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New comment by wild_egg in "Message your other Claude Code sessions"

wild_egg — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 01:40:54 +0000

This one does agentic search instead of compaction: https://github.com/wedow/harness

Generally works quite well but it allows nested subagents and that can use a lot of tokens if the agent prompts are too open-ended.

All messages are persisted as separate markdown files under a session directory, which makes them much more friendly to grep and such than the common jsonl files are. Agents can search them rapidly without messing around with jq.

Also written in Bash so it runs on any old potato you have laying around.

New comment by wild_egg in "Interviewing Engineers in the AI Era: Lessons from a Year of Rebuilding"

wild_egg — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 12:22:08 +0000

> Shouldn't this be a pretty fundamental part of a degree? If you're in school right now for a CS or SWE related degree, I would imagine you're learning how code actually works, how the math actually works, etc.

CS and SWE are radically different subjects. Science vs Engineering. I'm sure it varies by school but many CS grads will have approximately zero exposure to engineering concepts or any of the latest and greatest frameworks.

New comment by wild_egg in "You don't need React: creating a minimal UI library in Vanilla JavaScript"

wild_egg — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:32:32 +0000

I do understand that's what they have in mind. But that's not what immediate mode means. Function application is not the only criteria.

We are talking about rendering into a browser by twiddling DOM APIs. That's definitely retained mode rendering and repeatedly claiming it's immediate mode doesn't make it true

New comment by wild_egg in "You don't need React: creating a minimal UI library in Vanilla JavaScript"

wild_egg — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 09:54:50 +0000

> immediate mode

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

React most definitely falls under what would be called a "retained mode" of some sort. And the UI library described here is also.

New comment by wild_egg in "Superlogical"

wild_egg — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 10:30:01 +0000

What's wrong with the Tailscale free tier?

There is also Headscale if you want to self host.

https://headscale.net

New comment by wild_egg in "Superlogical"

wild_egg — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 04:46:00 +0000

He says here that they have a direct Tailscale integration of the type that requires using the `tsnet` package, which is Go. Or at least would pull in the Go runtime as part of a shared library.

https://x.com/i/status/2082634453474795885

New comment by wild_egg in "Superlogical"

wild_egg — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 04:38:25 +0000

> Yes, tmux should be good enough for agents tomorrow. But here we are, today.

tmux is good enough for agents today. they're great at driving it, they're great at customizing it, what's the problem people have with it? i am confused.

New comment by wild_egg in "Removing React.js from the codebase and adapting Htmx for UI interactivity (2023)"

wild_egg — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 04:57:19 +0000

I don't understand what is broken with the browser's management of typed content. Do you have an example of UX that requires a custom state management layer on top?

New comment by wild_egg in "Removing React.js from the codebase and adapting Htmx for UI interactivity (2023)"

wild_egg — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 01:39:05 +0000

Would love to hear about which of those listed examples does not currently have native browser support.

New comment by wild_egg in "Interview with Boris Cherny [video]"

wild_egg — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:14:38 +0000

I've had decent results telling agents to use emacs for structural editing operations. Pretty rare that I need to move a function across files verbatim but that should only be a few extra lines of elisp.

New comment by wild_egg in "Steel Bank Common Lisp version 2.6.7"

wild_egg — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 18:34:08 +0000

more context beyond the changelog? what would you like to know?

New comment by wild_egg in "Steel Bank Common Lisp version 2.6.7"

wild_egg — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 18:11:36 +0000

No auto-vectorization yet, but you may find this illuminating: https://www.stylewarning.com/posts/nbody

New comment by wild_egg in "Removing React.js from the codebase and adapting Htmx for UI interactivity (2023)"

wild_egg — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:16:03 +0000

Every one of those are things that the browser manages for you if you are using semantic markup and embracing web standards.

New comment by wild_egg in "Removing React.js from the codebase and adapting Htmx for UI interactivity (2023)"

wild_egg — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:45:56 +0000

Based on skimming the couple sibling comments, I believe the issue you have had with htmx is precisely that you have somehow conflated it with angular. If you think they're the same, you will use them the same and have the same poor outcomes.

In another comment, you mentioned State Management. If this is on your mind then you are using htmx wrong. You should not be managing any client side state with htmx. State is on the server or in your database. Interactions on the client should immediately reflect the updated server state. If you have separate state on the client that needs to be managed, you are going to have a bad time regardless of framework.

New comment by wild_egg in "Removing React.js from the codebase and adapting Htmx for UI interactivity (2023)"

wild_egg — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 13:11:04 +0000

As someone who wrote a lot of angular back in the day, and who writes a lot of htmx in the current day... That comparison makes absolutely no sense.

The only thing the 2 have in common is the use of HTML attributes for functionality. Completely different on every other axis that matters.

New comment by wild_egg in "Opus 5 is currently #1 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Leaderboard"

wild_egg — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 23:29:24 +0000

I'm doing a bunch of x86_64 assembly these days and Fable is simply not allowed to debug it. Hoping Opus 5 has a bit more freedom.

New comment by wild_egg in "Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop"

wild_egg — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 19:43:40 +0000

Ah, I see the goal posts shifted. I thought the topic was whether an AI could "give you something truly original in the way many high-quality fictional stories are." Which was then followed by the idea that you cannot have "truly original" outputs unless you also have the corresponding original experiences.

Implication is that virtually none of the novels ever written which include wars are actually original works, since vanishingly few novelists have been in active wars.

Maybe originality just doesn't mean much then?

New comment by wild_egg in "Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop"

wild_egg — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 13:04:42 +0000

So only people who have fought in wars can write novels about fighting in wars?

New comment by wild_egg in "Kimi Work"

wild_egg — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:57:23 +0000

Is there a link anywhere for a docs site for this? Really curious to know what "deep data sources" they have set up for the Native Global Market Data feature.

New comment by wild_egg in "Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now"

wild_egg — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:45:48 +0000

"The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry."

— Henry Petroski