencode the cli, where this is about one of opencode's hosted services.
c-hendricks··on What I self-host
I like ci, issue tracking, and mirroring repos though
c-hendricks··on What I self-host
I use traefik so with docker compose/labels it's real easy to give things a reverse proxy with an auth gate and other middleware

There's lots of solutions, I also find compose hits the sweet spot for integration into my homelab

c-hendricks··on Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr
Plenty of my iso's intentionally contain those names though. Really, sonarr / radarr should have implemented this a long time ago since they're the ones doing the searching, downloading, and inspecting of files: https://github.com/Sonarr/Sonarr/pull/8775

Using settings on the indexer isn't great since with Prowlarr the user doesn't actually interact with the indexer portion of Sonarr.

Doing it in release profiles by bumping down their score is a cute workaround but then the torrents will just stop saying ".exe" in their title.

Really it's a thing Sonarr have to do, as evidenced by the multiple PRs they have to try and finally do it.

c-hendricks··on OpenCode 2.0
> the client/server model

I see people talking about this being new in v2 everywhere but it's not the case. What's new is that it's the default (and also not really since `opencode service` and `opencode serve` start two different things). But in v1 it was very possible to run one opencode instance and have multiple clients connect to it (like Openchamber and neovim).

c-hendricks··on OpenCode 2.0
OpenCode v1 was also done using Effect, that's not the secret sauce to hot reloading.
c-hendricks··on OpenCode 2.0
Openchamber is a really good OpenCode client.

Paseo is a layer on top of various harnesses (aka you get to use a Claude subscription), and keeps its own database of sessions, etc.

I use Openchamber (and another client in neovim), but Paseo does have one convenient advantage where you can connect to other paseo servers

c-hendricks··on Running Windows desktop tests from Linux with disposable VMs
Yes, since the release of Windows 10 in 2014.
c-hendricks··on Running Windows desktop tests from Linux with disposable VMs
Not sure the lower bounds of CPU/memory/disk space that your project needs should be considered "so many unknowns".
c-hendricks··on The new (and vibe coded) Epic Games Launcher
I don't even like current Epic leadership and where they're taking the industry but this post ignores decades of work they did on engines and games that sold millions of copies.
c-hendricks··on The new (and vibe coded) Epic Games Launcher
The third party notices document mentions Tauri.
c-hendricks··on The new (and vibe coded) Epic Games Launcher
Oof, going hard mode with their launch of a Linux app I see
c-hendricks··on Running Windows desktop tests from Linux with disposable VMs
> Doesn't Windows do some drama if its not activated and has been running without a license for more than 48h or similar

Your info might be like decades out of date, since windows 10 it's just been an overlay and locking out some appearance customizations (you can still set them via other means though).

c-hendricks··on Iosevka is an open-source, sans-serif and slab-serif, monospace font
My build is about 16mb.
c-hendricks··on Iosevka is an open-source, sans-serif and slab-serif, monospace font
Way too wide for me, plus as others mentioned you can get really close with Iosevka, but for free.
c-hendricks··on Best-selling Zigbee temperature sensors tested and compared
Yeah the first thing "install the matter service" asks for is a matter websocket URL, so we're still at my original comment.
c-hendricks··on Amazon's 'About You' section guesses oddly specific details about shoppers
I'm seeing the same, various categories with no information filed. It's the only instance of "about you" found on the page.
c-hendricks··on Best-selling Zigbee temperature sensors tested and compared
Yeah I am wondering what's actually needed for thread/matter in home assistant. Do you need a sidecar server? Do you need to install addons in Home Assistant? What of my existing Thread / Matter routers (HomePod Minis).

I've tried a couple of times but just gave up because zigbee/zwave work well enough and I'm not sure I'll like where thread/matter end up in a decade.

c-hendricks··on You said no MCP
> MCP pollutes agent context even when you are not using it

MCP in some harnesses bloats context. MCP in some harnesses doesn't bloat context.

c-hendricks··on You said no MCP
The agent doesn't, the harness does. It's separate from a normal conversation / agent runtime environment. How do you suspect auth keys can leak from an MCP that's been added to chatgpt.com?
c-hendricks··on You said no MCP
> No MCP needed

Definitely helps that the home assistant api is documented online most likely in the training data.

c-hendricks··on You said no MCP
Either way still seems like the issue is people giving influencers too much power over them.
c-hendricks··on Improving site performance by shipping more CSS
The idea of an `sx` prop kind of implies runtime. If there's any logic in those objects it can't be pre computed
c-hendricks··on What even is an OS now?
> What even is "product and software development" anymore?

The ideation of features, their requirements, getting code for features written, testing the features, seeing how they fit in with the rest of the landscape, and maintaining those features. Same as before. Do those go away in your future? Even with the aid of AI agents, do you really think billions of people will want to go through that process every time they want a device to do something? Do you really think the younger generations who are being told AI will replace them will also embrace AI?

Similar to how even your hypothetical devices of the future still very much have an operating system (a kernel, libraries for software to interface with hardware, a standard suite of apps and tools, an environment for the user to kick things off)

> You might as well just say "I think you're overestimating the general public's interest in using computers"

I might, because I think the general public doesn't much like to "use the computer". It's what they need to use for work, or school, or how to listen to music or watch what they want to watch.

We're only just starting the general public's introduction to agentic AI with Siri and some Android devices. I'm betting there will eventually be some horror stories.

c-hendricks··on What even is an OS now?
I think there's some irony of this reply. You're a software developer, I think you're vastly overestimating the general public's interest in product and software development. Almost like https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2501:_Average_Fam...
c-hendricks··on What even is an OS now?
FWIW I do kind of see your point. I have lots of software / hardware with a user base of one to a handful of people. I also know it sucks having to maintain software that drives your life, even if that maintenance is AI supported.

Just with the bit I quoted above, that seemed like a big misread of the market and the implications of everyone writing their own apps.

In this future, are people paying the API pricing of traffic providers? In this future, who's supplying the traffic data if no one is using their mapping apps?

c-hendricks··on What even is an OS now?
> Forget the map, just tell me if I should get off the Eisenhower Expressway and take Roosevelt, Madison, or Lake back home?

> Is there a meeting happening anywhere right this minute that I’m supposed to be in?

> You can go on and on like this. These all sound trivial. That’s the point. They’re normal-life problems nobody would have built serious programs around, because the audience sounds too small.

Waze and Calendars. Both have huge audiences.

c-hendricks··on The newest ESP32 can run Linux and it's getting close to a Raspberry Pi
Not even sure I'm talking to a person at this point.
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