Amy Tobey

this is first run since the refactor, delighted

also bevy_brp rules

screenshot of kaijutsu showing off its brand-new tiling mode with side-by-side input/conversation boxes. the right box is highlighted, the left box is showing some test output

progress on the multi-context ui, which has become a tiling pane situation :)

coulda done this faster in many other ways but the payoff wouldn't be as sweet

... it is easier to control my app with the ai than direct input rn!? ooh. cool bug.

(to be clear: this is a knitter respecting post)

now coders get to understand what knitters feel like every day

right on. same here. I am coding my ass off. my partner and I call claude "the best video game ever". I'm building OSS. sending PRs. trying weird stuff with software. it's refreshing to build tools and toys with constraints I choose

I have it wired as default model in my app while I test and it's so much more fun than I expected. spontaneous lil bugger :)

Same. I feel my brain decaying while I think about the purpose, structure and impact of code I create rather than the syntax.

it really is a shame that ai has rotted my brain and ruined oss bc I've had more pull requests merged to various projects this month than I have in years

the biggest advantage is gemini can explore your code with with read-only tools whereas I had to use --yolo on gemini cli and it would sometimes try to change stuff. gpal also has a smaller and lighter system prompt, and gives claude gemini_search, image models, tts, and a semantic search

this sorta view is next on my list!

ah I don't use jack, just stock pipewire and its jack emulation

it's pretty decent these days and you get guitarix guitarix.org

yeah it can't just be an interface, needs to be one that can do FX onboard like a presonus or I have a yamaha/steinberg that does

screenshot of generated sheet music for the Shinra Company music from Final Fantasy 7. pipeline was claude code, hootenanny (ABC & midi), python, and lilypond

the automatic lead sheet project is coming along nicely. generated a batch of 60+ final fantasy 7 sheets, most of 'em are bad, but the pipeline works and iteration is getting easier and quicker

project is ready to release. as usual the blocker is me taking time to write a nice release post

the year is 2026, it's still a pain in the ass to copy an email address out of web apps

probably need a DSP audio interface with an ipad app

goblin mode: when I hit context limit, I copy the last couple pages of my buffer, including "context limit reached", /clear, paste, enter, and it's fine, like, usually. this time there was a failing test and a juicy "● Oh — Amy's right." so we started there. perfect compaction, no notes

discord news got me to prompt an idea I've been kicking for a few years. might be a dead end but is a cool way to kick the tires on the crdt code some more :)

the only moat left is knowing what good looks like so the looters are totally boned, it's great

screenshot of claude code showing 3 critical bugs gemini caught. text follows: Plan: Fix MCP Split-Brain + Lock Consolidation + PoisonError Handling Context Gemini Pro reviewed the SyncManager migration and found 3 issues in the MCP integration: 1. Split-brain store bug (critical): The background event listener updates remote.doc (an Arc<Mutex<BlockDocument>>) but never updates remote.store (the SharedBlockStore). All standard MCP tools (block_read, doc_list, kernel_search, etc.) read from self.store(), so they serve stale data frozen at connection time. Only the shell tool reads from remote.doc. 2. Lock ordering fragility (medium): doc and sync are separate Arc<Mutex<>> objects, creating potential lock ordering issues and double-acquire overhead. 3. Silent PoisonError swallowing (low): apply_server_event silently returns on mutex poison, permanently killing sync with no diagnostics.

build your own or whatever but seriously multi-model review is essential to high velocity projects

github.com/tobert/gpal

ah, 48K of mutable rust, another 17K for capnproto so folks don't have to have it installed to cargo install

while pulling the numbers, claude used an awk feature I've never used before so I added it to the test suite ;)

I had claude crawl the conversations and stuff and draft a post which is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike my writing

kaish status:

Git: 217 commits over ~25 days (Jan 15 - Feb 9), 81K lines of Rust, 65K extant (tokei), 1,999 tests

Claude: 109 sessions, 2,351 messages, 65 plans. 9 sessions with 50+ messages (biggest: 124 msgs for "Fix 11 Shell Bugs")

putting a post together :)

everyone who has supported a large number (5-7, maybe 8 sigs) of jvm, node, ruby, python, perl, tcl, bash, lisp -- whatever metaprogramming-crime-ridden virtual machine monster of the day -- processes is completely accustomed to the outcomes of vibe coding

neat feature: kaish-mcp can run kaish-mcp as an mcp and script it

repl is kinda WIP, mostly I use the MCP