Armin Ronacher

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That's one expensive session. 1 Sept
Not sure which slop I need to fight more these days. isRecord or structuredClone. 1 Sept
We're currently still evaluating how to deal with Fable 5.1's inference restrictions. Anthropic is restricting mid-conversation model switches (you lose all re… 1 Sept
Today is not the day. 1 Sept
I know these are fictitious internet points but it's still nice! 1 Sept
In which I learned that librespot is basically being killed by Spotify. Man entshittification strikes again. 1 Sept
Ability to introspect and self awareness continues to just be such a cool feature of modern agentic systems. 1 Sept
agent-stuff — These are commands I use with agents, mostly Claude 1 Sept
What should Pi's approach be with regards to server side compaction? 31 Aug
minijinja — MiniJinja is a powerful but minimal dependency template engine for Rust compatible with Jinja/Jinja2 31 Aug
Fun fact: at one point Rust had a lot of Rubyists working on it that heavy influenced the language. I remember doing a talk on it. Attached screenshot is how w… 31 Aug
While doing actual productive work I have an agent trying to adjusting a firmware for my carplay adapter. Every once in a while the agent asks me to replug the… 31 Aug
The current escalations in Ukraine make me quite pessimistic of what will unfold over the winter. Kyiv is under constant bombardment with civilian casualties a… 31 Aug
procspawn — like thread::spawn but for processes 30 Aug
catplay-v821-fel-flow 30 Aug
Did you know what those toys are recycling/reuse schemes for old tape measures? 30 Aug
A German saying is "Gut Ding will Weile haben". You can have your agent explain what it means, but that's basically our mantra for getting the Pi refactor righ… 30 Aug
I currently have a little data scraping project going for the war in Ukraine. At no point in time did I tell the agent *how* to do something, but at one point… 30 Aug
The cool thing about cheap Chinese hardware: typically very hackable. Bad thing: the same product has like 20 different versions and good luck buying a specifi… 30 Aug
I really hope that at least a small percentage of Omarchy haters puts their energy towards building competition to Omarchy! 30 Aug
I feel like the model does not trust me. 30 Aug
lucumr — My personal website 30 Aug
OpenClaw looks quite a bit different than what you might remember from … checks clock … 5 AI years ago. 30 Aug
I feel like there could have been a world where e-scooters would have been smaller, less powerful and become a great multi modality vehicle for cities you can… 30 Aug
similar — A high level diffing library for rust based on diffs 29 Aug
Is ShadowRealm dead? 29 Aug
Omarchy could reasonably switch its packaging system to Nix. 29 Aug
pi-drinking-game — Oh well … 28 Aug
Newer model releases have got worse at producing text that is actually pleasant to read and understand. 25 Aug
Anger, Anxiety and Agency 24 Aug
Fast and Hard Code 22 Aug
Self-driving cars will not fix commuting; the US needs public transportation instead. 19 Aug
What Is Reasoning 19 Aug
insta-website — Website repo for insta 18 Aug
insta — A snapshot testing library for rust 17 Aug
pi-ds4 — Run deepseek4 locally on metal right from within Pi 7 Aug
fstrings-wtf — Do you understand f-strings? 6 Aug
Codeberg Divides 24 Jul
dark 20 Jul
zine — A blog 14 Jul
talks — Talks I gave over the years as PDF. 13 Jul
The Tower Keeps Rising 13 Jul
Better Models: Worse Tools 4 Jul
The Coming Loop 23 Jun
insta-cmd — CLI extension to insta 14 Jun
ronacher.eu — Just a website 13 Jun
Dangerous Technology For Americans Only 13 Jun
Gaslighting Openness 10 Jun
Communities of Not 6 Jun
amazon-how-much — Estimate Austrian parcel tax from the last 365 days of amazon.de deliveries 11 May
Delegating coding to an agent does not make you program faster, but it gives back roughly 30% of your day because the machine works while you do something else. 4 Jun 2025
We do not control neural networks well enough to guarantee an AI will not harm humans, so we should be careful about what capabilities we give them. 17 Feb 2023