technojamin

6 dni temudiscuss

You'll never be able to draw the tiger how you want it unless you draw the tiger. Prompting is not drawing, it's commissioning from another creator.

technojamin

19 dni temudiscuss

Haha, I'll elaborate on that a bit. I don't recommend rolling your own setup to most people that I encourage to version their dotfiles. The vast majority of the developers I've met don't have any type of dotfiles setup, so I wouldn't want to recommend something I know would take significantly more work or overwhelm them. If they're going from no versioning to something, that's a huge improvement, and it's nice to get a lot of the advanced features for free.

But, for the people who value the "toolbench" of their craft, investing in it over time, and having it grow with them long-term, I will absolutely proselytize the reasons I've stayed with my custom-built setup. You're clearly one of those people, thanks for sharing. :)

technojamin

19 dni temudiscuss

I think it's the exact opposite of what you're saying. The maintainers sound like they're only considering the technical cost (and judging it not worth it) instead of factoring in the political consequences of keeping the same naming. I actually really respect those who value the technical over the political, but in a large-scale, public-facing project, some politics must be played.

It seems to me like you're viewing the playing of politics as a no-brainer, which is a very different mindset from a Linux contributor. I don't think people get into kernel maintenance to play politics.

technojamin

22 dni temudiscuss

I've checked out stow, chezmoi, yadm, and others over the years, but I originally started off by rolling my own dotfiles setup with a Git repo about 6 years ago: https://github.com/jaminthorns/environment

I don't really recommend it to others, since there's all these great tools that have the features you need (per-machine config, secrets, templating), but I get a deep satisfaction from the fact that I understand every part of this setup from top to bottom. It only has the functionality I need, and I know it doesn't depend on anything that might become unmaintained since it's just POSIX shell scripts.

Even still, I might eventually make the jump to something like chezmoi or nix if I'm not able to implement something I need easily, but that hasn't happened yet.

technojamin

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Someone has never dealt with HIPAA laws and it shows.

technojamin

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This article pre-supposes that the primary way AI agents will do tasks for users will be through through usage of desktop applications instead of documented APIs. While desktop app usage could be very important during a transition period of agent-computer use, I think it makes far more sense that agents will standardize on the protocols that are already being developed, like MCP. An explicitly documented API will always be better for a machine to use than clicking around and navigating an interface for humans.

technojamin

3 miesiące temudiscuss

I use it for previewing files in `fzf` and `lf` (terminal file manager).

technojamin

3 miesiące temudiscuss

Maybe you should interrogate that temptation to reach for physical interfaces? It sounds like you're ignoring your own psychology and shaping yourself to the machines around you instead of thinking of how the machines could be shaped to you.

Not that I haven't done exactly the same thing as you, I never keep paper around and my handwriting has gotten terrible. I'm saying this to myself and others as well.

technojamin

3 miesiące temudiscuss

I think that's perfectly understandable. File systems require the user to remember a hierarchy in their head (even if there are tools like breadcrumbs to help you out), and many people aren't willing or aren't able to hold an arbitrarily complex structure like that in their head. A name is a flat piece of information, no extra structure to imagine.

technojamin

7 miesięcy temudiscuss

Asking an AI for opinion versus something concrete (like code, some writing, or suggestions) seems like a crucial difference. I've experimented with crossing that line, but I've always recognized the agency I'd be losing if I did, because it essentially requires a leap of faith, and I don't (and might never) have trust in the objectivity of LLMs.

It sounds like you made that leap of faith and regretted it, but thankfully pivoted to something grounded in reality. Thanks for sharing your experience.

technojamin

8 miesięcy temudiscuss

I thought those were part of "the normal course of business" (quoting VP of Boring Company).

technojamin

8 miesięcy temudiscuss

I love WezTerm! In the author's spirit of obsessive tweaking, here's a completely inconsequential configuration change I made.

By default, WezTerm doesn't have a scrollbar, but you can easily enable it with:

  config.enable_scroll_bar = true

But now you always have a scrollbar, just a big line on the side when there's no scrollback or you're in alternate screen mode. Horrible! So, here's an event handler that will automatically hide the scrollbar when not needed, giving it the same behavior as scrollbars in modern applications:

  -- Hide the scrollbar when there is no scrollback or alternate screen is active
  wezterm.on("update-status", function(window, pane)
    local overrides = window:get_config_overrides() or {}
    local dimensions = pane:get_dimensions()

    overrides.enable_scroll_bar = dimensions.scrollback_rows > dimensions.viewport_rows and not pane:is_alt_screen_active()

    window:set_config_overrides(overrides)
  end)

And that kinda sums up the development philosophy of WezTerm. It has basically all the building blocks you'd ever need with nice APIs. It's set up quite usably by default, but anything that's missing you can probably implement yourself.

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