Dan O’Leary

@AndrewCurran_ as soon as I saw this I thought “super micro” 😖

Multiple people associated with a US server maker have been charged with violating the Export Control Reform Act for conspiring to divert billions of dollars worth of NVIDIA servers to China.

Regardless of prior post, congrats to @charliermarsh and team. Big day, well deserved. Thanks for all you’ve done for the Python ecosystem which you’ve almost single-handedly transformed in the last few years.

Really not sure how I feel about this move. uv, ruff, and ty are how I do things and have been for quite a while now. I know many others feel the same. Equal parts validation, optimism, and fear.

@TheAhmadOsman hundreds of commits preserved forever will they scrub them?

LMAOOO

@EvanMiya iowa state fans gonna be in your face today

Here's my official bracket. Sorry for disrespecting your team and your conference. Let's rip it to shreds and have some fun today!

@ejc3 @_jujucollins @mitchellh @h1th3sh since you seem to want to die on this hill… its literally the top result returned and the ai summarizes it

@_jujucollins @Antisimplistic @mitchellh @h1th3sh Right, it was still useful to hear the full explanation why they steadfastly refuse the budge on something that would make the experience much less intimidating,

why can't ghostty team fix this feature? everytime i log in to a linux VPS it gives this issue @mitchellh

@mitchellh @DCaussinus @LouisThibault87 @h1th3sh your interactions are exemplary

I do at least make an effort to respond to most. I admit I can come across harshly but in my defense I repeat myself like a parrot multiple times per day because people don’t google and it’s exhausting that people bitch on X without a 2nd thought instead of doing research. The individual complaints are indeed minor but imagine that repeated across like a couple dozen topics. My mentions are a minefield

@ejc3 @mitchellh @h1th3sh you might even say it was humble and gracious, like I did

@Antisimplistic @mitchellh @h1th3sh Not really. It was a good discussion and pushback.

@mitchellh @h1th3sh most humble and gracious series of let me google that for yous I’ve ever seen

@h1th3sh ghostty.org/docs/help/term… will give you all the information you need to educate yourself and next steps on understanding this.

@alphafox acoustic coupler 300 or less

How fast was your first modem? Mine was a 2400 baud Hayes:

@mdf200 when we founded n-space in 1994, Sony insisted that we have at least one SGI box to run Maya because it was the “only way” you could animate according to them. So we built a PC studio running 3D studio R4 and one SGI Indigo that was mostly used to serve mail and news

@Antisimplistic LOL... back in 93, it was the cost of about 5 houses here. 😂

My old SGI Challenge L - now donated to McManus Galleries. Created some awesome network code on this that was used as the core to the #GameMakerStudio networking API and debugger. Some of it might even still be in there! 12xR10000, 64bit CPUs with 768 MB RAM.

@mdf200 one very nice house they were awesome machines and originally a great company now most (ordinary young) people have never heard of them RIP SGI

@mdf200 a mail server

Whoops.... what have I bought now.... 😳

@exQUIZitely started with pc tools but became a nc man like all the other cool kids

This one is for the OGs. Norton Commander or PC Tools - which was your #1?

@GeoffZanelli ❤️

Yours truly did this music tho

@appenz @meetgranola after that why would you consider anything but an open source system, or at least one without any lock in? Obsidian is my choice

Sorry to see Granola @meetgranola going closed. They encrypted their local db, no local and no cloud API. In a world where notes are managed by agents, the app now has zero value. Any recommendations for good alternatives? What are you switching to?

@doodlestein glad you’ve got some support!

@Antisimplistic Yes, but some of my accounts are paid for by partners/clients.

I want to show how I go about planning major new features for my existing projects, because I've heard from many people that they are confused by my extreme emphasis on up-front planning. They object that they don't really know all the requirements at the beginning, and need the flexibility to be able to change things later. And that isn't at all in tension with my approach, as I hope to illustrate here. So I decided that it would be useful to add some kind of robust, feature-packed messaging substrate to my Asupersync project. I wanted to use as my model of messaging the NATS project that has been around for years and which is implemented in Golang. But I didn't want to just do a straightforward porting of NATS and bolt it onto asupersync; I wanted to reimagine it all in a way that fully leverages asupersync's correct-by-design structured concurrency primitives to do things that just aren't possible in NATS or other popular messaging systems. I used GPT 5.4 with Extra High reasoning in Codex-CLI, and took a session that was already underway so that the model would already have a good sense of the asupersync project and what it's all about. Then I used the following prompts shown below; where I indicated "5x," that means that I repeated the prompt 5 times in a row: ``` › I want you to clone github.com/nats-io/nats-s… to tmp and then investigate it and look for useful ideas that we can take from that and reimagine in highly accretive ways on top of existing asupersync primitives that really leverage the special, innovative concepts and value-add from both projects to make something truly special and radically innovative. Write up a proposal document, PROPOSAL_TO_INTEGRATE_IDEAS_FROM_NATS_INTO_ASUPERSYNC.md › OK, that's a decent start, but you barely scratched the surface here. You must go way deeper and think more profoundly and with more ambition and boldness and come up with things that are legitimately "radically innovative" and disruptive because they are so compelling, useful, accretive, etc. › Now "invert" the analysis: what are things that we can do because we are starting with "correct by design/structure" concurrency primitives, sporks, etc. and the ability to reason about complex concurrency issues using something analogous to algebra, that NATS simply could never do even if they wanted to because they are working from far less rich primitives that do not offer the sort of guarantees we have and the ability to analyze things algebraically in a precise, provably correct manner? 5x: › Look over everything in the proposal for blunders, mistakes, misconceptions, logical flaws, errors of omission, oversights, sloppy thinking, etc. › OK, now nats is fundamentally a client-server architecture. Can you think of a clever, radically innovative way that leverage the unique capabilities and features/functionality of asupersync so that the Asupersync Messaging Substrate doesn't require a separate external server, but each client can self-discover or be given a list of nodes to connect to, and they can self-negotiate and collectively act as both client and server? Ideally this would also profoundly integrate with and leverage the RaptorQ functionality already present in asupersync 5x: › Look over everything in the proposal for blunders, mistakes, misconceptions, logical flaws, errors of omission, oversights, sloppy thinking, etc. [Note: the two bullet points included in this next prompt come from a response to a previous prompt] › OK so then add this stuff to the proposal, using the very smartest ideas from your alien skills to inform it and your best judgment based on the very latest and smartest academic research: - The proposal is now honest that a brokerless fabric needs epoch/lease fencing, but it still does not choose the exact control-capsule algorithm. That should be a follow-on design memo: per-cell Raft-like quorum, lease-quorum with fenced epochs, or a more specialized protocol. - The document now names witness-safe envelope keying, but key derivation/rotation/revocation semantics are still only sketched. That is the next major design surface, not a remaining blunder in this pass. › OK now we need to make the proposal self-contained so that we can show it to another model such as GPT Pro and have that model understand absolutely anything that might be relevant to understanding and being able to suggest useful revisions to the proposal or to find flaws in the plans. To that end, I need you to add comprehensive background sections about what asupersync is and how it works, what makes it special/compelling, etc. And then do the same in another background section all about NATS and what it is and what makes it special/compelling, how it works, etc. 5x: › Look over everything in the proposal for blunders, mistakes, misconceptions, logical flaws, errors of omission, oversights, sloppy thinking, etc. › apply $ de-slopify to PROPOSAL_TO_INTEGRATE_IDEAS_FROM_NATS_INTO_ASUPERSYNC.md ``` This resulted in the plan file shown here: github.com/Dicklesworthst… But before I started turning that plan into self-contained, comprehensive, granular beads for implementation, I first wanted to subject the plan to feedback from GPT 5.4 Pro with Extended Reasoning, and also feedback from Gemini 3 with Deep Think, Claude Opus 4.6 with Extended Reasoning from the web app, and Grok 4.2 Heavy. I used this prompt for the first round of this: ``` How can we improve this proposal to make it smarter and better-- to make the most radically innovative and accretive and useful and compelling additions and revisions you can possibly imagine. Give me your proposed changes in the form of git-diff style changes against the file below, which is named PROPOSAL_TO_INTEGRATE_IDEAS_FROM_NATS_INTO_ASUPERSYNC.md: ``` I used the same prompt in all four models, then I took the output of the other 3 and pasted them as a follow-up message in my conversation with GPT Pro using this prompt that I've shared before: ``` I asked 3 competing LLMs to do the exact same thing and they came up with pretty different plans which you can read below. I want you to REALLY carefully analyze their plans with an open mind and be intellectually honest about what they did that's better than your plan. Then I want you to come up with the best possible revisions to your plan (you should simply update your existing document for your original plan with the revisions) that artfully and skillfully blends the "best of all worlds" to create a true, ultimate, superior hybrid version of the plan that best achieves our stated goals and will work the best in real-world practice to solve the problems we are facing and our overarching goals while ensuring the extreme success of the enterprise as best as possible; you should provide me with a complete series of git-diff style changes to your original plan to turn it into the new, enhanced, much longer and detailed plan that integrates the best of all the plans with every good idea included (you don't need to mention which ideas came from which models in the final revised enhanced plan); since you gave me git-diff style changes versus my original document above, you can simply revise those diffs to reflect the new ideas you want to take from these competing LLMs (if any): gemini: --- claude: --- grok: ``` You can see the entire shared conversation with GPT Pro here: chatgpt.com/share/69b762f5… I then took the output of that and pasted it into Codex with this prompt: ``` › ok I have diffs that I need you to apply to PROPOSAL_TO_INTEGRATE_IDEAS_FROM_NATS_INTO_ASUPERSYNC.md but save the result instead to PROPOSAL_TO_INTEGRATE_IDEAS_FROM_NATS_INTO_ASUPERSYNC__AFTER_FEEDBACK.md : ``` and then did: › apply $ de-slopify to the PROPOSAL_TO_INTEGRATE_IDEAS_FROM_NATS_INTO_ASUPERSYNC__AFTER_FEEDBACK.md file The final result can be seen here: github.com/Dicklesworthst…

@doodlestein last question - are you self funding all this?

@Antisimplistic Just intuition. And yeah, the process of transforming it into beads is very involved, see my post on the process. If you follow this closely then the beads will capture the entire plan: x.com/doodlestein/st…