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For those trying to get it to work in OpenCode with a Qwen Cloud Token Plan, this is what worked for me. Note that I've just matched Qwen 3.7 Max for the limits as I don't know exa…

For the vast majority of models I've worked with, 150k tokens of context seems like some magic spot. If you can stay under it then the session will stay on track and the agent won'…

Nirav from Framework is similar, he speaks openly about compromises they make with their designs and why they make them. When leaders are both technical and open about these sorts …

I'd say Codex and Claude Code have different strengths and weaknesses. Claude Code is significantly better in terms of their subagent UI for example - being able to see the list of…

I think it would be the case in many of the commonwealth countries. You hear "sorry" being used a lot like this in Australia too.

I feel this would be more useful for tasks like "Check website X to see if there are any great deals today". Specifically, tasks that are loosely defined and require some form of i…

The different bindings vs Vim was actually what stopped me using it. I really really wanted to love it and love a lot of the motivation and principles behind it, but unlearning dec…

Many people buy two separate Claude pro subscriptions and that makes the limit become a non-issue. It works surprisingly well when you tend to hit the 5 hourly limit after a few ho…

Prompting isn't programming. Prompting is managing.

It almost always devolves into some all encompassing ERP that is meant to solve the needs of all parts of the business and save millions in licensing costs, and we all know how wel…

I feel like so many of these memory solutions are incredibly over-engineered too. You can work around a lot of the memory issues for large and complex tasks just by making the agen…

The model is usually so confused after a /compact I also prefer a /clear. I set up my directives to maintain a work log for all work that I do. I instruct Claude Code to maintain a…

I wonder how many thousands of hours I have put into this wonderful collection. My kids play them too. There's some jank relating to fractional scaling on Wayland unfortunately, bu…

I absolutely loved my Pebble. It was so amazing in its own niche.

I generally find with Nix and NixOS that I'm able to just use a dev shell to create little custom environments at runtime as needed. Another option is `mkOutOfStoreSymlink` if you …

They say you shouldn't host status pages on the same infrastructure that it is monitoring, but in a way that makes it much more accurate and responsive in outages!

Crazy to think he died 26 years ago.

Open the Terminal and type help to start a puzzle, not much to it but it was a bit of silly fun!

It seems really straightforward to suggest that the better way to solve this is with standard protocols and self-hosting, but I do realise that's quite hand wavy and often not very…

Not being forced to use iOS, but if you are on iOS you are forced to use the app store.

ECS architectures are used in a number of young open source game engines, such as Bevy[1]. I haven't done game development for a long time, but hearing about an architecture that d…

I thought this was quite well written. "Be pragmatic, not dogmatic" is a very sensible rule of thumb.

Cargo workspaces have existed for a number of years now - the feature was released in Cargo alongside Rust 1.12 in September 2016: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2016/09/29/Rust-1.12.h…

It appears I succeeded incorrectly, and "I C U".