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They hardly refused to talk. See them answering his questions in the full video of the call, if you can still stomach him talking. There was an awkward silence in the middle.

Even so, it's not good to spin this event into something it isn't. The video is misleading and I felt manipulated by it.


As a kid in the 90s I discovered indoor free flight(1). It's a hobby where you build flying machines with balsa wood and carburator paper, and you power them with elastic bands using an old clock mechanism. Then people compete to see which airplane flights for the longest time, some flying for over 30 minutes!

This was magical to me. My "mentor" was able to build tiny butterfly-like contraptions with four flapping wings, and many other flying machines of different kinds.

Maybe this is interesting to your family as well!

(1) https://indoorfreeflight.com/


Oh thanks! We've made small gliders and those butterflies with rubber bands, but I never thought that mode of operation went that far. It makes sense to use something that requires higher torque like clock mechanism to limit the speed of the blades/wings, the basic builds don't fly that well or for long precisely because the faster you spin (more twists) the less effective the angle of attack is, with gliders you need a somewhat precise alignment in terms of twists+launching speed in order for them to fly just ok!


I just launched Kyaraben, it's an alternative to EmuDeck that autoconfigures Syncthing for your devices.

For those not in in that niche, the goal is to set up a Linux desktop or Steam Deck for retro (and not so retro) video game emulation, so you just drop in your ROMs, open a frontend via Steam, and play your games.

https://kyaraben.org


https://fnune.com My blog. It's not in great shape.

https://fnune.com/waza A site I made to properly learn judo vocabulary in a way that builds up from basic concepts to form more and more complex technique names.


NixOS rocks, but if there is some software you need to install to comply with company policies (e.g. Vanta) then you may be in for some unexpected tinkering.

I would suggest Home Manager though, which will let you set up your environment just as well and is very portable, while still affording you a mainstream host system of the company's choice.


+1 for Home Manager, as someone who uses Nix extensively (NixOS for server, Nix devshells, Home Manager on my dev machine) it's by far the most versatile tool the Nix ecosystem has to offer!


What do you do if they hand you a Windows machine? Demand WSL? What if they don't give it to you?


Agreed. Vanta does not support Linux.


nix-darwin and home-manager however, support macOS.


Made me think of my own insistence on relying on the existence of RCTs for a lot of things related to health...


Strange website. It is made by OpenAI. I suppose they are doing this to gain visits and as marketing positioning?

There is no format here, just a filename.

Also, Anthropic/Claude is a glaring omission. I suppose people can use symbolic links if they want to and point CLAUDE.md at AGENTS.md.


it's actually by sourcegraph and it's been up since may.

Here's where it used to go: https://web.archive.org/web/20250702163859/ampcode.com/agent...

Here's their announcement

https://ampcode.com/news/AGENT.md

The openai thing is some recent partnership I'm guessing

Interesting enough, Sourcegraph had agent.md which now 301's to agents.md (with the s).


Interestingly, the old one mentioned CLAUDE.md and ln -s, but the new one does not. The whole website is just a marketing/partnerships battle, it seems.


hi, one of the folks behind this. Back in May, @sqs acquired the domain and launched the website above, committing to relocate if the agents.md domain could be acquired. In July, I put out [1] RFC 9999 as a call to the industry that we need to fix this mess. Shortly afterwards OpenAI was able to obtain the domain and thus we (Amp) followed through on the commitment and worked with other vendors to move from AGENT.md to AGENTS.md.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20250708160846/https://ampcode.c...


This seems much more insightful than the website in the OP. Thanks!


now? maybe so. But when it was a sourcegraph only thing (really out of their amp project, which is like byterover/cline cloud/roocloud) not so much - they really don't expend much on marketing hype.

I mean I knew about it the day it launched but I'm /probably/ crazy.


Claude is omitted, because Claude is the only agent that still doesn't support the standard filename convention.


The website could mention that. Since I did not discover this website's affiliation with OpenAI until I found the GitHub repo, I had assumed that this is purely an informative website, and as such I expected it to mention the agent tool most people I know use (Claude). Even if that mention is "Claude does not support this yet".


  - add todo.txt to global gitignore


Author here, posting a self-review.

I've realized most of my blog post is not really about NixOS, it's just about this particular TUXEDO laptop requiring special tweaks to work properly. I've set up Debian 13 with Nix (plus Home Manager) in a VM to try it out and have realized that on the real laptop I would need to perform the same tweaks: install special drivers, install the TUXEDO Control Center (albeit using a supported .deb), and add those same kernel params. The only "care-free" option would be using TUXEDO OS, which I could explore. I've run NixOS on e.g. an AMD ThinkPad T14 and it was seamless, with no tweaks needed.

I suppose using something other than NixOS would indeed make some things easier (in my case Vanta, `pinentry` programs, Playwright and Cypress) and would perhaps let me live a more hands-off experience. I currently run `nix flake update` on my system way too often... but other than that, NixOS is not really getting in the way, at least as far as using this laptop goes.


Excellent write up and great real world review. You mentioned wanting to become a generalist.

The missing applet for tuxedo-rs would be a great opportunity to "scratch an itch" and learn some new technology.

You have some options on the language you write the applet in if you're not ready to jump in to Rust or C.

Might be a great way to learn some stuff outside of web development.

Good luck.


A while ago I made a fortune database that draws from Marcus Aurelius's Meditations. I used to have a tmux pane that ran them on my work session boot script :)


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