christian // tech | vibe coding my way….
Toronto, Ontario
Joined July 2023
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In a weird way, everybody is rooting for you. When you go to a job interview, the interviewer wants you to be amazing so they don’t have to look anymore. when you go on a date, the person wants to have an amazing date with you. If you make a piece of content, people want to see amazing pieces of content and they have no problem if it’s yours.
the instant you get into the mindset that people want you to do well, your entire world gets better. And you’ll be shocked to know this pattern keeps repeating in different areas of life.
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Ghostty 1.4 is now out! Full Kitty graphics with animation (the first terminal besides Kitty to do it), scrollback compression for much lower memory usage, macOS 27 support, a new OpenGL renderer on Linux, ghostty +ssh, big performance gains, and hundreds more changes.
The highlights:
- Scrollback compression: scrollback compresses ~90+% on average, meaning your terminals use that much less live memory
- Huge memory savings across the board: no single large thing, just lots of good improvements lowers memory usage everywhere, netting anywhere from 50 to 90% less memory usage depending on workload
- Kitty graphics is now 100% complete, including animation and relative placements, after a full conformance pass against the spec and Kitty itself
- The Kitty clipboard protocol, with an image preview when a program asks to read your clipboard
- Split drag and drop on Linux, including between windows
- ghostty +ssh installs terminfo on remote hosts automatically, so things just work over SSH
- Lots of terminal emulation accuracy fixes
This release is 7 months of work from 172 contributors over 2,889 commits. It also fixes 10 security advisories, so please update.
Full release notes: ghostty.org/docs/install/rel…
joel. retweeted
We’re bringing the magic of Waymo to Toronto! 🇨🇦
In the coming days, you’ll begin seeing Waymo’s all-electric vehicles driving through Toronto’s streets as we lay the groundwork for our ride-hailing service.
Our goal is to begin serving riders in 2028.
Sign up for future updates: waymo.com/waymo-in-canada
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Just announced Gemini 4 Argon, our new frontier model! It delivers frontier performance across the board on complex software tasks. Thousands of Googlers have already been using it in Antigravity internally and we’re excited by the feedback.
It’s rolling out first to a set of trusted cyber defenders in our Fairwind Program with broader availability coming as soon as possible.
Lots of discussion out there about our next model(!), so I wanted to give an early look as soon as possible. Introducing Gemini 4 Argon!
It shows frontier performance in complex workflows, cyber defense and software engineering. Teams are using it extensively at Google, from coding to quantum computing, great feedback.
Here’s a look at the benchmarks:
joel. retweeted
Mark Carney: "To our American friends, we will always be neighbours and Canada will continue to be the U.S.'s most important partner in many key areas. When those opportunities return, Canada will be an even better partner, stronger, more resilient, more independent, ready to advance our mutual economic and security interests."
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Introducing Real-SWE, a coding benchmark built from private company codebases.
We evaluate coding agents on real software engineering tasks that engineers performed, using private, out-of-distribution codebases.
These tasks come from real companies, examples include an app with 200K+ users, fintech platform processing 100K+ bank statements, enterprise sales tools, etc.
The results are quite surprising.
joel. retweeted
DeepSeek-V4-Flash killer?
⚡Meet Qwen3.8-Flash, a multimodal MoE and an early preview of the Qwen4 architecture, now open-weight!
The production version Qwen3.8-Flash will be available soon via QwenCloud API at just $ 0.16/1M input tokens and $ 0.47/1M output tokens.
125B parameters + 51B N-gram embeddings, with just 6B activated per token. Unmatched cost-efficiency.
What's new: 🥳
- Next architecture: GDN + QSA hybrid attention, Gated Residual, N-gram Embedding & Muon optimizer, serving as a precursor to the architecture used in Qwen4.
- Dramatically lower training and inference costs: trained at just 1/9 the cost of Qwen3.7-Plus, while outperforming it across the board with especially strong gains in coding and office tasks.
- Strong performance: scoring 58.7 on DeepSWE 1.1, 62.5 on SWE-bench Pro, 73.9 on CoWorkBench, 84.5 on AndroidWorld, and 95.7 on MathVision (with CI).
- 262K native context, extensible to 1M with YaRN.
We’re also releasing the weights for Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, giving the community an early look at the new architecture we’re exploring for Qwen4.🚀
We can't wait to see what you build with Qwen3.8-Flash!👀👇
- Blog: qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.8-flas…
- Technical Report: github.com/QwenLM/Qwen3.8-Fl…
- Hugging Face: huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-…
- ModelScope: modelscope.cn/models/Qwen/Qw…
joel. retweeted
Claude Academy is now live.
Whether you're figuring out what AI is or already using Claude every day, there's a path that meets you where you are. The courses and tutorials are free and open to anyone at academy.claude.com
joel. retweeted
I made an interface cheat sheet full of small things you can do right away to make your interfaces better.
It’s based on the /better collection of skills and it's a mix of best practices and some of my personal preferences.
interfaces.dev/cheat-sheet
