Peter Tripp

Same with the new Codex GUI App -- no Intel support. I'm generally happy with my six year old 16inch Macbook Pro but I guess it's just time to to bite the bullet and drop $3k on an ARM one.

Would love it if the BlueSky iOS app had a “Save Video” feature like they do for images.

I understand why Twitter/Facebook don’t want this (they would prefer you to share so they can measure/increase engagement) but would love it if BlueSky went a different way.

Cc: @pfrazee.com

I know reading and writing code isn't cool anymore, but how are folks doing this? My workflow of toggling between a PR tab in Chrome and a local @zed.dev seems really silly.

I'm sure there would be design constraints so showing both at the same time would be hard but even a toggle between "diff HEAD" and "diff main" would be amazing. I don't want to have to open a PR or a dedicated git compare tool to do code review/code cleanup.

Why do none of the mainstream editors let you specify an arbitrary git ref to diff against? I know tools can diff two arbitrary commits in a compare view but I want this inline while editing. It appears VSCode, JetBrains and Zed only support inline diff against HEAD.

When I moved to the bay area the complete lack of rye/pumpernickel as compared to NYC/New England was staggering.

I understand people love sourdough (it’s fine) but in no universe is it a substitute for pumpernickel or marble rye.

My gut says that much of the previous failures stemmed from the fact that trailing whitespace is significant in diff/patch files. Each line is prefixed with "+" (add), "-" (delete) or " " (preserve) so I blank line with just a single space is **VERY IMPORTANT**.

Found a setup that was successful.

Switched from a directory with each Lua version to a checkout of the lua git repo and encouragemed the model to change HEAD as required.

So instead of editing a patch file (hard) it edited files (easy) and ran `git -C lua diff` (easy) to generate new patch files.

I found something where current LLMs struggle.

Task: Update a Lua 5.4.0 patch set to work with Lua 5.4.3.

Perhaps repeatedly generating patch tool patches for patching patches is just too much patching.

Yikes! You can add `“auto_update”: false` to your settings and revert to an older non-broken version.

Zed issue written by @notpeter describing a feature for supporting autocomplete of LSP settings/initialization_options in Zed settings.json.

P.S. Look ma! I’m on the youtubes!

Congrats to @nereuxofficial.bsky.social on landing a neat feature in Zed. And thanks to Amos for sweetening the pot.

I’ve had great experiences with Gemini, especially with extremely detailed plans, but GPT 5.2 in Codex has been very hit or miss for me.
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Seems like Antirez has had good results too
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I’m a helper

I Hope This Email Finds You Before I Do I Hope This Email Finds You Before I Do

You might enjoy the setup @quinnypig.com built. A bot that generates not-so-nice responses for unwanted messages and then gives him a queue to approve and send.

www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/i-hope-...

The clearest introduction to at:proto I’ve seen yet.

Cigarette Lighter & Cupholder or bust.

Screenshot of Codex trying to view GIF screenshots. Planning to ask the user to convert their images to PNG format or provide screenshots to avoid the current issue. This clarification will also apply to viewing other images with similar problems." I can’t view GIFs with the image tool. Please provide PNGs (or JPGs), or point me at still frames extracted from those GIFs, and I’ll review them.

Sigh, Codex only supports PNG/JPG for viewing images (not GIF, HEIC, etc). Also a great example of where it's "Planning" is redundant and a waste of tokens. It doesn't even both to offer a solution: e.g. "would you like me to use imagemagick and convert to png?" (btw these are non-animated gifs)

Yesterday’s prompt (“continue iterating till you can parse the corpus”) rendered it braindead — after regex trouble it decided to hard code match arms, panic on new values, rinse and repeat.

match length {
“33mm” => 33,
“35mm” => 35,
“35 mm” => 35,
_ => panic!
}

What a waste of tokens.

This does something funky on the iPhone if you press and hold. Looks like it confuses the iPhone’s edge detection algorithm for creating stickers and does this fun loop instead.

This does something funky on the iPhone if you press and hold. Looks like it confuses the iPhone’s edge detection algorithm for creating stickers and does this fun loop instead.

Better luck this afternoon coding with Codex. Green-field scraper in rust with a really detailed prompt. It still seemed excited to prematurely end with “I did some stuff. Do you want me to continue doing the things you asked?”

Perhaps explicit prompting to “continue until X” would help.

I’m unimpressed with Codex. It seems unable to reliably validate even trivial changes and usually assumes user error. Perhaps its training is overfit on novices making dumb mistakes?

“No, I don’t need to force reload the page in my browser — you forgot to add a <div> for the new style.” Sigh.

Web-based Codex tasks are largely a toy and have difficulty integrating with other parallel changes. A task added an .nvmrc with node version 20 (unprompted and unrelated to its work). So I committed a .nvmrc with version 22 to main and asked it to fix the merge conflict. It could not.

If you verbally abuse Codex ("Fucking nooo...") it wastes output tokens on tone policing ("Let's be sure to keep this conversation polite...").

It also doesn't support kill or yank (ctrl-k / ctrl-y). Boo.

First day feedback on ChatGPT Codex CLI.

It seems very oriented towards providing a numerical menu of next actions. Which seems ok? Nothing wrong with reducing my turn to "2" to trigger the second option in a list but it's definitely got a totally different flavor than Claude Code or Gemini CLI.

I definitely recommend trying to use *.localhost hostnames, much prettier/accessible vs individual ports numbers.

Chrome/Firefox have supported them for a while and since macOS Tahoe they are supported in Safari too.

Sent feedback via testflight. My Bluesky DM replies errored with "failed to send" 🤷. This is a step up from python3 -m http\.server for sure.

Caddy supports TLS too which is a nice to have, but definitely not a hard requirement and requires juggling CA certs.

I want this. I've been doing something similar with Caddy, but hadn't gotten as far as creating a proper menu bar controller.

I am. I wanted to evaluate the ChatGPT vs the Claude desktop app support cloud-hosted coding tasks. Specifically continuing tasks initiated via the web/desktop/iphone apps in the cli.

Turns out Codex doesn’t (yet) support this, while Claude Code does.