Browser personalization tools or extensions ...

A combination of User stylesheet (stylus) or User scripts (greasemonkey) -- superpowered by AI models that can let users target screen elements and shape webpage display and behavior without having to manually deal with precise DOM elements or CSS JS syntax

Best useful tweaks could become part of a curated list like uOrigin ad block lists

It was very poor UX (from the demos i saw) -- and i tried it myself in Windows native command terminal and the rendering was horribly broken (windows is a second class OS for dev tools).

A light weight GUI with keyboard shortcuts that mimic CLI experience would have been far better without taking anything away from power users of the terminal.

Desktop apps are a second class citizen that do not get feature parity

Lot of actions on Claude Code seem much more suited for a thoughtfully designed GUI

Even the chat responses and links therein can benefit from judicious use of rich text and formatting and real hyperlinks to other parts of the UI or elsewhere

Favourite Skills can be toolbar buttons or menus if user so wishes.

https://x.com/ni5arga/status/2059289355525767557?s=20

Counter claims too

https://x.com/ni5arga/status/2059280940044800050

Love-hate relationship with their products.

I have M570 trackball and it's perfect for me and i love it.

Only problem -- the switch on it fails in one year and starts doubleclicking like crazy.

(I am aware of DIY fixes to replace the switch that needs desoldering and soldering)

Accumulated six useless M570 trackballs in past six years. I hate that.

They are waiting for me to find enough time and motivation to attempt the DIY fix. Maybe after I retire in a few decades.

Maintaining the side on a PC became tedious.

Netlify made life easier by emoving dependency on a local machine and offering an online CMS -- but the UX of editing is very irksome and not conducive to writing.

There were a few nagging bugs in the Netlify CMS editor -- like cursor always jumping to end of line if you are trying to edit in middle of a line. I finnaly fixed this bug by spending 30 mintes with Claude Code.

But yeah -- I have been meaning to build my own online CMS to allow frictionless editing and blog posting. Will either use this or take some inspiration from this for sure. Good work - looks nice!

It has been years since i experimented with linux distros - i am a Windows user. If there is a noob guide to setting this up -- even as a VM on Ec2, I would like to give it a shot.

Is there such a guide? I was hoping the video has a accompanying "how to" but couldn't find one.

Go to your router settings and blacklist the Kindle's mac id.

Sleep peacefully that your kindle will never be bricked or wiped by a software update.

also integrate push-to-talk for voice inputs.

use case is to use it while standing up and moving about -- with a large display screen at a distance. Or my specific interest -- work for extended time on a treadmill.

I have Claude Code with access to Azure environment (via CLI) where app components are deployed and also to the code base repo. I paste an error message or explain the symptom. CC works through various configuration checks and network tests etc across the Azure resource list and also the application logic and surfaces the root cause of the error precisely. Easily 1-2 days of effort if I had done all those myself (this is an inherited code base) -- would have had to learn a few of those skills along the way or may not have thought about some of the checks if i were on my own -- all done in about 45 mins with basic human-in-the-loop guidance.

Of course learning it the hard way would have meant deeper understanding and first-hand exprience for me. But there is no guarantee I wouldnt have given up mid way frustrated or other priorities prevented me from pursuing this in full.

> CI passed because the malware installed volkswagen

We need this to ocassionally make us stop and think about what we are doing.

If I hypothetically set out to create a single fake one dollar bill that can pass for real ... i would have to spend a lot more than one dollar on the materials ro pull it off, surely?

In a paradoxical way, the amount of stuff you can get done in an hour now is like a firehose -- which we rarely experienced in our earlier life -- which can be overwhelming to my brain. So I subconsciously resist starting a session because I never feel fully rested, calm, and focussed to take all that and process it well.

There are also 10x more "active" projects now -- and prioritization and choosing between them at every moment is still a struggle. The tempation to do the fun and novel thing and avoid important but familar boring chores pops up every step of the way and can derail you for days.

I am still trying to create a system that works -- now using the very tools. Long journey ahead.

EDIT: My experience --

I was paying for both Claude Code as well as ChatGPT Pro ...but was heavily almost exlucively using CC for coding work because it was so good. After CC started hammering the session and weekly quotas lately -- I tentatively srated using Codex and find that it seems equally good and almost indistnguishable for my work, and ocassionally shines by one-shotting some tasks. This helped me stay afloat with just 2x$20 spend per month without feeling held-up for ransom. Also never hit codex limits till now.

Leaving a 5 hour session quota unused towards the end, or worse not even starting a 5 hour session clock, was a source of constant anxiety -- that I am wasting precious quota getting nothing done. I think I am getting over that now.

Attempting this today would probably surely cost that much in today's dollars?

EDIT: on a second thought ..this almost feels like "proof of work" for currency :)

If seemingly the "same" product -- in this example say 'MacBook Pro' base model for current year -- delivers less goodness, less value compared to its price year-on-year. If the price appears to stay more or less the same but the product is made weaker in service of higher margins for the seller. THAT would typically qualify as shrinkflation ... in my understanding.

This is more objectively measurable in comsumer goods where you can see the packaging being tinkered with over time so consumer thinks they are getting the same SKU but this year's packaging has less of the product tghan last year's, at similar price point so it doesnt register as price inflation.