26-01

• A SOLID Load of Bull basically counters the doctrine of Robert Martin (aka. Uncle Bob).

• Using The Corne Split Keyboard For Half A Year | Lobsters

• agentskills/agentskills: Specification and documentation for Agent Skills

• 2025: The year in LLMs

• beancount/beancount: Beancount: Double-Entry Accounting from Text Files.

  • One Number I Trust: Plain-Text Accounting for a Multi-Currency Household - Lalit Maganti

  • 10 years of personal finances in plain text files | Siddhant Goel

• Introducing OpenWorkers – Self-hosted Cloudflare Workers in Rust | Lobsters

  • openworkers/postgate: Multi-tenant HTTP proxy for PostgreSQL with SQL validation

• Email Privacy Tester

• Django vs. FastAPI, An Honest Comparison

• If you’ve got nothing to hide… · Jacques Mattheij

• Who Owns the Memory? Part 2: Who Calls Free? | Luca Lombardo

• Claude Code On-the-Go | Hacker News

  • claude-code/plugins/ralph-wiggum at main · anthropics/claude-code

  • ralph-wiggum: The Claude Code plugin for autonomous, long-running multi-task execution loops - Looking4OffSwitch’s Blog

• Everything You Need to Know About Email Encryption in 2026 - Dhole Moments

  • The purpose of a system is what it does (POSIWID) - Wikipedia

• chonkie-inc/memchunk: 🚀 The Fastest Chunker in the West 🇺🇸 Upto 1TB/s “semantic” chunking, quick and easy!

  • via So, you want to chunk really fast? | Hacker News

• Zeit v1 | Hacker News “Zeit, erfassen. A command line tool for tracking time spent on tasks & projects.”

• A field guide to sandboxes for AI

• Kelp: A New Streaming Log Parser Algorithm | Lobsters

• Open Props: sub-atomic styles “Supercharged CSS variables”

  • via Some Gleam Projects

• Open Source Mapping for News: Reuters | Lobsters

• Serenade | Code with voice

  • via comments on Cursorless tutorial part I - YouTube

• columns - CSS | MDN

• PostgreSQL Scripting Tips | Lobsters

  -- gset to set variables
  SELECT 23 AS foo \gset
  select :foo AS foo;
  

• 360er0/awesome-lego-machine-learning: A curated list of resources dedicated to Machine Learning applications to LEGO bricks

• How Terminals Work | Lobsters cute design, questionable content

• PgDog is a sharder, connection pooler and load balancer for PostgreSQL.

  • via I Replaced Redis with PostgreSQL (And It’s Faster) | Lobsters

• The coolest feature in Python 3.14 | Lobsters (debugging a running process in a container)

• Date is out, Temporal is in | Hacker News JS is just… :D

• edbrowse/edbrowse: A command-line editor and web browser.

  • via Text-Based Web Browsers | Hacker News

• Wall art generator - Rasterbator

  • via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46663712

  • from Map To Poster – Create Art of your favourite city | Hacker News

  • (see also originalankur/maptoposter: Transform your favorite cities into beautiful, minimalist designs. MapToPoster lets you create and export visually striking map posters with code.)

• Open Skills Tool for OpenWebUI

• Show HN: Webctl – Browser automation for agents based on CLI instead of MCP | Hacker News

• Unconventional PostgreSQL Optimizations | Lobsters

• Agent Psychosis: Are We Going Insane? | Armin Ronacher’s Thoughts and Writings

• Delta Chat, decentralized secure messenger - Delta Chat

  • Bots look nice and simple

• notune/android_transcribe_app: Offline voice input keyboard & live subtitle tool for Android

  • via Offline voice input keyboard for Android using Nvidia’s Parakeet v3 | Hacker News

  • Parakeet V3 on Android

• getzola/zola: A fast static site generator in a single binary with everything built-in. https://www.getzola.org

  • via salif/linkita: A clean and elegant blog theme for Zola. Linkita is based on Kita and Hugo-Paper and is multilingual and SEO friendly. - Codeberg.org

  • via Explore - Codeberg.org

• Oxen.ai Build Datasets. Train Models. Ship Custom AI. Easy to use tooling for building high quality datasets and models. Version, collaborate, and ship faster.

  • via Isometric NYC

• AlekSIS®, the Free School Information System

  • via Jonathan Weth · GitLab

  • via AlekSIS® / Libraries / Django Favicon Plus Reloaded · GitLab

• Gilfoyle. An SRE Agent that finds truth while you’re still guessing | Lobsters

  • cool page. very hacker.

  • scripts look interesting (grafana-query, grafana-dashboards)

  • SKILL.md is a good and short reference on how to do ops

  • https://lobste.rs/s/hzysrf/gilfoyle_sre_agent_finds_truth_while_you#c_dmpypz

    • says that this is just ops - I agree

    • says that SRE is more that just ops. It is engineering.

    • cites the SRE book with “Google places a 50% cap on the aggregate “ops” work for all SREs”

• Migrating From Celery to Django Tasks | PaulTraylor.net

  • nice post. short and direct.

  • Perodic tasks via django-crontask

  • knifecake/steady-queue: A DB-backed task backend for Django looks interesting

    • uses FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED

    • Steady Queue doesn’t support result fetching or async task enqueueing

    • supporting timestamps, timedeltas and Django models. Django models are serialized by storing the content type and object ID. If the model does not exist on the database when the task is executed, a steady_queue.arguments.DeserializationError is raised.

• Cargo Containers - 1x1 (Mini Modular Storage) - 3D model by Play Conveyor on Thangs

  • via Why is this storage so over-engineered? - YouTube

• Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings | Hacker News

VNC to Active X11 Session via SSH

I wanted remote desktop / remote control to my active X11 session on locutus while on the go. Connection: tux --> internet (wireguard) --> locutus Use SSH on top of that , so traffic remains invisible on the LAN.

on locutus:

sudo apt install x11vnc

on tux:

sudo apt install remmina

Then in two separate terminals on tux, tunnel x11vnc from locutus to localhost and connect to localhost using Remmina:

ssh -t -L 5900:localhost:5900 locutus 'x11vnc -localhost -display :0'
remmina -c vnc://localhost

Handy - Open Source Speech-to-Text Software That Works

cjpais/Handy: A free, open source, and extensible speech-to-text application that works completely offline.

It works really well. I had to do two things:

1. Get a good mic. I bought a simple “bluetooth lavalier mic” for 25€. This has the added benefit that I can keep my headset’s bluetooth profile (APT-X) when joining calls.

2. Disable the overlay for paste to work ([source)(cjpais/Handy#138)) 🤷

This provides fast, precise, voice recognition on device. It even supports a Denglish dialect. ;)

Mergiraf + Jujutsu (jj)

install mergiraf, e.g. felixhummel/provision

cd ~/1-provision/
./mergiraf
# new commit based on the conflict
jj new ql
jj resolve --tool mergiraf
jj squash

Codeberg

Github’s announcement mail titled “Build AI agents with the new GitHub Copilot SDK” was the last straw for me. Today I did my first migration to Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/felixhummel/provision

It was easy because they have great docs for good tooling.

E-Rechnungen

Ab spätestens 2028 müssen alle Firmen elektronische Rechnungen bei B2B stellen. Details hier: Elektronische Rechnung: Was auf Unternehmen im B2B-Bereich zukommt – ING

EU-Norm ist EN 16931. Deutschland: ZUGFeRD aka. Factur-X.

• factur-x · PyPI

  • sudo pip3 install … 😵‍💫

  • last release 2025-12 (ok)

• pretix/python-drafthorse: Pure-python ZUGFeRD implementation

• Common Use Cases - WeasyPrint 68.0 documentation

The Expression Problem

Representing Code · Crafting Interpreters via comment on Visitor as a sum type (2018) | Lobsters

• a table where rows are types and columns are operations

• object-oriented: rows (objects) as element

  • easy to add types (classes)

  • hard to add operations

• functional:

  • easy to add operations

  • hard to add types

• this is the fundamental “expression problem”

Bash Edit Command C-x C-e

To edit long commands in Bash, hit C-x C-e.

Thanks to wink on lobste.rs.

TIL: Panopticon

by Adam Simpson from https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/Panopticon_prison.jpg CC BY-SA 4.0

via The objective of every technocracy is to ensconce the entire planet in a panopticon | Hacker News on Starlink updates privacy policy to allow consumer data to train | Hacker News