Platforms should publish search data. https://mccormick.cx/news/entries/platforms-should-publish-search-data

Agentic coding tools take too much control from the human. Whenever I try them it feels wrong and the results are a mess. They discourage human oversight which degrades the quality of the code. I'm still using aider because it is not agentic and it lets me stay in the loop. I'm maintaining a fork with some quality of life improvements (including a single-binary build) here if you're interested: https://github.com/chr15m/aider Here's my .aider.config.yml: ```yaml auto-commits: false # prevents aider from doing git commits gitignore: false notifications: true show-model-warnings: false watch-files: true auto-lint: true read: [/home/chrism/dev/ai-context/AGENTS.md, README.md, AGENTS.md, .context/*] ```

Worklog: - Building new features for https://exceltohtml.com - Working on game prototype fortnight #2 of 26 - a procedural game music chords generator.

Agree, it's a tool. I am finding it useful when used in a disciplined way with a human in the loop at literally every step. I think the current tooling gives the LLM far too much leeway in general.

I did some research and testing with gpt-oss-20b and llama-4-maverick. They don't compare with Claude but could definitely handle some tasks like extracting structured information from articles, DevOps, routine coding tasks, smart OCR etc. The Chinese open models suffer from censorship on certain topics, but there is a model where somebody trained Qwen on Deepseek outputs and it appears to be "abilterated" and will respond to those topics, and is pretty good overall. I'm going to run some of these models locally and will do a video/write-up about that.

That's a great point. LLMs are helping people overengineer stuff nobody wants, even harder.

Worklog: progress on getting notes/comments export working in https://exceltohtml.com add-in.

Doodled Dungeons is prototype #1 of 26 this year. Here's a video about building it. https://youtu.be/NwFZHbsNYd4

lol 🤦 thank you, I thought he meant the calendar software.

Worklog: continued with the https://asterogue.com Steam release.

I ran it from the Debian package for years and eventually switched to NextCloud. Not sure if this is useful information or not. 😅 I guess my question is do you need bleeding edge features or can you use the OS version?