Between this and the nix/guix stuff, Farid is definitely becoming one of my favourite mad computer scientist bloggers, right up there with Justine.

(Or computer mad scientist? Whatever (mad scientist) && (computer scientist) is)

The way I've done it has been when there's a longer task, I give it a markdown document that has a plan with numbered steps, and then for each step start a fresh context window and tell it to update that doc as it goes with any decisions taken or deviations from the plan, or other context needed for future steps. If it gets close to the end of the context I tell it to summarize the current state and anything a fresh context would need to know.

I always wonder about the choice of hjkl, because don't people normally rest their hands one row to the left, on jkl;?

It has to do with the codes these keys (used to) emit in combination with Ctrl:

  Ctrl/H - Backspace
  Ctrl/J - Line Feed
  Ctrl/K - Upline
  Ctrl/L - Forward Space

Source - the ADM-3A operator's manual, page 3-5:

https://archive.org/download/lear-siegler-adm-3-a/Lear_Siegl...

I was just looking at conductor and was not very jazzed about the fact that it was running the agents directly on the host. Being able to launch from a terminal means this one can (hopefully) run from inside the sandboxing setup I use for coding agents.

I think generally harnesses have this. In claude code it's `"preferredNotifChannel": "terminal_bell"` in the settings.json, pi and opencode looks like you have to either add a hook yourself somewhere or use an extension.

Hmm, where have I seen a story before where a kid wants their parents to read the same book over and over. I can't quite put my finger on it...

It definitely seems brutal, but when I stop and think about it it's actually probably more humane for the prey than getting eaten alive, right?

Hell, I grew up with English as my first language and I still learned a lot of obscure vocabulary from magic!

It's definitely not so good these days, but a format called premodern is getting more popular. You may find it worth looking in to that one.

Homestuck is finally happening?

Alive 2007 is a bit late to be the 90s though

Underworld, 1998, live at The Mayan.