A really great place to reach for this is Elixir/Phoenix now that the set theoretic type system is in place with LiveView. I have been doing some pretty large/complex codebases gradually working towards fully integrating working this way for the past 5 years and it has been great.
Thanks! I was thinking of doing the 128gb to have some future proofing. I figure at this point, it's akin to a mechanic keeping great tools around, when it comes to having this sort of homelab and exposing it for your own uses. And great practice for building the next era of user facing computing that will be around as this proliferates.
I have been having pretty good success with Qwen 3.5 9B for "nontrivial but not challenging work all things considered" -- it runs great on my 24gb unified memory m4 pro MacBook Pro. What do the baseline specs look like Mac-wise for getting this model to run? Am I looking at a 96gb? 128? 256?
I use deciduous every day while working with LLMs to create more of my own tools/projects. It is a living memory for agents stored in a simple, portable manner. https://deciduous.dev
I regularly have agents communicate with each other this way using my tools Deciduous (https://deciduous.dev). It keeps all decisions in a DAG and the other agents, when configured, read from it constantly and use it to inform their new decisions. Extra entries in the same space from another agent come to light and they can begin to work together like this.
Valid, but you lose the lived history that comes with the audit log of it being actual review back and forth and CI runs vs lost to a developers machine and only a relic in the commit log. I can see both sides, though.
I wonder what he is up to. I have 2 _why inspired tattoos after he did so much to influence my entire philosophy and style of programming. What a unique character, who happened to pop up at a very formative time for me. Thanks for all the nice stuff and ideas, _why.
Jason’s work output is so prolific. Over the past 4-5 years he’s digitized the lifetime collection of magnetic media I acquired in a series of odd interesting events. So much slice of life nyc and weird cool music stuff that would have never been seen otherwise. Over 1300 tapes! All here https://archive.org/details/markpines
He is also just an absolutely delightful person to hang out with. Textfiles was one of the first websites I ever visited and getting to do this was a meet your heroes thing that actually went very nicely.
Finally, I can reasonably get something truly high contrast and not just close to it as the current offerings are. This is a little thing, but Zed continues to keep getting so many things right that it has gone from “interesting” to “my preferred editor” after 15 years in vim. The git “follow mode” has been especially great transitioning into heavy usage of LLMs in development. Happy to see the team continues to just get more little things right.
Temper is a programming language that compiles to many other programming languages. This interview with the creator and core team is pretty interesting, diving into how the language can compile to 6 other languages right now and is growing. Check it out: https://temperlang.dev
Disclaimer: I am an advisor to the company around the language, Temper Systems
I think the decisions it made along the way are worth tracking. And it’s got some useful side effects with regard to actually going through the programming and architecture process. I made a tool that really helps with this and finds a pretty portable middle ground that can be used by one person or a team too, it’s flexible.
https://deciduous.dev/
I have built this for my own use after extracting it from a project. It originally, for me, was about keeping logs of a bunch of complex math stuff I was doing in a project and cross referencing concepts and what I'd tried/not tried etc. Once I extracted it, the "archaeology" features became key after talking with users. Now the Q&A interface from the local app and the archaeology are the most popular pieces, but it works very well to make better decisions when documenting things as it goes with the git history combed through already. It can also attach documents or other metadata to the nodes to track things like PRDs, notion write-ups, etc. Really anything the LLM can have access to.
I have built this for my own use after extracting it from a project. It originally, for me, was about keeping logs of a bunch of complex math stuff I was doing in a project and cross referencing concepts and what I'd tried/not tried etc. Once I extracted it, the "archaeology" features became key after talking with users. Now the Q&A interface from the local app and the archaeology are the most popular pieces, but it works very well to make better decisions when documenting things as it goes with the git history combed through already. It can also attach documents or other metadata to the nodes to track things like PRDs, notion write-ups, etc. Really anything the LLM can have access to.
The anticompetitive move would be not running their software if ‘which codex’ evaluated to showing a binary and then not allow you to use it due to its presence. Companies are allowed to set pricing and not let you borrow the jet to fly to a not approved destination. This distortion is just wrong as a premise. They are being competitive by making a superior tool and their business model is “no one else sells Claude” and they are pretty right to do this IMO.
Great to see an Elixir job. They have been so scarce on here for many months. If you ever wanna talk a little shop, hit me up, I'd love to get to know some more in the community and have been working in it full time for 10+ years. email is in profile.
I mean, I'm monitoring it quite actively. I need something to do tonight. If it lasts 5 minutes it lasts 5 minutes. If it lasts a few days, that's cool too. No one ruined my "anyone can send anon messages" receipt printer messaging stuff over a few weekends, even. And it supported images etc too. If anything I will add a button so that _anyone_ can turn off the ability to let anyone post.
The creator of Dilbert, a comic strip about a man who hates his job, written by a man who hated everyone, has died. Hacker News convenes an emergency session of its Philosophy Department to determine the optimal framework for grieving a racist cartoonist.