I'm curious how do people start writing longer novels.. what determines the length of it? Like I have a story in mind but it feels like I'm "filling" details instead of communicating information.
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I have a novelist friend, she usually starts with the characters and the ending and as you wrote, "filling" the details backward/forward
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creator of textlogreplied to@amyprofilefollowa work in progress; i love cats ๐ฑ:I love figs! Not a fruit per se, theyโre flowers, but still. And itโs their season now and they grow in my village so we pick them now.
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Prior work: www.skytopia.com/project/fruit/fruit.html
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Is it that you donโt enjoy coffee, or you donโt enjoy Starbucks?
Iโm not a fan of Starbucksโ coffee myself, but do enjoy coffee I make at home or get from local coffee shops.
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Fair play to Apple and team, 5 apps in for review, 4 passed through each within an hour. 'Appy days
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creator of textlogreplied to@ku๐คprofilefollowHai I am ku:Itโs using the
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Iโm an insane person who built their own coding harness, in Rust. Iโve called it
Rho. Please forgive this landing page: https://rho-code.dev I just wanted an easy central spot.@gonzprofilefollowI make custom 3D engines and love writing lower-level code in general. Living in Bulgaria. github.com/GoNZoooGitHubGoNZooo - OverviewBackend & frontend. Odin, Zig, Haskell, PureScript, TypeScript, Elixir/Erlang and lots more, check repos. - GoNZooo & www.youtube.com/@mccGoNZoooYouTubeRickard Andersson (gonz)Educational programming videos: - Projects - Language learning course-style contentreplied to@crustyrustaceanprofilefollowOld school metallian, hobbyist developer writing things mostly in Rustโฆmostly:
Not insane at all. People should build their own instead of using other people's agents. It's easy to do and the results can be great for you. I've built several; one that is effectively "stuck" in Kakoune: youtube.com/โฆ/playlistYouTubeLLMs stuck in Kakoune
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Try my zero dependency agent harness: public.swiley.net/agent.py
If you're spending too much time on sites like these install bingeblock.comreplied to@crustyrustaceanprofilefollowOld school metallian, hobbyist developer writing things mostly in Rustโฆmostly:
I wrote my own too. I feel like that's the best way.
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Try my zero dependency agent harness: public.swiley.net/agent.py
If you're spending too much time on sites like these install bingeblock.com:
im decently happy with opencode. anything im missing out on?
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Try my zero dependency agent harness: public.swiley.net/agent.py
If you're spending too much time on sites like these install bingeblock.comreplied to@jamesjan3profilefollowresearcher, developer, dancer:
Yeah. It's a very large project with lots of dependencies. <The system prompt is long and wastes tokens. If you have ideas for tools (or automations like the agents.sh "loop" I wrote) it's easier if you understand the harness.
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But maybe we'd all be a little saner if we remembered what we're actually doing: building tools to make our lives and the lives of others easier.
graybeard.ing/software-drives-people-insane/The Gospel According to GraybeardSoftware Drives People InsaneI have a little pet theory that software drives people insane. Not in the "wash your hands every thirty minutes like Howard Hughes" kind of way, but more ...
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creator of textlogreplied to@evnmprofilefollowSoftware engineerGitHubevnm - Overviewevnm has 51 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub., trail runnerStravaSignup for free to see more about LawrenceJoin Lawrence and get inspired for your next workout, gear-maker. Working on something new for homeownersgetonmain.comMain ยท A quiet, well-organized record of everything that keeps your home running.A quiet, well-organized record of everything that keeps your home running.:This resonated a lot. Iโm glad I read it now, before going totally insane lol. But I disagree that itโs just a glorified spreadsheet. The UI/UX matters, how you present the data, how they can change and so on, all of those things play a role. The good thing with AI is iteration is cheaper than ever, so you can experiment and process the results quickly. But yeah sometimes I just do things here because I just have to be doing something, I canโt leave it alone.
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creator of textlog:Agreed. The "just" makes the statement sound dismissive, but I do agree with the underlying sentiment that most software boils down to CRUD apps that help people organize information and complete tasks more efficiently. I think the path to developer enlightenment is realizing this truth without despairing over it.
I hate crawlers that donโt advertise theyโre crawlers. โn badly written. They donโt respect the canonical URLs so they keep getting themselves into a loop instead of actually crawling the site properly. They make the logs really hard to read. Canโt block them theyโre distributed.
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creator of textlog:I am curious what an actual solution to this problem could be. Everything I've read about it feels like a bandaid โ from robots.txt to cloudflare turnstile โ there has to be a better way!
For this particular problem though, I feel like if the crawlers are coming from domestic / residential IP addresses and they lack a distinctive http header or user agent, it is indistinguishable from a denial of service attack and must be treated as such.
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creator of textlogreplied to@ku๐คprofilefollowHai I am ku:It would require permaban on IPs which would require permalogging of IPs in order to track them, and we are currently obfuscating them before hitting the DB with daily rotating salt so an anonymous user canโt be tracked. So weโd have to give up privacy/security :/
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But as long as people can still use the site it's OK, right? Seems like the problem is often self-inflicted, either because the site is so bloated that answering even GET-requests is burdensome, or because they're trying to monetize the data and so must block non-paying scrapers.
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creator of textlogreplied to@ku๐คprofilefollowHai I am ku:My solution was to add an env var to disable logs from anonymous. At least now will be able to read the logs.
Prime agentGitHubGitHub - PrimeIntellect-ai/prime-agent: A self-improving RLM agent for coding workflows and long-running autonomous tasks.A self-improving RLM agent for coding workflows and long-running autonomous tasks. - PrimeIntellect-ai/prime-agent is pretty fun. Some very nice improvements in 0.9 today.
So, I've been using this harness for a week and a half now, and what's interesting to me is that it brings a lot of things that I'd already built for myself in Pi. I built a little email system for agents to communicate, a memory system to do this "continual harness" thing of self-improvement. I know I'll move on to another harness in the future, so I'm trying to treat this like I do laptops now, and think about portability in the things I build or customize.