Michael Buckbee

I love building stuff.

[Michael Buckbee @mbuckbee]

Hey friend. Can you spare a ⭐️ for a (hopefully) interesting open source project I'm working on?

https://t.co/QEBnzYfEa0

[Michael Buckbee @mbuckbee]

@iamrealsteve Actually not against doing that if there was any indication if there was going to be a memory crash in price or if this is just the new normal.

[Michael Buckbee @mbuckbee]

My M2 Air with 24GB of RAM has been good but it's getting very slow. The main culprit seems to be all the test suites I'm constantly running.

What should I upgrade to? I'm thinking maybe a Mini and then keep the air for trips?

[Michael Buckbee @mbuckbee]

DisplayLink Manager leaks memory. On my Mac, after 8 days its background helper used over 6 GB of RAM and pushed the machine into 17 GB of swap. Everything was slow.

Restarting DisplayLink Manager frees the memory, but it drops the external displays and throws your windows around your Spaces. Killing only the helper process frees the memory and leaves the displays and windows where they are.

So I made Display Reaper, a small LaunchDaemon that checks the helper every 15 minutes and kills it if it goes over 2 GB. It's one install script and a 20-line shell script.

https://t.co/FAnHOGqjRq

[Michael Buckbee @mbuckbee]

@pjain Yeah, I think a Mini with 64GB is in my near future.

[Michael Buckbee @mbuckbee]

My Mac is _the_ thing I use for all my professional work and I _know_ that even if it was say 10% faster that it would probably pay for itself in productivity it's just hard to look at the prices of computing nowdays and not feel a little ill at the cost relative to where it was a year ago.

[Michael Buckbee @mbuckbee]

Cloudflare has a security audit skill that's pretty cool. It actually does reconnaissance on your application, then launches specific hunter sub agents for further investigations into each area.

[Michael Buckbee @mbuckbee]

@pjain This is my livelihood in a lot of ways and the number one tool I use every day so basically up to the "lets not be stupid" level of spending is alright.

[Michael Buckbee @mbuckbee]

@pjain I have real data for this and ~50% of the time I'm under memory pressure and similarly temperature throttled.

[Michael Buckbee @mbuckbee]

@winsletts This kind of has me thinking that another option would be to keep the M2 Air and go more into the cloud+agentic dev side with either more Claude Cloud stuff or something like Orbs.

[Michael Buckbee @mbuckbee]

@ItsKentastic @dhh I did some basic research, and it looks like M1 and M2 are supported, M3 forthcoming. But there's some larger issues with me using DisplayLink + multiple monitors as well.

An interesting thought, but I don't think it's practical.

[Michael Buckbee @mbuckbee]

@dunnohten Adding them now.

[Michael Buckbee @mbuckbee]

Added a new sub-agent to my review skill for checking for structural UI and accessibility issues.

Having sub-agents review my code before PR/Merge has been the single largest jump in quality I've had with AI coding.

[Michael Buckbee @mbuckbee]

@winsletts Are you remoting into them or something else?

[Michael Buckbee @mbuckbee]

@ItsKentastic Is that even supported? (I'm out of the loop), but the real issues seems to be memory pressure, just from running so many applications. Would that be better?

[Michael Buckbee @mbuckbee]

@winsletts I mean, that was sort of my plan. I definitely still need a machine for travel.

The one unequivocal upgrade from the M2 to the min would be driving multiple monitors natively instead of via DisplayLink (~5GB of RAM)

[Michael Buckbee @mbuckbee]

@dunnohten What are the most common types of accessibility failures you're seeing? I'll add them to the skill check.

[Michael Buckbee @mbuckbee]

@Zeez0321 Yeah absolutely. I'm actually thinking I may need to break up the skill into one for UI and one for a11y.

[Michael Buckbee @mbuckbee]

@progerallworld @joelmoss Yes. It pulls down the existing structure/columns first and then uses those.

[Joel Moss @joelmoss]

ExpeditedProjects/hutchdb from @mbuckbee

A database for AI agents. No schema, SQL, or structure required. Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Hermes, Claw, Grokbot, and other MCP clients store, query, and share the same records. Open source (AGPLv3) or cloud.

https://t.co/ri9RrIv6jq

[Michael Buckbee @mbuckbee]

It's maybe more that the AI helps define the structure for you and less that you have to worry about all those details yourself.

The goal is to try and get the utility of a database (locking, scale, durability, security) with the ease of a markdown doc (free form, easily written to).