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New comment by alexruf in "Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?"

alexruf — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:38:35 +0000

I'd almost bet that OpenAI will do the same thing with its plans as soon as Anthropic makes the first move. It's just a matter of who blinks first.

New comment by alexruf in "Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?"

alexruf — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:19:59 +0000

Sooner or later, Anthropic will probably have to take this step if they want to actually make money. Either way, they're going to lose a huge chunk of their user base because of it. I currently have a private Pro subscription for $20; I can just barely justify that amount for my personal hobby projects. Work-wise, my employer provides all of that for me, so I don't really care - this is just for my personal needs. But at $100, I'm out. The subscription isn't worth it to me just to run a few prompts in Claude Code once a week (yes, I'm still one of those people who is actually capable of, and enjoys, writing code by hand). I do use Claude Chat as well, but the free plan is more than sufficient for my needs (never ran into any limit until now). I simply have zero interest in Cowork and any products other than Claude Code.

In short: if Claude Code is removed from the Pro plan, Claude in general will no longer be interesting for people like me.

New comment by alexruf in "You need to rewrite your CLI for AI agents"

alexruf — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 18:55:30 +0000

I absolutely disagree. Tools should always be built for humans, not for machines! Believe it or not, I'm still one of those people who is actually capable of operating their own computer and doing meaningful work without any AI assistant (and I am proud of it). If that possibility or ability is taken away from me because the applications on my computer can only be operated through an AI — then I'm out and start a carer in woodworking or something.

New comment by alexruf in "OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been"

alexruf — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 05:48:08 +0000

Yes, and I am glad OpenClaw built it first, so Apple doesn’t do such a terrible mistake.

New comment by alexruf in "The history of Monokai"

alexruf — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 16:21:03 +0000

I use Gruvbox Dark (hard) wherever I can. I found the community made themes pretty decent for this one. Can’t say the same about Monokai. I tried a few, but all of them looked different. They didn’t even use same color palette.

Nord looks very nice. But the lack of contrast in its colors makes it a bit too hard to read for me.

New comment by alexruf in "The history of Monokai"

alexruf — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 10:35:07 +0000

In terms of aesthetics, Monokai Pro is my favorite color scheme. However, what always stops me from using it is the fact that it is simply only available for an handfull of tools. Personally, a consistent look between the tools I use on a daily basis is extremely important to me. And that is exactly the reason for me to spend money on a color scheme or a programming font. I just don't want to spend hours or even days customizing themes for every single tool. Even though I personally don't like the color choices of the Dracula theme (https://draculatheme.com/) very much, I appreciate the fact that it comes preconfigured for almost every application. Wish there was a similar selection for Monokai Pro.

New comment by alexruf in "Playstation 5 Pro"

alexruf — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 18:42:37 +0000

I'm shocked. 90% of my game library is physical. So if the console is priced at 799 € without a disc drive, and the drive costs an additional 149 €, that totals 948 € if I want to continue playing my existing disc collection. No, thanks!

New comment by alexruf in "My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore"

alexruf — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 08:26:59 +0000

What delay are you talking about? I never encountered such issues. Apps are launching extremely fast. With an ARM Mac almost instantly.

But maybe it’s just an issue if you are using the App Store variants of those apps. I don’t have experience in that. I am using zero apps from the App Store.

New comment by alexruf in "My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore"

alexruf — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 06:56:10 +0000

I have to admit, I read the article and the comments and can't help but smile a little. Personally, I switched from Windows to macOS & iOS (Linux on my second computer) back in 2013. Even though I am still ridiculed by Windows users for my Apple ecosystem, I have never regretted this step myself. macOS has never felt like it was patronizing me or getting in my way - it just works. While all my colleagues who use Windows are still busy setting up their development environment for every single project, I've been able to work for a long time because I configured the whole thing once many years ago. In short, my tolerance threshold for poor user experience in software has simply dropped to 0. And I can only encourage everyone to make the switch if you're not happy - sometimes the grass really is greener on the other side.

New comment by alexruf in "Berkeley Mono Typeface"

alexruf — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 12:58:46 +0000

Berkeley Mono is also my favourite font. I use it in the terminal, editor and for my IDE. It's a bit expensive, and I can understand if someone can't or doesn't want to spend money on it. I would recommend to check out the free fonts 'JetBrains Mono' & 'Hack' to these people.

Some people have already mentioned here that Berkeley Mono is not available as Nerd Font. I would like to briefly point out that Nerd Fonts provides a font patcher tool (https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts#font-patcher).

New comment by alexruf in "Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F)"

alexruf — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 15:08:20 +0000

Wow, this probably changes everything we thought we knew about this company, the product and its CEO.

No, seriously, does he think no one notices that the new X logo still hides the same old Twitter crap?

New comment by alexruf in "Kagi raises $670k"

alexruf — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 09:14:18 +0000

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/getting-started/setting-default.h...

New comment by alexruf in "Fark redesign is now live (2007)"

alexruf — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 08:20:58 +0000

I guess you brought it right to the point: Reddit has never grown to a company it’s „dorm room shitshow“

New comment by alexruf in "We will be shutting down neeva.com"

alexruf — Sun, 21 May 2023 07:23:33 +0000

$10/mo for unlimited searches would be great. I recently subscribed to Kagi. So unlucky I don’t have the early adopters benefit. Kagi is a great product. But constantly having to think about my included amount of searches and making the the decision whether to use Kagi or a free search engine is making it kind of impractical to me. As long as there is the need to constantly switch between two search engines, I can no longer justify the high price for Kagi.

New comment by alexruf in "Enhancements to the Kagi Search Experience"

alexruf — Fri, 05 May 2023 05:49:46 +0000

> Because they want higher quality search experience, have their privacy respected and/or do not like the entire order of things on the web where they are constantly being the product.

I really wish it would be that way. But from my personal experience non-tech affine people don’t care about privacy or ads that much (as long as it’s free). Just take my wife and father-in-law as an example: They have Google as their startpage in the browser. And instead of directly typing the URL into the browser bar, they will always do a search for it. I told them so many times, but they literally don’t care. And they are not completely wrong since it works for them. 99% of the time Google will return what they are looking for within the first result. No chance I can convince them to suddenly pay $5-10 for the same thing.

New comment by alexruf in "Enhancements to the Kagi Search Experience"

alexruf — Thu, 04 May 2023 21:07:07 +0000

Having a low entry is very important to get new users on board. But the included searches of 200 in the standard plan is extremely low. Even a normal user will hit this limit quickly (if not, they are not your target group - or why should they consider paying for a search engine anyway). This makes the standard plan absolutely unattractive even for non-tech-savvy professionals. But the professional plan also only offers 700 searches for $10.

Personally, I think Kagi needs to reconsider their pricing plans and either lower the monthly price or significantly raise the limit for included searches. Otherwise I don't know if I can judge $10 per month for a premium search engine whose service will not even last me for a whole month.

Don't get me wrong. I love the product and would be happy to pay for it, but your current pricing plans are just not very convincing to me and do not fit most peoples needs. Nowadays, a search engine is something you use on a daily basis. And you don't want to care about it.

New comment by alexruf in "ChatGPT is a bullshit generator but it can still be amazingly useful"

alexruf — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 23:49:45 +0000

Can confirm that. I asked ChatGPT for information about a book my son was reading at school. While the answer sounded really good at first sight, the content was absolutely nonsense. Not a single statement from ChatGPT was correct. Therefore, I can confirm - it’s bullshit.

New comment by alexruf in "Why is the terminal input so weird?"

alexruf — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 18:24:26 +0000

Agree. When I stared reading the article I was exited at first. I generally agree that terminals have a lot of legacy issues from the past and could definitely use some innovation. But I don’t see the point why a terminal should require internet-connection at all. There is absolutely no reason any of the features Warp mentions, couldn’t be implemented in a way to work completely offline. Good luck, but I don’t think any people using terminals as their daily drivers will ever use a product like this.

New comment by alexruf in "Nord – An Arctic, north-bluish color palette"

alexruf — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 21:05:48 +0000

I like the pastel color pallet of Nord very much. However, once tried to use in my text editor, and it was awful to read since everything was just blueish and very hard to distinguish. A bit more use of its colors would be good.

New comment by alexruf in "Solarized"

alexruf — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 10:03:40 +0000

Actually that’s a fantastic idea. Should have thought of that for myself. But as a warning, a lot of the Dracula themes are are not correctly (for some reason especially the Dracula Pro themes). For example the iTerm and Kitty theme have same foreground and background color set so I had to fix them manually. Doesn’t seem that they are tested by the author.