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New comment by tcoff91 in "KOReader"

tcoff91 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 15:56:59 +0000

There's a KOReader plugin that lets you sync your progress to a Storyteller server.

https://github.com/Sirozha1337/storytellersync.koplugin

This then allows you seamlessly switch back and forth between your e-reader and listening to the audiobook on your phone with automatic position syncing.

New comment by tcoff91 in "Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough)"

tcoff91 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 18:24:14 +0000

I very much remember whose PRs I can trust and whose PRs are likely to be slop, and I prioritize my time accordingly.

Slop merchants get slop reviews. I just point my clanker at their PRs and ask them to critically review the PR and they typically find lots of issues.

New comment by tcoff91 in "Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough)"

tcoff91 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 18:21:47 +0000

PRs sucked to review long before Agents were a thing, but now it really sucks because there are more to review.

New comment by tcoff91 in "Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough)"

tcoff91 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 18:21:07 +0000

Opus 4.5 was a massive step change in capability for sure. The opinions of anyone who hasn't bothered experimenting with these things post-Opus-4.5 are not worth a damn.

They still are far from perfect but they're massively helpful.

New comment by tcoff91 in "Why I am not going to buy a computer"

tcoff91 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:23:07 +0000

1-shotting documentation with AI is a bad idea. You then have to have multiple verification passes to have any chance of it being worth anything.

Like if you have an AI generate a runbook, then you better have the AI actually validate the runbook and make sure it is correct.

New comment by tcoff91 in "FreeInk: Open ecosystem for e-readers"

tcoff91 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 03:17:21 +0000

I think it’s possible to use koreader and sync to storyteller with a plugin on that xteink but I’ve never set anything like that up.

New comment by tcoff91 in "FreeInk: Open ecosystem for e-readers"

tcoff91 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 20:47:03 +0000

I really like my Boox e-reader because I can install any android app on it. I run Storyteller on it and it syncs position to my storyteller server. So i can listen to the audiobook on my iPhone and then pick up reading on my Boox from where I was listening.

New comment by tcoff91 in "My car’s OTA update broke Android Auto"

tcoff91 — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 03:44:10 +0000

There's 2 different parts of their terms about this. One seems to forbid it. The other basically says that you can do it as long as you aren't shipping some kind of update to the app that changes its nature significantly. Basically the generally accepted viewpoint in the industry is that you can OTA bugfixes and small changes but you if you ship whole features without going through app store review first you are definitely on thin ice.

New comment by tcoff91 in "My car's OTA update broke Android Auto, and it's a indictment of modern software"

tcoff91 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 23:35:54 +0000

You can't update any AOT code due to how code signing works in these OS. And Apple completely bans JIT on iOS and iPadOS.

New comment by tcoff91 in "Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)"

tcoff91 — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:32:38 +0000

Never taking a supplement for too long is great advice. Always cycle things in and out to avoid some potential for accumulating too much in the body.

There are some horrifying case studies where people took like too much zinc, or copper, or some other thing for years and got really really messed up.

New comment by tcoff91 in "Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)"

tcoff91 — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:28:46 +0000

A lot of doctors only want to do a more critical set like like triglycerides, c-reactive protein, cholesterol, stuff like that. I've never had a doctor proactively want to test things like b vitamin levels.

New comment by tcoff91 in "Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)"

tcoff91 — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:24:50 +0000

it's easy to find 0.3mg melatonin online.

New comment by tcoff91 in "Dependabot version updates introduce default package cooldown"

tcoff91 — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 05:49:40 +0000

You can simulate accelerated time in the sandbox used to evaluate the runtime behavior of the package being analyzed.

New comment by tcoff91 in "Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor"

tcoff91 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 23:42:07 +0000

What isn't solved is domain-specific jargon with these tools. When i talk to my coding agent, i want to be able to speak the names of symbols and files and have it be aware of that stuff, like having LSP integration.

If I say 'useSuspenseQuery' I want it to come out as useSuspenseQuery not 'use suspense query'. Even if I had to say 'symbol useSuspenseQuery' to give a hint that i'm referencing a symbol, that would be fine.

New comment by tcoff91 in "Learning to code is still worthwhile"

tcoff91 — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 21:26:35 +0000

I feel like no matter the model, it's going to be more powerful when used by a skilled software engineer vs a layperson.

New comment by tcoff91 in "A native graphical shell for SSH"

tcoff91 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 18:17:22 +0000

You set up multiple services behind a single caddy reverse proxy

New comment by tcoff91 in "Tell Congress: Don't Force Age Checks Online"

tcoff91 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 03:12:23 +0000

Comparing Social Media to Heroin seems quite hyperbolic to me as someone who has had people in my life die of opioid addiction.

Social Media isn't even as bad as Tobacco I'd say let alone Heroin.

New comment by tcoff91 in "Why does kinetic energy increase quadratically, not linearly, with speed? (2011)"

tcoff91 — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 13:40:13 +0000

To me the simplest way to understand it is through calculus. Kinetic energy is the integral of momentum so You go from p = mv to k = 1/2mv^2

New comment by tcoff91 in "Show HN: Oak – Git alternative designed for agents"

tcoff91 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:20:49 +0000

Try just copying the .git directory into the other workspaces. It's worked great for me when working in repos that have tooling that is coupled to git.

New comment by tcoff91 in "Show HN: Oak – Git alternative designed for agents"

tcoff91 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:19:14 +0000

The repos i work in are hard-coupled to being in a git repo. So in order to make jj workspaces work for me, I've had to do the very hacky thing of literally copying the .git directory into the other workspaces.

It actually works quite well and has never caused me any issues. I tried symlinking but that does not work, git doesn't like the .git being a symlink.