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New comment by tonyoconnell in "Matt's Script Archive: The Scripts That Reshaped the Web"

tonyoconnell — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 02:37:22 +0000

A blast from the past. I used his scripts for sending email from forms. The internet was a very nice place back then.

New comment by tonyoconnell in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

tonyoconnell — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 01:08:22 +0000

The narrative is moving towards KYC

New comment by tonyoconnell in "Apple Foundation Models"

tonyoconnell — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 07:23:30 +0000

What it is

Apple's Foundation Models framework (shipping in iOS 27 / macOS 27 this fall) is the standard Swift API for on-device AI — the same API Apple uses for their own small model. This package makes Claude plug into that same API as a drop-in swap.

  // Apple's on-device model
  let session = LanguageModelSession(model: SystemLanguageModel.default)

  // Claude — same API, just different model constructor
  let session = LanguageModelSession(model: ClaudeLanguageModel(name: .sonnet4_6, auth: auth))

One API, two tiers. You write your app once against the Foundation Models protocol. On-device model handles fast/free/private tasks; Claude handles heavy reasoning, long context, or capability gaps — you swap the model, not your code.

You don't call the Anthropic API directly. Apple's framework handles streaming, tool calling, and structured output (@Generable) — you just get Claude's capability through it.

New comment by tonyoconnell in "More AI-generated code doesn't make your team faster. It might slow you"

tonyoconnell — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:41:08 +0000

How did this get to the front page?

New comment by tonyoconnell in "I design with Claude more than Figma now"

tonyoconnell — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 07:08:15 +0000

i gave claude code my design system that i built in figma and haven't opened it again. it's much faster designing with your voice.

New comment by tonyoconnell in "VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare"

tonyoconnell — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:41:08 +0000

just wondering... do you think bun's rewrite with ai was vibe coded or engineered with ai? i know it wasn't perfect in the beginning but i think it was good engineering and what was built will make it faster and better.

New comment by tonyoconnell in "VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare"

tonyoconnell — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:37:09 +0000

you can actually do everything most people do in next with vite/astro. i was worried to do it but i haven't ran into any problems i couldn't solve.

New comment by tonyoconnell in "VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare"

tonyoconnell — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:32:06 +0000

the dx is wonderful if you give claude code your global api key. and the price is amazing. you can deploy complex web apps for free. i love vite and astro which is built on vite. i ran both on cloudflare before they were bought by them. i'm happy. at least they weren't bough by adobe.

New comment by tonyoconnell in "Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC"

tonyoconnell — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:09:39 +0000

so we shouldn't talk to humans when an ai can give an answer?

New comment by tonyoconnell in "Integrated by Design"

tonyoconnell — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 03:05:13 +0000

Here's a link to a few sample chapters https://vivianvoss.net/assets/files/integrated-by-design-pre... I enjoyed reading them - they presented a very clear arguement to select FreeBSD over Linux

New comment by tonyoconnell in "Your phone is an entire computer"

tonyoconnell — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 06:25:09 +0000

why not just use https://getutm.app/ ?

New comment by tonyoconnell in "Do AI Agents Make Money in 2026? Or Is It Just Mac Minis and Vibes?"

tonyoconnell — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 03:47:08 +0000

I've been thinking a lot about what AI agents buy, and what can I sell to them. If you are the owner of an agent that has a wallet can you share what it has bought or sold?

New comment by tonyoconnell in "Vibe coding is mad depressing"

tonyoconnell — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 04:34:22 +0000

I think building apps and websites for other people is mad depressing. It went from "move this up there, and change that colour to pink" to a client ruining a beautiful site by using a nocode tool. Now they have superpowers to ruin it by adding AI generated code as well. AI can generate absolutely beautiful code if it is generated on the right architecture with the right patterns and rules. The problem isn't the AI it's the people telling AI and developers what to do.

New comment by tonyoconnell in "Penpot: The Open-Source Figma"

tonyoconnell — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 04:34:15 +0000

Hello. I was delighted to see Penpot get a lot of traction when Adobe were going to buy Figma. I'm not a fan of Adobe because they killed so many of my favourite products. I switched from Macromedia (acquired by Adobe) Fireworks to Sketch to Figma and probably would have moved from Figma to Penpot already but I simply don't need Figma anymore. I use Shadcn UI and Claude Code to do my design these days without every having to touch Figma. All I need is a lightweight image editor that can crop and optimise some vectors and bitmaps now and again. I'd like if I had a lightweight design system that syncs designs with my code and the code with my design but I don't really need it. It looks like you are building something like this. Your MCP should be more usable with the new Claude Opus model and their new advanced tool use https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/advanced-tool-use but it would be useful to package that functionality into a tool that can call servers without needing MCP. Then I would give it to my Claude Code design subagent without worrying about it polluting my context window. I took the time to write this because I really like what you are trying to do and your new Open Nitrate business model is wonderful. I wish you lots of luck. If you ever want to chat about AI feel free to get in touch at tony@one.ie

New comment by tonyoconnell in "I built a faster Notion in Rust"

tonyoconnell — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 16:41:40 +0000

You can make your website run fast as well with https://astro.build - it strips the Javascript and uses HTML until js is needed. You can get 300ms page loads for outcrop.app with Astro on Cloudflare Pages. Good luck with the project. I requested early access - You should use the response to the form submit requesting access better - I mean somebody who added their email expressed a lot of intent - why end the conversation with a toast notification? I hope life is going well in Dublin.

New comment by tonyoconnell in "Launch HN: Mosaic (YC W25) – Agentic Video Editing"

tonyoconnell — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 16:14:58 +0000

This is so cool. Good luck with your venture.

New comment by tonyoconnell in "OpenAI ChatKit"

tonyoconnell — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 10:15:45 +0000

Maybe you could use your software to help them support other frameworks

New comment by tonyoconnell in "Best area of AI to focus on for a front end developer?"

tonyoconnell — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 06:29:58 +0000

You don't need a course ... just build something with Claude Code and Shadcn UI

New comment by tonyoconnell in "Start your own Internet Resiliency Club"

tonyoconnell — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 12:36:49 +0000

Some parents of infants would be able to find a way to feed their children safely.

New comment by tonyoconnell in "Be My Eyes"

tonyoconnell — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 02:26:17 +0000

They used to be open source but closed around the same time they made a partnership with Open AI. Wonderful product though.