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New comment by alanwreath in "Elevators"

alanwreath — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:23:43 +0000

I wish there were more games like this. It’s such a simple premise but so satisfyingly difficult after each level. And it even has a bit of randomish failure which makes for even more challenge.

New comment by alanwreath in "OpenCircuitX"

alanwreath — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 06:52:55 +0000

Nice can’t wait for the linux port coming up.

New comment by alanwreath in "Annoying and alarming things about OpenCode"

alanwreath — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:47:21 +0000

I’m running my development from a Mac which I think precludes flatpack usage. Pity because I love the control you have over git

New comment by alanwreath in "Annoying and alarming things about OpenCode"

alanwreath — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:33:01 +0000

I’m not really here to defend opencode (or bash it, who has the time?), but in setting up SDD paired with the right tools to both make deterministic black boxes out of certain actions, paired with subagents. I have ran with opencode and qwen 3.2 on a 5090 and I’m getting results on a production codebase of golang where a review of changes from Claude had no changes but acceptance of the solution.

I may be missing some aspect of where the local llm’s are losing, but I’m content with draining my local tokens and treating the frontier models like a less junior SWE.

New comment by alanwreath in "[dead]"

alanwreath — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 06:59:07 +0000

Nadella asks the question: why do foundational model providers get to tell you what knowledge you are entitled to access while at the same time engorging themselves on all your data scrupulously.

New comment by alanwreath in "The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway"

alanwreath — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 23:41:59 +0000

Could it also be that the phrase “using an LLM” is loaded in itself? Who is getting more velocity out of it:

- chat box interaction

- vendor harness user (the cursor / antigravity crowd)

- SDD Claude users

- bespoke harness creators who let it goooooooo

I mean we already know who’s using all the tokens and driving enough cost to make penny pinchers consider removing other “costs”

New comment by alanwreath in "Linus Torvalds on AI usage in Linux development"

alanwreath — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 06:26:50 +0000

The tool isn't going away, it _is_ useful, but it's also a footgun and a slow suffocation. So learning to live with it and learning how to mitigate those issues is like any other tool adopted.

New comment by alanwreath in "I also filed the corners off my MacBook"

alanwreath — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 06:19:24 +0000

yes I want a post about that background, its pretty awesome how it gradually and seemingly randomly builds itself.

New comment by alanwreath in "LLM Networking with MikroTik"

alanwreath — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:27:21 +0000

Yes! Recently connected two disparate systems (ubiquiti and mimrotik) using their exposed API’s and a Claude session so that systems I have on either environment could talk to each other. I am not a network engineer so it was liberating to get my gear working together. That said it’s a work in progress and just today I noticed something weird that one of my computers can’t access Minecraft servers while the rest of my network can

New comment by alanwreath in "Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK"

alanwreath — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:30:33 +0000

I stand by my comments. Bazzite has benefits being immutable but immutability can cause certain tasks to be more involved or constrained. Case in point it’s nice that Bazzite comes with a lot of sane defaults:

  - brew
  - podman

But it would be disingenuous to understate the additional hurdles either you or software you are accustomed to using being amenable to operating within the immutability restriction. That’s not to discount the great benefits and entire categories of problems that immutability protects you from. It’s just a priority and weighing your options question.

Here’s an example that bit me: I wanted to run k3s/k0s but both have issue with Bazzite. Those were hard stops for me.

New comment by alanwreath in "Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK"

alanwreath — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:29:28 +0000

Bazzite or CacheyOS (if you wish to do gaming and have more rope to hang yourself mainly because you can more easily affect the system if it isn’t trying to enforce immutability).

TBH with the onslaught of LLM CLI’s like Claude I am a lot more promiscuous in my Linux OS choices as of late. I used to stick to Ubuntu because that was the Linux I knew, but the “interface” has become the same to me because I just ask Claude to help me achieve a semantic goal without having to score the web for the appropriate keys.

Who knows, maybe I’ll eventually swing the other way and give NixOS a try finally.

New comment by alanwreath in "Show HN: Multi person realtime location tracking"

alanwreath — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 06:12:37 +0000

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New comment by alanwreath in "Buried Apple feature turns an iPhone into the perfect kids' dumb phone"

alanwreath — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 06:52:30 +0000

I thought they prohibited the Apple mdm for family use. Was this a soft ban? Can we just use it without like verifying it’s just for the family?

New comment by alanwreath in "What Big Food Did to Ice Cream"

alanwreath — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 06:31:49 +0000

Problem isn’t with “tastes better and at half the calories”, no, it is actually for providing filler when the initial sell was using genuine simple ingredients.

The software analog is like a certain Italian company that buys SaaS companies and waters down the initial product, firing then very ingredients that made the product good in the first place in an effort to:

- extract maximum profit

- ride the coattails of trust a brand has garnered.

I won’t speak to the odd coincidence of their name and its relation to ice cream.

Some people aren’t buying icecream to lose weight. That’s not their purpose. It’s to indulge and enjoy artisanal foods where the purpose was high quality not high margins.

Of course I don’t buy that icecream much anymore - I just buy Andies custard by the quart.

New comment by alanwreath in "What is Bending Spoons? The little-known AOL and Vimeo owner that's now public"

alanwreath — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:38:58 +0000

That’s Valve (somewhat) and Blizzard (but to the nth degree) in a nutshell.

That said, tangentially, I do wish game companies would let games live on.

New comment by alanwreath in "EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0"

alanwreath — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:28:56 +0000

I assume the same, but not because it’s sanctioned. Sanctioning is a slippery slope or a degree change as has been mentioned.

New comment by alanwreath in "We charge $10k a week to delete AI-generated code"

alanwreath — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:45:42 +0000

“Maintainability” is probably the word you are really looking for. Few devs care whether something adheres to whatever as long as we maintain:

- user experience/expectation (i.e., if feature X worked three years ago, it still works in a consistent way today after a bug fix) - development cadence (if implementation of feature X took N days, a comparable feature Y should take N days) - sanity (can we assume that a fix going in Thursday night or Friday morning doesn’t wreck the weekend)

SOLID, DRY, ACID-compliant, linted, formatted, clean, functional, compositional, etc. May be the means (misdirected or otherwise) but they are not the motivator(or at least should not be).

What matters is whether the day two feature requests, bug reports, CVEs, and traffic load that are coming can be met on time.

Not saying it can’t be done without a developer at the helm, Anyone Can Cook™, but I guess it depends on what harness is in use or has created for the org, and whether that consideration is baked into the guidelines for the codebase (which seems to be, at least to some extent, what this service tries to course correct).

And of course, what is done to the process when incident x happens, again and again. Are we only updating code without paying attention to process that enabled it in the first place?

Maybe that’s the story of vibe coded repos: the code devs were removed but we really still need devops personnel. Also maybe new tech will be more readily adopted.

Interesting times.

New comment by alanwreath in "Podman v6.0.0"

alanwreath — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 19:07:55 +0000

I mean I should probably also say it’s good enough that Bazzite ships with it enabled (not something I’d have expected)

New comment by alanwreath in "Podman v6.0.0"

alanwreath — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 19:06:35 +0000

I mean for local dev I like that I can just press one button and have Kubernetes available. Podman Desktop had something approaching that simplicity but I have found Docker Desktop more stable in my limited experience with it.

New comment by alanwreath in "Podman v6.0.0"

alanwreath — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 19:05:00 +0000

Good for the most part, I appreciate them being pretty much a drop in replacement (mostly so tools that reference docker can just work usually).

Regardless it works enough for me to run local Kubernetes and Tilt