The nichest of niche social network clients. It's for people in one particular country, who watch one particular TV program, on one particular day of the week.

Now that the cost of writing software is zero, I love that my focus have moved from vain attempts to generate passive income to just building whatever random shit I feel like. Wish I'd made that choice earlier in life, but no worries!

They can be still be applied now using coding agents, if you're willing to push back against the default setup and change your mode of thinking a little bit. Of course it doesn't help that an entire industry is dedicated to persuading us that maximizing token spend is the only way to get shit done.

I appreciate this probably seems like an extremist take, but I wrote some more about it here in case there's anybody out there who identifies with it:

https://philbooth.me/blog/agentic-coding-and-mental-models

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Online play does not require signup etc. Instead I create an ephemeral session when network games are created/joined and those sessions are deleted at the end of the game. Leaderboard state is entirely local.

Because the backend runs on a small instance, I've been quite aggressive with connection management. If the server goes a minute without hearing from a client (turn or heartbeat), it ends the game and awards the win to the opposing player.

It was a pretty fun project to work on, and I definitely wouldn't have finished it without the crutch of Claude Code to push me through some of the schlepp.

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- It took on all the sovereign debt from the newly independent nations.

- It relinquished nukes that were left behind in Ukraine.

- The United Nations collectively agreed to it.

I don't think any of those things would happen in the UK's case. But of course it doesn't matter what you or I think. It only matters what _Iran_ thinks will happen if Scotland gains independence.

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https://www.npmjs.com/package/bfj

I've found that a single CLAUDE.md does really well at guiding it how I want it to behave. For me that's making it take small steps and stop to ask me questions frequently, so it's more like we're pairing than I'm sending it off solo to work on a task. I'm sure that's not to everyone's taste but it works for me (and I say this as someone who was an agent-sceptic until quite recently).

Fwiw my ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md is 2.2K / 49 lines.

I've been through the last ~10 or ~15 posts on his Medium this evening, to check. Sentence-by-sentence I don't see anything that goes beyond "what if". Can you share some of the quotes you have in mind?

I think this is an interesting phenomenon, because it seems that lots of people throw personal insults at him (not saying that's you btw) without addressing the meat of whatever they're reacting to.

And lest we forget! One of the founding essays [1] of this very website discusses it: if you're slinging ad hominem attacks or personal insults around, you're by definition losing the "argument" (not that I think this qualifies as an "argument").

[1]: https://paulgraham.com/disagree.html

But I also think the question "what if it wasn't" is useful to consider.

I'd label anyone unwilling to discuss that topic a crank, not the other way round.