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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen on Monday November 02, 2026 @02:23PM (#50342217)
Whoa. Wild. I want to try this!
Re:DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @08:53AM (#50165612)
They are definitely experimenting with inference, see https://experiments.hetzner.com/ (needs login).
Re:Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3 on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @06:42AM (#49710418)
This is what I switched to as well, works nicely. Can have just a folder as a backend as well, which makes things pretty simple.
Re:Go 1.27 on Thursday August 20, 2026 @02:46AM (#49371244)
Yeah, I would have gone with uuid.V4 or something. But oh well, as long as it works. :D
Re:Zed: Delta on Thursday August 13, 2026 @10:30AM (#49286538)
I really liked Zed for a couple of months, when AI tab code completion was the frontier. But now I don’t hand-edit files anymore, so Zed is mostly a fast file reader for me.

I understand why a team focused on an editor would do this, because they have to figure out where to fit into this new world. I guess I’m mostly looking for a product now that lets me review large amounts of code easily, add comments, and interact with many agents working on the same codebase in worktrees (or similar) at once. I’m unsure whether this would be something like that?

Uh, nice! I hadn't heard about that spec before. I'll give the skill a try.
Please at least pretend to read the article before posting something like that.
As we all know, agricultural areas use much less resources and are generally great for the environment. (Yes, this is sarcasm. See also [0], which is US-centric but still relevant.)

[0]: https://blog.andymasley.com/p/data-center-land-use-issues-ar...

EDIT: Just to clarify, I'm all for NOT building datacenters in nature that's worth preserving, or near residential areas where other areas would be fine. Farmland, don't care.

I like to think it’s a gopher. :D
Re:Website streamed live directly from a model on Thursday April 23, 2026 @03:11AM (#47872966)
This is so good and so fun! :D
Hi, I'm the author of GAI. I'm glad that you are happy with it! I'm using it a lot myself, both for own and client projects, but I wasn't sure if anyone else was. :D

I'm actually trying to build it out in a way so that gateways aren't necessarily necessary. Cost and token tracking happen through OpenTelemetry. Fallbacks and retries are handled through the new “robust” package, and I have other plans as well. You're always welcome to file issues in the repo for things you'd like to see but aren't there yet. :-)

Oooh, I didn't know that.
I think you had a post about marimo notebooks at some point? I think they would be better suited for that. Their representation is just Python, they can run as scripts, and they have native HTML output. But of course, it only works for Python.
That's actually one of the things that has kept me from using Claude Code web (that, and I often need a Chrome browser for the agent). But they must be working on it.

I saw an MCP I've set up on claude.ai show up in my local Claude Code MCP list the other day, it seems inevitable that there will be skills integration across environments as well at some point.

I guess it would still make sense to have "demo" and "browser-use" skills, so that the agent can reach for them proactively? I always try to remove as much friction as possible for myself, one little bit at a time.
Oh, I hadn't seen that one either, thanks for sharing. Here I am still using the Chrome Devtools MCP like a caveman. :D
If you're coming from the Python world, definitely. I find `go install github.com/simonw/rodney@latest` equally easy. :D Although you need the Go tooling installed, of course. But so much agree, Go is great for CLIs!
Re:Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP on Friday October 17, 2025 @03:19PM (#45620852)
I’d rather say you can use skills to do RAG by supplying the right tools in the skill (“here’s how you query our database”).

Calling the skill system itself RAG is a bit of a stretch IMO, unless you end up with so many skills that their summaries can’t fit in the context and you have to search through them instead. ;)

What I've done in a project once is use Purchasing Power Parity: basically, there's an index for purchasing power, and you adjust your pricing based on that. It's implemented in some major payment platforms, like Gumroad: https://gumroad.com/help/article/327-purchasing-power-parity
Thank you for sharing the youtube links in particular! It's nice to get some background info and intent for interesting libraries.
For Go, something like gomponents [0] or Templ [1] would fit that. (Disclaimer: I wrote gomponents.) I even have a Datastar integration now. [2]

[0]: https://www.gomponents.com

[1]: https://templ.guide

[2]: https://www.maragu.dev/gomponents-datastar

It's a frontend framework and a backend SDK in multiple languages, for SSE and more.
Re:What if we treated Postgres like SQLite? on Monday September 22, 2025 @03:09PM (#45338044)
Agreed about the Postgres export!

For sqlite, I would recommend "sqlite3 app.db '.backup backup.db'" though, if that's an option. Guaranteed consistent!

Re:What if we treated Postgres like SQLite? on Monday September 22, 2025 @02:28PM (#45337524)
No worries. :-) Thank you for your follow-up, kind stranger on the internet.
Re:What if we treated Postgres like SQLite? on Monday September 22, 2025 @02:26PM (#45337492)
Sure, you are correct! But I've already learned about pglite and sqlite-vector from the comments here alone. So if one reads the article AND the comments, I hope it's a net-positive for you, too, even if the article alone didn't give you anything.

And if not, I hope you didn't spend too long reading. :-)

Re:What if we treated Postgres like SQLite? on Monday September 22, 2025 @02:23PM (#45337455)
Yeah, totally agreed. An embedded Postgres would be sweet (see pglite elsewhere here in the comments, looks interesting).

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