jaytaylor

Just a minor thing I want to clarify about the Weather Report [1] - it's framed in kind of a negative light in the article ("sparse updates"), but we've been updating it as frequently as we find a meaningful improvement in a relevant dimension. Since we launched it in February it has averaged about one update per month, as frontier labs keep racing forward!

[1] https://factory.strongdm.ai/weather-report

I've not yet formed a full opinion or conclusion, but in general I'm starting to prefer Rust.

Re: generalizing mocks, it sounds interesting but after getting full-fidelity clones of so many multi-billion dollar SaaS offerings, I really like it and am hooked. It pays nice dividends for developing using agentic coders at high scale. In a few more model releases having your own exhaustive DTU could become trivial.

I'm testing a theory that large-scale (LoC) generated projects in Rust tend to have fewer functional bugs compared to e.g. Go or Java because Rust as a language is a little stricter.

I've not yet formed a full opinion or conclusion, but in general I'm starting to prefer Rust.

Re: generalizing mocks, it sounds interesting but after getting full-fidelity clones of so many multi-billion dollar SaaS offerings, I really like it and am hooked. It pays nice dividends for developing using agentic coders at high scale. In a few more model releases having your own exhaustive DTU could become trivial.

I did have an initial key insight which led to a repeatable strategy to ensure a high level of fidelity between DTU vs. the official canonical SaaS services:

Use the top popular publicly available reference SDK client libraries as compatibility targets, with the goal always being 100% compatibility.

You've also zeroed in on how challenging this was: I started this back in August 2025 (as one of many projects, at any time we're each juggling 3-8 projects) with only Sonnet 3.5. Much of the work was still very unglamorous, but feasible. Especially Slack, in some ways Slack was more challenging to get right than all of G-Suite (!).

Now I'm part way through reimplementing the entire DTU in Rust (v1 was in Go) and with gpt-5.2 for planning and gpt-5.3-codex for execution it's significantly less human effort.

IMO the most novel part to this story is Navan's Attractor and corresponding NLSpec. Feed in a good Definition-of-Done and it'll bounce around between nodes until it gets it right. There are already several working implementations in less than 24 hours since it was released, one of which is even open source [0].

[0] https://github.com/danshapiro/kilroy

This is great feedback, appreciate you taking the time to post it. I will set some agents loose on optimization / purification passes over CXDB and see which of these gaps they are able to discover and address.

We only chose to open source this over the past few days so it hasn't received the full potential of technical optimization and correction. Human expertise can currently beat the models in general, though the gap seems to be shrinking with each new provider release.

All of my web properties have been ad-free since the beginning, going on 25 years. Cheers.

https://github.com/strongdm/leash

Check it out, feedback is welcome!

At my company (StrongDM) we recently open-sourced a tool in this space called Leash: https://github.com/strongdm/leash

By default it runs in docker, and also includes an extra sophisticated macOS-native --darwin mode which goes beyond the capabilities and guarantees of the likes of sandbox-exe, bubblewrap, and in some ways docker. Leash provides visibility into and control over every command and network request attempted by the coder agent. Would appreciate any feedback, and will try to get in touch with the author (Gordon).

Now I'll definitely look into automatically supporting pass-through auth for at least gh cli in Leash - always looking for what folks will find useful.

https://github.com/strongdm/leash

It even has a --darwin macOS-native mode which goes beyond the capabilities and guarantees of sandbox-exec and bubblewrap.

Full-disclosure: I am one of the authors.

Enjoy!

https://www.highrez.co.uk/downloads/XMouseButtonControl.htm

However the docs (which are excellent!) were published by the developer as PDF-only, so I did a nice transform to HTML and posted it on my personal website. I will do my best to host it until I'm dead, and also submitted it to TIA:

https://www.highrez.co.uk/downloads/X-Mouse%20Button%20Contr...

https://jaytaylor.com/x-mouse-button-docs/

Forever TIA link: https://web.archive.org/web/20240825203006/https://jaytaylor...

Cheers,

Jay

https://github.com/jaytaylor/html2text/

https://jaytaylor.com/html2text

It takes HTML as input and generates markdown-esque plaintext, with the main focus being to make the plaintext version easy and pleasant to read for human beings. Then using MIME types*, you transmit both the rich html version alongside the generated text/plain version.

This is cool because it makes it easy to respect both rich clients (like Gmail et. al.) as well as command-line or other clients which work better with simple text.

Hope this helps folks have the best of both worlds! :) cheers

* n.b. To ensure this works properly, be sure to use the right MIME headers:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3902455/mail-multipart-a...

> hy·gro·scop·ic

> adjective

> (of a substance) tending to absorb moisture from the air. relating to humidity or its measurement.

> internecine, adj.:

> destructive to both sides in a conflict.

That minor implementation detail aside... You make a good point. Perhaps MD5 or SHA256 hashes will become a last resort for domain names? Haha, no.

> Our ghosts could live forever, if we help each other.

I love this idea and would gladly assist in the effort, let's set it up :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28489791 - Checkboxland

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28826018 - I keep making things out of checkboxes

Since co-op was most unnecessary, do you know why it was changed to preemptive or what the specific cases were that are resolved with preemptive scheduling?

Suitability depends on what the requirements are.