@VicVijayakumar Oh man, I laughed so hard on this timeline. Same happened in our household with 2 kids. Its never-ending.
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me: I want to take you both out for lunch, come down in 10 minutes please
11yo: I’ll set an alarm and be downstairs in 10 mins
8yo: just call me when you’re ready to go
<10 mins later>
me: I’m ready to go where are you?
11: where are we going?
8: I think I need to pee. It’s not urgent but like 7 out of 10.
11: do I need shoes
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@alexpotato @opencode I haven't tried any of the other Models (i.e Go, Kimi 2.6) compared to what we have on the FrontLines now.
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The amount of stuff I’ve gotten done with just @opencode and Big Pickle is astounding.
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@alexpotato @opencode Are these coding projects or some other technical work ?
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It's hard to overstate how much EC2 can act as a force multiplier for systems development. I wanted to test a network driver patch, so I spun up about 5000 CPUs worth of EC2 instances and had them rebuild their kernels, run iperf, then shut down.
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@ashvyas8 In this particular case yes, for each of 23 different instance types (8 Graviton, 9 Intel, 6 AMD) I spun up a pair of instances in a cluster placement group and measured performance from one to the other. Oh, and I did this all 3 times to test different patches.
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@VicVijayakumar The last word "soulless" has such gravitational pull here.
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I'm now able to tell my agent “we are going to work on JIRA-1234” and it goes and pulls down the task, makes me a plan, I say yeah okay that looks good, and it generates the commit.
I run an AI review from a different session, it finds 4 issues of varying priorities, I paste it to my original agent and say validate these findings and fix them if necessary, it creates a fix, I run another review, no more high priority issues found. I open up the code in an IDE to go over it before pushing it up for human review. Looks fine I guess, nothing crazy. I try to understand everything before I push it up for review because if this breaks, it's still my name on it. I say why did you make this one change, it gives me a reasonable explanation for why.
It says something codebaity like "if you want I can suggest 2 more ways you could really tighten up this work to prevent some rare but possible regressions". I'm smart enough to not fall for it.
Code pushed up, task moved to in-review. I didn't write any of it, this is not my accomplishment. Users won't care who wrote it if it works. A lot done in 20 mins but it felt soulless.
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I cooked aloo gobi for the family meal tonight. A rare treat I can only make when Susan (a cauliflower hater) is away.
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Over the last couple weeks, I've been experimenting with a new way to teach folks about stability and metastable failures in distributed systems.
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last monday, my manager asked me "so what'd you do last week" and i completely blanked. "uhh.. stuff?"
this week, I wrote an agent skill to answer her question for me!
thanks, copilot CLI + MCP servers for being my second brain.
Install from here:
github.com/pamelafox/reca…
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@pamelafox I am looking something like this, as I make tons of notes daily/weekly/quarterly in obsidian.
Obviously its hard to digest text by browsing obsidian, so something like this with skills quite useful.
Have you ever tried your skills with obsidian by any chance ?
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@Cal_Irvine And here in Calgary, I am still waiting for snow to go away.
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Love watching the strawberries wake up.
All the little green shoots are shallots
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@VicVijayakumar @Cal_Irvine I would like to do Paris somewhere in near future with kids. Any recs what to do and what not to do ?
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@Cal_Irvine Canoe camping will never fly here.
Paris was SUPER FUN, would love to go back and do Disneyland while we’re at it.
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I asked this question 4 years ago and have been using the list to plan Spring break every year.
2023: Cancun
2024: Paris
2025: Puerto Rico
2026: Williamsburg, VA (Great Wolf Lodge)
The least expensive was Great Wolf Lodge, and pretty sure the most expensive was Puerto Rico.
Vic 🌮@VicVijayakumar
Please tell me about the last vacation you took (bonus: with kids). I've been at this for hours and cannot pick anything. I've gone back and forth between Portugal, Iceland, Mexico, and even the mountains of Tennessee.
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Breakdown of my March AWS bill to run my side projects (this will be the last update in this series):
EC2: $62.16
RDS (reserved Aurora MySQL): $45.75
ELB: $17.92
VPC: $13.95
Data Transfer: $7.71
S3: $1.19
ECS: $0.73
ECR: $0.28
CodeBuild: $0.24
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Total: $149.93
For completeness, here's August to March-
August: $203.95
September: $210.77
October: $245.98
November: $261.70 <--- moved from Fargate to EC2
December: $221.30 <--- fixed binpack strategy, moved RDS to reserved instance
January: $146.65 <--- moved resource intensive scheduled jobs to Fargate
February: $132.57
March: $149.93
Vic 🌮@VicVijayakumar
Breakdown of my February AWS bill to run my side projects: EC2: $44.22 RDS (reserved Aurora MySQL): $41.31 ELB: $16.96 Data Transfer: $15.12 VPC: $11.61 CodeBuild: $1.29 S3: $1.10 ECS: $0.67 ECR: $0.29 ------------ Total: $132.57 For completeness, here's August to February- August: $203.95 September: $210.77 October: $245.98 November: $261.70 December: $221.30 January: $146.65 February: $132.57 In November, I moved all my instances from Fargate to EC2. <--- cheaper and much more performant. In December, I fixed the binpack strategy for one of my projects so I didn't pointlessly run an extra EC2 instance. I also moved my RDS to a reserved instance. In January, I moved the most resource intensive scheduled jobs to Fargate and I was able to drop the base container size, which dropped the EC2 instance sizes. Specifically I am able to see that my scheduled Fargate jobs ran for 13 hours and cost a total of $0.67. No changes in February that I remember, but it's 3 days shorter than January so 🤷♂️
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@VicVijayakumar Yo !! Happy Birthday Dude ! Thanks for all the social feeds
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From empty repo to a functional minimal standalone terminal based on libghostty in 2 hours, presenting Ghostling! ~600 lines of C and you get extremely accurate, performant, and proven terminal emulation.
github.com/ghostty-org/gh…
Feature list:
- Resize with text reflow
- Full 24-bit color and 256-color palette support
- Bold, italic, and inverse text styles
- Unicode and multi-codepoint grapheme handling (no shaping or layout)
- Keyboard input with modifier support (Shift, Ctrl, Alt, Super)
- Kitty keyboard protocol support
- Mouse tracking (X10, normal, button, and any-event modes)
- Mouse reporting formats (SGR, URxvt, UTF8, X10)
- Scroll wheel support (viewport scrollback or forwarded to applications)
- Scrollbar with mouse drag-to-scroll
- Focus reporting (CSI I / CSI O)
- And more. Effectively all the terminal emulation features supported by Ghostty!
The libghostty C API is not formally released, but I built this project to prove its ready to go. 😎 github.com/ghostty-org/gh…
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