Asciinema is a fantastic tool for anything from terminal demos to full ASCII movies. 😁
This week Marcin Kulik talks about a project 14 years and 5+ languages in the making. We dig into terminal rendering, parsing quirks, and how a passion project can take on a life of its own.
youtu.be/sHwWNFAjAxo
How do you connect the dots between a game engine, a database, a streaming system and an OS? Tyler C. joins me this week to explain how they're all connected, and to share some battle scars from trying to launch a Database (SpacetimeDB) and an MMO (BitCraft) at the same time. 😅
youtu.be/A9A8pptfz0Q
iOS. And yeah, there are limits to how smart I’d feel comfortable with, but I think the hardware limits would kick in first. 😅
I’m not saying we can (or should) run LLMs on our phones, but text autocomplete is looking really bad these days. Like if I type in my first name, it doesn’t even guess that my surname might be coming. Even a Markov Chain could get that one.
I've been tinkering with a #jujutsu plugin for #neovim. If those two hashtags meant something to you, you've self-selected! Give it a whirl and let me know what you think. 🙂
github.com/krisajenkins...
When you press "Beautify This Slide" on Google Slides.
Yeah, fair point. 😅
This is such a great idea - a simple tool for local code reviews.
More and more I find myself reviewing code that was written by an LLM, and wishing I could comment on individual lines as I go the way I would with a github code review. This nails it. 🏆
github.com/agavra/tuicr
It’s no Claude, not yet, but it’s worth having available. 👍
I do not want to see your kid's crayon drawings and I do not want to see your AI-generated clipart.
Yeah, that would be interesting indeed. 🤔
Terminal tip(s) of the day: `bat` is a great alternative to `cat` that adds syntax highlighting. And if you’re reading markdown specifically, `glow` is even better.
Oh, there's a whole list of nix-packaged tools already:
github.com/numtide/llm-...
(Thank you @missionctrl.dev for the link.)
Anyway, if you're a nix user, here's an easy way to try it out: github.com/krisajenkins...
I've been trying out OpenCode with Ollama. I'm not expecting it to be as good as Claude, just that it will be available when I don't have internet access.
But...fast, local and free is pretty compelling. You have to wonder how long Anthropic can maintain an edge that's worth their $100/month. 🤔
For example:
```~/.config/jj/config.toml
[fix.tools.prettier]
command = ["prettier", "--stdin-filepath=$path"]
patterns = [
"glob:'**/*.js'",
"glob:'**/*.ts'",
"glob:'**/*.json'",
]
```
...then `jj fix -s @---` will rewrite the last 3 commits' JavaScript/TypeScript/JSON files.
`jujutsu fix` is just so good. It automatically rewrites your commits as though you'd remembered to run the code formatter each time.
It's just occurred to me that the best Muppet movie (Christmas Carol) didn't have Jim Henson in it, and the best Jim Henson movie (Labyrinth) didn't have any Muppets in it.
This has blown my mind. I cannot draw the Venn diagram for fear of ripping a hole in the space-time continuum.
Can you rewrite SQLite in Rust? Why would you want to? And how do you summon up an entire community to help make it happen? This week we look at a contender for the future of embeddable databases - Turso:
youtu.be/1JHOY0zqNBY
Will this problem go away if I make tea?
Yes.
But will this problem come back after I finish the tea?
Also yes.
So...do we have plenty of teabags?
I'm pleased to say we've got _hundreds_.
For background music to work to, I’m really enjoying the Stellaris soundtrack right now.
And also anything by State Azure.
#randomMusicSuggestions
This is an terrific 5-minute radioplay: They're Made Out Of Meat.
Absolutely loved it. You'll want sound on.
asciinema.org/a/746358
Gmail x 3, LinkedIn, Bluesky, Mastodon, Twitter, Slack x2, Discord, and on and on.
I've got 99 inboxes and I can't cope with 1. 🫠
Backend devs: you already have the data - now visualise it in minutes!
At GOTO, @krisajenkins.bsky.social showed how Streamlit + Python lets you skip REST APIs & React and jump straight to interactive dashboards. 🔥
Can Google take on LangChain? Is Python the right language for building agent workflows? And is AI an opportunity for Google or an existential threat?
Christina Lin joins me this week to discuss Agent Development Kit for building data pipelines that have LLMs in the middle.
youtu.be/nMnQ63YkftE
Usually it uses `lib.fakeHash` as a placeholder, runs the build and gets the real hash from the output log.
True! But it can compute them without invention, and that’s nearly as good.
Yup, totally. Nix deals with the pain of package management, and AI deals with the pain of Nix. 😂
AI has really improved my experience of using Nix.
Sometimes I want a specific version of a package. And quite often I want a version that's just been released, and isn't in nixpkgs yet. Claude is fantastic at the boring legwork of writing and testing a custom overlay so I can get it right now.
Thanks!
