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edumucellion ChatGPT and Codex usage limits merging

This is how the e-mail they have sent starts:

"We’re increasing the usage included in your Pro plan and making it simpler to get things done in ChatGPT. As of October 29, your Pro plan will include twice your current Work and Codex allowance ..."

edumucellion Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?

Pihole + OpenVPN

edumucellion Tell HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years

Given this is a fairly common setup, you can go autonomously on this setup with the help of Codex or Claude if you have access to it, or whatever AI model really. You can start by showing your website (and the source code of it and saying that you wanted to migrate to Netlify and ask the step-by-step). If you are stuck get in touch edumucelli[at]gmail.com

edumucellion Tell HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years

Wow, that is amazing, congratulations on making such difference on peoples lives. Btw, you can use Netlify to host your website for free and still be able to add a PayPal client button. That would save you 5$ per month that could be directed to the cause you are helping for all those years.

edumucellion Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

I am still working on a Linux dockbar for X11 and Wayland, it has all the goods of dockbars I have been using throughout the decades now, 60+ applets baked in, fairly good customization, etc * https://docking.cc/ * https://github.com/edumucelli/docking

edumucellion Show HN: I spent 2 years designing a mechanical Magic Keyboard

Beautiful, would it work on Linux? Btw, the website is really heavy for my connection.

edumucellion Hop.earth – OpenStreetMap based car racing game

Too much "vibe" in the code.

edumucellion Our position on open-weights models

We distilled all the proprietary material into our token-based money making machine that is more expensive on every new release, but "we should crack down on industrial-scale distillation operations".

edumucellion Claude Opus 5

Anecdata: my workflow has been working on the same personal projects for months now with Codex. I cannot anymore finish my daily/weekly code with 4.8 anymore.

I was dividing my work between Codex and DeepSeek. Now I barely use DeepSeek, or never because Codex quota is enough after Sol

edumucellion Codex Resets

Also the fact that now you can keep unused resets and use them later is a big advantage: "You have 4 usage limit resets available".

edumucellion Frame – Linux X server in Assembly

OMG, yes, please, get rid of all those composers, all that mess that people are doing. X11 is 40 years of battle testing. Wayland in 22 years (it already has 18) will be 100x worse than X11.

A Dockbar I am working on https://github.com/edumucelli/docking/ is a pain to build on Wayland. It already supports a lot of composers and even mutter/gnome with that Gnome shell extension, but at what cost ...

edumucellion Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)

I have been working on dock bar for Linux

* https://docking.cc

* https://github.com/edumucelli/docking

It has X11 and Wayland support, pre-built packages for all major distributions, almost 60 baked in applets.

For those into Linux and using a dock bar, I am sure you will like it.

edumucellion GPT-5.6

Not sure about the consensus, but during an entire week I have done every task on my workplace with both Opus 4.8 and GPT 5.5. GPT won hands down. I would even sometimes copy the plans and solutions (using different Git worktrees) from GPT and paste it on Opus and itself would say GPT plans were better. At that point I have migrated. Fable is not enabled in our workspace so I have not tried.

Claude lost my trust around February this year when the plan would say nonsensical things as "delete this method" that was clearly a key method on that part of the codebase.

For personal projects I am using Codex 20$ plan and when that is over I use DeepSeek which is insanely good for the cost.

edumucellion Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

https://github.com/edumucelli/docking

https://docking.cc

A Linux dockbar with tons of applets and support for x11 and Wayland. Works on Gnome and KDE. I always wanted to write one as I have been involved with several open source ones, but it is a lot of time to go from scratch. I use it everyday, and I am enjoying it so much!

edumucellion Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release

Been using Linux as sole OS for 25 years now. I will stick to X11 no problems, I am sure it will be just fine for my usage. When we thought Gnome 2 was gone, MATE fork appeared, X11 will be there for a long time. I am also going through the struggle of porting a software I maintain (github.com/edumucelli/docking) to Wayland and it is awful: "this compositor do this part, that one does that part, no compositor does this :shrug".

edumucellion SQLite is all you need for durable workflows

Very heavy indeed, people will confuse the durability that Temporal provide with all the other properties a distributed system needs. They will then think that Temporal will solve all their problems.

edumucellion Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)

Fast, customizable, and extensible dock application -- fully written in Python, with built-in applets and full Linux desktop integration.

https://docking.cc

edumucellion Show HN: Docking – Extensible Linux dock in Python

Tested today, most of it works using XWayland. Some applets won't like windows killer as it uses xkill, also some feature like window preview as Wayland do not give access to other screens, but also features like having the dock follow the mouse across different monitors.

edumucellion Show HN: Docking – Extensible Linux dock in Python

I have a tentative fix on the way https://github.com/edumucelli/docking/commit/7ddcdeae42e8277... -- the deb file will be arch specific now as well

edumucellion Show HN: Docking – Extensible Linux dock in Python

Thanks, I will fix that one and get back to you

edumucellion Show HN: Docking – Extensible Linux dock in Python

The rocket docking into a base was the meaning, regardless of the other usages :-)

edumucellion Show HN: Docking – Extensible Linux dock in Python

I do not have a bar that I can put everything I want, so I created it, as many other developers have created a dock bar, just like MacOS has its own, etc, et.

edumucellion Show HN: Docking – Extensible Linux dock in Python

Haha, I am not native speaker as you can imagine. The idea here is more of a space ship/rocket docking into a base.

edumucellion Show HN: Docking – Extensible Linux dock in Python

To be honest, I am not sure, I will be working on those as the next big thing for Docking. I am uncertain of how much I can achieve on Wayland. Looking forward.

edumucellion Show HN: Docking – Extensible Linux dock in Python

Yes, indeed. The next I will be working with is Wayland. Let's see how hard that will be. I am sure there will be applet that I will never be able to port like Window killer that users xkill, etc.

edumucellion Ask HN: Share your personal website

www.eduar.do, love my URL which is my first name

edumucellion Farmland practices are driving bird population decline across Europe

That is simply not true! Use of mechanical farming and fertilizers/pesticides can be beaten in productivity by permacultural practices. One example in France that has been followed by researches (and has produced several papers [1]) is the Ferme du Bec.

It is able to produce multiple times more and more qualitative (organic), for the same area than the national average mechanized production in France.

The pesticide industry and mega farmers want you to believe that what they are doing is to produce more food, but that does not stand the fact check of initiatives like permacultural ones.

[1] https://www.fermedubec.com/la-ferme/la-recherche/ (scroll to the "STUDY REPORTS (English versions)" if you do not speak French.

edumucellion Don't write clean code, write CRISP code

It is laughable talk about "Don't Repeat Yourself principle" on a strongly biased towards Golang article. A language that took 13 years to add a simple method (Index) that helped the programmer to find an element in an array (slice). Before that you had to write a for loop every time you wanted something from an array. Talk about "DRY" ... That is everything but "simple" as described in the article.

edumucellion Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?

Props to you guys for putting a complete tutorial on that and not keeping it for you. Cheers!