Daniel Lo Nigro

Coding since 1998. Developer @Meta. @dotnetfdn member. ♥ C#
Australian 🇦🇺
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[Daniel Lo Nigro @Daniel15]

@rickbrewPDN @beeradmoore Wow, that's an absolute bargain for a short domain with a common word in it! Nice work.

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@Grahem42 @DataChaz and why did it have permission to touch the backups?

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@jrmooreiii @garrytan Right? I don't get it. More code means more stuff to maintain, and a higher likelihood of bugs.

He's got the metric the wrong way around. We should really be focusing on building features with as *little* code as possible, through code reuse and proper design patterns.

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@rauchg @HarshitKhemani I imagine it's going to end up noticeably more expensive than regular hosting...

I'll be happy if you can prove me wrong though :)

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@bcherny @threadreaderapp unroll

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@getoutline Do you have a comprehensive feature list somewhere? I couldn't find features like this or Mermaid documented anywhere on the site, just in the changelog.

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@CreedConfession @MrGoldBro Held hostage? What? If the US government doesn't agree with Anthropic's contract then they can use a different provider. Nobody's being held hostage.

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@987Nabil @thdxr @katyperry You can use it with their web-based chat bot, Claude Code, the Claude desktop app, Claude Cowork, and probably other things. It ends up quite a bit cheaper than API pricing.

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I'm not so sure about this future where we have CLIs for gambling, and documentation for humans is considered "legacy."

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

CLIs are super exciting precisely because they are a "legacy" technology, which means AI agents can natively and easily use them, combine them, interact with them via the entire terminal toolkit.

E.g ask your Claude/Codex agent to install this new Polymarket CLI and ask for any arbitrary dashboards or interfaces or logic. The agents will build it for you. Install the Github CLI too and you can ask them to navigate the repo, see issues, PRs, discussions, even the code itself.

Example: Claude built this terminal dashboard in ~3 minutes, of the highest volume polymarkets and the 24hr change. Or you can make it a web app or whatever you want. Even more powerful when you use it as a module of bigger pipelines.

If you have any kind of product or service think: can agents access and use them?

- are your legacy docs (for humans) at least exportable in markdown?
- have you written Skills for your product?
- can your product/service be usable via CLI? Or MCP?
- ...

It's 2026. Build. For. Agents.

[Daniel Lo Nigro @Daniel15]

@irabukht Even without AI, there's still major risks to building an entire business on top of another company's product, since the other company might implement your most important features themselves. I'm glad you were able to pivot though!

[Gaurab Chakrabarti @Gaurab]

Toto isn't even the most extreme example: Ajinomoto makes MSG. Their amino acid research produced the insulating substrate in virtually every high-end GPU. 95% global monopoly. In 2021 the chip shortage bottleneck wasn't silicon, it was Ajinomoto's film. Japan holds majority share in 14 critical semiconductor materials. The sintering process that creates a non-porous toilet is the same one that creates a contamination-free wafer chuck. The most critical layer of AI infrastructure is controlled by companies that make toilets, MSG, and window glass.

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@WestBlockCapit1 @LowHash @AlexFinn That won't get you local AI though - you'd need to use an AI model through a company like Anthropic (Claude) or OoenAI.

You need a lot of VRAM (or unified memory) to run an AI model locally, which is what the Mac Studio provides.

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@andrii_rom Thanks! I'll try it out when I get some free time.

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@andrii_rom Thanks! I evaluated Plausible vs Swetrix a while ago (I think it was Swetrix v3), but I'll compare them again once v5 is out!

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@andrii_rom Are you still planning to release the community edition in January?

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@zebanderson @MatthewBerman @openclaw @sughanthans1 That and it's always a fixed price per month. No worrying about large bills just because your site/system got popular.

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@openclaw @sughanthans1 @MatthewBerman I think the point of the Mac mini is to get one with a lot of RAM so you can run a local AI model on it.

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@zacxbt @openclaw It should work just as well on a $20/year VPS from a provider like GreenCloudVPS or RackNerd.

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@Mqsley @gothburz GitHub Copilot is good, Microsoft Copilot isn't. It's still confusing they have two different products called "copilot"

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@kotpes @styfle The legacy Date API is borderline unusable. It was based off the legacy Java one that was replaced 10+ years ago.