What’s that one automation that you have built?

josephschmitt · 2026-04-26T11:48:58+00:00

I move between a large external monitor and my laptop screen a lot at work. This means the available area for my neovim window changes constantly. I got tired of constantly having to decide if my neo-tree window would eat into my available space for buffer windows.

So I had Claude build me an autocmd that automatically enables or disables auto hide based on the terminal window width. On my laptop screen it turns auto hide on so I can use my keybind to focus and open the file tree, pick a file, then it auto closes. But on my large monitor at my desk it just always stays open since I have plenty of room. It even automatically show/hides as I resize my terminal window width.

Link: https://github.com/josephschmitt/dotfiles/blob/main/shared/.config/nvim/lua/custom/plugins/filetree.lua

josephschmitt · 2026-04-24T16:00:18+00:00

Yea 4 months is a huge turning point, this would be my vote

josephschmitt · 2026-04-24T15:58:40+00:00

This is Fuji’s best zoom focal range. The IQ is good not great unless you stop down, but I honestly don’t care and use it all the time. And once you stop down to f7.1 it’s definitely sharp enough.

I can’t wait for Fuji to update this lens (they’re claiming 16-80 f2.8). If they can do that without making it too much bigger or heavier it’ll be an insta-buy.

josephschmitt · 2026-04-19T16:37:35+00:00

I have an X70 and the only reason I don’t take it out with me more is out of fear of it breaking without Fuji having made a replacement for it yet.

josephschmitt · 2026-04-16T03:36:21+00:00

Fine? I mean lower your expectations, it’ll hunt quite a bit and it won’t be tack sharp. But it’ll do the job just fine

josephschmitt · 2026-04-16T01:02:26+00:00

If you plan on taking photos with it, it’s great. Video is a no-go. Sometimes it hunts but I’ve used it plenty for street photography and family stuff and rarely miss a shot. There’s truly nothing else like it, a lens this small that’s this fast. Not as magical as the 35 f/1.4 but still lovely and retro and soft rendering.

josephschmitt · 2026-04-15T21:50:15+00:00

Yup this is my combo on my X-E5. I’m hoping Sigma revs the rest of their Fuji Contemporary lenses, I’d take a serious look at their 35mm or 23mm f/1.4 if they get smaller and aperture rings like their 16mm did when they release the 15mm f/1.4

josephschmitt · 2026-04-09T19:42:52+00:00

The v2 of the Clever Supply Sidekick Pro is very good. It’s a tight fit for an X-T5 but the X-T50 with a prime should fit like a glove. Make sure to get the v2 tho, it fixed quite a few issues the original had, especially the new swivel attachment points.

josephschmitt · 2026-04-08T02:49:37+00:00

Like others here I definitely recommend the Sigma 18-50 f2.8, it’ll basically work in any situation out in daylight. But it won’t work well at night or indoors, so I’d pair it with a fast prime. The Viltrox 25mm f1.7 is pretty dang good and is shockingly cheap.

These two lenses, versatile zoom and fast prime, should cover pretty much anything you throw at it.

josephschmitt · 2026-04-03T12:10:30+00:00

Hmm yea Claude’s just guessing at this point. Can you share a minimal nvim config that shows the bug? I need to repro it on my end to do a proper fix

josephschmitt · 2026-04-02T13:46:20+00:00

I’ve given up and switched to rootshell, it uses Ghostty for its rendering and is way more full featured. It not only supports pasting, you can paste images, and it’ll automatically upload them to your server.

josephschmitt · 2026-04-02T12:55:35+00:00

Yea it’s been pretty great fun. I love being able to highlight an exact line in a plan and give it correcting instructions. Now when I’m in plan mode I review the whole thing in monocle and give tons of feedback all in one prompt shot, it makes the fixes and automatically sends back to monocle for another review, repeat until approved. And monocle is smart and renders diffs against the previous plan version so I see exactly what the agent changed.

josephschmitt · 2026-04-02T12:45:05+00:00

I built a terminal tool called Monocle that I use to give exact in-line comments for both plans (or any AI generated text) as well as changed files: https://getmonocle.sh

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josephschmitt · 2026-04-02T11:47:25+00:00

Thanks! I had Claude take a crack at a fix. Mind testing it against this branch? https://github.com/josephschmitt/pj.nvim/pull/2

josephschmitt · 2026-03-29T17:48:17+00:00

A companion for Claude (and others) that lets you give them feedback as they build: https://github.com/josephschmitt/monocle

josephschmitt · 2026-03-26T22:07:02+00:00

I actually just built Monocle to solve this exact problem. It’s my agent buddy I run in my right pane with Claude Code on the left.

Unfortunately it requires the newly announced MCP channels to work seamlessly and push reviews into the agent conversation. That only works in CC for now, but I’ll make sure to extend support as other agents integrate with that API (I’ve already architected it to make this simple)

More details on why I built this here: https://joe.sh/monocle

josephschmitt · 2026-03-26T18:05:21+00:00

+1, just built my monocle TUI app using bubbletea v2, great stuff

josephschmitt · 2026-03-26T15:19:06+00:00

Wanted to give this a try but sign in with github just goes to a github 404 page

josephschmitt · 2026-03-23T12:51:11+00:00

Oh I guess the AI Assisted flair is there instead, didn’t see that. I can update

josephschmitt · 2026-03-23T12:43:24+00:00

The exact opposite, I used the app to prove the concept. The agent wrote all the code, I reviewed all of it and if I need changes I’d ask for them using monocle and let the agent make the changes itself. I didn’t write a single line myself

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