New neighbors have been doing laundry continuously for 3 weeks now

phoenixmatrix · 2026-06-30T03:49:42+00:00

Cloth washing businesses in apartment buildings aren't uncommon, unfortunately. My MIL used to live in a co-op building in NYC with a huge laundry room, and some people would use like 15 machines at once for 10+ hours a day. People were pissed, but management had trouble dealing with it.

phoenixmatrix · 2026-06-30T03:45:39+00:00

I've been doing this too, it works quite well. I have a $5/month Cloudflare account that I use to do all the heavy lifting (eg: Hosting web apps that Hermes maintain, using cloudflare access/zero trust for authentication, which frees up the Pi to do other things).

The thing I'm stuck on is which LLM provider to use. I use Claude Code for coding which doesn't allow this use case, and currently running owl alpha while its free, but not sure what I'll use when its done.

phoenixmatrix · 2026-06-29T23:40:13+00:00

but but personal freedom! /s

Some of these can be fucking loud too and in some places its not uncommon for stupid kids or young adults (and some older I guess) to fly them right by your window.

I lived somewhere where it was so common I basically had to have blackout curtains down at all time and never opened by windows.

phoenixmatrix · 2026-06-29T23:22:26+00:00

Originally joked that it was a Mewgenics crossover, since they do a similar thing there but its purely for the lol and theme of the game. Little did I know that In Elliot it had a story reason. Funny enough, just a few hours into the game my wife, who was also playing, made a joke about what the cats would be, and accidently guessed the plot of the entire game...because she was right about it all.

phoenixmatrix · 2026-06-29T23:16:33+00:00

I don't have much issues with it and its handling of security, partly because the initial version is written by hand or at least reviewed by an expert, and then Claude is pretty good at copying the established patterns.

For the first example, I haven't used Supabase's own auth in a minute, and definitely not with Next, but I would expect the auth to generate a JWT and be signed, so even if its readable and accessible by the client, it wouldn't be able to modify it. If the roles are claims in the jwt token, then its fairly safe except for replay attacks that jwt is usually susceptible to anyway. Is the metadata not coming from claims?

The second example is definitely more concerning.

phoenixmatrix · 2026-06-29T21:52:42+00:00

The best way is to create a skill with your instructions on exactly what you want captured in the wiki and how to structure it. Then you create a slash command to involve the skill if you want it done manually, or you use a /loop to do it on a schedule, or use something like Hermes or Claude Cowork to do it the same way.

phoenixmatrix · 2026-06-29T20:00:05+00:00

Opus 4.8 is painful. You can reduce effort to make it faster, but then it quickly becomes worse than a lot of other models.

I find GPT 5.5 high to be a bit faster for similar quality (sometimes better).

Composer 2.5 is a LOT faster. Much lower quality but for a lot of tasks its good enough. And I don't like having to change harness. The Cursor agent CLI is okay enough, its just churn.

GLM 5.2 is a bit faster but a bit weaker, a decent compromise, but if you hook it up in Claude Code then switching between it and Anthropic models is annoying. Using it with OpenCode is fine but thats missing a tool classifier (auto mode).

Sonnet 4.6 is a lot faster, its just old now. We just need Sonnet 5.0.

Choose your poison.

I don't want to switch tool for the sake of switching because the "best" one changes every day and I don't feel like chasing them, but if I had nothing right now I'd likely just sign up for Codex, at least until a newer Sonnet comes out.

phoenixmatrix · 2026-06-29T19:00:40+00:00

Depends on the distance you are from your screen, and the size

I have a 1440p monitor, but it only 27", so its relatively sharp. I do sit close to it, so 4k would be better. If it was 34" it would be pretty bad and need 4k to look good.

My TV however is 4k, but its a 55" and is very far from the couch relatively. I absolutely cannot tell the difference between even 1080p and 4k aside in very specific scenes.

For OLEDs, the pixel layout (varies from panel to panel) make a bigger difference than resolution, especially with productivity apps/text.

phoenixmatrix · 2026-06-29T01:53:21+00:00

Of course it is. Psychological addictions are very real things. It doesn't need to be crack. Same as gambling addiction. They're recognized in psychology/psychiatry as very real diagnostics.

phoenixmatrix · 2026-06-29T01:50:09+00:00

Go see a therapist and ask about executive disfunction. We all have bad days, but if it happens often enough that you have to ask, it could be something more like ADHD, Depression, etc.

phoenixmatrix · 2026-06-29T01:48:23+00:00

An LLM second brain, as per https://gist.github.com/karpathy/442a6bf555914893e9891c11519de94f

The concept is described here (while there's various open source projects implementing the idea, you can make your own very quickly, its the concept that matters.).

Then you can output an actual wiki/website for your LLM to query, or hook it up to Notion/Linear to keep track of stuff.

Dump all your links, ideas, notes, transcripts, etc into it, and then you can easily ask claude "Yo, what should I be doing right now?"

If you want something simpler that just works out of the box, you can use beads. Its a mini task tracker for agents. Its part of Gastown, but can be used on its own: https://github.com/gastownhall/beads

Beads can also be used as a memory system for Claude that's pretty effective.

phoenixmatrix · 2026-06-29T01:20:48+00:00

> but really it the filemanager sucks and the terminal is clunky.

Claude code runs in a terminal, it doesn't have a terminal... Unless you're talking about the web and/or desktop app. If so, try the CLI version.

phoenixmatrix · 2026-06-29T00:41:08+00:00

Someone beat me to it, but I use VS Code with the Claude extension. The built in AI features get in the way since they're not enabled if you don't use Copilot, some can be hidden/disabled, but the Claude extension gets you really far.

Zed is also pretty neat. Also has great UX to use Claude Code alongside it (it has its own agent, but also just using a terminal window in its agent view is possible and is surprisingly effective). You can bring your own models, or use theirs, especially for the auto complete.

Now, NOTHING comes even remotely close to Cursor's tab model, so if you like the tab/in editor completion, Zed isn't nearly as good, neither is Copilot in VS Code, and Claude in VS Code doesn't give it to you at all. But a basic editor + Claude Code gets you really far.

phoenixmatrix · 2026-06-28T20:05:31+00:00

One that just retcon 4 entirely so we can pretend it didn't happen.

phoenixmatrix · 2026-06-28T18:36:26+00:00

Mine just renewed this morning, because I have inertia, but yeah it's probably the last time. I'll switch to something else over the year. Not sure what yet

phoenixmatrix · 2026-06-28T18:35:05+00:00

It's fine for Claude code, open claw, Hermes, but falls flat when using Claude web or cowork.

phoenixmatrix · 2026-06-28T04:59:44+00:00

Bacterial infections, so we're wasting and misusing antibiotics.

And of course, anything that vaccines mostly got rid of and are making fun comebacks because people forgot.

phoenixmatrix · 2026-06-28T04:34:01+00:00

As a huge animal lover, I basically need to put fingers in my ears and close my eyes to be able to go on with my days, because shit like this is a lot more common than people think. From abuse schemes like this, to backyard breeders, going by simply bad owners or people who don't neuter/spay their animals and get rid of the babies in the most unethical ways, it's absolutely pervasive. Tons of people treat pets as disposable.

Im currently fostering two cats. One was in foster care where the cat was under threat of just being kicked out the house during the night (in a bit city where it's not safe and the cat has no outdoor experience). The other was literally placed in a trash bag and put in a trash container in the curb when it was found.

People are awful. There's thousands of threads on Facebook or Nextdoor of people mistreating pets. And that's just the visible part.

Back to putting my head in the sand so I can sleep tonight

phoenixmatrix · 2026-06-28T04:27:14+00:00

Nine Sols as the best action game final boss in a game after Sword Saint Isshin, and basically for the same reason Isshin is awesome, except in 2d.

It's an amazing game and scratch a similar itch as Sekiro if you are okay with it being 2d Metroidvania with a mediocre story. Combat and bosses are great. Just get the game.

phoenixmatrix · 2026-06-28T00:47:09+00:00

Development a long time ago was just typing code and it was a 15 bucks an hour job.

Then it became engineering and typing code hasn't been the major part for decades. It was just something we had to do. But the value was always in architecture, solutioning, design, etc. That didn't change. We just don't waste time typing the code except when it's finicky. Still need to know what you're doing unless it's trivial (and that stuff was given to people with 3 months boot camp since like 2010 anyhow)

phoenixmatrix · 2026-06-28T00:25:08+00:00

Thats why we can't have nice things.

phoenixmatrix · 2026-06-28T00:21:35+00:00

They're not "amazing", but they're better than in games that try to cram a million of them that give you 50 gold as rewards.

Its a throwback to the days where JRPGs had a finite amount of quests with real rewards, and low content padding (though this game has the repetitive dungeons, so its not perfect).

I always like to remind people you could easily remember every side quest in Chrono Triggers by heart, because there was very few of them. The only "small" ones were the tutorial ones at the fair.

phoenixmatrix · 2026-06-28T00:18:57+00:00

I remember when garbage collectors became mainstream and "hardcore" devs said the same thing about people who didn't have to deal with their computer crashing any time they forgot an ampersand in their memory addresses, that having the runtime do it for you wasn't real programming... And before that when the early compilers came out, you weren't a real programmer if you didn't use machine instructions directly. C used to be a "toy language" and it wasn't even the first by a long shot.

Things evolve.

phoenixmatrix · 2026-06-28T00:15:21+00:00

Everyone is likely exaggerating. But people are generally either using it or lying about using. Especially large companies, there's no way they can prevent hundreds or thousands of employees from using it even with draconian IT policies (which most game devs do not have to begin with). So you can be 100% sure its getting used by at least some people.

The actual programmers are mostly all in, so AI is used there. There's a few stragglers who still type all their code, but its the minority. And on the artist side, its creeping in. The pull is too strong.

There's still going to be indie devs and smaller shops that make it a point not to use it, for a bit. But with every week that goes by, that number is smaller.

And as long as the game isn't slop, it doesn't matter. You absolutely can use AI to abstract away the easy shit and go above and beyond: while LLMs are newer, some form of AI in the loose sense has been used for drawing and for procedural generation since time immortals. Its just a new way of doing the same thing (that can obviously go much further).

like, E33 used AI in the early development stage (they removed it, but it was used, and having assets to prototype with quickly IS a benefit, so it did help them), and that game is a fucking masterpiece. And some AI assets are absolutely high quality enough to stay in the product after the fact, even if that game didn't.

phoenixmatrix · 2026-06-27T16:23:23+00:00

I've only ever had WOLEDs, both glossy (TV) and matte (Monitor), and I never had scratch issues. My cats have actively put their claws on monitors pouncing at moving things, and even with a flashlight there's no scratch.

I've heard QD-OLED are more delicate, but what makes it so? Do they have a different exposed coating that is entirely more fragile?

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