Overall, very nice changes. I'd love to see how it feels in action.
The overworld UI is much better. Sure, some might think the sidebar UX is old-school for some but imho it works best since I hated having to move my mouse from side to side and edges and this is much nicer.
Very true. I appreciate what LLMs can build and also use it a lot but when you truly own the code, you can surgically edit much quicker than an agent chugging through tokens in plan mode. And you can trust it more.
Sure, if my memory fails, I can invoke an agent to do shit. But that comes at a cost
I deal with scanned PDFs and handwritten notes sometimes, and while agents can do it unsupervised, it sometimes gets stuck or fails.
My solution was feeding said files to other llms separately via @simonwillison.net 's llm utility.
Like a baton pass from my main K2.5 Opencode session/s to Gemini.
I strongly recommend cleaning said PC and even replacing fans with better ones if you can.
Takes a lot of effort though. But better than setting to quiet modes and either experiencing throttling or reducing the lifespan of your hardware.
2025 is finally coming to an end, and I hope 2026 is a good year to us all. Happy new year, everyone.
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Happy new year!๐
Three file boxes full of artbooks, doujins and manga, featuring works from Mika Pikazo, Chigusa Minori, momoco and other prominent artists that have remarkable original works and industry works from anime, manga, vtubers and video games.
Buying all sorts of artbooks and art works in doujins (the safe variety) is clearly becoming an addiction when I have three file boxes worth of them.
Looks like I need more if I'm dropping by to Japan again next year. I'm overdue two Comikets' worth of artist work.
Even better if opting to passkeys skips the unusual email 2FA.
It'd solve one of my annoyances when using Bluesky on a phone.
One would argue, yeah, you could just save photos / screenshot and ChatGPT to alter it. That's correct, this isn't new.
It's the upfront slap in the face that's normalizing this behavior for passers-by to do that's terrible here imho.
All for the sake of pushing more AI usage numbers.
I remember back then when a Japanese artist shared her work on the platform and clearly took a lot of effort to draw what she loved
and some stranger just decided to disfigure the image "for fun" and she was horrified at what they'd done.
Terrible stuff.
I've been quietly observing the Twitter exodus of artists from the platform and yeah, I get that.
That AI Edit Image button is pretty much a "have some spray paint cans, go nuts" move on an art gallery.
It doesn't happen often, but goddamn, seeing Bluesky losing its login on a phone is enough for me to just uninstall the fucking thing.
I was expecting they'd send a reminder per domain that's expiring and not some general mail like this.
There's so many good games this year.
And yet, I'm also finding my way to beloved older titles and I'm also having a blast there.
Expedition 33 is the best, then Silksong. I heard Hades 2 is also heading to it's full release soon so... yeah.
Imho the only one that works is Basecamp, but somehow it doesn't reach audiences beyond the West.
Linear is also up there too and I WISH more comps used it, but the pricing doesn't cut it.
The US tech scene also mostly ignores regional pricing and support, so there's that too.
People complain about JIRA and Atlassian on how much it sucks.
I agree, it hurts to use. But nothing really exists that operates on the same level AND isn't some godawful enterprise-only pricing.
You need to hit both if you want to dethrone it.
Same principle with Excel imho.
I agree with this, especially for person-to-person communication.
Use AI as you see fit to make it easy to understand or learn, but once you're hitting reply or about to hit send, the text box better be written by hand. Put it in your own words.
The only exception here is a language barrier.
I always think: what does India, China, Indonesia, Brazil and other countries think about the stuff you're strongly pushing for? Do you really think they share the same sentiments?
Every time I look at Twitter or Reddit or some other big community, I always think that they almost never represent what's actually the end-users.
The majority of folks either use no social media at all, or use one that's outdated or not on your own. Or in a different language.
I feel it's like when AI art became common and people had to "filter the noise" and learn to spot original vs AI.
It's sad, because I know some folks use AI not for clout but to overcome language barriers and join in discussions but they're also likely caught in this.
I agree with both points.
We've tried plain issue tracking before but we ended with Jira anyway because more people could use it and knew its value.
Having Jira brought everyone together. Unlike getting GitHub / GitLab where the tech people were separated from management.
I've been noticing this more on Reddit and beyond.
It's especially frustrating when it's clearly pasted from ChatGPT complete with emoji headers.
I picked up LM Studio because they actually got MLX working and didn't store their models in some godawful structure. Ollama failed in both.
I was also pleased that UX stuff from before were improved. Even more than what I expected.
The relaxed stance on work use is good too.
Uninstalled ollama, reinstalled LM Studio.
Funnily enough, I did the same before because I was frustrated at how LMS handled itself and ollama did better back then and now it's the other way around.
I'm mildly curious if ChatGPT agents hosted in the UK or EU are failing because of that UK age verification stuff.
Sometimes, I wish I got reminded of the little terminal utilities and applications I download and use since I forget that I have them already and they're awesome.
`posting` (a TUI API client) and `ncdu` (ncurses disk usage) are some of them.
I was wondering why this was in my YouTube feed because I use DeArrow to hide thumbnails then I watched it.
Was genuinely pleased and laughing loud to see Persona 5's design as a challenge for building a UX in Compose and as a conference talk.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KdP...
Review with kindness imho is the difference for people helping out or not at all.
I did a PR before where I wanted to help but the maintainer just commented and closed it because they didn't agree on parts of it that could've been easily corrected in a commit.
The outright dismissal turned me off.
Ngl, I used Bluesky less lately because the feeds I rely on stopped working (from why, I believe) and my Following list was cluttered without it.
I like reading news, but I wish I can follow agencies but mute them in Following.
Now I have to unfollow and add them to a list instead.
