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zbowling

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About zbowling

Engineer at Meta. Formerly Modular AI (modular.com), Google (Fuchsia), and Apportable (YC W2011, acquired by Google).

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48633859

    >the performance of git isn’t a bottleneck for agents. Eh, it depends on the workflow. Especially if you have certain stack based workflows. Worktrees are kinda half solution here …

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    Comment #48406983

    The post just explains along with the new ADB access, you can now also build your own hacks or port existing apps to run on your Portal using newly published AI skills (originally …

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    Comment #48406823

    The blog post with the details on our update today which is a bit more complete than Boz's video: https://developers.meta.com/horizon/blog/build-apps-for-port...

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    Comment #47292306

    This is silly. Critical security and bug fixes come out and you are going to wait because you think older must be safer just to avoid a supply chain attack issue? Just secure the s…

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    Comment #46050166

    I built a MCP server that solves this actually. It works like a tool calling proxy that calls child servers but instead of serving them up as direct tool calls, it exposes them as …

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    Comment #46050132

    I wrote a better version of this idea: https://github.com/zbowling/mcpcodeserver It works as an MCP proxy of sorts that converts all the child MCP tools into typescript annotations…

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    Comment #46050089

    I specifically built this as an MCP server. It works like an MCP server that proxies to other MCP servers and converts the tool defintions in to typescript anotations and asks your…

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    Comment #45753748

    Alaska Airlines is redircting folks to their slimmed down international site and you can't check in on mobile.

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    Comment #45574040

    I hacked together a new MCP server this weekend that can significantly cut down the overhead with direct tool calling with LLMs inside different agents, especially when making mult…

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    Comment #45552804

    synology doens't even compete with synology anymore because all the new hardware requires locked in synology drives now. It's creating a void that is getting filled with Ugreen, Mi…

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    Comment #45213353

    Check out Pixi! Pixi is an alternative to the common conda and pypi frontends and has better system for hardware feature detection and get the best version of Torch for your hardwa…

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    Comment #45213304

    Try pixi! Pixi is a much more sane way for building with conda + pypi packages in a single tool that makes this so much easier for torch development, regardless if you get the cond…

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    Comment #43559490

    We forgot how to build websites like this. Lost art. Even the page is encoded iso-8859-1 and not UTF-8.

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    Comment #41873338

    I clicked the comments, searched for "MDI", and feel seen. Then I felt old. Bringing back old UX patterns like they are new.

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    Comment #41594118

    > a "low-overhead" parallelization library Who is out here building high-overhead parallelization libraries?

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    Comment #41374617

    He is making terminal emulators for iOS, iPadOS, and VisionOS and loving Swift these days.

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    Comment #41371554

    I worked on Mono a lot back in the early 2000s (back in the SVN days before it moved to Git, even). This move makes a lot of sense. Things evolved a lot over the years. Mono's lega…

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    Comment #40949158

    As someone who used GitHub for years (2009-2014), got acquired into a big tech company for 8 years, so I didn't get to use it much, and then got to go back to a startup that used i…

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    Comment #40588062

    > meaningless data Things like .git and .ssh not are not meaningless data even though they are not in ~/.config/ssh/ or ~/.local/shared/git.

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    Comment #40580122

    Nah. Your objections are rooted in the very limited definition of what an OS is and what a user application model is that fits it. There is no reason why each process/app can't be …

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    Comment #40579042

    Guess you have never used https://snapcraft.io/ , https://flatpak.org/ , or https://appimage.org/ because all of these do exactly that. Snap apps are straight linux containers and …

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    Comment #40578948

    Nah. XDG base directory was supposed to solve a ton of things 18 years ago, except none of them are hard-hitting user problems most folks really care about most of the time unless …

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    Comment #40578909

    This would break a bunch of little things in annoying ways. Like I have shell script tools that store shell scrollback logs in .cache, and I want that past reboot.