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Posted by
czottmann on Sunday October 11, 2026 @03:35PM
from the vista.daniloc.workers.dev dept.
Quoting the maker (
https://bsky.app/profile/daniloc.xyz/post/3mwi4bpttxs23):
> VISTA is a Marathon 2 museum
>
> revisit the planet Lh'owon from your browser, read all the terminals
>
> Marathon 2 was so successfully atmospheric despite the technical limits of the day, it's really cool to be reminded
Love it!
I think they meant it's 0.3c (= $0.003), not 0.003c.
It's good, and my agent is using it just fine (explicitly told it to prefer it over just grepping randomly). I use it in Swift, Go, and Node projects. If you use worktrees, make sure to run `codegraph init` post-setup to avoid confusing the robot :)
Posted by
czottmann on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @06:47AM
from the hmans.dev dept.
Because it's doubly good.
Upvoted. Nobody else seems to be fine with the White Supremacy site, but you aren't. Thanks for making me feel less alone.
The moat is shrinking, and shrinking fast.
https://actions.work/listening-post - Listening Post is my macOS multi-scrobbler that works with Last.fm, ListenBrainz, Rocksky, Maloja, Shortcuts, social posting, etc., independent from Spotify or Apple Music. The app can also scrobble shazams (music recognitions) from iPhone and Apple Watch, without the need for an extra app.
Basically, I built the scrobbler of my dreams. I love it to bits! I'm a professional software engineer for ~27 years by now but I only now got around to building that thing. :)
Pepperidge Farm remembers!
You asked a number of good questions there on the live call just now! I agree, you having Hendrik on would probably make for quite an ep.
I second that. I've personally known him for almost 30 years by now, and he's still one of the smartest, most experienced, and most curious devs I've ever met. All around good guy, would work with him again any day of the week.
It's a first-class PWA currently but no native desktop apps yet.
Excellent timing. I am currently working on a macOS scrobbler that (also) works with Last.fm, and supports music recogs from iOS, Apple Watch, and macOS.
https://actions.work/listening-post
(AFAIK, the official Mac scrobbler is dead by now.)
Look around for EU LLM routers. There are some, but none are as big as OpenRouter. Still, Cortecs (Austria) is quite good and offers a couple of recent models through its EU-based providers. Zero data retention, GDPR compliant, etc. Really nice.
https://cortecs.ai/serverlessModels
Stop with the logic and whatnot
Posted by
czottmann on Saturday May 09, 2026 @01:19PM
from the eurogamer.net dept.
Posted by
czottmann on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @06:36AM
from the earendil.com dept.
Posted by
czottmann on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @02:37PM
from the theverge.com dept.
I'm working on a macOS app that identifies music playing around you, constantly. You can scrobble them to Last.fm, ListenBrainz, LB-compatible sites, a Mastodon account, local Shortcuts workflows, and/or or local files. It also support Apple Music and Deezer.
I built it because most scrobblers only keep track of Apple Music or Spotify plays, but I have streaming stations on all day long, or the radio is on, and those never make it into my playing charts or recommendations etc.
Early days, more to come, public beta is ongoing, and I am looking for testers :)
https://actions.work/listening-post/?ref=hn
It's 2026. If you still host your newsletter on Substack, YOU ARE AN ENABLER. At this point, you're either complicit or plain lazy, neither of which is an excuse. You make a choice every goddamn day.
I had to look that up, found
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OnlyOffice#Organization:
> Based in Latvia, OnlyOffice owner Ascensio System SIA was a subsidiary of Russian-based New Communication Technologies. Due to EU economic sanctions targeting Russia, European organizations that used the commercial version of OnlyOffice were prohibited from doing so.
I liked Parakeet v3 a lot until it started to drop whole sentences, willy-nilly.