I don’t know. I still prefer simply shipping Go binaries around that fire up a local web server and open the web page on start. I’m old enough to care about these fancy languages, frameworks, native APIs and such. A dumb language like Go, in combination with HTMX and some JavaScript/CSS is all I need.
Generative art was my first love. By accident, I ended up being a student of the great Frieder Nake (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frieder_Nake) and that changed my future trajectory.
These were great times, but I think the book is not worth buying anymore. Sadly, AI-generated imagery sort of killed the mojo of algorithmic art for me, and I've been trying to get back to it for the last few years.
Is this a hobby project or a real social media application with people using it? If there are at least 1000 ppl. using the platform, we can consider adding link aggregation for it in https://murmel.social
> The friction of building personal apps has always been so high that as users we accepted the ads, the trackers, the dark patterns, and the constant upsells.
> The friction is just not there anymore. You can build a personal app that has the exact subset of features you want, that is clean, fast, and respects your privacy, in a matter of hours.
Anthropic charges $20/month for Claude Pro, which is all fine, but we all know that this is heavily subsidized, and is not the real cost of tokens we burn through.
The well-known ccusage (https://ccusage.com/) utility can read those logs and compute what you would have paid on a pay-per-token basis. For heavy users, that number can be... surprising.
I built a single HTML file that turns that data into a shareable infographic — cost trends over time, model breakdown (Sonnet vs. Haiku vs. Opus), total token volume, and peak spend days.
Everything runs client-side. The JSON never leaves your machine.
I’ve been thinking about this a lot while building Murmel (https://murmel.social). One thing we wanted to avoid from day one was the “infinite engagement machine” model, so instead of pushing algorithmic slop, we just surface links that are already being shared by people you follow on Bluesky and Mastodon.
It ends up feeling much closer to “what’s interesting in my corner of the web right now?” and much less like a system trying to keep you trapped inside it.
Small scope, obviously, but I think more social tools should feel like utilities, not casinos.
I’m old enough to remember and toy with the now long-dead XNA. It was lots of fun, and gave a lot of us students versed with C# a sort of first-hand exposure with the .NET. If only (the old) Microsoft wasn’t so stupid, short-sighted, and selfish at the time.
If only it were that rosy. I tested a few of the top open-source coding models on a beefy GPU machine, and they all behaved like anything about anything - simply rotating in circles and wasting electricity.
Has anyone used this in earnest with something like OpenCode? Over the past few months I’ve tested a dozen models that were claimed to be nearly as good Claude Code or Codex, but the overall experience when using them with OpenCode was close to abysmal. Not even a single one was able to do a decent code editing job on a real-world codebase.
Surprisingly, to me, it’s the other ways around - and, I’ve been writing code for two decades now. I love programming and even with AI, I will always have the last word, but I also realized along the way that programming is only a means to an end - you write code to get something done, not to write the code itself. With AI, I can finally give chance to my hundreds of ideas and see what sticks.
They do. I’ve been teaching cross-career programming courses in the past, where most of my students had day jobs, some, involving hard physical work. They’d gladly swap all that for the opportunity to feed their families by writing code.
Just comes to show how the grass is always greener when you look on the other side.
That said, I also plan to retire up in the mountains soon, rather than keep feeding the machine.
I don’t know. I still prefer simply shipping Go binaries around that fire up a local web server and open the web page on start. I’m old enough to care about these fancy languages, frameworks, native APIs and such. A dumb language like Go, in combination with HTMX and some JavaScript/CSS is all I need.