Charles Lowell

Not super thrilled to have a post validated so quickly www.anthropic.com/research/sel...

and they're live! bomb.sh/docs/router/...

if you're using a modern terminal, there's no technical reason your favorite TUI is completely missing cursor affordances cursor support coming to @bomb.sh/tty soon ✨

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cooking docs 😉 for @bomb.sh/router

The incredible team at @bomb.sh has been absolutely dominating. New bomb router is slick. Tty is best in class for tui. Prompts are really well done. Everything is slick slick slick, well packages, small code size. Ridiculously OP team.

One of my favorite things about the new @bomb.sh router is how well it scales. It doesn't matter if you have single entry point or a hundred.

some extremely cool ideas in our new statically typed router! in keeping with our ethos, @bomb.sh/router is not a framework, but a composable building block. supports standardschema.dev for args and allows routes to be resolved lazily

Org format READMEs (a project's most public artifact) have been broken since Friday, which it erodes faith in the platform. Like if there's poo all over the front door, and nobody's been out to see it or clean it up, sure makes me wonder what's going on inside the house. github.com/orgs/communi...

Folks are waaaay overthinking AI p(doom). We won’t be killed by one “unaligned” superintelligence. We’ll be killed by a digital zombie apocalypse: stupid but relentless agents that copy, mutate, and copy until the arteries of global infrastructure collapse, clogged with heartworms.

I'm floored by the things that get built with Effection. This let's you breezily put up fully self contained AI apps (no renting models from the cloud required to run) www.producthunt.com/products/llo...

new CLI router just dropped! 🫳

I always thought the lyric was: "Now that your rose is in bloom, the light hits the _rune_ on the grave." And let's be honest here. That is superior imagery.

There is something just so enviable about Haskell's ability to declare piecewise functions

@bomb.sh/tty is the low-level layout engine and input parser that powers our forthcoming tui libraries. think we can get this even smaller, but our baseline is now v0.9.0 at 113 kB (0 deps) compared to v0.6.0 at 830 kB (0 deps) @opentui/core at 21 MB (9 deps) ink at 7.8 MB (36 deps)

I want "RIP code" to be on my headstone

Media queries for a TUI? My face melted and then exploded.

When we started out, it felt a bit lonely taking on such a colossal climb by ourselves, but not any more! Turns out, they were already well on their way up the mountain, and since we've teamed up with @natemoo.re @paulvall.dev and the rest of the @bomb.sh team, it feels like flying instead.

working with @frontside.com (@cogentdude.com and @jacobbolda.com) on this rendering engine has been stellar, and i'm thrilled they've joined the @bomb.sh core team. better together! tty is a smaller, faster, more powerful terminal rendering engine, and it's just the start bomb.sh/docs/tty

exciting news! we've partnered with @frontside.com together we're bringing their work on clayterm into the ecosystem as @bomb.sh/tty, a high-performance wasm renderer for terminal apps and we're jointly contributing $400/mo to support maintenance of the underlying clay layout engine

No sooner than my first PR stack did I yearn for PR trees.

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Inside baseball: The middleware additions in 4.1 is what will be used to implement the inspector frontside.com/effection/bl...

Effection 4.1 is out: ⚡️ faster runtime, package half the size 🤝 support for JavaScript's explicit resource management 🧬 New `experimental` entry: Contextual APIs, our take on algebraic effects frontside.com/effection/bl...

Move fast. Don't break things.

Yeah boy. Remember GraphQL? What times those were.

I used @dreamhost.bsky.social for my sites for over 15 years before switching over to github pages. Their support was personal and second to none, and it's good to see them still around. If I weren't a developer there's no doubt I'd be with them still. Highly recommend for non-technical folks.

This won't be the last time I whine about the conscientious juice buyer's conundrum: that all the fresh squeezed juices are sold in plastic, and all the stuff sold in cartons is from concentrate.

In thevelocitywhitepapers.com they unveil the "Ship of Government IT" But the ship is not complete without my addition: "The Pole of Flogging Analogies"

The old adage holds especially true for large language models: familiarity breeds contempt.

Further experimentation with input methods and focus stacks in @bomb.sh Notice how focus cycling is constrained to just the dialog box when it opens, but then returns to the main form when it is closed.

👀 @bomb.sh/tty will deliver some genuinely novel features like input cursor rendering via native terminal, css-like pointer support for mouse mode, and huge size/performance gains over existing alternatives watch this space (and consider chipping in at bomb.sh/donate)

I love it when a model comes together. This time, spiking out focus cycling and text editing with native cursors for @bomb.sh Special bonus: pluggable editing keymaps! (this demo uses readline bindings)

If you use Emacs, I highly recommend `agent-shell` github.com/xenodium/age... It's like the `magit` for agents that other IDEs will be cribbing off of for the next 10 years. If you already use it, you should consider sponsoring @xenodium.bsky.social to keep its capabilities growing

The category error is in the wishful thinking that the physics of software development and delivery have changed. They haven't. The only difference is in the scale of the masses involved.

The real winner for AI enhanced software practice is for engineering teams to achieve levels of precision and excellence never before thought possible. Sorry to say, but if your strategy is centered around cost savings and not "hire the best humans", you're fucked.

Fun times! A draft implementation of placing a native cursor anywhere inside a @bomb.sh/tty layout

Real excited for more of this. Just need to figure out how to buy more time to play with it!

When my daughter was four years old and I'd instruct her not to do something she would often reply "but you don't understand, I *want* to" I think about this often whenever the most explicit constraint directives do not in actuality constrain an agent's behavior.

There is a lot for a boy to love about Python, but its lack of a proper function expressions at this late an hour is unforgivable.

New working book title: “The Mythical Agent Month”

Very pleasantly suprised at how much Hungarian cuisine agrees with me.

Multiple anecdotes from folks outside the software-o-verse complaining about a general decrease in software quality as of late. Anybody know of data that tracks this kind of trend?

I worry about the state of the world when everyone else and not just me is incapable of responding to email.

Actually, it's pronounced helmargonetes

1/ I’m still processing what’s going on in tech at the moment. I used to feel at home in that world. It used to feel incredibly creative and positive. Now it’s increasingly full of bugs, dark addicting patterns and AI slop. 2ality.com

Sometimes in life when you encounter an impossibly dense wall of text, you just have to take a deep breath and click through.

And the Oscar for best gif in a README goes agent-recall for emacs github.com/Marx-A00/age...

This is happening to AISD right now. It's sick to be targeting children like this, and at such scale. mashable.com/article/inst...