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Some rough impression after programming mainly with Aider. I first used it exclusively for about 4 days back in March, using version 0.77 and mostly using Claude Sonnet 3.7. More recently I've been using it . and then again for a week end of July, using 0.80.2 …

I haven't done anything fancy with integrating AI tools into Emacs, but after playing with Copilot a bit in VSCode, I decided that I wanted to at least get the most basic autocomplete feature working.

All I did was install copilot.el in Emacs, and now I can use it …

I've been doing a lot of different things in the past few months, and have a growing pile of not-quite-publishable draft posts about them.

This post is a list of those things, and a promise to myself to write some of them up! I'll add links to this post as …

Several times I've needed to make a recording of the system audio on my Macbook. Typical reasons are:

• I'm recording a software demo video, where the software produces audio output.

• I'm making a video in which I'm narrating over an existing recording or video, so I need to record both …

Welp. The good news is I finished upgrading my danelectro 59XT guitar and it sounds amazing.

The canarat is assembled in its new housing ... and not working.

As for the others: The compressor is assembled in its new housing, with its new charge pump ... and not working.

I've not started …

I just released a new version (0.6.1) of Spydey today.

Spydey is a link checker, basically. Written in Python. The reason I initially wrote it (a long time ago) was for quickly finding broken links on sites that I develop. And then I got interested in thinking about …