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4 points·by vinnymac·letzten Monat·0 comments

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vinnymac
·vor 25 Tagen·discuss
I’m working on an open source Forgejo Frontend that exposes additional features like this, and offers a better user experience, faster large diffs, and basically fixes every little thing I don’t like about Forgejo. Would be interested in hearing more of your complaints so I can continue to improve.
vinnymac
·vor 27 Tagen·discuss
No doubt in my mind, a future Apple model will be the best to use for this purpose. They likely have more swift to train on than anyone else, and would benefit directly from more quality apps, rather than the slop flowing into the App Store (>1k app submissions per hour; they claim)
vinnymac
·letzten Monat·discuss
Well said. In creative spaces they talk about “Dirty” vs “Clean”. Dirty they say lets you move fast. Clean is slow.

Happen to be a startup that isn’t mission critical to someone’s health and well being? Great, now you can use AI and be as dirty as you would like.

Are you working with dangerous chemicals that are ingested by others, or systems that control hunks of metal flying through the sky with hundreds on board? Maybe we should stay clean in those environments until we make AI itself clean.
vinnymac
·letzten Monat·discuss
Curious, why do you say that as if the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button isn't still on the homepage in 2026?
vinnymac
·letzten Monat·discuss
Same here, I now self host Forgejo and Tangled Knot + Spindle.

Only use GitHub for employers at the moment, but don’t intend to put new code there going forward.
vinnymac
·letzten Monat·discuss
I’m actively working on a free and open source alternative Frontend for Forgejo that I self host called Joui
vinnymac
·letzten Monat·discuss
I’m in the process of developing an alternative Frontend for Forgejo that’s incredibly fast, and works perfectly well on Safari and Firefox.

Here is a screencap of the wip mobile UI on old safari: https://files.catbox.moe/bo7pxn.jpeg
vinnymac
·letzten Monat·discuss
I’ve always felt this automation shouldn’t exist at all, but should rather be selectively controlled via a hook. The hooks yarn offers out of the box for example can be used to run any code you need to after install. Putting the project owner in control instead of the dependency.
vinnymac
·letzten Monat·discuss
In case others are unaware, you just have to set https://yarnpkg.com/configuration/yarnrc#npmMinimalAgeGate to the value you want. It defaults to 1 day.
vinnymac
·letzten Monat·discuss
It’s on by default in yarn 4 too now, but pnpm was the first to market that default minimum gate.

https://github.com/yarnpkg/berry/pull/7135
vinnymac
·letzten Monat·discuss
I tried it but see a lot of false positives.

One funny thing I see it doing is deleting seemingly random comments lines, for example if a file has a comment that spans multiple lines but doesn’t use a multi line comment syntax. It just chooses one at random transforming the once useful comment into slop.
vinnymac
·letzten Monat·discuss
The problem is that we have an ever growing and large number of constraints, and not following even a single one means the result is sloppy.

I don’t see them fixing this any time soon, and thus human in the loop is a requirement to use these tools effectively. That is unless you love your slot machine dopamine rush enough to ignore quality gates and respect for your peers time.
vinnymac
·letzten Monat·discuss
It’s still early days, but I already have it in a useable state so I could share more such as early screencaps.

I plan on focusing primarily on these areas:

- mobile experience is first class, even on old/slow devices

- diff viewer is fast even on extremely large pull requests

- stacked pull request support

- user interface is modern, accessible, and theme-able with a light touch of whimsy

- search is accessible from anywhere

- opinionated keyboard shortcuts and commandk palette from day one

Many other longer term goals that I’m not mentioning here for now while the roadmap is forming.
vinnymac
·letzten Monat·discuss
I moved most of my projects off GitHub to Forgejo and will be using Tangled too for public repositories. I don’t think people realize that if you self host Forgejo, you get 99% of the functionality of GitHub with zero of the limitations. Especially if you have the hardware to spare for CI runners. And if self hosting isn’t your thing you can always just use Codeberg and Tangled directly.

I’m working on an open source Forgejo browser called Joui. It’s coming along nicely, and is so much snappier than GitHub in every single way.
vinnymac
·letzten Monat·discuss
I’m actively working on an alternative Frontend for Forgejo at the moment, completely self hostable, free, and open source.

Moving everything from GitHub to Forgejo and Tangled for now. These outages haven’t effected me for the past month because of this.
vinnymac
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
I left a similar comment elsewhere in this thread. I still remember when so many people hallucinated that we would suddenly have flying cars by 2002 at the latest. If we achieve several more major improvements on current technology, these thoughts are interesting to consider. But not before that occurs.

We need the pragmatic engineer more than ever.
vinnymac
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
I appreciate your insights in a sea of psychosis comments. I find it strange how many people think we have achieved the likes of Y2K flying cars 20 years ago, or the dream of having every car on the road be an electric fully self driving car by now (a promise made at least over a decade ago by several of these types).

The point I’m making is that we give the spotlight to people who are making absurd claims. We have not achieved the ability to remove the human from the loop and continually produce value-able outputs. Until we do, I don’t see how any of the claims made in this article are even close to anything more than simply gate-keeping slop.
vinnymac
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
Not to mention how trigger happy LLMs can be when it comes to being overly verbose and adding unnecessary bits even with explicit direction not to do so.
vinnymac
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
This made it impossible for me to read, and Safari Reader was unavailable, further cementing my press of the back button.
vinnymac
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
When doing this remove write permissions on the test file, it will do a much better job of staying the course over long periods. I've been doing this for over a year now.