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Ricard Torres 👨💻
@dev@ricard.social
mastodon 4.7.3Principal Frontend Software Engineer at Cognizant Netcentric, from Barcelona, Haidong Gumdo Master (Korean martial art of the sword), street photographer, travel lover, TV addict, Boston Red Sox fan, and privacy advocate.
📝 https://ricard.blog
👨💻 https://ricard.dev
🎙️ https://frontend.coffee
Photography account: @ricard@ricard.social
Anime and Manga account: @anime@ricard.social
Baseball account: @baseball@ricard.social
51 Followers
162 Following
42 Posts
Joined October 16, 2025
Coding:
Podcast:
Darknet Diaries 170: Phrack
"Phrack is legendary. It is the oldest, and arguably the most prestigious, underground hacking magazine in the world..."
Lust learned about "Can I Run AI" which tells you what's the best model for your machine 🤖
I've ran out of credits in my work Copilot account for the month, so setting up #Ollama with "GPT-OSS 20B" locally while I wait for August 1st 💀
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From a 100 repos to only 20 left on #GitHub for now. I shall continue the purge tomorrow.
I was able to add a #Gitea runner with Docker. So now my several #Hugo repositories are already building in Gitea as I push changed, just like they did before on GitHub Actions (also using a shared workflow now).
Feels good.
Enjoying this The Vergecast episode
Especially the segment about "Google Zero"
🔗 https://open.spotify.com/episode/2TpsJyahBc0csW7H4Q3bvU?si=30ce1d035e48457d
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@waffles@masto.yttrx.com very nice! Let me know how it goes. With docker is rather easy although I needed some AI to fine tune errors when adding that runner. I can share the docker file if needed.
From those 100 I think I've migrated like 20 and deleted 25. Years of garbage.
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On several occasions, what the agent returns in the chat is not what it has done in the files. Quite unusable.
I knew I was spoiled, being accustomed to the Claude Sonnet models while at work, but I expected more from the Gemma 4 models.
Maybe they are just not for coding, but general-purpose?
#AI #Gemma #Ollama
@jerry@infosec.exchange So many boats in the water 😮
Cool data visualization for #Artemis 🚀 👩🚀
@mackaj@mastodon.me.uk @curtismchale@mastodon.social Only read 3 of them.
I would pick it next up eventually.
I have 2 other books in the queue at the moment.
@ayo@social.ayco.io You mean like calling this CLI "statuses remove"? Or the content retention setting from the Admin dasbhoard?
🔗 https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/tootctl/#statuses-remove
Grab your bucket of popcorn 🍿
#Cloudflare just slop forked #NextJS
Cloudflare just slop forked Next.js…
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@Lukew @freddy I've been using https://github.com/cure53/DOMPurify for a long time for this purpose.
Weekend mode ON 🌴
No more coding, no more AI news 🛑
Read you on Monday 👋
Claude Code got leaked
"Cognitive Surrender"
"Cognitive offloading is delegating to the AI and still owning the answer. Cognitive surrender is when the AI’s output quietly becomes your output and there is nothing you feel is left to check. For software engineers the line between the two moves under your feet most days, and most of us are crossing it without noticing."
Current state of token economy at work (July 2026)
How it is looking on your side?
🆕 RIcard Torres
"How to set WordPress block default values"
On my photography blog, I always add a Gallery Block and always configure it in the same way: 1 column, no image cropping, link to the media file.
Turns out you can define this gallery block default within your WordPress theme (or a plugin, if you don't want to change your theme).
🔗 https://ricard.dev/how-to-set-wordpress-block-default-values/
@petejohanson@fosstodon.org thanks! I'm a rookie with mechanical keyboards but I've already been told I should use your @zmk@fosstodon.org tool to set it up 😎
"Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop"
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A quick post-mortem and rant about the new #WordPress 7.0 release that broke the look on the Editor for all my themes
🔗 https://ricard.dev/wordpress-7-0-demands-themes-to-define-an-editor-font/
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I've updated this post with a workaround that does not require you to change your theme files.
Just deactivate the "theme styles" from the Editor Preferences > Appearance
🔗 https://ricard.dev/wordpress-7-0-demands-themes-to-define-an-editor-font/
Third day without AI credits, hanging on by a thread.
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It seems #WordPress needs a theme.json with some config to just style the fonts in the editor?
I don't like this.
Here's what I had to do: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editor-font-is-wrong/#post-18914459
Department of War, OpenAI and Anthropic.
🍿 All nonsense, fun to read from the sidelines.
I used to get excited watching the new stuff from #GoogleIO
This year, there's nothing that I'm looking for. Most of the things I don't believe I'll use. They won't improve my online experience, and they just keep on jeopardizing my career.
Google I/O 2026 keynote in 35 minutes
Just installed a Docker image for this self hosted series/movies tracker.
If you, like me, want to track weekly series releases and know what you've watched. Have a look!
Simple, yet complete, works great, good design.
🆕 Ricard Torres
"One of the best AI uses for coding is creating scripts"
🔗 https://ricard.dev/one-of-the-best-ai-uses-for-coding-is-creating-scripts/
Running local models in my M4 48Gb MacBook is poop compared to cloud models (and not even talking top tier models)
It sometimes just crashes. I don't mind slow agent speed, but don't crash on me on simple requests.
Software development in 2026 is boring
"axios Compromised on npm - Malicious Versions Drop Remote Access Trojan"
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"Moving away from GitHub to self hosted Gitea"
Short blog post with my Docker file and a small bash to make it easier for me migrate the repos. Clean slate.
🔗 https://ricard.dev/moving-away-from-github-to-self-hosted-gitea/
#Gitea #GitHub
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What's more interesting is this table about Model Multipliers
I have been rocking Sonnet 4.6 which gave me great results at 1x premium requests. It will now be 9x 💀
If you were using Opus at 3x, you'll be jumping to 27x 😂
🔗 https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/reference/copilot-billing/models-and-pricing#model-multipliers-for-annual-copilot-pro-and-copilot-pro-subscribers
#Copilot #AI #Microsoft
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"How to generate and download Gitea backups"
Created a small script to automate this backup process.
🔗 https://ricard.dev/how-to-generate-and-download-gitea-backups/
#Gitea
