Welp, try going to that stadium in July when it’s 112F. The NFL isn’t playing at that time but these stadiums aren’t just used for football.

I use:

claude agents

Granted, I run it as a terminal tab in my editor so that I can look at files. I prefer the TUI in a tab instead of the editor’s half-assed plugin. These days, however, I mostly look at PRs in the browser.

For my personal work I still prefer to let the agent edit the local files so I can preview the changes in my editor. I avoid PRs in my personal work.

What you give up with the authors approach is "read". The screen becomes write-only. There are only a few functions that require reads: getting a pixels current color and doing operations like flood fills or paints.

Because I was going for the retro feel of BASIC, I wanted to support these, so I opted for a frame buffer. It isn't as technically cool. On the RP2350, it does require low resolution and low bit rates because they often have RAM limited to KB.

If you step-up to the ESP32-S3 variants with 4MB or 8MB of RAM the frame buffer gets much easier.

This is surprisingly effective. I thought it would consume massive tokens, it doesn’t.

I do mostly research and bug fixing for issues that float up from customer service and then root cause fixes.

We have many code bases with lots of cross dependency.

https://joeldare.com/a-local-open-weight-model-builds-its-fi...

I think it can be made to work if you’re willing to tweak the prompts.

But, to be honest, I find my time to be worth more than the $20 I spend on a light weight frontier plan that can do this without the hand holding.

I want local to succeed, however, because of things like Anthropic stopping games based on other games.

I stopped using it back in 2004 when Patrick had health problems. It seems to be a passion project and it stopped getting updates while he recovered. There is a community behind it but it may mainly be driven forward by him.

It looks like it's fairly slow to get updates, generally, as the last release was Slackware 15 in 2022. Maybe that reflects it's dictator (his word not mine) or maybe it reflects it's stability.

Yet, despite all that, Slackware got this security fix around 10 days ago.

That’s not always the case, I know that small trucks like plumbing supply houses, hardware stores, and sod companies will pull the pallet from the truck for you, but I would guess that isn’t typically for your average 18-wheeler.

It’s good fun building for retro-like machines.

I took it to 39% complete, as a language, over 8-weeks. Then, I spent just 50 minutes describing all the missing parts and it finished the language in 1-shot. I didn’t think it would work. It did.

I used Opus 5.5 on a $20 plan and I didn’t even hit my limits.

As someone else said, there is no chapter 2.

My own guess is that it was a response to some type of long-term abuse.

I can't even find a mailing list to sign up for. But I'd read the rest of this.

I created a similar alternative, Neat CSS, a while back. I use it for tons of projects. It could probably use a fresh look from me to see if there's anything I want to update but it's been a stable "framework" for me. I didn't intend it to be classless, though it's mostly semantic, but I instead focused on keeping it small and tight. It's only 3KB.

Anyway, thought I'd share it here too.

https://neat.joeldare.com

My first project is a watch made from an ESP32-S3 with an AMOLED made by Waveshare.

A traveling clock could make a really interesting second project and, because it could plug in, a slightly less challenging one.