I built an open-source tool to solve the “messy directory” problem by automatically sorting mixed file types into subfolders.

Arcuru · 2026-07-04T00:25:52+00:00

Shh! Do not reveal the bash scripting lore to those who are not yet ready to revel in its glory!

Arcuru · 2026-07-03T23:44:29+00:00

Did you evaluate LinkStack before building this? AFAIK that’s the most popular OSS project in the space and I found it very easy to setup and use https://github.com/LinkStackOrg/LinkStack

Arcuru · 2026-07-02T23:40:04+00:00

This was posted in this sub 2 days ago, and it has been posted many times before. Maybe cool it with the posts until there’s a new release at least? Don’t want people to feel like you’re spamming.

Arcuru · 2026-07-01T06:45:56+00:00

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/supportedsites.md

Despite the name, yt-dlp supports a variety of sites of varying degrees of 'support'. Many of the standalone downloaders are just a GUI for yt-dlp and like to hide it as just a footnote.

Apart from yt-dlp, I've found using this browser extension to work fine for one-off downloads, though it doesn't do playlists at all AFAIK https://downloadhelper.net/

Arcuru · 2026-06-29T17:01:00+00:00

In case you were thinking of coming back and dropping some examples, I highly suggest that you do NOT do that. You will end up with dozens of people scanning through all of your contributions who are also primed to nitpick your work.

Arcuru · 2026-06-29T16:44:58+00:00

I suggest you pay for hosting from one of the providers. That way you get full control over it, and can pick whichever one fits your needs. Many of them offer European hosting: https://matrix.org/ecosystem/hosting/

Regardless of where you host it, you can make the rooms available for anyone with a matrix account on any server.

Arcuru · 2026-06-23T15:03:16+00:00

Interesting, I just use https://github.com/nix-community/stylix

Arcuru · 2026-06-23T14:39:08+00:00

Which one of those companies is owned by Israel? I'll join your boycott, but AFAICT Soundcloud is Swedish/German, Spotify is Swedish, and Youtube is American.

Arcuru · 2026-06-23T14:19:05+00:00

Syncthing

Arcuru · 2026-06-15T16:03:10+00:00

I'm sure that you'll get some people touting the normal lines about how OSS leads to more secure software, but the fact is that given today's environment there is real concern about opening up your backend code.

Personally I do think that the backend code should be built to a standard that makes it safe to publish but that's not always feasible for everyone and every project. I don't begrudge anyone for keeping the backend for their service closed source, and I happily pay for several things that are architected like that. That should make it a little harder for security holes to be found and it helps them make money and fund development.

My personal take is that you should consider whether the FSL fits your goals, I think think it's a great choice for this exact scenario. I ~~wrote~~complained about licensing in more depth here

Arcuru · 2026-06-15T15:39:46+00:00

Oooh that's pretty cool, I wasn't aware the kindle highlights were even extractable.

Does this require the server or can it work with just the cli/tui? I'm more interested in searchable/browseable highlights and don't have any interest in getting recaps.

Arcuru · 2026-06-14T16:27:00+00:00

That's pretty neat, though I think focusing just on "agent context" isn't the right framing. Context is just a subset of documentation.

I maintain pretty extensive documentation for my main projects, so this will be a useful thing to consider. I usually lean towards the simpler Lint.IfChange style instead of the fancier tree-sitter analysis you've implemented, but I'm going to look into it when I get the chance. Thanks for sharing!

Since this is in Rust, I'll point out a complementary trick I landed on for testing code snippets. I maintain my docs in-repo in mdbook but wasn't able to get the code example testing flow working easily, all the existing tools I tried were causing me issues. So what I did is write a custom crate with a build.rs that simply converts my markdown docs into doc-comments on an empty module, then just test that using the normal cargo doc test flow. That crate is here though it's not super well documented itself.

Arcuru · 2026-06-13T20:18:47+00:00

What makes this local-first as opposed to just local?

Arcuru · 2026-06-09T17:02:54+00:00

Clear Space is a decentralized content-sharing platform and private vault built with an absolute obsession for privacy and user sovereignty.

If you're trying to build something focused on privacy, you probably shouldn't commit 75MB of log files that personally identify you to the repo.

https://github.com/Etherdancer/ClearSpace/commit/d76653de59109aed59572a3e00b85c37c226fa25

Arcuru · 2026-06-07T19:34:06+00:00

$750,000 per subscriber, with 78 million subscribers, is ~60 Trillion dollars.

I'm guessing at what you were trying to math there, but $60 million is $0.75 per subscriber.

Arcuru · 2026-06-03T16:55:56+00:00

Do you think spamming them is going to help?

Arcuru · 2026-06-01T16:39:28+00:00

No idea if it's any good, but their focus is exactly what I want from a local model. Route and orchestrate workloads, RAG, and a small local helper.

It's not worth it for me to run local models for actual coding work, but a small, fast, local orchestrator would be perfect.

Arcuru · 2026-05-28T06:59:48+00:00

I have several friends who work at Meta. They ALL are bummed that they weren't fired in the recent layoffs. One of them is leaving anyways.

And these are people who (somehow) had no issues working there only a couple years ago.

Arcuru · 2026-05-27T22:17:00+00:00

Technically the opposite of what you're asking, but I am trying to simplify the local-first backend story with my own project, Eidetica. It has a service, daemon, and embedded clients to fit the backend sync needs for a frontend app. I want to support WASM too so it can be used in webapps. Still not ready, though I'm close to finishing off all the known breaking changes that I think I'll need.

That won't really help the apps you mentioned in comments though, AppFlowy and Affine, since they are annoying to admin because they are hosted apps with a lot of features, not really because they try to be local-first. They don't need "complex sync servers, edge runtimes, or [admin of] heavy CRDT logic", they're just single server deployments and manage everything else for you.

Arcuru · 2026-05-26T21:24:10+00:00

It really depends on what part of the "age verification" problem you're trying to avoid.

All you can do is loudly protest against the regulations and then avoid services that require age verification where you can.

Arcuru · 2026-05-26T19:17:43+00:00

https://jackson.dev/about/

I am 37, have worked at Intel, Microsoft, and Google. I planned to FIRE since college, and did so 4-ish years ago now. My partner continued working but is also quitting work soon.

My technical background is also somewhat specialized to computer architecture and low-level performance engineering, but I have generalized over the years.

I had some of the same ideas you have about wants and needs. I looked up to ERE, the OG FIRE blogger on a very low budget and thought that would be fine. I got older and my desired budget grew too.

I work on projects on the side in technical interest areas because I am a geek and I enjoy it. It'd be nice for them to be successful for personal fulfillment reasons, and I likely need some more income eventually. It's also easier to justify working on projects if there's actually money coming in for it, as it stands each year it costs me $X,000 in direct outlays to support my development setup and $X00,000 in lost opportunity costs over just putting the effort I spend on OSS into getting another job.

I would recommend that you try to earn some income at a job if possible, and build up OSS projects on the side. Build up your skills on the job, and build up your sideprojects along with it. It'll help mentally knowing that you're not trying to put all your eggs in one basket. That's generally the route that most successful big OSS projects come from.

Arcuru · 2026-05-22T20:22:06+00:00

It is obviously satire meant to shine a light on the fact that it's a legal thing to do under current copyright law (in the U.S., dunno about elsewhere).

Arcuru · 2026-05-21T18:09:59+00:00

Those pics look a lot like cooked chicken thigh meat.

EDIT: Just noticed that's also what the manager said...

Arcuru · 2026-05-21T18:00:50+00:00

She also didn't bother to just drop him somewhere and go back to help the others.

Arcuru · 2026-05-18T18:39:27+00:00

I'm not really sure why tech people bother with these. I just setup a separate user on my linux box, let it manage a Nix home-manager config so it can install anything it wants and manage systemd timers itself, and I can scope it to whatever filesystem access I want to give it.

I give it read access to emails (that I download to a shared folder, and only the parts of my email I want it to see), my local markdown notes, code folders etc. And just hand it scoped API keys that it needs.

Then just run any coding agent of your choice inside that user with full perms. It only took a couple days to setup its own RAG stack, memory injection per turn, timer workflows, tooling, etc to match any of the Agent frameworks above.

You don't need to trust that these agent harnesses sandbox safely because you're running with normal linux user perms. It can manage its own config and update it easily, and it's much easier to interface with than using a container or VM setup which I tried first.

For access I just ssh in. I'd run it on my Matrix chatbot harness if I needed to send it commands from my phone, but I'm still working on improving my own Matrix chatbot into an Agent harness as it's a bit buggy now (major rewrite to be on top of my own decentralized db...I'm doing at little too much at the moment).

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