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Not sure about the best, but Zola is good enough for basic blogging needs. I liked the part that it was a single binary, so you don’t have to keep up with any breaking changes unless you want a new feature or a bug is bothering you.

Whatever you use, I feel it is tradition to have 3 odd blog posts about journey of building a SSG of your own since nothing else matched exactly what you needed and that’s it. Then you should forget that blog ever existed.

Wow! This app is pretty cool!

Thanks! All the best for your rewrite and definitely will check it out once it launches!

Hi. Could anyone share any recommendations (hopefully with actual links) for App Store apps to try running such local models? I’m not really interested in side-loading since it currently seems (to me) more of an hassle than it’s worth.

App Store search is broken in a sense that there might be so many apps claiming to be local but once you read reviews, it’s just another scam where it’s it’s usually sending your query to remote server.

‘just works’, my ass.

I agree that as a power user I might tend to notice bugs more often, but when there is no relevant error message for the normies, to even bother looking up; it takes a really deep breath for me to remind myself why android ain’t a thing I would want to go back to. I guess, I got into the ecosystem a bit later than its prime time where things apparently had better software quality in the walled swamp.

This is one of my biggest pet peeves! I hate reading shell scripts which uses small options. It is okay to use short options when interactively using shell, but there is no excuse to not spend time and try converting a small options shell script to use long options if its going to be read by someone else, especially if you anyway have to write comments explaining it. The biggest part i hate is that, some utilities don’t have long option counterpart!

Oh my god. I am sad to have to acknowledge this even if the models have “theoretically” gotten better. I am not a programmer but I am super opinionated with the design and structure of the code and need to make sure whatever I write/ask to generate and use for my own tasks is understood by me at least once. I wasn’t this way in 2023. I am constantly reading/trying for an agent to help me write simple code without spending too much time. But so far nothing has worked. I wish someone figures it out otherwise, I personally would not be able to realize the AI agent productivity benefits that others are supposedly seeing.

Yes, it is not optimized for reading.

What many devs have pointed out in personal conversations is: The cost of maintenance is no longer just tied to engineer’s salary. just the sheer scale of code, comments and documentation generated by agents is huge for a person to review, which most likely will lead to people having to resort to agents to understand and fix code. Currently, even with subsidies on personal subscriptions, enterprise costs do add up with the token usage.

Atleast when it costs money, self hosting is considered seriously for large orgs

I think I have some tendencies to do so as well. More specifically, I have the itch to just spend some time, knowing or understanding the tools I use better. It Has paid dividends for me, since the tools we typically use for $work are super buggy yet powerful and like any good proprietary tool, abstracted behind an obscure shitty API. Experimenting with crazy things just allows me to run into bugs early on when, I have the patience to solve them.

But, it’s the first time in my short career, i have shied away from being on bleeding edge of tooling. Specifically, LLM tooling. Firstly, since LLM’s are not yet needed or good in my field of $work, but; even in my programming hobby, whenever I venture out to explore, it all feels too snake oil to me. And do I even need to begin why the f*k people curl | bash??

I dunno maybe its just old habits, but I can’t bring myself to download a skill or whatever without going through its contents.

And then it just is too much to keep up.

For instance, for a period of time, everyone on hn were glazing claude and then after having a great UI experience on their ios app, i got a simple one month subscription, but by that time, hn already was making friends with codex and pi. My searches for blog posts written by ‘AI/LLM’ normies using it for reasonable tasks, has been disappointing, and just too polluted with people completely vibing and not reviewing any code. And then you have power users whose entire purpose is to try out new stuff, rather than stay consistent on one toolchain and maybe also share a perspective of if the tool is degrading or not.

Sadly, amongst all the agentic hype, the autocompletion mode seems to have fallen behind which I enjoy a lot more since it allows me to architect things in a particular fashion without bugging myself with nitty gritty details.

Hopefully, as these things start costing more money, things will get streamlined to the point where few camps will emerge similar to how the text editors work. I am looking for an update to ‘what the vim of llm tooling look like’ blog post any day now.

Yes tldr, navi cheatsheets are essentially a great set of how to do X using Y for terminal utilities. Pretty well curated set of commands for majority of the tasks, so are great training material. And great work! Love it

Yep! And it works well on iOS too. Safari sucks and stutters with some of these single file html and I haven’t been able to figure out why, but my god this is awesome and also fun to play with!

Ohh, sadly I relate with this feeling too much.

For all the agentic loops people seem to have come up with, the research loop or as I call it the “Desperate 10th page on Github’s crappy search results” is still not up to the mark.

Either it might be genuine rate limiting these LLM’s face or just that, they are trained to focus on implementing a solution which would be faster and user acceptable solution. (which seems to be a true looking at people pushing LLM generated code as is).

At least in my personal experience with niche projects and heck even with well documented and famous libraries, along with fancy mcp’s, llms.txt and skills; RTFM has been more relevant than usual for code that I have asked an agent to generate, since it is too eager to reimplement functionality which already exists, only if it RTFM!!

They require admin privileges. A consumer on an enterprise servers might not have them, which is where I would guess glibc might not be latest one. If you are an admin then sure those solutions can be feasible.