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Principal Platform Software Engineer. Always learning. https://chadxz.dev

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I wish there were some way to inspect the current context to build a better mental model of what the llm is building the context with to better understand how to steer it. As a corollary to this I think it’d be helpful to be able to see the result of compaction to build the trust you’re describing.

01.01.2026 18:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Anyone a member of lobste.rs? Would love an invite. chad@chadxz.dev

11.11.2025 00:50 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"Introducing Remix 3 Part 1" by Ryan Florence and Michael Jackson
"Introducing Remix 3 Part 1" by Ryan Florence and Michael Jackson YouTube video by Remix

I've been watching the Remix v3 talks from Remix Jam 2025 and I'm liking what I'm seeing. Reminds me of when I was writing code with Backbone.js (wow, the website is still there).

I enjoy Ryan Florence's humor.

09.11.2025 03:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Cool, glad to see Bluesky is still here.

09.11.2025 03:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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3 Minutes with Kent Technology Podcast · 👋 Hi there! I'm Kent C. Dodds (https://twitter.com/kentcdodds). This is a (week)daily podcast where I give 3 minute thoughts about web development. You can subscribe on iTunes he...

@kentcdodds.com did this for a while with podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/3...

18.05.2025 17:18 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Re: Junie, I don’t have the kind of trust in AI tooling to walk away from an agent and have any amount of hope it would land where I want. I have been writing a lot of terraform lately and the amount of hallucination I get is obnoxious. It would work better on tasks it can inspect the results of.

29.04.2025 11:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I figure I’ll eventually get over the hump of learning Cursor and feel the productivity improvement is a net positive. I’m currently in a trough though and it’s painful.

29.04.2025 11:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Interesting. Thank you for sharing. My experience with JetBrains AI has been pretty poor in the past. I switched to Aider and Supermaven and it was fine. I recently switched jobs and have been forcing myself to use Cursor. It’s also fine but I miss my JetBrains muscle memory.

29.04.2025 11:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

How are you finding the JetBrains AI stacks up against cursor? I know things are moving fast so I’m curious what the experience is like today

28.04.2025 12:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

:yay: fits 👍👍👍

10.04.2025 23:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Fwiw, mine went through ok 😅

10.04.2025 00:35 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I think they use @temporal.io under the hood, maybe that’s what you mean? Or something more specific to the cloudflare api

17.03.2025 15:15 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

My public iMessage contact key verification code: APKTID-2fJipQp3mNWlHTSFQFEiUPs0XVui0bJ9WNM6HJOGaU-5Q

17.03.2025 02:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A bar chart showing the new Claude Sonnet 3.7 thinking model taking first place and the non-thinking model taking 4th place in the aider coding benchmark.

A bar chart showing the new Claude Sonnet 3.7 thinking model taking first place and the non-thinking model taking 4th place in the aider coding benchmark.

Claude Sonnet 3.7 has been released and it is benchmarking as the new best model for coding in both its thinking and non-thinking modes aider.chat/docs/leaderb...

h/t to Paul Gauthier (Aider maintainer) for the benchmark and his tireless work on a great coding tool.

25.02.2025 03:21 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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✨Heads up! Observables are shipping natively to a browser near you soon!

Huge thank you and congrats to @domfarolino.com ❤️

I've helped / worked on / watched this through different standards bodies for more than 10 years now. ☠️

(I'm going to have a lot of work now to adapt RxJS to this 😅)

21.02.2025 22:58 👍 214 🔁 48 💬 13 📌 4
Best Simple System for Now You can have your cake and eat it, as long as you bake it carefully. ‘We can do this the quick way and pay later, or the thorough way and pay now.’ This seems to be a fundamental dichotomy in software...

For the last year or so I have been noodling on the idea of a Best Simple System for Now.

What happens when you write exactly the code you need, at the level of quality you need, but solving the problem _for now_ rather than a generalised or hypothetical version of it?

dannorth.net/best-simple-...

03.02.2025 14:53 👍 31 🔁 13 💬 5 📌 3
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My LLM codegen workflow atm A detailed walkthrough of my current workflow for using LLms to build software, from brainstorming through planning and execution.

This is a great article capturing the "boots on the ground" experience of working with Aider, one of my favorite AI coding tools. Check it out if you have had a hard time wrapping your head around the workflows to use to build with AI. I have had it on my list to write an article like this myself.

20.02.2025 16:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is nice. I expect this to become the norm over time to provide up-to-date and accurate context for important aspects of our development workflow that are outside our source tree.

See also llmstxt.org

13.02.2025 23:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oof. This is how shadow IT is born.

13.02.2025 21:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

bsky.app/profile/did:...

06.11.2024 18:04 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Been hacking on a few different apps trying to get OpenTelemetry going and I’ve been surprised at how complicated it is. Well, actually not that surprised. But sad, definitely sad.

Hoping to eventually be able to crack the code and have nice tracing metrics and logs. 🤞

30.01.2025 05:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

With a little prodding, pr got attention. 💕 Got some good advice from a fellow enthusiast on discord: “it may have just gotten lost; there's no harm following up”

29.01.2025 13:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Will give it a shot! thx :)

29.01.2025 01:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Gave it a spin. So far:

* gemini flash and flash thinking didn't work, gave me `tool_result must be preceded by a tool_call`
* claude sonnet 3.5 latest and gpt-4o gave me rate limit errors

:(

28.01.2025 20:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Preferring throwaway code over design docs If you have discipline to throw away your first idea, draft, throwaway PRs often drives more progress than a design doc.

This post is excellent advice. Trying to figure out technical decisions in the abstract is fraught. Get your hands dirty - you’ll learn so much more and make much better decisions in the process.

27.01.2025 18:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Makes me appreciate that much more the projects that do this well.

Thank you to all open source maintainers 🙏

27.01.2025 02:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I haven’t said anything to anyone in the project because what do you say?

Feels like the right response is to just let it go. Maintain patches with “patch-package” github.com/ds300/patch-..., fork, or adopt something else.

Can’t force community.

27.01.2025 02:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Open source is weird. We build so much on top of it but the interactions from project to project vary wildly.

I want to use and contribute to a growing web framework but am getting crickets in my first interactions (issue, pr) on the project.

Doesn’t feel great, but here we are.

27.01.2025 02:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0
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Amazon Q for CLI also supports this terminal using it's `input-method` plugin. Nice autocomplete addon for your terminal! docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/late...

15.01.2025 19:29 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Ghostty Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.

Ghostty is now generally available to use. This terminal is an open source project by Mitchell Hashimoto (of Hashicorp) and works great out-of-the-box. Also embeds my favorite terminal font: Jetbrains Mono. 👍

15.01.2025 19:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0