Monkey coder 🇮🇹
Sicily (Italy)
Joined January 2007
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When I write 6502 code for my #c64 projects I need the cycles number as references at the end of line, finally I wrote the plugin for Sublime Text (ok claude wrote it!!)
Codex seems to be more up-to-date than Claude; I asked Claude how to install the Tart VM agent and it gave me incorrect information, whereas Codex got it right with practically just two prompts. On the coding side, however, Claude is impeccable.
this is the first vibe coded application I really use! Great job!
I built a Photoshop-like image editor. It’s called Compositor.
robbietilton.com/compositor
I originally built it for myself to get off my Adobe subscription, but decided to release it for free and make it open source. It has all the essential tools I need for compositing, with none of the BS.
I know this workflow is kind of archaic in 2026, but I’m still using it until AI can actually get pixel-perfect on some of the details.
The entire app is 12MB. Photoshop is 6,455MB on my machine.
I’ve barely used AI for VisualDiffer—mostly just for generating the doc; I wrote the Swift core myself. Now that I’ve started using it to implement actual features, I feel like an impostor. It’s no longer my pet project. I still know how everything works, but for how much longer?
That's how you make videos—none of that 30 minutes of fluff and repetition.
Swift talk @objcio ends... another european tech channel dies, how many things I learnt in these years, goodbye dear friends
I mention @thsottiaux only for moral comfort, but the error "⚠ Selected model is at capacity. Please try a different model." using gpt-5.6-sol was just not needed now :'(
Oh man! In herdr I can open two split directories just like I can in tmux!! It's a bit verbose, but who cares, it works!
@herdrdev damn geniuses!
PS It doesn't work --ratio, but I'm definitely wrong.
I must have something wrong... my main computer is a Mac and I spend many hours of the day inside iTerm2 plus tmux, my two mini PCs use Arch and work well, I don't feel the slightest need to switch to Omarchy even if it's the fastest Linux distro in terms of usability ever seen
I'm adding the ability to see the differences within a line to @visualdiffer's file viewer. The code seems correct, but the hardest part remains the same... choosing colors!
What do you think of these for dark and light modes?
dafi: "How can I help you avoid introducing bugs?"
claude: "What you shouldn't do, however, is review the code line by line for me. My problem isn't that I don't look at the code enough, it's that I look at it through the same lens I used to write it.
Before the AI invasion, in the morning the first programs I started were iterm2, @WebStormIDE and @gittower then that shit Xcode, now always iterm2, webstorm, gittower and codex (and that shit Xcode)
VisualDiffer 2.1.20 has been released, I was finally able to reproduce a bug about trusted paths, it only occurred if you had two external disks mounted, you had moved a directory from one to the other and the secured path pointed to the old one
A kind of freedom: writing good code for fun, not to maximize agent swarms or impress a Hacker News thread. Unpaid, open source, day job pays the bills. I read the code, or I don't. Freedom looks weird sometimes.
Fashion and established workflows don't always go together, I keep wanting to switch to ghostty but I'm going back to iTerm2, herdr is slowly taking the place of tmux, but I use scripts with predefined layouts too often and I can't give up tmux