Thomas Karpiniec

Tasmanian programmer. Rust, networking, etc. "thombles" on GitHub.

[Thomas Karpiniec @tkarpiniec]

@simonw Just curious, how are git repos on dropbox? Doing similar has got me into trouble in the past

[Thomas Karpiniec @tkarpiniec]

@thsottiaux Good stuff. The early stops were a real headache.

[Thomas Karpiniec @tkarpiniec]

Blog: PR review when everyone has LLMs https://t.co/QuXk4gNnAr

[Thomas Karpiniec @tkarpiniec]

@twostraws For anyone else wondering: ~/.codex/config.toml

[tui]
whimsy = false

[Thomas Karpiniec @tkarpiniec]

Tried the Ollama prerelease with qwen 3.8 flash next. Sadly it doesn’t quite fit in RAM yet and crashes quickly. Soon…

[Thomas Karpiniec @tkarpiniec]

@mitsuhiko I feel like Doctorow nailed it with the centaur/reverse-centaur thing. In the main, people like it when it's a tool they can control to use their computer better. They don't if they're corralled into using AI support bots. I'm not yet convinced it's a widespread "moral" issue.

[Thomas Karpiniec @tkarpiniec]

It doesn't matter how many tests your LLM wrote - if you make a PR against an amateur radio library then I'm going to unfairly expect that you tested it on an actual radio. That is, after all, the point.

[Chris Beiser @ctbeiser]

The recent macOS update allows you to stretch the traffic light buttons in any direction. This resolves some long-debated lore question: the orange traffic light is in front of both the green and the red lights.

The reason for this is not currently known.

[Thomas Karpiniec @tkarpiniec]

I strongly suspect this Lisp-using AI startup in my spam folder has adopted it solely because they think it will help their YC application if PG sees it

[Aaron Villalpando @aaronvi]

Now you can run VSCode inside a VSCode terminal inside a VSCode terminal inside a terminal (ghostty)

[Thomas Karpiniec @tkarpiniec]

Man, if latent reasoning works out at scale 27B qwen max is going to be unstoppable. It’s super smart, just sluggish and context-heavy

[Thomas Karpiniec @tkarpiniec]

@nicolasembleton @thdxr *quietly moves all of his work out of /opencode*

[Thomas Karpiniec @tkarpiniec]

One thing OMP has over OpenCode2 for local models is that it will just run web searches on your computer. No weird business shipping your requests off to a third party like Exa.

[Thomas Karpiniec @tkarpiniec]

Living in an Australian time zone, if I wasn’t on social media I quite truly would have no idea about these supposed reliability issues at GitHub

[Thomas Karpiniec @tkarpiniec]

I've just published netwatcher v0.8.0 with a long list of bugfixes https://t.co/LgOKf9Gwsg #rustlang

[Luke Parker @LukeParkerDev]

sorry buddy we're deplyoing countermeasures

[Thomas Karpiniec @tkarpiniec]

Driving through a remote area yesterday I was surprised when my iPhone roamed to… Starlink. Not Apple’s SOS thing, I had actual data in Maps and X (naturally). Kinda wild.

[Thomas Karpiniec @tkarpiniec]

Nice, @djco has published a new WIP SSH server implementation in Rust, OxiSH https://t.co/qVBI2q433z

[sathvik @vikvang1]

We have an internal Slack channel for agents to crash out through a /complain skill

[Thomas Karpiniec @tkarpiniec]

“So we can train agents for autonomous combat?”
“Absolutely, they’ll hit level 50 in no time and never waste a fireball again”

[Thomas Karpiniec @tkarpiniec]

If I called it a "CLI harness around a world model" I wonder if I could get investment funding for my MUD