Bill Mill

show all the PRs and issues you've filed on different repos show all the PRs and issues you've filed on different repos - count.py

@Edent I vibe-coded this script to print out all the repos I've filed PRs and issues on: https://gist.github.com/llimllib/921345e181dc8466dfa3cd7e6baa34e5

@Edent 1150 PRs take a while to go through lol

@Edent how did you end up finding that info? I’ve made a bunch of drive-by contributions and have found it hard to collect

A screenshot of a terminal showing the start of Norvig's spell corrector

Iosevka Term is the greatest terminal font of all time, I am now thoroughly convinced. I switched to the fira code custom version and it's fantastic, lovely and condensed

https://typeof.net/Iosevka/customizer

A solitary hiker atop Mt. Franklin admires the view

Lake of the Clouds hut with New Hampshire mountains in the background

Crawford Path coming down off Mt. Washington, headed to Lake of the Clouds hut

Hiked 19 miles in the White Mountains yesterday, up Mt. Madison and all the way across the presidential range to Mt. Pierce.

Very intense experience; I didn't take many pictures because we didn't have a lot of time to stop and gawk, but here are a few I like […]

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A terminal window showing a syntax-highlighted automated code review

This image from the post shows the basic idea, pass context from a `git diff` to @simon's `llm` command with a code review system prompt, and highlight the output.

A lot of its suggestions are dumb for one reason or another, but enough are useful that it makes sense for me to read through them.

I have an AI code review script that I've found very valuable, so I cleaned it up a bit for release and wrote about it and how I use it: https://notes.billmill.org/blog/2025/07/An_AI_tool_I_find_useful.html

It catches enough errors for me that I rarely submit a change without running the code […]

A ridge and three waterfalls reflected off of Avalanche Lake

A view down a valley with dramatic clouds, framed by foliate

A wide path with sparse trees and a misty mountain in the background

at Glacier national park for a work retreat. Pretty spectacular scenery.

First one is avalanche lake from a beautiful 8-mile run, second one down the Lake Mcdonald valley, third one from a trail run behind our hotel.

I forgot the bear spray for that run but thankfully was not eaten by a grizzly

@nelson Deleting it safely will be the challenge!

I wrote a little bit about the value of not making libraries, and wondering if we ought to do more to support "toolboxes" of code

https://notes.billmill.org/blog/2025/07/A_pretty_decent_retry__and_not_a_library.html

Gillian Welch and David Rawlings did a fantastic Tiny Desk concert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfGdjdxxOuU

I used the opportunity to update my giant list of Tiny Desks I have enjoyed: https://notes.billmill.org/music/Tiny_Desk_concerts.html

diff here […]

personal_code/homedir/.local/bin/yt-album at master · llimllib/personal_code random code that I have lying around. Contribute to llimllib/personal_code development by creating an account on GitHub.

I made a little script for downloading full albums from youtube with yt-dlp which properly sets file metadata, which is pretty fiddly to do

I use it for grabbing music to put on my kids' music players.

https://github.com/llimllib/personal_code/blob/master/homedir/.local/bin/yt-album

@nelson Oh I should add that I use claude as the model, I just prefer to change the code myself following its suggestions rather than trust the agent to do so

A screenshot of a terminal window running vim, with code in the left pane and an AI assistant suggesting how to implement a new feature in the right pane

@nelson I've had a lot of success using it alongside my code in vim with https://codecompanion.olimorris.dev in a much more tactical way - I'll give it context manually and prompt it for what I want, then copy it over into the code or make changes to it and do […]

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@nelson @simon I've actually been really consistently unsuccessful with claude code and felt like I wasted a bunch of money each time I've tried it for serious!

I just mentioned the lint thing because it definitely got me closer to success, so perhaps diving deeper into requirements […]

@nelson @simon I've also used claude.md to have it run automated linters - shellcheck, eslint, golint-ci, etc and make sure they pass before it finishes a change

Code remains liquid at room temperature for like a month. After that you need re-heat it to work on it again

There's an article going around today about downloading youtube videos and sending them to ai for transcription.

The whisper transcription model is really fast and runs great on most computers! You probably don't need to send your video to openAI, you can transcribe it locally just as quickly […]

a sandwich on a picnic table, with the Casco Bay and a ferry boat in the background. In the distance are Mackworth Island, Little Diamond island and Big Diamond island from left to right

Lunch at my favorite spot on a hot day. Maine's summer is unbeatable

Nix is a hair shirt for unix ascetics to wear and its language the cat o' nine tails to thrash themselves with

Some people tried to tell me that a modern open source project should set up an IRC server, so I gave it a try today:

- There's no clear client to use
- A server which promises channel history without a bouncer didn't deliver any channel history, and I have no idea why
- Users have to choose […]

@dpiponi lol my results on the adhd surveys I took were comical

Following a conversation I had on a private Slack, I wrote a little bit about why I think federation is mostly a waste: https://notes.billmill.org/blog/2025/06/Federation_is_extremely_expensive.html

Part of the reason why I think I *had* that conversation on Slack instead of on an open chat […]

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TIL that GitHub has an option to change all input boxes to a monospaced font: https://github.com/settings/appearance

I wish I had known this years ago!

@raganwald You've seen Doom in Typescript types right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mCsluv5FXA

@raganwald and her bass is fretless! super cool

@raganwald that electrified upright is so cool.

Nice version of an all-time favorite jam I hadn't heard before

My watch buzzes to warn me my heart rate is too high, which of course is stressful and counterproductive

It was easier than I expected to set up geocoding locally using OSM data and nominatim. I wrote up the steps I took: notes.billmill.org/gis/geocodin...

a function for returning a random pokemon

Sometimes you get to write fun stuff plausibly for work