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hello world ~ i'm a web developer from midwest, usa. it's been awhile since i worked on anything. since the i've been working my way up the ladder at a blue-collar job; i was promoted to team lead last week. but as i browse hacker news everyday, my cravings for web development increases.

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With each passing workday I spend agentsitting, my ability to program in isolation atrophies. This might be dismissed as needless self-serving anxiety, but perhaps irrationally, I can't let it go.

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Hello loggers

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I’m an insane person who built their own coding harness, in Rust. I’ve called it Rho. Please forgive this landing page: https://rho-code.dev I just wanted an easy central spot.

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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:

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I wrote my own too. I feel like that's the best way.

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im decently happy with opencode. anything im missing out on?

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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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hey peeps.

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Having a little difficulty seeing how long this service will exist. People are terrible. Sooner or later it will be found and ruined.

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Yup. I have long change my philosophy on things like these: just live the day. :-)

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Textboard lasted for years and I think it only went away because the admin got bored.

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So much present tense in generated prose. Terse, authoritative sentences, without breathing room, without hesitation or qualification. It jumps off the page, and not in a good way.

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What about the lack of density to paragraphs, the length of the sentences, or the confidence and determinism of their direction? Conviction with no limits. So reliably repetitive that you start seeing patterns as if you are looking and reading a record player with some scratches on it. Skips. Squeaks. Repeats. Yet. It gets the job done.

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Yet. It gets the job done. Here's where we disagree. Using these tools as part of the job, certainly. But if I am to read, discern meaning, analyze choices of diction and structure, consider the context both of the author and the audience, and finally derive value from the written word, then generative falls short on many levels. If the "job" is to produce something no one was ever intending to engage with, then we have a more fundamental question about the value of the job.

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Maybe what I messaged read as a disagreement and mentioning that they get the job done was actually not about producing prose (of any quality). I wholeheartedly agreed and still agree with you. Getting the job done was more about producing output - be it some prose, images, videos, software, whatever. They do generate output. It is not to say that the output is meaningful or meaningless. Some souls do enjoy it. Some others - don’t. I did start with a question though.

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Hi Textlog

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In other news, I'm circling what sure looks like GCP overbilling us by over $1M/year going back as far as I can see.

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Productive weekend started four hours ago for me (at 06:00 EDT). Visited aunties and mum. Just got home, and waiting for wife to finish preparing to get on the road again. Next destination: nursing home (visit family, and “adopted” elders).

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having just spent a week camper-travelling Norway, hiking mountains and glaciers, swimming in fjords really put some things into perspective for me - I should take more vacations

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hát, jó, éppen telepítem a Windows 11-et, most járok körülbelül annál az érdekes résznél, hogy a TPM 2.0-ás processzor-izé egy Rufus nevű programmal elvileg szoftveresen kiváltható, meg hogy a windows 1125H iso-t kell beletölteni egy minimum 8 GB-os pendrive-ra

Well, I'm currently installing Windows 11, and I'm getting to the interesting part, where the TPM 2.0 processor chip can be replaced in software with a program called Rufus, and where the Windows 1125H ISO needs to be loaded onto a pendrive of at least 8 GB.

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Cut sex scene from Titanic and now watching it with my 10yo daughter. Love that movie.

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Made some big updates to my side project. including adding loads of interactive maps. local data for local people

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anybody tried barefoot shoes? any thoughts on them?

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shower thought: swap 'is a model' for 'is constructed' and postmodernism suddenly becomes a lot more palatable without losing much of its core message.

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gondolom, vasárnap van nekik is, vagy nem tudom

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Spending mornings scouring job boards and listings and applying. Afternoons working on Cheltenham Open Data and iOS app development. What about you?

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waiting for my friend so she can put my hair into a bun

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Any shows recommendations? I have no idea what is worth watching (since I rarely watch shows) so now I’m watching The Mentalist from 2008. They had flip phones then.

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This one is good

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buit a keyboard driven calendar webapp right now cause im disappointed with all tho other solutions i could find. no dependencies, super customizable, im kind of obsessed. for the first time in my life im actually keeping my calendar alive.

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Something you’re willing to share in any capacity? I’ve felt like calendar apps are one of the most poorly-solved areas.

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i actually just shipped it lol: let me know what you think if you set it up! I really like the cursor for navigation.

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