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Localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop
Microsoft VibeVoice: Open-Source Frontier Voice AI
The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code
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An update on recent Claude Code quality reports
I’m spending months coding the old way
Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?
My Experience as a Rice Farmer
Quotes
Yes, see e.g. a quarter-century-old (!!) https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-… – mormegil
Recommended!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d95J8yzvjbQ – emmelaich
If you really want to see Demis shine watch The Thinking Game (on Deep Mind YT channel). – obayesshelton
Every single discussion around UI is now laden with “this isn’t 100% optimized for user interaction” like there’s some rulebook dictating exactly what you have to do for your website to be useable.
There’s benefits to this, but the main con is that now everyone wants everything to look the same and the fun of the internet disappeared. Everything’s a product, nothing’s an experience. – luckyandroid
What GitHub Gave Us
To me one of the clear things that GitHub gave us was a structure around a person rather than a project. To me it felt liberating to quickly create a repository attached to my name than it was to go through the (what felt to me) very serious process of coming up with a project name and reserving it on sourceforge just to get a cvs or svn repository (along with website, mailing lists, issue tracking(?), etc, etc…). It felt like the mental load of “oh this is just a quick thing” was a lot easier with github.
It gave projects issue trackers, pull requests, release pages, wikis, organization pages, API access, webhooks, and later CI.
Although it didn’t give us this all at once. I still remember when we created a new user account in order to simulate an organisation, before they existed. I distinctly recall discussing with friends if we wanted to set up a bug tracker software for our project with the assumption that “GitHub will probably release one in a few months anyway”. In the end we just kept a text file committed in the repository. Issues were announced a few months later. – alastairp
It really has been remarkable watching GitHub just crumble as an organization. There’s a lot of discussion about why: the switch from being independent to being part of Microsoft, having resources pushed to Copilot instead of core service, the organization structure itself, a reliance on vibe coding, etc etc.
Regardless of the reason, it’s undeniable that GitHub is facing some serious issues. The unofficial status page[1] tells a horrifying story.
I would absolutely love to get some insider perspective on this (if only to learn how to prevent it from happening anywhere I work), but I think it’s clear to anyone who has been paying any attention that GitHub is a sinking ship and the only reason people haven’t abandoned it already is inertia. Considering how much else is changing in software right now I don’t think inertia is enough to sustain a company.
- https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ – tedivm
My problem is that all these alternatives require the devices to be on the same local network.
One beauty of Airdrop is that it creates and handles that local network automatically under the hood (as far as I understand). So you could be out on a hike with friends and Airdrop something.
The workaround I’ve found after switching to an Android device has been to teather my connection to my friend’s device, which ends up creating a LAN that Localsend can work through, but this is not as nice an experience. – eigenspace
Reviewed: https://zby.github.io/commonplace/agent-memory-systems/revie…
It is the second llm wiki on frontpage today!
I wish the scene was more collaborative - instead of everyone writing their own. But I guess this is the llm curse - too easy to start. I am afraid it will all go in the LangChain direction with VC funding designs that are not yet ready solidifying choices that would normally be superseded. – zby
It’s because they’re optimizing for a different problem.
Western Models are optimizing to be used as an interchangeable product. Chinese models are being optimizing to be built upon. – lykr0n
Last week, I set-up a navidrome (docker compose) server after tagging my files with MusicBrainz and beets. I serve it over a private network (tailnet) using tailscale serve. It works on all my devices and on iOS with an app called Nautiline. Nautiline has a feature where it will switch between my local network address and my tailnet address seamlessly. It was so simple, I can’t actually believe it works. It has CarPlay support and everything. A few clicks and I’m jamming and scrobbling to MusicBrainz. My next goal is to have a local LLM generate smart playlists. Everyone who wants off Spotify, or the other streaming music giants should do this. – --_--_-
[1] is also good to read as a follow-up, and compare the personalities
https://harpers.org/archive/2026/03/childs-play-sam-kriss-ai… – krackers
Tweets
How maps were made in the ‘60s. pic.twitter.com/SatsGa7CPY - @j00ny369T