jbl0ndie (u/jbl0ndie)

jbl0ndie commented on Open SWE: An open-source asynchronous coding agent blog.langchain.com/introd... · Posted by u/palashshah

tevon · 22 days ago

Very cool! Am using it now and really like the sidebar chat that allows you to add context during a run.

I hit an error that was not recoverable. I'd love to see functionality to bring all that context over to a new thread, or otherwise force it to attempt to recover.

jbl0ndie · 21 days ago

> Double texting: Most coding agents don’t support accepting new requests or feedback while they’re running.

This caught my eye too. Given they say 'most', what other tools that support this?

jbl0ndie commented on The Barbican arslan.io/2025/05/12/barb... · Posted by u/farslan

jbl0ndie · 4 months ago

Every detail of the Barbican is a joy. Even the skirting board where the wall meets the flooring is gently curved, making it a easy to clean.

Another fun Barbican fact is their Garchey System for waste disposal.

The wet food waste is collected communally and taken away by custom-built tanker vehicles that connect to the holding tanks. https://www.barbicanliving.co.uk/barbican-now/garchey/the-ga...

jbl0ndie commented on Street address errors in Google Maps randomascii.wordpress.com... · Posted by u/brucedawson

Fogest · 4 months ago

I used to be a EMS call taker/dispatch (911) in Ontario, Canada. Addresses could be such a pain, especially in the the more rural areas. There were multiple townships around some bigger cities. They had different naming schemes and suffered from a similar problem that you mentioned. Many of the addresses also had old addresses. Our system would luckily often have both versions of the address stored, but not always. Additionally a lot of our roads have both numbers to address them by, such as "Regional Road 12", but then they'd also have an actual name. Almost every went by the actual name, however in the rural areas sometimes they had old real names, but it never was "official" so it isn't even listed.

Overall addresses are such a mess, and they are a mess even for governmental agencies like this one.

jbl0ndie · 4 months ago

In the UK, our national mapping service has built a tool for hosting vernacular place names to help first responders.

https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/news/new-national-vernacula...

jbl0ndie commented on Street address errors in Google Maps randomascii.wordpress.com... · Posted by u/brucedawson

bobsmooth · 4 months ago

Have you tried adding delivery instructions? But I guess you couldn't complete an Amazon order without an address.

jbl0ndie · 4 months ago

I remember a time before Ireland set up postcodes (zip codes) for the whole country. If postcode was mandatory field in an e-commerce address form, you couldn't mail stuff from the UK unless it was in Dublin. Dublin had postcodes.

I managed to find one site that would accept 'null' so the form would submit.

jbl0ndie commented on Espargos: ESP32-based WiFi sensing array espargos.net/... · Posted by u/leoedin

jbl0ndie · 6 months ago

That is very nice! It reminds me of Usman Haque's WiFi Camera project from 2006. That wasn't anywhere near realtime but it did use wasabi-pea cans

https://haque.co.uk/work/wifi-camera/

I miss tech art that doesn't take itself too seriously.

jbl0ndie commented on Apple Invites apple.com/newsroom/2025/0... · Posted by u/openchampagne

Brystephor · 7 months ago

Software engineer here with an android phone. I've never bothered to look into Apple TV because I assumed it'd only be available on Apple devices. Similarly, I saw this post and thought there may be a reason for me to get an iPhone now as I assumed this would be available on apple devices only.

jbl0ndie · 7 months ago

It's pretty good on Chromecast, though some of the media player design patterns don't quite translate to non-apple.

jbl0ndie commented on A marriage proposal spoken in office jargon mcsweeneys.net/articles/a... · Posted by u/ohjeez

jbl0ndie · 8 months ago

This is ripe for a Krazam adaptation.

https://youtu.be/1RAMRukKqQg?si=CrRUbA3Ktsm5v7Kk

jbl0ndie commented on Facebook's Little Red Book map.cv/blog/redbook... · Posted by u/heshiebee

evanelias · 9 months ago

Some additional context: morale at Facebook was relatively poor around this time period, partially due to the disappointing stock performance right after the IPO, as well as a one-time company-wide reduction in bonuses a bit after that. So parts of this book may have been intended to help inspire a workforce that was becoming slightly disgruntled over compensation.

fwiw they were still giving the red book to all new hires in ~mid 2013. Personally at the time I found parts of it to be interesting from a "company telling its own history" perspective, and other parts to be extremely cringe-inducing. That said, I'm sometimes a grumpy cynic, and I'm also familiar with some random rare aspects of FB history due to previously working for Harvard IT. (I started working there a year after Zuckerberg dropped out, so didn't have any overlap, but some of my colleagues there were directly involved in the disciplinary hearings regarding Facemash.)

jbl0ndie · 9 months ago

There's a school of thought in change management that suggests that a time comes when current stories aren't working for the culture you're trying to move an organisation towards. A few here have said morale was low at FB right then.

At times like that, restating some important old stories and legends, salted with some useful new ones can help to galvanize people and create the culture change you want.

A good example is someone mentioned in this thread is Zuck's beat up old car. That's a great old story for the early days, but probably needed burying at the Red Book time. Clearly he's not going to drive that forever, so you need some more up to date motivational culture lore which embraces more excess while retaining how the Devs are still world-changing hackers who should work all nighters because 'we're all in this together for mankind, team'.

jbl0ndie commented on Facebook's Little Red Book map.cv/blog/redbook... · Posted by u/heshiebee

mparnisari · 9 months ago

Okay, so Facebook started as a way to interconnect people. But it's a business, so it has to make money to survive. So they added ads. And now my feed is 99% ads, 1% updates from my friends. Sooooo mission accomplished, right? Right?

jbl0ndie · 9 months ago

I guess that's enshittification for you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification

jbl0ndie commented on Creating a social photo frame from scratch insignificantdatascience.... · Posted by u/tylerjrichards

jbl0ndie · 9 months ago

This exact product won't be available in the US but self adhesive trunking is a neat way to hide cables without cutting or drilling the wall.

https://centaurmfg.com/products/16-mm-x-16-mm-pvcu-self-adhe...