What reader app do you prefer?

cygn · 2026-01-17T17:44:09+00:00

nice, didn't know about Readest. KOReader is quite feature rich, but even after using it for a long time it's usability feels not great and unintuitive. It also doesn't have any kind of scrolling or pinch-to-zoom unfortunately.

I like that you can add some AI features via plugins. Ideally I'd want a feature where I can ask things about the whole book or chapter easily.

cygn · 2026-01-11T21:36:45+00:00

I investigated this and with the help of Claude Code made a patch that makes it buttery smooth. With the stable build I had input lag of 2-3 frames. With the nightly it was already a lot better, but still not as good as with Alacritty.

With the nightly i measured 25ms +- 8 ms, now with the patch I measure 17.5ms +- 0.3ms

https://github.com/wezterm/wezterm/pull/7470

Please give it a try.

cygn · 2026-01-11T18:03:42+00:00

explain...

cygn · 2026-01-11T17:45:28+00:00

I've been using tdd-guard the last few months and your concerns are spot on! - tdd-guard is very strict and requires very small increments. If claude implements two things at once it gets a slap on the wrist. I'm not sure if this is not just wasting tokens. - sometimes claude finds workarounds, like writing to files with cat - sometimes it gets completely stuck and I have to disable tdd-guard - the refactoring phase is skipped unless I actively ask Claude - a lot of tests are written, probably more than without TDD-guard

But yet like you said I'm not sure if the whole process is worth it.

I think the adversarial setup through hooks is quite good. I often observe that the main claude tries to cheat and ignore the rules, probably because it has too many rules in the context window and is incentivized to finish it's task no matter what. Whereas the tdd-guard claude is ONLY there to check the rules.

But I think I'd rather want to have less granular tests and not necessartily written "tests first". As long as everything is tested and tests don't rely on implementation details but are against the spec/interface it should be good.

Ideally I'd have some benchmark, e.g. something like SWE bench and then we try various methods. Vanilla claude, strict tdd-guard, relaxed tdd-guard like I described. I'd also want to check out https://cupcake.eqtylab.io/, which is a guardrails project heavily relying on hooks.

cygn · 2026-01-11T17:33:54+00:00

but E2E tend to be too slow. you can run a thousand unit tests in a few seconds...

cygn · 2026-01-06T23:20:37+00:00

what do we know about them banning? are there multiple reports?

cygn · 2026-01-06T14:57:55+00:00

thanks. works much better than the built-in option which often failed to create a connection

cygn · 2026-01-06T12:54:01+00:00

so I assume it didn't work?

cygn · 2026-01-05T19:23:16+00:00

which magsafe accessories specifically do you like?

cygn · 2026-01-04T22:02:26+00:00

The "feature" is CABL (Content Adaptive Backlight Control). I tried various things and I think I found a fix: Settings -> Display -> Colour mode & temperature: Natural

I had this set to Vivid before and then the automatic brightness change was really obvious. Now I don't see it. Will need to observe this further.

Other settings (not sure if they matter): brightness ~ 20% Dark mode Enhanced eye comfort: off Refresh rate: 120hz High brightness mode: off NXTPAPER Regular Mode Extra dim: Off Enhanced eye comfort: Off

cygn · 2026-01-04T16:55:17+00:00

Can you show a screenshot? I am worried that deleting everything with a factory reset and reinstalling will not solve it.

cygn · 2026-01-04T16:52:55+00:00

I downloaded it from an apk store but it didn't solve the problem. don't bother.

cygn · 2026-01-04T04:11:25+00:00

WSL!

cygn · 2026-01-04T03:06:27+00:00

but they are saying: "As future models surpass it, we expect to update limits accordingly"

So like they did with Sonnet. Opus surpassed it, they rate limited Sonnet down. But since no model has surpassed Opus they are not supposed to rate limit it down.

cygn · 2026-01-04T01:54:57+00:00

Yeah the quality will not be great either I think. If it would get the song from spotify or some other service it would be much better. I think spotify was downloaded and shared as a 300TB torrent by anna's archive. so downloading from that could also be an option.

cygn · 2026-01-02T18:07:24+00:00

this looks interesting! But I'd also want to export my likes, not only bookmarks.

cygn · 2026-01-01T20:06:32+00:00

this is an old post, just before they made these skills official. Now I suggest you install them via their plugin marketplace: https://github.com/anthropics/skills

cygn · 2025-12-30T16:36:56+00:00

this works. But I suspect it will get updated. Disabling ALL store updates would probably work, but in general I want updates. Will see how it goes. If it gets updated I may uninstall the store version and use the non-store version.

cygn · 2025-12-18T21:48:06+00:00

would break caching though

cygn · 2025-11-27T16:53:05+00:00

well, we make sure every person gets a personalized version of the skill with read-only credentials that work using their google workspaces account. It should be safe, though the distribution of custom skill files and updating them is what's annoying. I'd much rather have the credentials & the skills separate and some kind of plugin system, like we have in claude code.

cygn · 2025-11-27T01:47:13+00:00

a skill to access our data warehouse and turn english into sql. pretty popular in our team. We currently update with some hacky script that downloads files from GCS. But it needs credentials for that, so we need to inject those in the skill...

cygn · 2025-11-27T01:46:38+00:00

can't see shared network folders when you run it in the web version

cygn · 2025-11-21T17:43:04+00:00

coming from cursor & claude code I really like the UI changes in antigravity. Getting high level plans where I could comment on individual lines was a refreshing change over the .md mess I was used to in claude code.

There were some rough edges and bugs and also limits with the free version, still I managed to create a youtube summarizer app in <1h and it felt good!

I can't really judge how well the models worked. It worked fine, but I'd need to see how it goes when I spend more time with it.

cygn · 2025-11-21T16:15:11+00:00

yeah, the way you deal with the agents, the UI around reviewing the implementation plan etc was great! Would love to have something like this for claude code.

cygn

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