alfg

Joined 14 years ago

Karma
176
Submissions
146
Member since
Sep 23
Website - https://alfg.dev

Github - https://github.com/alfg

Project - https://video-commander.com

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Comment · 14 days ago
Slowly migrating my domains to Cloudflare as they near expiration. Namecheap's quality and service has downgraded so much in the last several years. It's no longer worth it with the pricing updates.

Cloudflare has been pretty reliable so far. I've been using their services since the beginning.

Comment · 18 days ago
Because Claude is a tool, just like other development tools. We don't say "My IDE built it", or "the compiler built it", regardless of the optimizations and generated output it provides.

Claude (and LLMs in general) takes an input and generates an output as a general purpose tool.

Comment · 18 days ago
It gives more confidence in the service at the time I'm thinking about the order. I want it to be reliable so I don't need to track and worry about it.
Comment · 20 days ago
> capable of deciding how to frame the images, how to stage them, what lighting was required, how to edit them

This is all possible now. I don’t think it’s dead (yet), but it’s certainly becoming more weird and artificial.

Comment · 27 days ago
Same. I feel like JetBrains has an advantage here, so I'm hoping they're working on something compelling. The traditional IDE setup is quickly dying.

I'm usually working between VSCode and Codex/Claude Code at the same time, but find myself mostly in latter these days.

Comment · 1 month ago
I think this is it. It's hard to tell what the future of IDE development (if any) looks like at the pace AI is going. So everyone is building agentic workflows for a fast moving target. What will happen when the code generated is already 99.9% trustworthy and doesn't need the human-based tooling of an IDE anymore? It feels like we're almost there.

I do think JetBrains has an advantage here with their background and reputation. I'm constantly reshaping my tools literally every month, so hopefully they build some type of staple development IDE to fit these type of workflows. I don't know what that is yet.

AIR looks interesting, but I can't say this is the "AI IDE moment" yet.

Comment · 1 month ago
Great idea. UI looks good and clean as well as mobile-friendly. Thanks for this, bookmarked.
Comment · 1 month ago
Astro is great. I've recently been using it on another project that I have hosted on Cloudflare. So much faster too.
Comment · 1 month ago
All marketing, my dude.
Comment · 1 month ago
Were you staying in Shinjuku or Shibuya? Those areas can get particularly dirty in recent years. I think overall Tokyo is still pretty clean in comparison from other places I've lived or traveled though.
Comment · 1 month ago
Yep, I live in Tokyo too and I love this city. However, one of the first things I did when I moved here was buy a car to travel and explore outside of Tokyo for the weekends.
Comment · 1 month ago
Hi, Video Commander creator here. Thanks for the submission!

Happy to answer any questions!

Comment · 1 month ago
Recently refreshed my FFmpeg command builder tool:

https://ffmpeg-commander.com

I originally built this around 7 years ago in Vue2 and Bootstrap as a simple static frontend tool to generate common ffmpeg commands.

I recently ported it over to Vite/React/Tailwind via Claude (Opus 5) and thought it did a pretty good job. So refreshed it as a version 2.0.

Quite impressed how fast AI was able to port this over. It made me think about revitalizing some old projects. :)

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