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it's now my go-to for when I need to wrangle basically any text file manually - has handled everything I can throw at it (some of which has crashed other editors -looking at you Cursor/VSCode)

Zed and VSCode can handle about the same file sizes afaik, with Zed just slightly better. Sublime Text etal still beats both.

I think we call those buses, usually!

No, a Bus is a big car with more space for passengers. The Route has no relation to the naming.

A tangential but interesting takeaway for me from this is that Harris Tweed was at some point in danger of dying out and that it was saved (?!) by now King Charles.

English royalty does this from time to time, through different means.

The Duke of Windsor (formerly Edward, Prince of Wales) is credited with popularizing and essentially "saving" or bringing the Fair Isle sweater to global fashion prominence in the 1920s.


Yes! I hadn't known about Prince Charles' involvement, but its popularity declined drastically in the 70s. Big revival now though.

Fascinating 'hobby drama' story about tweed here: https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/10nps05/fashion...


I'm not sure I understand why Poolside are training their own models at all - what's the perceived or real advantage of splitting up model training efforts into smaller companies and dividing up resources like this? Is it just to have a US-domiciled LLM lab?

Limiting resources steers research towards different routes.

I've been trying to figure out what the long term play is here - is it an angling for a frontier lab acquisition? Or does open-sourcing put Warp in the same sort of category as OpenCode - where charging for LLM tokens becomes the main commercial driver?

I'm very interested in where ghostty ends up - I wonder if they'll follow Zig to Codeberg?

It does seem like it might, in general, be a very opportune time for GitLab (or another host) to publicly step up!

There seems to be a lot of chatter on X recently about wanting an entirely new GitHub usurper that doesn't look like GitHub at all, but in the short- to medium-term I expect this not to gain a huge amount of traction because of the sheer cultural embeddedness of git + GitHub in modern day software development.


GitLab? We use gitlab for work. Its way worse in comparison.

Last week I encountered a bug where my merge request simply didn't show that I deleted a file. Apparently it's because my MR included the creation of a folder with the same name as the basename of the deleted file. Unacceptable for a code hosting platform.

Other than that I miss GH Actions, a clear ui (gitlab has way too many sub-menus), a responsive ui (gitlab feels very sluggish). And while we don't have the Gitlab duo activated, it still pops out regularly eventhough I can't use it besides closing it. ...and I don't even want to start with their issue buard.

It strongly reminds me of Jira in terms of quality, which is no compliment.


At least it isn't Bitbucket.

I think Atlassian and Microsoft are genuinely in a competition to see who can make worse software and still have customers.


What issues do you have with bitbucket?

At this point maybe even Azure DevOps is an improvement

I haven't used it in about 3 years; but 3 years ago it was not at all

As someone whose employer uses both: nope, not yet

I mean at least the pipelines almost always seem to work...

Would love to see it become more common for projects with sufficient inertia to host their own forge like GNOME or Inkscape do. Could be a service that foundations like CNCF or LF offer to their projects.

Eh, I kinda hope not. Codeberg's latency even for just browsing is pretty bad (in my experience) and also is only sporting a single 9 of uptime [1].

I wish Codeberg the best, but I thought it was a questionable choice for Zig and feel similarly for Ghostty—doesn't seem like a strict improvement.

[1] https://status.codeberg.eu/status/codeberg


Well, that page took 13 seconds to load for me :/

Could just be the status page software itself. It looks like it uses https://github.com/louislam/redbean-node which is kind of cursed

> This automatically generates the tables and columns... on-the-fly. It infers relations based on naming conventions.


Tbf its free software and the quality will go up the more people are using it and contributing.

I haven’t really found that free services scale the same way. It’s hard for the “open source community” to contribute and improve the quality of bottlenecks that are only encountered by one operator.

When you take OSS projects that scale well, say Linux, Postgres, Kafka, redis, etc. they either scale up (Linux) which is arguable easier, or were able to scale out because there are thousands, if not millions, that have massive deployments pushing them to their limits.

Unless there is some sort of secure way to “open source” operational data for codeberg, or many others running huge deployments of Forgejo I don’t see it being very effective.

I do see Google having another go at code hosting though.


I'm not only talking about engineering contributions, but also about monetary contributions

Oh that’s even more hopeless

Same here. I'm mildly optimistic tangled will go somewhere and be a viable replacement

Maybe Ghostty will follow Zig to Codeberg, but it doesn't seem like a fit to me.

> It does seem like it might, in general, be a very opportune time for GitLab (or another host) to publicly step up!

In what way(s)?


As in, to present themselves as the new defacto git host, capitalizing on GitHub's actual + perceived lack of reliability

No, I understood that.

How? I want to partake in the thought exercise.

What more could/should GitLab, for example, be doing to capitalize?


I suppose I primarily mean marketing - perhaps the most immediate concrete example I can think of is some sort of co-promotion alongside some mainstream vibe-coding tool that positions them as the git host of choice.

Perhaps humanizing posts like this:

https://blog.tangled.org/federation


I wonder what the numbers say about desktop applications now, and how much the arrival of Electron changed things up here.

Nowadays, it seems to be that mobile apps have the "best metrics" for b2c software. I'd be interested to read a contemporary version of this article.


“Metrics”

This reminds me of a past job working for an e-commerce company. This wasn’t a store like Amazon that “everyone” uses weekly, it was a specific pricey fashion brand. They had put out a shitty iOS app, which was just a very bare-bones wrapper around the website. But they raved about how much better the conversion rate rates were there. Nobody would listen to me about how the customers that bother downloading a specific app for shopping at a particular retailer are obviously just superfans so of course that self-selected group converts well.

So many people who should be smart based on their job titles and salaries, got the causation completely backwards!


This stupidity might go a long way towards explaining the relentless push towards apps.

Hey, I notice this kind of thing all the time. People use "data" to tell the story they want to -- similar to how it seems humans make a decision subconsciously then weave a rational decision to back it up afterwards.

Do you have principles on how to tackle this? I feel stuck between the irrationality of anecdata and the irrationality of lying with numbers. As if the only useful statistic is one I collect and calculate myself. And, even then, I could be lying to myself.


Review the methodology, if you can, and form your own conclusions. Don't bother trying to change people's minds. It rarely works, and often causes conflict, even in the case of people who say they're data-driven.

Survivorship bias

Some of us are still making a living from desktop apps, 17 years later.

Please tell your tales. We beseech thee of thine humble wisdom.

I've written about it lots at:

https://www.successfulsoftware.net


Electron is the worst of both worlds. I have never paid for an Electron app, and never will. Horrid UX.

> I have never paid for an Electron app

Your employer most likely has.


Sure, and so has my government. But I can only control what I personally pay for.

In 2026, the number of mobile applications in the App Store and Google Play increased by 60% year over year, largely because entry into the market has become much easier thanks to AI.

What 'best metrics'?

I think in this case it can be approximated as 'largest market'

I'd wager there are more people paying for software for their smart phone than any other platform they use.


Having my credit card already is an overwhelming advantage for the Apple App store and for Steam. I won’t say it is impossible to overcome, but I think I could count on my fingers the number of instances where I, like, typed my card into a website to buy anything, in the last decade.

Yes, but they are mostly paying little or nothing. How much did you spend on phone apps this year? And ads pay a pittance, unless you have massive scale.

Anecdotally, conversion - from free to trial, trial to paid, one-off purchases, etc.

Did you consider websockets? Curious to know if I'm missing something!

If agents are async, is streaming still important? I think the useful set of interactions with an async agent are pretty limited - you'd want to stop, interrupt with a user message, maybe pause, resume, or steer with a user message?

All of those can be done without needing streams or a session abstraction I think, unless I'm misunderstanding.


I think this post ignores, deliberately or not, the large group of async coding agents that have been GA since around early 2025 - probably the most well-known of which is Devin (which has been around since 2024, but not available to the public).

As an aside, I've built and deployed a production system in which disconnecting & reconnecting from an in-progress LLM stream works and resumes from wherever the stream currently is, through a combination of redis/valkey & websockets - it's not all that hard, it turns out!


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