@botteaap I've personally also had moderate success with writing out a README for something as if it already exists and have an agentic tool actually build it out: https://git.msfjarvis.dev/msfjarvis/acceptable-vibes/src/branch/main/gitea-forgejo-migrator

@botteaap I feel it depends. Here's an example from just this week of Claude managing to debug a fairly complex cryptography problem that the author themselves had struggled with despite objectively being an expert in the domain: https://words.filippo.io/claude-debugging/?source=Mastodon

It can often be faster to have the LLM find a real bug quickly and come up with a crappy fix you can throw away than spend hours finding the bug in the first place.

@botteaap it's usually Claude Code, Codex or OpenCode. I've been throwing agents at random stuff the past month and mostly used OpenCode for the purpose. If you have a well defined problem such as fixing some tests that can be evaluated in a loop then agents can function relatively hands-off.

That said, yesterday I did run into a problem I hadn't seen before with models "forgetting" stuff over the course of a session: https://msfjarvis.dev/notes/gpt-5-seems-to-forget-things-well-within-its-context-window/

@jakehamilton Empty results for trouble-nvim for me as well, maybe they changed how the attribute is exposed which makes the package index miss it?

@gsuberland welp just saw you found it too

@gsuberland was curious so I dug through the Git blame, apparently this is to avoid rendering problems that only occur with WebGPU

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1980392

Definitely gonna take some time to let go of my habit of clicking the `about:profiles` bookmark in the toolbar to switch profiles

Was not expecting the RSS feed refresh to add 200 entries of anthro art

Finally migrated my old `about:profiles`-based #Firefox profile to the new version with a proper UI and it was actually pretty easy, just had to copy over the old folder into the new one Firefox created. Did crash the browser because I forgot to close all instances beforehand but it was smooth sailing after that.

@neil Not anymore, I used to occasionally open Google Search Console and add extra tags to posts based on people's search queries.

@fesshole what a terrible day to have eyes

@mhoye I genuinely believe none of the Bluesky founders have any fundamental idea of how to run a large social media network.

@yosh I'm jealous! That actually looks perfect.

Briefly tried out the KDE Tokodon app on my phone and it's way too laggy, can't imagine it'll ever beat Phanpy's PWA as my Fediverse client of choice.

These are currently pretty short because they were originally intended to be one or two lines in a very long page. Most of them also have the same date because I pulled times from git blame which was following the big Logseq to Obsidian migration.

Took some effort and curation but it's up now: https://msfjarvis.dev/notes/index.xml

https://androiddev.social/@msfjarvis/115457599945882181

@marcogom I refuse to touch notifications with a ten foot pole, it's such a colossal mess.

On the topic of feed readers doing notifications, I'm personally happier to not have them because an RSS reader isn't exactly an algorithmic feed where a post will disappear into the nether if you don't see it right away so notifications don't add much. It's better for me to open the app when I have the time to read and find something interesting waiting.

@jakehamilton if you haven't played the new episodes of Dispatch yet you are gonna LOVE the ending of episode 4

Yash and I have been working on automating daily builds of our SDK sample apps to make it easy for QA to validate in-progress fixes, and the amount of shit we've had to deal with for iOS has been mind boggling.

Between the two of us we might have placed the Curse of Ra on 3 generations of Xcode developers out of pure hatred.

Sometimes linter bugs are a little silly: https://github.com/Automattic/harper/issues/2120

@tris I don't wanna get stuck in an even more niche ecosystem if I'm putting in the effort to get out of the established one, I'd rather just bet on myself at that point.

I should add a notes section to my website for stuff that doesn't feel blog worthy but also relatively useful to just be a Mastodon post :thinkSpin:

Getting dangerously close to wanting to write my own SSG because Hugo's constant instability is pissing me off...

@chirpbirb Who says nixos-rebuild is not a therapeutic experience, look at you

Time to see how much creative liberty the movies took
https://bookwyrm.social/user/msfjarvis/generatednote/8821294

@lehtimaeki YouTube also encourages it by adding AI generated audio translations to videos and defaulting to them. For a period of 2-3 weeks I could not watch a single video that wasn't in English without the shitty AI audio track, even though the uploader had perfectly serviceable subtitles included.

@comments_from_andros_dev Cloudflare has a way to avoid stripping out the Content-Length header, probably worth mentioning in Org Social docs for people using the service: https://developers.cloudflare.com/rules/reference/troubleshooting/#content-length-header-removed-from-response

@jakehamilton There is no shot the resemblance is a coincidence

@zlatin will check them out!

Finished the #Murderbot series, now what the fuck do I do with myself...
https://bookwyrm.social/user/msfjarvis/generatednote/8807693

Having read 7 books of #Murderbot by now I was quite unsurprised to discover that Apple TV's adaptation of the series had been given an unnecessarily humorous twist that grinds my gears.

Looks like Vercel users are about to rediscover their hosting platform resells AWS. Already seeing https://spliit.app be down because they're on Vercel while Signal is reporting localized unavailability because of a major AWS outage.

`79953 store paths deleted, 194385.62 MiB freed`

erm

I'm back home for Diwali and about to discover just how fast #NixOS unstable moves, since the last rebuild on my home PC was on 2025-07-08 so I have just over 3 months of package upgrades to catch up on...

@TodePond congratulations!

Achievement unlocked: woke up early enough that the overnight charging attuned to my alarm hadn't topped off my phone yet.

Prime alert fatigue: weather forecast shows rain and pain for every second this week while it stays dry so I start ignoring it and get drenched the second I step out for an evening run.

@britter you're absolutely right!

@jcoglan it was a very confusing day when I discovered all these supposedly revolutionary agents stuff was just gaslighting an LLM via Markdown

I recently bought a shaker cup that perfectly fits my hand blender, so now every morning is me playing "Will It Blend?" in the kitchen.

@abnv The IndieWebClub meetup is effectively next door from me but sadly I'm leaving for a 3 week trip back home on that very day :(

Hopefully a future installment returns to the same location later in November! 🤞

Reliance on Amazon aside, switching from physical books to a Kindle has fully restored my reading habit in 3 days flat. I can now read in bed more easily, which means I choose to read over watching YouTube and fall asleep sooner and feel better the next day.

@abnv doesn't look like it's deployed yet? I get a 404

Apparently my MacBook can track that I always use it docked and automatically stops charging past 80% and only runs off the power input from the Thunderbolt cable, that's pretty cool.

Hey @neil :androidWave:

I was reading your 2022 blog about your eBook reader setup and was wondering if you've managed to find any vendors in the mean time for DRM-free eBooks? Amazon's definitely convenient but I was hoping to not rely on them if possible.

Been a long time since I went to bed reading a book rather than watching a YouTube video, felt nice.

Got to sleep from 11PM to 6 AM rather than 3 AM to 9 AM, and went for a morning walk rather than stumbling into my chair to catch up on work.

I could get used to this. Thanks Kindle :androidPetPet:

Where do people get their #DRM free e-books? I just got a second-hand Kindle Paperwhite and would rather pay authors more directly for their work.

@airlied it's Hyprland, their problems were documented a few years ago and haven't gone away https://drewdevault.com/2023/09/17/Hyprland-toxicity.html

Looking back through my blog archive is making me realize how much of my day to day has moved from building new things to fixing old mistakes and I sometimes miss not being the resident code janitor lol

I do enjoy the maintenance aspects for the most part but it'd be nice to start having the space for shipping new things again. Soon™

@pixellight Happy birthday!!