mSyke

mSyke

@benbrougher.tech

A software developer from the PNW. I work in the telecom industry. I garden, spend time outdoors, and write code for fun. Check out my blog here: https://benbrougher.tech Twitch: https://twitch.tv/mSyke

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the more I look at AI generated code, the more I think to myself: actually that was a really dumb way to do that

I want a browser that works like a tmux session on an ssh/mosh server. I want to share my exact website state with all my machines and pick up where I left off on one machine when moving to the other

for the first time, I can actually run a coding model locally and tool calls are actually working. I don't have a modern GPU or copious amounts of RAM either. it's slow, but it's working

my hot take of the day: plan mode isn't that usefull. just tell it to write the doc to a markdown file if you want to plan

so i moved a bunch of stuff to my self hosted gitea instance and lots of things are just better. all around faster and more plesant to use. i can even share on-prem runners between repos! thats one of the most frustrating things github just doesnt let you do

The problem with shopping for gifts for people is that the effort to find the gift does not linearly scale with the quality of the gift you find.

a note to microsoft azure engineers: eventual conistency does not give you an excuse to let permissions take more than an hour to propegate, thank you for your attention to this matter

something I think that modern music could learn from classic rock is how to use stereo seperation for effect. it adds a whole new element of interesting to music and it's highly underused these days

a feature I need in a shell: the ability to somehow after I have already fired off a task that I wasn't aware was going to be long, notify me when it's done via some sort of desktop notification. let me go do something else when that command ends up taking a bunch longer and ping me when it's done