agent zero is the new inbox zero

Conway's Law is alive & well. If you want a Gemini-free experience in a Google product, go to Google Ads. If you want to use a coding agent to set up an ad campaign, good luck; they won't give you an API key.

If you need to look at 1M rows in a browser, you could do a lot worse than DataTables. Whatever you do, do the paging on the client. Better to take the big download latency at the beginning than for every click. blog.philz.dev/blog/page/

Isn't it ironic that distributing JS programs for the command line is kind of an unsolved problem (install node, which node, etc.), and yet we've been shipping JS programs on the web for three decades!

I’m a big fan of Clickhouse for observability with their otlp ingest and HTTP SQL endpoint (and an agent pointed at the latter). Also keeping an eye on smithclay.github.io/duckdb-otlp/ for the same sort of stack with DuckDB.

OH: deploy first, git later

Perhaps HTTP/4 will compress by default. Fourth time's the charm, surely. (Also, zstd is finally in most browsers!)

``` security unlock-keychain ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain-db ``` In case you're wondering why your GitHub token that's been stuffed into your keychain isn't working over SSH.

It has been zero days since | grep -q caused a SIGPIPE false positive. blog.philz.dev/blog/pipefai...

Don't let the "best practices" be the enemy of the good. blog.exe.dev/dev-test-prod

low-key obsessed with self-maintaining, self-healing, self-driving software. Experimenting with the Lisa Loop (as opposed to Ralph). blog.philz.dev/blog/ralph-l...

Will the memory and CPU crunch finally cure us of running server-side JavaScript?

Browser tools in agents are clutch.

I vibe-coded a web-based top for cgroups; it's been pulling its weight.

We're excited to welcome @exe.dev founders @crawshaw.io and @commaok.xyz to the portfolio. exe.dev lets devs quickly stand up affordable, secure VMs without the need for complex configuration or authentications, or for an enormous cloud bill. www.heavybit.com/press/heavyb...

OH at the exe.dev office: "I want a camera and an agent to tell me when there is a UPS truck on my street" "you could just get a dog"

New filesystem just dropped: github.com/philipl/infe...

Honest answer: No, I don't fully understand the race.

Cooking (with) Python five (sandboxed) ways. blog.philz.dev/blog/sandbox...

I want to hear about all of your personal software factories. What are you doing that's working? We went around the table at @exe.dev on Tuesday all of our workflows are so different. blog.exe.dev/bones-of-the...

“You can install a GitHub App without authorizing the app. Similarly, you can authorize the app without installing the app.” In completely unrelated news, you can now connect GitHub repos granularly to your @exe.dev VMs, without generating (and exposing to LLMs) personal access tokens.

tmux new-session -d -s demo "top" sleep 2 tmux capture-pane -t demo -p tmux send-keys -t demo "q" Giving agents `tmux` to test your interactive terminal flows works well. philz.dev/blog/what-is...

Shout out to Airtable engineering on this gutsy, impressive migration! medium.com/airtable-eng...

exe.dev's CLI and API are one and the same, as it should be. blog.exe.dev/apis-for-the...

Serverless is a mess. Persistent VMs for the win. blog.exe.dev/persistent

Today in the ambiguity of Markdown, I asked Shelley (a coding agent) what the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything was, and it responded, "1." Which is, of course, the Markdown rendering of "42.", which is, of course, a numbered list.

I've been saving my prompts (and thereby intentions) by using a git commit hook. Surprisingly easy, because you can have "git commit" error out with instructions for the agent. 10/10, will hook again. philz.dev/blog/git-com...

ttl.sh is very cool. Limited-duration container registry, perfect for testing things!

Wrote blog.exe.dev/expensively-... to dig into how cache reads costs dominate LLM agent conversations. Several visualizations and one terrible pun included!

ssh exe.dev

Ctrl-P Ctrl-Q detaches from "docker -it alpine:latest sleep 10000". (And ~^Z or ~. for SSH.) (And Ctrl-B d for tmux.)

This was fun. Wrote a bookmarklet to add an agent (bring your own anthropic key) to any (excluding strict CSPs) website. blog.philz.dev/blog/itsy-bi...

Wrote up a complete example of managing Grafana dashboards in code at philz.dev/blog/grafana/.

I'm ready for data visualization competition.

LLM agents loops with tool use are handy and surprisingly quick to write. sketch.dev/blog/agent-l...

Rejecting git pushes because prettier et alia failed... just to run the formatter and push again is nonsense. Big quality of life improvement to just let the merge queue take care of it. sketch.dev/blog/lightwe...

If you want to try out the next version of sketch.dev (that you can run on an existing code base), send me a message and I'll add you.

In which we learn a bit about language servers: blog.philz.dev/blog/languag...

Found myself nodding along to the entirety of https://jeremymorrell.dev/blog/a-practitioners-guide-to-wide-events/. Log one, wide, structured line per request. Include everything you can think of. (And then, hook up your data warehouse and tooling to it!)