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No dependencies.

[Helltar @helltar_]

Asked for a GIF, Vusan sent the first hit of the search without reading even its title. A miss could not be turned down.

0.14 reads the titles it got back and picks one, or none of them.

I'd rather it sent nothing than the wrong GIF.
https://t.co/sX4h6fpYyV

[Helltar @helltar_]

MIDletPascal is a Pascal for the J2ME phones of the 2000s. In 2016 I built ANPASIDE, an Android IDE for it, and I'm still at it.

On your phone it builds a J2ME jar, runs it in an emulator, or exports an APK.

Rebuilt in Kotlin and Compose this year.
https://t.co/g8mpw7fuxu

[Helltar @helltar_]

Vusan spoke only when called. That's a tool in a group chat, not someone in it.

In 0.13 it can react to a message or drop a line with nobody asking. Off by default.

Mostly it stays out: in its first two days it wrote one line, the rest were reactions.
https://t.co/sSAKWEL0Hp

[Helltar @helltar_]

Vusan publishes the sites people ask it to build, and each one held its whole sandbox, disk included, until somebody took it down.

So in Regolith 0.6 I gave a site a term, and the disk goes while the page stays up.

A few static files don't need a Linux home behind them.

[Reified @reified_io]

Regolith 0.6.0 gives a published site a term: 30 days from its first publish, unless the caller moves it. While it lasts, retention takes only the sandbox's home, which a live site used to hold on to.

https://t.co/5nN9zkg5Hb

[Helltar @helltar_]

In a group, Vusan needed a reply or a mention. People also just write "vusan, look at this", or "why?" after its answer, and those went unanswered.

0.12 answers both.

Only a message that names it or follows its reply goes to a model; the rest never does.
https://t.co/ZvLIiZmrK1

[Helltar @helltar_]

Not everything needs an agent. Three years before Vusan I started a plain Telegram bot for group chats: it answers, reads photos and draws on request, nothing more.

1.2.0 is out. One docker compose to host your own.
https://t.co/1cN7615O7P

[Helltar @helltar_]

@neerajjj6785 Kotlin, which this list files under Java: same JVM, same libraries, less ceremony. Coroutines for the I/O and nulls the compiler catches before production does.

[Helltar @helltar_]

@axhiii88547 Linux. I use Arch, btw.

[Helltar @helltar_]

@67409_so i understand you

[Helltar @helltar_]

Every bot in that report is ✅ because of heartbeat, my small Kotlin library.

A bot's polling loop can die while the JVM lives on, and Docker still says "Up". heartbeat keeps a file fresh only while the loop runs, and the healthcheck reads its age.

https://t.co/bUufG6CsLx

[Helltar @helltar_]

After a reboot I used to tail logs and message each of my bots to see if they answer. So I built Varta.

It sends one Telegram message once the Docker stack settles, even when all is fine. Then it's quiet until something changes.

Kotlin, open source.
https://t.co/htRT7KaxOz

[Helltar @helltar_]

@Kavya_learns clicked the first one, it opened my own app. opus is even better than i thought

[Helltar @helltar_]

@theo max effort: same answer, now with 40 seconds of dramatic pause

[Helltar @helltar_]

@kotlin Name-based destructuring is the right call. The catch is how close the two forms look: val (x, y) goes by position, (val x, val y) by name, and the only difference is where val sits.

[Helltar @helltar_]

@bridgemindai four accounts and every one says "no limit reported". that's the flex, not the $1,400

[Helltar @helltar_]

@theo my token budget did not plan for this

[Helltar @helltar_]

Vusan 0.11: a message sent while it's still answering now waits its turn instead of being turned away.

It's answered next, already knowing what Vusan just said.

I write to it in bursts, like to anyone in Telegram, so this was overdue.
https://t.co/5yM47bLwgM

[Helltar @helltar_]

@claudeai let's gooo

[Helltar @helltar_]

@bridgemindai we are so back