While I daily use an iPhone now, my original Pixel Fold is still working and running GrapheneOS. Besides a bug caused by GrapheneOS where the outer screen wouldn’t work, it has been flawless, and I can’t really blame Google for that one.
Giving it up was tough, as I consume a lot of books and mangas. I’m just waiting for Apple to release their foldable before I ditch this iPhone.
I review and approve every single line written by Claude because I want it to code like me, in my style. Yes, even with the bugs and problems I would introduce if I wrote it myself. Part of that is because I break from “idiomatic Go” from time to time because something reads better to my eyes.
For example, and this is minor but it annoys me, I like to declare variables in var() blocks if they relate to each other instead of using various := statements, and despite very clear STYLE.md, CLAUDE.md, and a personal style skill that is loaded on every session, Fable still insists on using :=, so I have to correct it from time to time.
It seems like auto mode would change that workflow. Hopefully, there is a setting somewhere to go back to the previous version. Otherwise, it might be time to finally give Pi a chance.
I review and approve every single line written by Claude because I want it to code like me, in my style. Yes, even with the bugs and problems I would introduce if I wrote it myself. Part of that is because I break from “idiomatic Go” from time to time because something reads better to my eyes.
For example, and this is minor but it annoys me, I like to declare variables in var() blocks if they relate to each other instead of using various := statements, and despite very clear STYLE.md, CLAUDE.md, and a personal style skill that is loaded on every session, Fable still insists on using :=, so I have to correct it from time to time.
It seems like auto mode would change that workflow. Hopefully, there is a setting somewhere to go back to the previous version. Otherwise, it might be time to finally give Pi a chance.
A voice assistant comes to mind. Ideally, it'd be local, but if you don't have the hardware you'll go with the cloud, in which case, the fastest, the better.
A Jellyfin or Plex server can be had for real cheap using used hardware. A Ryzen 3 build can be found for next to nothing here in Brazil[1], so I imagine it’d be even cheaper in the US.
Add an old Quadro card for hardware decoding, or go with an Intel CPU for Quick Sync, throw some IronWolf drives inside, install your favorite Linux distro, and you’re off to the races.
Yes, managing a server is more work than just signing up for Netflix or whatnot, but it’s definitely worth the effort.
[1]: A quick search shows me a Ryzen 3 3200G build with 16 GB of RAM for $200, and electronics are super expensive in Brazil.
Personally, I got my first invite by signing up for a seedbox accepted by the tracker. Then I got invites to other trackers from the same group by being a good seeder.
While waiting for another developer to finish something for a project I’m working on, I’m working on an MCP server in Go that provides a Home Assistant voice assistant with basic functionality that is missing from the default feature set, like telling jokes, flipping a coin, choosing between N options, making equations, and other things I consider essential for a voice assistant.
I’ll probably go further and include things like Apple Weather support[1], and Plex, YouTube, and Kagi search, if I have the time.
[1]: Because in Home Assistant you can only ask about the weather in the location you have configured, not in other locations. At least that’s how it works here at home.
Not seeing the refusals everyone is talking about, but I’ve only spent a few hours with it so far.
Had it review a password generator library I wrote to see if the passwords have biases and review how cryptographically secure the code is and had it review a registration/login flow for security issues, as two security examples, and it did just that.
Overall, I like the model so far, but not enough to pay past my subscription to keep it. Once it’s out of the subscription, I’m done with it.
I know OpenCode Go has both, but their limits seem kinda low, so I'm not sure how feasible it is to run such a task with them.
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