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New comment by alanwreath in "Parallel agents in Zed"

alanwreath — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 03:36:58 +0000

I wonder if you could use something like vLLM and have these subagents max out your local gpu. I’ve been looking for using a local model because I’m tired of rate limits of the cloud and also would really like to make use of my local gpu when I’m working (5090h even if it’s not on my computer I’m typing on.

New comment by alanwreath in "Homeland Security is making "smart glasses" to collect intelligence on Americans"

alanwreath — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 10:16:31 +0000

Odd that they would choose the form factor represented in the article - I am going to assume this is just some picture filler picture.

It would seem one of the few occupations where it would not be off putting to have a bigger HMD, especially in the case that you’d probably want the device to have dual purpose. One being that of a dystopian tool, and the other of being protective face covering that you know… you kind of need when you commit your heinous atrocities.

Heck I figure they could go all the way to DaftPunk style masks and it would seem on brand.

New comment by alanwreath in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

alanwreath — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:05:30 +0000

Johnny Apple Seed references incoming…

New comment by alanwreath in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

alanwreath — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:56:57 +0000

It’s not novel to critique or idolize anyone, especially given the roll undergoing the changing of the guard. It’s not like hundreds of managers are changing.

They are all still there.

But here’s to hoping that change comes. Apple is already a rich company. But isn’t that boring?

New comment by alanwreath in "[dead]"

alanwreath — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 03:36:29 +0000

It’s petty and sad at the same time.

New comment by alanwreath in "What if Python was natively distributable?"

alanwreath — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 01:48:12 +0000

It’s a good point. The Argo workflow/event set up I’m referencing isn’t for everything. It does distribute ELT pipelines rather well but I am not sure it was designed with that particular usecase in mind. Thank you!

New comment by alanwreath in "What if Python was natively distributable?"

alanwreath — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 01:38:08 +0000

You peeps are right - I should have been less snarky.

Having worked with projects like celery I at first was enamored by the relative simplicity of getting a job queue going, but it traps you into celery which is just python or whatever language happens to create a celery compatible message structure (it’s amqp for most shops I’ve worked with).

Thing is in distributed systems it’s annoying when all the different systems have to pepper celery as a layer of your understanding. I found that systems like Argo workflows/events did an awesome job of keeping the message agnostic to anything (even Argo) such that writing the code was boring (the good kind). At the end you’re not even thinking about pubsub or anything other than either what you log out or write to a file. Either of those is fine.

How those different services connect or scale is irrelevant to your service (that’s for another layer handled by your Argo manifests) and it’s contextually liberating.

I am probably not being fair to this project, I just dislike making my software be someone else’s implicitly - there are places that would consider themselves x (celery in my case) shops because of the investment not only in the invasive code presence that is commanded by the library but the necessary mental model. I felt like while it is an investment to learn Argo - the code structure and mindset is pretty portable.

New comment by alanwreath in "Every Law a Commit – US Law in GitHub"

alanwreath — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:46:29 +0000

Love to hear more about Dark Factory and how the pipeline works!

New comment by alanwreath in "U.S. exempts oil industry from protecting Gulf animals, for 'national security'"

alanwreath — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 02:15:38 +0000

Wasn’t diversifying US energy sources also a national security issue? And wind energy was set aside because, wait for it, they killed animals. Birds to be specific.

New comment by alanwreath in "FCC updates covered list to include foreign-made consumer routers"

alanwreath — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:08:38 +0000

Mikrotik nooooo!

New comment by alanwreath in "What if Python was natively distributable?"

alanwreath — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 13:03:54 +0000

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New comment by alanwreath in "FastAPI-compatible Python framework with Zig HTTP core; 7x faster"

alanwreath — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 17:18:22 +0000

I was asking earlier if DHI has tests - seems they do. As does the FastAPI refactor.

Would be nice though if there was an exact test suite that ran against both that could demonstrate parity. It would be onerous to try and compare both library’s test to see which one is more comprehensive (believable) - by default I’d expect the original to be the most believable (duh) mostly because tests represent historical cases that can up and broke it.

New comment by alanwreath in "FastAPI-compatible Python framework with Zig HTTP core; 7x faster"

alanwreath — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 03:53:45 +0000

I’m now just learning about DHI (which this project uses as the pydantic replacement that is typically used by FastAPI) - which by the way was brought up recently but seems to have gotten zero traffic

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46767871

Very interesting.

New comment by alanwreath in "Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company"

alanwreath — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 23:34:08 +0000

Ah the Google graveyard thrives.

New comment by alanwreath in "First 6 days of Iran war cost $11.3B"

alanwreath — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 22:12:13 +0000

It’s spending. Comparatively? Not sure. Health and education are wildly more expensive in the US as compared to other countries). Are US citizens getting similar/better outcomes? What is the comparison between exported/imported jobs and health care between countries?

New comment by alanwreath in "White House plan to break up iconic U.S. climate lab moves forward"

alanwreath — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 21:48:21 +0000

So true. You can apply this to limiting federal government. The GOP used to all be about states rights to self government. It’s so reversed that it feels like that’s never been the case.

New comment by alanwreath in "Pentagon formally labels Anthropic supply-chain risk"

alanwreath — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 21:52:31 +0000

But for how long? If Claude is a supply chain risk. That means anyone hosting him would also be a supply chain risk.

Ergo AWS/Azure/GCP - nobody will host them because it’s Anthropic or the lucrative government contracts. Hegseth/Trump didn’t just say “you’ll never do business with the US” - it’s that they will never do business IN the US. Hopefully that means they’ll be able to take up shop elsewhere in the world.

New comment by alanwreath in "Pentagon formally labels Anthropic supply-chain risk"

alanwreath — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 21:46:18 +0000

Labeling Anthropic a supply chain risk only because they were uninterested in doing business with the US government under the terms requested seems very much a bullying tactic that results in something the west critiques China for: coerced alignment.

Anthropic has been given a death sentence.

New comment by alanwreath in "Oban, the job processing framework from Elixir, has come to Python"

alanwreath — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 19:12:58 +0000

I like celery but I started to try other things when I had projects doing work from languages in addition to python. Also I prefer the code work without having to think about queues as much as possible. In my case that was Argo workflows (not to be confused with Argo CD)

New comment by alanwreath in "Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections"

alanwreath — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 02:30:29 +0000

Yes - thank you for reminding me a voting machine system was also bought recently (too long a process to get in? Just pay more)

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/dominion-voting-systems-sold-c...