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PSA: fried shallots are one of food's greatest pleasures, and they can be yours in under 10 minutes! Shallots+Oil+Microwave === Sweet, Crunchy, Allium goodness!
I've been on quite the agentic coding journey today. I was really hating the back-and-forth I was doing with my agent on refining a problem space, I made an agent to check its work before it got back to me. That only solved half the problem. I noticed something funny in the responses though—my first agent told me it went back and forth with the review agent. When I eventually got fed up with the poor quality response I was still getting, I asked to make a panel of adversarial agents arguing different opinions and coming to a consensus and returning their results. 100%? No. Ages better than a single agent? Heck yes. Adversarial agent panels are my "always start with a clean context” advice brought to life in a single long-running context. I dig it.
Never has "Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!" ever been more true than with AI generated tests.
Sharing again now that it's not a holiday! This weekend I pushed the first release of Nebula, a nearly 0-config Git-based CMS for @astro@m.webtoo.ls that builds itself from the Content Collections you've already written!
I really don't recommend chasing very spicy food with a frozen slush drink and getting brain freeze while your mouth is on fire.
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@slightlyoff this reminds me of a talk I gave called Winning the Web with Twitter Bootstrap back when Drupal was considering adding it to core.
Someone in the audience asked if I could increase the font size. I said no, this is what Twitter had deemed perfect for legibility on the Internet.
I will say I'm incredibly impressed with Gemini 3.5 Flash's speed. There are some responses I get from it that feel like they appear before I finish hitting my enter key, and the results (for fairly easy stuff so far) have been very good
Whats the American equivalent to Tim Hortons? Dunkin? Starbucks? Look at this display case. These actually look good! Canada once again for the win
Really love when an LLM tells you confidently that something you’ve written is wrong, and then in explaining to you why its wrong and offering you alternatives, it reinvents your (was always correct) option as its own choice. Just bravo A+ AGI is right around the corner here kinda shit, not just spicy (if useful) autocorrect
The current version of Safari _specifically_ on my iPhone is so utterly broken with the 26.3.x update that I've finally switched to an alternate browser. I use the browser so much on my phone.
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@dotproto@toot.cafe whenever it writes something it makes an artifact, when it wants you to approve something you can go /artifact and go through line by line.
I don't love that it keeps defaulting to writing Node scripts to do basic stuff Claude does on its own tho.
Why do all protein bars have the flavor and texture of just the absolute worst thing you've ever put in your mouth?
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@davatron5000 I really like this Dave. Thanks for writing this up. You hit on some things I've been thinking about too with these APIs.
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@mia Just set this up for myself! Forgot Macs can let you make keyboard shortcuts for anything in the menus—also set one up for moving a tab to a new window, which I do a heckuvalot!
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Some flatpack furniture designers never played with LEGO as a kid _and it shows_.
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Got a blog post to write about this, and there are definitely some areas to work on, but all the basics are there, and it's ready to use with super complex data models (like my recipes) right now!
Hey Canada, I've gotta tell you, 60F isn't an appropriate temperature for July 22nd.
Aviation achievement unlocked: flying on the upper deck of a 747
Why does using #ai feel magical for topics you don't know, but frustrating for those you do? Why does expertise still matter in a world where all knowledge can seemingly be distilled through a chat bot? When true problem solving requires drawing on intangibles, understanding LLM limitations is essential to getting good results.
https://snugug.com/musings/ai-can-make-mistakes?utm_source=mastodon
An interesting thing that I find myself doing when working with coding agents is enforcing performance patterns I see and use in large scale applications (like agressive offloading of the main thread onto workers, code parallelism, etc...) that it just doesn't seem to have in it's training set. So much so that it'll make main thread recommendations while explicitly working through off-main patterns with me.
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OH @ Breakfast
"Trump has revolutionized war in the Middle East! It used to take 20 years for us to lose a war there, he's gotten it down to 3 weeks!"
"The art of the deal"
If you're into #ttrpg, I wanted a little tool to visualize dice probabilities based on ability score modifiers. Currently it's hard-coded to the percentages from Powered by the Apocalypse, but if someone's really interested I'll think of a way to add custom ranges.
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Also important to be able to distinguish being able to brute-force try a bunch of possibilities at super-human speed from being able to think or be creative.
I've got some code to review but yo I've spent today mucking around with some agentic coding tools and I'm like 80% of the way to an @astro@m.webtoo.ls native CMS whose content types and structure are controlled by the content collections you're already writing. I'm freaking stoked.
Spicy McCrispy Bacon Deluxe is _such a fucking name_.
I've been using Chrome vertical tabs for a couple weeks now, and I'm torn as to whether or not I like them. I _do_ like that it makes the sites I'm browsing feel more app-like (the entire browser chrome lives in the title bar area!) but I don't love that I either need to take up a lot of horizontal space to see what tab I'm on or I loose context by only having favicons running down the side of my browser. How do y'all manage this?
Got my Steam Controller yesterday and I can pretty confidently say this is my favorite controller I've ever used. Actual controller layout is like the Dual Sense, my other favorite, but it's lighter and angled slightly better, and _then_ you get the trackpads and grip buttons!
Who called it BBQ Brawl and not Beat BBQ Flay
Sum 41's "All Killer No Filler" may be the most appropriately named album of all time.
How does a game as pretty as Forza 6 have just the absolute worst character models of any game of this console generation?! Especially given how much screen time they get!
Ooo, got access to Opus 4.8, and it keeps trying to fetch example.com because… maybe it's a placeholder URL in a test somewhere? It can't even explain to me why it needs to do that.
I literally just found this out the other day, because, of all things, I was trying to work around my coding agent proposing an absolutely wacky workaround to make this work for a text input.
Tried the new vertical tabs in Chrome and I'm not sure they're for me y'all. It's nice having less window chrome, but I don't like the lost horizontal space when the tabs are open and I get lost when I close the tab sidebar. Why are y'all so Gaga over it?
Because at home printing is literally just a scam, I managed to buy a full home office printer/scanner combo yesterday for literally $30 cheaper than buying the ink, and almost half the price of a printer that had been discontinued and they were trying to drop inventory of.
Got a transatlantic flight today so I'm going to play around with running Gemma4' 26b model locally through Claude Code. If it works, this could be very fun and interesting... I'll keep you posted.
Does anyone have a good IndexedDB backup/restore suggestion? #webdev #javascript
I'm sad to report I've found the first thing that's legitimately worse in Canada than it is in the States: Ritz crackers.
They're much thicker here, less buttery and crave-able, and they don't come in individual sleeves, they're just thrown into a box. T'was a sad day finding this out today.
Gotta love how smart and totally actually intelligent the current spate of AI is: “ ~18GB at Q4 — tight for 16GB VRAM…”.
Giving a training on Agentic Coding at work next week, and somehow this found its way into my deck.
Using an LLM to work through some systems design stuff and it's really giving Cunningham's Law. I mean I guess that means it's working?