Carl Fyffe

Developer of all things web. Ruby, JavaScript. Instigator. @[email protected]

[Carl Fyffe @sixty4bit]

My feed is a mix of NFL, software, and entrepreneurship. Software is the most squishy of topics because it ranges from "check out this Ruby code!" To "check out what this new AI can do!"

I also have an artistic and transportation interests. You have been warned.

[Tomasz Tunguz @ttunguz]

I used to think AI productivity meant doing less. Automate the mechanical work, & human effort shrinks toward zero.

The reality is stranger. https://t.co/K5jeenUygc

[Carl Fyffe @sixty4bit]

@adbrowning1 @TimothyImholt Jim Beam, the only bourbon that doesn't make me sick. Seriously.

[Simon Willison @simonw]

A few notes on Anthropic's new Claude Fable 5.1 - with Max thinking level I got the best SVG pelican I've had from any Anthropic model (at a hefty cost of $3.30!), which I then had it animate https://t.co/jQzeDJ2p7r

[Christian Genco @cgenco]

1. Privacy guarantees (not ZDR bologna)

2. If you have a work queue that can saturate your GPU (i.e. scraping) the payback period can be 10-20 months vs. buying tokens

3. Peace of mind knowing that no matter what crazy global regulations or market swings go down, nobody can take away your magic thinking box

4. It’s cool as heck

5. You can run uncensored models that will actually give you instructions for making meth (or more practically: do an actual real penetration test on your sites without holding back)

6. There’s this switch that flips in the ambition of your projects when you go from having to pay per token (or having to stay within a token budget) to like, “well, I already bought the thing and every minute I’m not using it is kinda just being wasted so what crazy work can I give this thing to do?” It’s a type of abundance I’d love everyone to experience. Like going from renting a car to owning one.

5. It’s so cool like I can’t understate the feeling of turning off your WiFi and the thing still answers you! Freakin’ wild that we tricked sand into thinking and it’s not illegal (yet) to own a thinking machine and you can just DOWNLOAD A BRAIN and they get BETTER LIKE EVERY WEEK. It’s bananas. Like when electricity was first invented how could you not want to own a motor just to fuck around with?

[Nathan Kontny @natekontny]

A year ago I thought we needed to bake off the THE model to use daily. Now I think we need to make sure our teams easily have multiple models they can switch. they brown out. Change agreements. Or prices. Or just go Opus 5 on you. Now the big question in the air is should we all be using routers or multi model harnesses?

[Carl Fyffe @sixty4bit]

@BardIonson No, I thought I walked by you. It was in the rush of a crowd so I didn't have a chance to say hi. But since it wasn't you, I'm glad I avoided a weird conversation.

[Carl Fyffe @sixty4bit]

I tried fly's Sprites for agentic dev builds. Awesome experience except they didn't like to load my dev database which is over 1gb. Rebuilt on AWS EC2. It works I guess. May try @boxd_sh next.

[Carl Fyffe @sixty4bit]

Installed Omarchy. It took 4m22s from boot to desktop. It took less time to configure bios and do the full install than it did to login to windows on this fresh computer.

[Carl Fyffe @sixty4bit]

@_tonygaeta The waffle was very sugary.

[Carl Fyffe @sixty4bit]

Current status: herdr, sprites, claude

[Carl Fyffe @sixty4bit]

Dear @googlefi I screwed up my order and shipped to the wrong address. Any help would be appreciated. FedEx says they can't change the destination address.

[Steve Yegge @Steve_Yegge]

Yet another thing I noticed, working with Fable...

[Carl Fyffe @sixty4bit]

@KellySutton I'm looking at moving to Fly away from AWS because the stack is annoyingly slow to deploy to.

[John Nunemaker @jnunemaker]

I love that rails is doing stuff like this. Quite an interesting read. I’ve been defaulting to sol medium (occasionally higher) and playing with Terra high but haven’t messed with Luna much. Now I’m curious.

[Matt Shumer @mattshumer_]

https://t.co/ivXRKXJvQg

[Jeffrey Emanuel @doodlestein]

This latest GitHub Actions outage is sort of funny to me because, from my perspective, it has been in an outage state for the last few months.

What do I mean by that? Well, you’re supposed to get free GitHub Actions for your projects if they’re open-source.

But they never anticipated someone like me as a user, with over a hundred extremely active open-source projects. So I run out of my allotted usage almost immediately and then nothing works.

At first, I found this incredibly disruptive and scrambled to try to reach out to anyone from GitHub or Microsoft to try to get an exception for me (thanks for absolutely nothing btw, Microsoft! I can’t wait for you to get completely disrupted yourself, as in GitHub revenues plunging).

But then I realized I was on my own and had to figure things out. I wanted to use all the same GitHub Actions config files without needing to change anything and still have it all “just work” in terms of handling all my releases for all platforms.

Luckily, I have a bunch of computers at home. Multiple Linux boxes, a couple of Mac minis, and a couple of Windows laptops, all connected via Tailscale. And I already have an elaborate system for handling builds remotely, my rch tool.

So I put together what I call dsr (doodlestein_self_releaser) and it has been a lifesaver for me:

https://t.co/GXzDKKG2Tr

I never need to depend on GitHub Actions but it basically feels the same as when they worked. I still have releases on GitHub just like before, it’s just that the process actually works.

I use two of my own skills to manage the process for me, /dsr and /release-preparations:

https://t.co/kq9HJiUFyd

Rid yourself of reliance on GitHub Actions. You will save a lot of money and headaches and regain your own sovereignty.

[Zack Stentz @MuseZack]

So, Twin Peaks is in production & Lynch is up in Washington and hears that a particularly annoying ABC executive is coming for a set visit. The executive shows up in the morning and Lynch proclaims "You've got a great face! I'm gonna make you an extra. Get him to hair & makeup!"

[Obie Fernandez @obie]

Finally got my hands on the hardcover version!!

[Paul Graham @paulg]

The problem with starting a startup to make something for schools is that startups have to begin by selling to early adopters, and schools aren't early adopters of anything.