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Comment · 7 hours ago
Big Mithril fan here - going to check this out!
Comment · 13 days ago
I've been using Baileys - but it's not ideal. (Periodically you have to go manually log the bot back in.) Is there no platform that's friendly to personal bots? Or is that what Telegram is for? Discord I suppose...
Comment · 15 days ago
Highly recommend going through the onboarding process and using it a bit. The git analogies and visual metaphors are a nice touch.
Comment · 23 days ago
Comment · 27 days ago
Also if you use a newer API key (I think mine is from like Feb of this year) then you'll get a "this API key is too new to use 2.5" message.
Comment · 1 month ago
Oh nice! The hook installation response is clever.
Comment · 1 month ago
My biggest frustration with MCP at the moment is that it has no built-in way of uploading and downloading files. Every argument has to go through the context.

Sure you can use curl along with it - but many MCP friendly harnesses don't have access to a tool like that. Wish they had added this before moving on to stuff like MCP apps.

Comment · 1 month ago
This was my thought as well. I have a local model monitoring my finances and personal wiki - things I wouldn't want Claude to touch - and the Qwen 3.5 9b handles it all just perfectly.

I also needed a new device anyway - and having this much system memory to run virtual machines has been amazing.

Am paying subscriptions as well tho lol.

Comment · 2 months ago
At first blush, seems well thought out. README is quite thorough and readable - really appreciate that you've worked on shipping on Mac. Don't know much about txiki.js - will have to play with it.

Good luck!

Comment · 5 months ago
Was always my first tweak to a new machine - such an obvious change. Moving to a split keyboard gave me three keys at each thumb - the same kind of realization. We have two thumbs that most keyboards map to a single space bar. The thumb is a really solid finger for modifiers.

Another nice thing about a custom keyboard is not needing to map the keys - it's in the firmware.

Comment · 5 months ago
Was always mystified about custom keyboards - until I got the idea to do an emoji layer: https://poggers.institute/@j/the-emoji-layer/

Also: swapping colon/semicolon, using fn+hjkl for arrow keys and having Enter at my right thumb.

Once you open that door.

Comment · 6 months ago
Not a bad idea - however

> Caveman only affects output tokens — thinking/reasoning tokens are untouched.

The problem is the thinking. But could help to tune my system prompt for Kimi.

Comment · 6 months ago
I absolutely love Kimi's personality - some of the things it says are so out there! And it's been great for very focused, iterative work.

Its weakness is that it seems to yak on-and-on when it needs to plan out something big or read through and make sense of how to use a niche piece of a complex library. To the point where it can fill up its 256k window - and rack up a build. (No cache.) I have had better experience with GLM 5.1 in those cases.

Anyone out there relate?

Comment · 6 months ago
Well, yeah, it's all subjective - and actually quite tenuous - so you won't know good and bad until you actually make the call on it. Maybe you've had the experience even of coming around on some music you previously thought was bad.

Or like: one time I listened to a bunch of new music I had dug up and wasn't sure there was anything I liked. Two days later, I had a song in my head. Turned out to be one of the ones I had listened to. But I had to listen to everything all over again to find it! ദി(ㅠ﹏ㅠ) Glad I did - there were other gems in there.

Anyway, great quote.

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