🎙️ State of Agentic Coding #8 with guest Mario Zechner is out. In this episode: - Vibe-checking Fable & GLM 5.2 - @mitsuhiko.at teaches us RL - How harnesses smooth out model jank - Loops, surviving AI fomo, and more YT: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lfp... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6m40...

🛠️ hunk 0.17.0 is out Patches from 10 new contributors, w/ small fixes & quality-of-life improvements like: - official homebrew install (brew install hunk) - launch hunk w/o menu bar - better session reliability - esc no longer quits, proper transparent bg colours, & more

Just noticed a vibe-coded project of mine cost $200/month to serve a few dozen users/day 😭 Turns out it was doing 10s of millions of unnecessary Redis polls/day, even when idle - telemetry alone cost $$ a possible clue for why infra providers are growing so much right now

there's a lot of tech companies in Toronto now

🎨 hunk v0.15.0 is out: - supports git --color-moved - transparent backgrounds - color token fixes - more themes - Sapling support (it's a VCS from Meta) also now there's a website → hunk.dev

A pattern I'm seeing with AI debugging: it's easy to get stuck inside the model's search space. So you burn tokens & time chasing candidate fixes, while the real answer sits in context only you have ... but never explored, because you quietly surrendered your thinking.

I would take a bullet for this clanker

hunk 0.14.0 is out w/ lots of user contribs + fixes: 🆕 expand/collapse inline source (vid 👇) 🆕 custom themes 🆕 new theme: catpuccin latte/mocha 🆕 select + copy to clipboard 🆕 renders wide chars like 你好 & emoji properly

As expected, another tool by @benv.ca has become part of my workflow - Glance solves the problem of given terminal based agents access to screenshots. It's been super helpful while I'm building by first TUI glance.sh

In 3 weeks at the next Devtools Toronto: traces.com - share agent coding sessions polarity.so - sandboxes for agent testing superuser.app - agents in your team chat tidra.ai - AI code maintenance at scale docsalot.dev - docs agents can read codepathfinder.dev - trace vulns across your codebase

State of Agentic Coding #5 with @mitsuhiko.at is live. In this episode: - death of the IDE premature? - what's with all the bugs - will future models fix yesterday's AI code? - token abuse, slowing down, and more! YT: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCpY... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/7wUV...

My terminal diff tool, hunk, has added a lot of good stuff: - horizontal scrolling w/ mouse support - pinned file headers - way better file browser UI - draggable scrollbar - perf & bug fixes ⬇️ Here's what it looks like today

Montreal's Metro is the 4th-busiest rapid transit system in North America But for brutalist vibes, it's unmatched

I've been building a terminal diff tool for agentic code review: - agent comments + agent remote control - syntax highlighting - auto-responsive layouts (stacked & split) - file browser - mouse support - uses OpenTUI + Diffs from Pierre Computer Co

Coding was never the slow part. That's why we built Modem, your dev team's auto-triage PM. It listens to user signals 24/7, finds problems before you do & does the in-between work – filing tickets, pinging teammates, closing the loop. And it's not vaporware! You can try it out today at modem.dev

👋 We're hiring engineers in Toronto & SF modem.dev/about

😬 Giving it our best shot betakit.com/modem-closes...

Modem's auto-generated release notes are getting really good

How I vibe-eval new model releases: - Am I spending more time building because it's more fun? - Can I give higher-level guidance than before and it works out? Only a few days in, Opus 4.6 clears both. 🤷

🇨🇦 Devtools Toronto #6 – the version where we just hang out – returns Tuesday, Feb 17th at Mascot Brewing 👇 RSVP below

Scenes from last night's Claude Code meetup in Toronto

🇨🇦 Devtools Toronto #6 – the version where we just hang out – returns Tuesday, Feb 17th at Mascot Brewing 👇 RSVP below

At Modem we've gone all-in on database branching to accelerate our development – sanity testing migrations, making sure preview builds work end-to-end, and more. 👇 The folks at Neon thought we were pushing the envelope enough to merit writing about it. Worth a read! neon.com/blog/behind-...

Weekend thoughts on Gas Town, Beads, slop AI browsers, and AI-generated PRs flooding overwhelmed maintainers. I don't think we're ready for our new powers we're wielding. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/ag...

It was a good year: 1. Started a company (modem.dev), raised some money, hired a great team 2. Hit 1.9k GitHub stars on Counterscale (w/ @stordahl.dev) 2. Hosted DevtoolsTO 3x 4. Invested in some great 🇨🇦 startups 5. Visited Japan & Austria 6. Took some pics 📸

Blue Prince was my GOTY and I think nerdy programmer types here would enjoy it. Also it plays well on Linux via Steam's Proton compatibility layer.

"make a picture of a cool S" Nano Banana Pro vs ChatGPT vs Midjourney

I want to dork around with new technology and talk about it the way I always have. That includes AI, LLMs, etc. But the response to Armin's post here illustrates why that feels kind of hard on Bluesky. So my posting here has dropped a ton.

The soundtrack for deep, focused work

I made a Chrome plugin that converts your typing speed to tokens/second (TPS) so you can compare your output to LLMs. 150 WPM = roughly 3.3 tokens/sec (🔊 Sound on)

Any startups/companies looking for a good TypeScript + JS developer? I have someone in the US, remote, has a strong GitHub portfolio + OSS contributions. Let me know!

Curious if any Counterscale users are against this being enabled by default? tl;dr, we run a daily cron to backup the previous days analytics into an R2 bucket using the Apache Arrow file format

Feels like the demand for OSS hasn't felt this low in a while: 1. People can just codegen what they want 2. Companies will use whatever gets them to market faster to capitalize on AI – if it's a black box so what Touched on this on the Hard Part podcast.

i have been cooking 🧑‍🍳 github.com/benvinegar/c...

Got some new stickers made for Devtools Tronto tomorrow

Counterscale 3.3.0 it out! 🚀 Here's what's included - UTM Tracking Support (!!!) - @/counterscale/tracker now includes a server-side module for those that want to track analytics on the server - @/counterscale/cli now verifies API tokens when settings them via the install command

🇨🇦 Devtools Toronto is returning Tues, Nov 4th at BDC Community Square. Featuring hands-on demos from 1Password, Tempo, Keyflow, Wispbit, and Varlock (DMNO) 👇 RSVP link below

See you at the combination skate shop + punk show

I've come to accept AI will write the majority of code. So earlier this year I started exploring other ways AI could help developers. That turned into this company, Modem. We're building an agent that does PM triage work for you and delivers product context to your IDE. More here: modem.dev 🙏

Counterscale's still humming along – almost 2k GitHub stars now. This summer we (mostly @stordahl.dev) added: - user auth - referrer favicons - works w/ multiple CF accounts - UTM tracking (PR lands soon)

I have some pretty exciting news to finally share here - in July, I joined @benv.ca as a maintainer on Counterscale, the open source analytics service that you deploy to your Cloudflare account! We just released v3.2.0-beta.0 which includes a long awaited feature - auth for your dashboard!

I like how you can be miles away and it still pops

Less than 2 weeks! lu.ma/7revpsif

The amount of learning I've had to do to become effective working/coding with LLMs is staggering. Everyday employees aren't gonna figure this out in their spare time. You've got to intentionally carve out time for them to level up – or your team is gonna be left behind.

Playing around w/ Midjourney to animate some pixel art scenes

📈 React package downloads/day are up almost 70% (!) since the start of 2025

I think I found the least maintained feature on @github.com

🆕 new Counterscale landing page I first mocked this up in Figma. Then exported a PNG and gave it to Claude Code. That gave me a good start, but I spent hours tweaking afterwards in Claude + Cursor.

Counterscale v3.1.0 is out: 🆕 now pick which Cloudflare org to deploy to if your user belongs to multiple orgs (thanks @sergical on GitHub) 🆕 now uses Wrangler v4

doesn't matter how much time I spent here visiting still feels magical