Re:Show HN: Showboat and Rodney, so agents can demo what the...
by simonw on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @04:55PM
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First time someone's asked for the site to be wider! I have it setup so on a wide screen the text is still a readable width, do you think it needs to bump up that max width a bit more?
I've found the models are so good at Playwright that I don't consider Selenium any more. Rodney is my first experiment not using Playwright.
Re:Show HN: Showboat and Rodney, so agents can demo what the...
by TheKnack on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @05:20PM
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I second the request to make the site responsive. When I load the page the CSS constrains the main content to 560px and the whole page is constrained to 940px. Here's how it displays on my system:
Re:Show HN: Showboat and Rodney, so agents can demo what the...
by dwb on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @05:43PM
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Your tastes are your own, and there is an argument for just filling the window, but you won’t find a typographic authority that advocates setting body text much wider than that (and I would agree with them).
Showboat seems like it could actually be quite useful for humans too, just for making quick notes from a CLI without opening an editor. The "pop" command makes me wonder if there would be a benefit to also having an array-like in addition to the stack-like interface. It seems like it would be fairly trivial to generate an index of markdown blocks so that they could be edited individually.
I like the idea of Rodney, but I wonder if you might actually have better results by asking the agent to generate equivalent Selenium scripts instead. I'm specifically suggesting Selenium because it's been around so long so I assume there's a lot of Selenium in the LLMs training data, but there are other options that might work too.