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terhechte

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https://terhech.de https://appventure.me

Mostly Swift, Rust nowadays.

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terhechte··on OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO)
ChatGPT allows setting a "personality" profile Settings -> "Base style and tone". Try the "Efficient" setting. Its great. no emoji, no clickbait.
terhechte··on Nvidia NemoClaw
How is Peter "early in their career"? When he sold PSPDFKit for 100mio in 2020 he had been working on it for 13 years, and before that he'd worked as an engineer.
terhechte··on The engine of Germany's wealth is blocking its future
Any proof for this claim?
terhechte··on Agent Safehouse – macOS-native sandboxing for local agents
Shuru should do exactly what you want:

https://shuru.run

terhechte··on Step 3.5 Flash – Open-source foundation model, supports deep reasoning at speed
Did you try an MLX version of this model? In theory it should run a bit faster. I'm hesitant to download multiple versions though.
terhechte··on Gemini 3 Deep Think
so your definition of consciousness is having petty emotions?
terhechte··on Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues
I agree that macOS has become worse, however your examples don't really count:

Window snapping was implemented some time ago: https://www.macrumors.com/2024/06/12/macos-sequoia-window-ti...

Instead of win key, you can press F3, or just set a hotkey that works for you in the System Preferences

Instead of clicking the red maximize button, you can double-click the window header / title. This will use an algorithm to try to resize the window to the best size for its content.

terhechte··on Putting Gemini to Work in Chrome
I like doing side projects, I don't like wasting a day of work potential on any of these web apps: Google Cloud, AWS, Azure, Appstore Connect, Google's Android App Store, RevenueCat, Stripe, etc

I dread having to log in to these systems and waste hours achieving the simplest tasks.

This is what I'm using Claude for. E.g. I log in to AppStore connect, tell it what I need (3 subscription tiers), it will do all the clicking and editing and Apple's stupid UI, then I will ask it to create a summary for RevenueCat, and use another Claude session in there to click all the buttons to configure based on what just happened in Appstore connect.

Or configuring S3 buckets or whatnot.

terhechte··on Virtual Boy on TV with Intelligent Systems Video Boy
I tried a virtual boy the first time some months ago. I was super impressed with the quality of the graphics. I've used a Quest 3 and a Vision Pro and obviously these are very different beasts, but its just impressive that in terms of sharpness, this 90s device felt as good.
terhechte··on Fedora Asahi Remix is now working on Apple M3
KDE has a setting to switch the cmd & command keys so that e.g. command+c copies instead of ctrl+c. This works in all KDE apps (it will not work if you install any Gnome/GTK app, though). I forgot the setting but its something in advanced and used to be called Emacs key binds, but now I think it just refers to the keys.

Anyways, beyond that, have a look at Kinto which tries to do everything in one box, but it is an additional software you have to run:

https://github.com/rbreaves/kinto

terhechte··on Flux 2 Klein pure C inference
There're multiple task solutions for Claude or other llms that let it define tasks, add implementation notes and (crucially) add sub-tasks and dependencies. I'm using Beads (https://github.com/steveyegge/beads) and I think it really improves the outcome; especially for larger projects.
terhechte··on 2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop
There's a mix of both worlds that I've tried for a while and want to pick up again in 2026: Use macOS so that I can utilize the great hardware and the well integrated drivers (e.g. sleep, performance, silence), but then for each project / work stream just fire up a lightweight linux VM fullscreen and do everything related there. E.g. all browser windows/tabs, apps, file explorer windows, terminal sessions. When I stop working I pause the VM. When I need to continue everything is as I left it. The main reason why I stopped was that the 2d hardware acceleration for Linux didn't work in UTM.app. I think I'll just need switch to Parallels or VMWare
terhechte··on 1.5 TB of VRAM on Mac Studio – RDMA over Thunderbolt 5
Tim Cook is famous for locking in their prices years in advance.
terhechte··on Show HN: Learn Japanese contextually while browsing
Do you perchance have this on Github? I like the idea but would love it for another language, so would be interested in your add-on.
terhechte··on Why proteins fold and how GPUs help us fold
I don't know the space, so I found the article interesting. Please explain, what's wrong with it?
terhechte··on Qwen3-Omni-Flash-2025-12-01:a next-generation native multimodal large model
Is there a way to run these Omni models on a Macbook quantized via GGUF or MLX? I know I can run it in LMStudio or Llama.cpp but they don't have streaming microphone support or streaming webcam support.

Qwen usually provides example code in Python that requires Cuda and a non-quantized model. I wonder if there is by now a good open source project to support this use case?

terhechte··on CachyOS: Fast and Customizable Linux Distribution
I oftentimes run Linux Desktop fullscreen in a VM on macOS. macOS acts like a hardware abstraction layer in that case. Depending on the task and the tools, I sometimes prefer this option (I do like the macOS UI though (except for the current version), I just like to use the right tool for the job)
terhechte··on CachyOS: Fast and Customizable Linux Distribution
I wish they had a working ARM port
terhechte··on Tongyi DeepResearch – open-source 30B MoE Model that rivals OpenAI DeepResearch
Fully agree to this. LM Studio is much nicer to use and with MLX faster on Apple Silicon
terhechte··on ChatGPT Atlas
Weird, I didn't get that question. It asked for full disk access so it could import my Safari settings, but that was optional.
terhechte··on Show HN: Notepad.exe – macOS editor for Swift and Python (now Linux runtime)
Hey Marcin :) Really dig this. A much friendlier alternative to Swift development than having to use the monstrosity that is Xcode. Especially for people that want to get something done quickly. The Linux support is also really cool. The Xcode-alternatives market is really starved, so I'm very happy this exists. It's possible to configure VSCode to support Swift, but that's a lot of configuration and messing around.

When Vim bindings? ;)

terhechte··on Show HN: OS X Mavericks Forever
You needed to own a "QuickTime Pro" license in order to enable these features. I used to do all my simple video editing with it until they shelved it.
terhechte··on Visualizing GPT-OSS-20B embeddings
I can see the labels when I hover with the pointer
terhechte··on Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code
I tried it some weeks ago, but I went back to the CLI. Honestly, I've been a GUI app for most of my life, preferring proper GUI tools to Terminal tools, including running the GUI versions of VIM and Emacs (during my brief emacs stint). However, over the past 2 weeks I've slowly transitioned to a full cli development setup with wezterm, neovim, lazygit, fzf, fish & Claude Code. I enjoy working like this so much.
terhechte··on iPhone DevOps (2023)
I've by now come to the belief that there's someone high ranking in Apple Org responsible for iPad who deeply despises developers. Every action done over the past years has made development on the iPad worse, not better. Such as spending extra legal energy to make sure the recently-introduced emulator support on iOS does not cover running any kind of computer VM that could allow software development. At the same time, Android ships an official terminal that can run a Debian VM and X11 apps.
terhechte··on GPT-5
the _6!_
terhechte··on Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal
https://github.com/bosun-ai/kwaak
terhechte··on Microsoft Introduces 'Copilot Mode' in Edge
So interesting to read all these negative comments. I'm actually considering installing Edge because this something I've really been wanting for some time. I run Safari & Firefox and I know there're some plugins, but this deep integration (e.g. across tabs) is missing. I usually open 15+ tabs when I'm researching something, and then being able to ask an LLM questions across these tabs is awesome.

The main reason for me not to install this, honestly, is that I've heard that OpenAI is working on something similar and I already have their subscription. I might just wait a bit longer, but I really can see the appeal of this product.

terhechte··on Apple's Liquid Glass: When Aesthetics Beat Function
What I find comical is that the same people praising this on various networks are often the same that hate on cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin or AI because of the energy usage.

Apple has 1bio devices out there, if each of them consumes 10% more energy due to this change, that's a massive energy consumption increase - and this change offers no functional benefit at all.

terhechte··on Nobody knows how to build with AI yet
I have this small project that lets you use Claude code (because their terminal UI is really smart) with any OpenRouter model:

https://github.com/terhechte/CCORP

Works fine on macOS / Linux, untested on Windows. Still working on improving it.

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