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Yes, the "okay if you want to disable AI, we're going to remove non-AI features" paradigm that Gmail is also doing.


I've been working on a demo database project, and have been really impressed by the UI. So glad they decided to put more effort into it, it has made building a "follow along" tutorial really nice.


also been a huge fan of zizmor (https://github.com/zizmorcore/zizmor) lately, basically: "am I going to footgun myself?"


it's been trash for years, their status page just doesn't reflect that.


so many ridiculous "how the fuck did this get through basic QA?" issues with Claude Code.

I can't believe how many critical bugs fall through.

My favourite one is the bug where Plan mode can execute destructive commands inadvertently.

Then all these get closed with `Closing for now — inactive for too long. Please open a new issue if this is still relevant.`. Awesome.


> I can't believe how many critical bugs fall through.

Almost like CC is 100% vibe coded.


I mean. This is what happens with vibe-coded projects. When there's no actual software engineering going on, I wouldn't expect anything better than this.


I would love to use something that isn't GitHub for code hosting.

Codeberg sounds great, but from using it day-to-day, it's really slow sometimes, and frequently times out (from Perth, AU, if it matters). This is not just the SSH protocol for git pushes, but also for browsing.

(I do have a self-hosted forgejo (came from gitea), it's great, Postgres database backs up, files are easy to backup, it's also git so I can just mirror it elsewhere as well.). I love their self-hosted runners is super simple to host.

Bit random, but for code search, does anyone have any recommendations?

My current process is to just `git clone <REPO>` onto my server, then use ripgrep (Can't beat good ol' plain text search).

The result is that this is hundreds of GB -- I like to clone everything I use, dependencies etc, to then be able to look at source code. (I use quite a few languages/ecosystems, and sometimes reading the source code is the best way to figure something out).

I've tried Sourcebot (just for the code search, I don't care about "MCP"/"AI") etc, but was wondering if anyone has recommendations.

GitHubs code search is great, but it doesn't find everything, and it is also incredibly rate limited (annoying when trying to narrow something down, and you then get rate limited). I use this when trying to figure out random Apple issues - someone somewhere has figured it out usually.


Tooting my own horn here for search but give https://github.com/boyter/cs a go. You can have a http server up if you like (even modify the templates) and have it sync your repos for you on a schedule you define.

Let me know if it fails in some area and I’ll fix it.


Will give it a go! Thanks for tooting! You've just made my afternoon!


You can just self-host GitLab CE and use self-hosted ElasticSearch integration to set up code search. I really don't understand the point of Forgejo, sounds like making your life harder


For the forgejo side of things, this is for my own projects. Not hosting others (or for their code search, this was for mine).

For context, forgejo does have [code search](https://forgejo.org/docs/latest/user/search/code-search/), which is simple to enough.

I like forgejo/gitea - a single app.ini, postgres for the database. Done through a docker compose.

Last time I ran gitlab, it required oodles of memory - it's just me!

> You can just self-host GitLab CE and use self-hosted ElasticSearch integration to set up code search. I really don't understand the point of Forgejo, sounds like making your life harder

Sounds like more steps/maintenance/hassle and a more complicated than just using forgejo for my own personal projects, forgejo uses <120MB of memory for me, has runners, etc.


That's all good until you discover that Forgejo is very barebones compared to GitLab, and you inevitably end up recreating GitLab featureset by using some scripts/addons from random people and pray it doesn't shit itself

Isn't it better to invest your time in setting up GitLab once and not have to deal with Forgejo being a toy project?

It literally takes 1 compose.yaml to self-host GitLab Omnibus, and 1 compose.yaml for the runner. You have been misled by suckless fans if you think that self-hosting GitLab is more complex than Forgejo.

> Last time I ran gitlab, it required oodles of memory - it's just me!

It requires what, 8GB of RAM? That's not "oodles" by any definition.


If I ever need anything more advanced than what Forgejo is offering me, I'd reach for Gitlab, for sure. :-)


php7 was such a great time period for PHP, honestly lots of great experimental projects around that time too (HHVM before that, etc).


PHP 8 is good too. Lots of syntactic sugar to make your life so, so much easier.


nextest is one of those things I never have to think about, because it always "just works" and I have no dramas with it. <3


Bandwidth cost is also another major reason.


WOW.

Okay, this is really, really cool and is exactly my niche, as you mentioned it's kinda a combination of things like Stylus/uBlock Origin filters and custom filters/etc. This is really needed, as for example GitHub code preview is completely and utterly fucked, to put it lightly. Showing symbols, not being able to select code properly without weird visual glitches happening..... requires a bunch of scripts to fix. (https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/54962).

What's your funding plan? You mentioned paid plan, but what's the actual benefit for users that they would pay for this? (I totally would, FWIW).

Do you foresee companies who need to build special widgets for whatever reason for random websites they use as kind of "Extension light" alternatives - your product reminds me of Retool (https://retool.com/), but for website tweaking.

Very cool product, love the ability to do "extra things" which will fix a whole bunch of websites I use everyday that I CBF'd either making an extension to fix or battling the uBlock/stylus filters.

Discoverability will also be needed, kinda like [karabiner elements complex modification rules](https://ke-complex-modifications.pqrs.org/)

edit: no firefox support, sadpants.


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