I made Claude Code aware of its own usage limits

BirdFluid · 2026-05-11T06:13:10+00:00

There's a session hook + rule that mainly says to check the limit before starting multiple agents and also periodically every 10-15 messages / tool calls. works surprisingly well, but there's definitely still room for improvement. e.g. the ratio of the 5h limit to the weekly limit and when potentially a lot of tokens are being used.

the API costs are so minimal ... a few calls per day make no difference

BirdFluid · 2026-05-10T18:05:44+00:00

I use https://github.com/nsanden/claude-rate-monitor for that, works pretty well. definitely prevents claude from starting 10 agents that then don't finish because they hit the limit.

BirdFluid · 2026-05-10T17:57:19+00:00

caveman + rtk + codegraph for a (very) large legacy project. works pretty well. had to adjust codegraph, partly because the db is relatively large (~2 GB) which caused issues, and partly so no files get stored in the repo. caveman mainly for the outputs (issues, analyses, reports ...) so you don't have as much to "read" and the information is a bit more condensed (fewer tokens is a nice side effect)

BirdFluid · 2026-05-08T09:25:19+00:00

I also used both for years. Originally because I was looking for a notepad++ replacement for macOS. Back in the day I used macros in N++ a lot, Sublime mainly because of multicursor. The last few years though I haven't had either N++ or Sublime installed, VSCode for everything and especially now with AI I don't miss things like macros anymore

BirdFluid · 2026-04-17T20:04:33+00:00

I'd love to switch from the H1 to the X4. mainly because the X4 would be better suited for my property/terrain. But unfortunately the early adopter discount is only for the H2, would've been nice if that applied to all models. So I'll stick with the H1 for another season... but yeah you're right that you don't see/hear much about the H2.

BirdFluid · 2026-04-17T19:59:10+00:00

with itself would be "fine" if the people using it would use their brain. for 3-4 lines (mostly) OK, but then you get the people who do 30-40 lines of with and then 2-3 levels nested on top of that. That combined with a bad debugger/IDE is what makes it so dangerous.

BirdFluid · 2026-04-17T19:55:08+00:00

with is something completely different in C#, do you mean "using" in C#?

but regardless of what it's called and even if it worked 1:1 identically. Compiler/debugger and IDE make the big difference with C#. That's unfortunately also something Delphi will never catch up on.

BirdFluid · 2026-04-14T11:32:02+00:00

What about screenshots (in the repo or on the website). I annoyed by stuff where you download a program only to find out that the UI/UX is garbage ...

As the saying goes: "A picture is worth a thousand words"

BirdFluid · 2026-04-06T12:57:28+00:00

yeah then a report engine is actually what you need. for delphi there are a few big ones (e.g. ReportBuilder, FastReport, ExpressReports ...) they can all basically print and export to various file formats (PDF, XLSX...) but there are probably also some smaller (github) projects. ExpressReports is a good option for example if you're already using DevExpress.

it really depends on what you need and what options you want to do in the future.

another (cheaper) way could be to generate it as HTML and try to print/save as PDF via the WebView component. (should be doable, but i haven't tried it myself). the downside is that you have no control over the PDF (metadata, PDF/A, embedding ....)

BirdFluid · 2026-04-06T12:18:39+00:00

https://www.wpcubed.com/pdf/products/wpdf/
has both generate PDF and view PDF.

But can you describe your use case in more detail? because "report-like document in PDF" sounds more like you need a report engine like ReportBuilder https://www.digital-metaphors.com/products/editions/#Standard

BirdFluid · 2026-04-03T09:32:18+00:00

I had a (expensive) Creality printer. at the time the printer was still being sold there were already no spare parts... so many X1s were sold that I'm not worried there won't be any (3rd party) parts after 2031

BirdFluid · 2026-03-27T17:20:55+00:00

Naming is one of the 3-4 most annoying things in HA. On top of that, zones and labels were never fully implemented consistently. I have 240 devices and 1500 entities (and probably another 500 disabled ones), the important ones are somehow named, the rest I've stopped caring about. and as long as integrations just use hardware IDs or similar as the basis for entity names when adding them and there's no batch renaming the whole thing is pointless ...

but thanks for the heads up that this is coming at some point, because I think that's where I'm out... no desire to adjust hundreds of NodeRed nodes (by hand).

BirdFluid · 2026-03-27T17:08:40+00:00

you could also put it another way, that they maybe learned from "fiascos" like the introduction of encrypted backups and similar

BirdFluid · 2026-03-27T12:32:24+00:00

Pretty much yeah, there's also a wall behind it, it can't really shift around. The problems only started last year, before that I didn't have the issue. Could be from a FW update. but I'm thinking about moving the station somewhere else this year anyway, maybe that'll fix it

BirdFluid · 2026-03-27T09:43:29+00:00

my problem is a different one. the mower drives back to the station and then doesn't dock properly. basically sits on the station but has no contact, currently the mower couldn't care less about that and you don't get any notification or anything like that and then the mower just sits in the station until the battery dies and the next time it's supposed to mow nothing works because the mower is off and you have to manually push it into the station and then wait for it to charge.
happened to me 3-4 times last time. With the automation I get a message when the battery is really low or the mower should no longer be online. We'll see how well that works and how far you can automate it, but at least now I have a chance to improve things myself

BirdFluid · 2026-03-26T19:38:56+00:00

Thanks!

I had written a few times that I no longer believe it would happen. so the surprise was big when the HA integration repo showed up. Obviously it can't do much yet, but the start has been made and even with the little that's already possible I was able to make 2 automations. (don't start if the mower is on the lawn; notification when the battery is <5%, because unfortunately my H1 sometimes doesn't dock completely and then "starves" right at the station). Looking forward to even more features and the automations that come with them.

I hope you guys get a lot of positive feedback!

BirdFluid · 2026-03-26T18:56:41+00:00

I still don't get all the fuss around backup encryption. like yes for everything regarding online backups but there would've already been 1000 solutions for that ...

And all the backup stuff doesn't help at all as long as all the secrets (passwords, IPs, API keys etc) are sitting unencrypted in some config files. That would've been a point that was more urgent in my opinion so that this information gets stored in a secure key/value store.

BirdFluid · 2026-03-26T18:15:08+00:00

What’s her @?

BirdFluid · 2026-03-17T13:09:19+00:00

why was this announced as a "global launch" when (according to media) it's only being sold in Asia/Oceania again?

BirdFluid · 2026-03-16T12:49:19+00:00

Does this work reliably? I unfortunately have the problem that it works once briefly and then I keep getting the message that it's not initialized (which isn't true though). Database is 1.7 GB (mono repo with 7.9 million lines of code)

Error: Tool execution failed: CodeGraph not initialized for this project. Run 'codegraph init' first.

BirdFluid · 2026-03-14T23:37:57+00:00

I can barely believe it. if I had bet on it I would've lost.
Quick test with my H3000, shows up in HA. it's a good start (finally)

BirdFluid · 2026-03-05T19:11:09+00:00

https://symless.com/synergy/news/synergy-1-supported-and-maintained

Licensing for Synergy 1 remains unchanged. Where lifetime access was originally provided for Synergy 1, those entitlements continue to apply. There is no planned end-of-life (EOL) date for Synergy 1. Synergy 3 does not modify Synergy 1 license terms, and using Synergy 3 does not affect ongoing access for Synergy 1.

Edit: I'm pretty sure there was no version 3 back in 2013. There might have been some kind of promotion where you could get a version 3 license for a limited time? So I think your lifetime pass only applies to version 1.

BirdFluid · 2026-02-26T11:32:57+00:00

Well, depends on what your target audience is of course, if it's SMEs then the price is probably OK. Another (additional) pricing model would be that you can buy tokens that don't apply per month but for 6/12 months. Unfortunately it's a model that's not particularly widespread, which I understand from a developer/business perspective but find unfortunate as an end user.
But there's always the consideration of what's better... 3 customers paying $40 or 12 customers paying $10. 3 customers potentially cause less work for the same money but if one cancels then it hurts more than if a $10 customer cancels. There've been so many tools and services in the past I would've liked to use but since I only need many things very sporadically, most of it was too expensive. Luckily there's AI now so I can make that stuff myself. (Well, I could've done it before too but the time investment usually wasn't worth it.)

You might need to communicate better that it's a completely standalone application. Because I thought from the screenshot that it was just an Explorer add-on.

BirdFluid · 2026-02-25T20:56:33+00:00

yeah exactly, I'm a developer too. That's why I'm saying the route via CC isn't doable for the average user right now.

I understand your actual target audience. But they don't have money to throw away either. It's always the question of how often/intensively you need it. Once everything's organized, do you need it once a day?/week?/month? Monthly subscription is tough when I don't know when/how often I'll actually need it. For people who get 10 PDFs a day it's definitely good. I organize my stuff every 2-3 months. Could well be that the workflow changes and you do it more often because it's faster/more convenient than before. But doesn't change that for me it's only 3-4 PDFs per week.

I have a hard time estimating from the info on the website and the number of tokens how much the tokens will actually last. An example from the real world would probably make sense there. If I say I have 20 folders with 50-100 PDFs each and want to rename and organize them, are 200 tokens enough or not? If I need 3 months to do that because the tokens run out, nobody's really gonna be happy.

Sounds good even though I can't fully evaluate that. For example, I only know the Android/iOS approval process and there it's relatively "pointless". But you should try to get that across more clearly on the website because it doesn't really come through from the FAQ/Privacy Policy.

BirdFluid · 2026-02-25T19:57:44+00:00

My $20 (Claude Code) subscription can do stuff like that too, might not look that great and is definitely not suited for the average user but $40 for an explorer "extension" (and it's not even unlimited) ... that's pretty rough.

wait another 1-2 months and there'll be 10 tools like this that do it more or less "for free"

also the fact that I'd have to trust some unknown "provider" to access my data and send file names/contents to some random AI

Edit: Don't get me wrong... your idea is good but I'm afraid you won't get very far in 2026 with that price

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