Benito Lopez

Building

[Benito Lopez @LopezBenito]

I made the first commit to ker, a coding agent I’m building for myself.

It barely does anything yet: I can send a prompt, get a streamed reply back, and the conversation stays alive in the daemon.

Not much, but enough to start.

I wrote a bit about why I’m building it:

Post: https://t.co/tUEHHAaNCO
Repo: https://t.co/QdgGTCcS2q

[Benito Lopez @LopezBenito]

I tried the new Codex app and I have to say I don't like it. I don't want to be negative and I respect the work of the developers. But it still lacks features that I consider absolutely necessary, although I'm sure they will be implemented over time. I thought that a GUI could be the future for this kind of thing. And it probably will be. That's why I was very excited to try this new app. Instead, I realised that, app issues aside, I find a TUI much more convenient. And I revised my position on GUI vs TUI.

[Benito Lopez @LopezBenito]

I built Limite, a server for probabilistic data structures in Go. HyperLogLog, Bloom filters, Count-Min Sketch, Top-K—all speaking Redis protocol.
To stress test it, I pointed it at the Certificate Transparency log stream: https://t.co/PnlNILqS7U

GitHub: https://t.co/YhqPT6ogp0

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@antirez I relate to your blog post. I tried to put my experience into words here: https://t.co/7D4nhNOYeg

[Benito Lopez @LopezBenito]

Some thoughts on using Claude Code: https://t.co/7D4nhNOYeg

[Benito Lopez @LopezBenito]

@nandafyi Very nice, I like it!

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@itsalexvacca The reason why I do not use LLMs as agents but instead as a (very valuable) resource to improve my work is not so much the quality of the result, which may or may not be questionable depending on the case. But precisely because otherwise I learn nothing.

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@dhh I completely agree. The reason why I do not use it as an "agent" is not so much the quality of the result, which may or may not be questionable depending on the case. But precisely because I learn nothing.

[Benito Lopez @LopezBenito]

@fchollet Especially for maths problems, it is my go-to model. Also for the backend, in particular Go. For frontend code, I still prefer Claude.

[Benito Lopez @LopezBenito]

Need debugging?
ddev xdebug on

Done debugging?
ddev xdebug off

That's it!

[Benito Lopez @LopezBenito]

Over the years, I've used MAMP, Vagrant, VMs, physical local servers, wp-env, bare Docker... DDEV is hands down my favorite tool for WordPress local development!

[Benito Lopez @LopezBenito]

mkdir my-project && cd my-project
ddev config --project-type=wordpress
ddev start
ddev wp core download
ddev launch

Done! From zero to a working WordPress site in 30 seconds.

[Benito Lopez @LopezBenito]

My Hotel Datepicker library now has its own dedicated website

https://t.co/bIS1k4oDHE

[Benito Lopez @LopezBenito]

I always wanted to have a minimal snippet sharer with no ads and that was easy for my clients to use. So I decided to create ssnipp. Also, it was a good opportunity to learn Go. The source code is public if anyone is interested.

https://t.co/yjquk5vt0X

[Benito Lopez @LopezBenito]

@mattpocockuk I really like and recommend the Node.js Design Patterns book

[Benito Lopez @LopezBenito]

@karpathy This is amazing!

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@ThePrimeagen Always