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I've been working almost exclusively with coding agents since January of this year, and over the past few months I began to feel utterly exhausted by them. They're great, but I'm finding it more and more tedious to write full sentences for every change I want. Not only that, but it seems there's a complexity limit for codebases - beyond a certain point the agent begins confusing itself.

I'd like to go back to writing code, but I don't want to go all the way back to fully manual coding. So I've come up with this interaction paradigm where you:

  1. write pseudocode in whatever way makes the most sense to you
  2. on save, the editor synchronizes your work to real source code
  3. the pseudocode is persisted alongside the generated code, making your prompt effectively a stored record of intent.

It may not work for every use case, but in my initial playthroughs I've found it very enjoyable.

Right now it's just a proof of concept - installation instructions are here in the readme: https://github.com/danielvaughn/hz

You can also watch a video of it in action here: https://x.com/danielvaughn/status/2090456808431165715

Cheers!

https://drook.dev) to make this balloon payload, UpLink. We did a similar launch last year with Hack Club but this was our first independent launch.

UpLink was a 491 gram payload testing the insulation properties of 3D printing filaments, while also transmitting 320x240 images over a radio link -- up from the 18x10 images last year!

This is a writeup on our engineering process, mistakes made, and learning experiences. It covers:

- Custom electronics designed in KiCad

- Firmware design

- Results from the data we received on the ground

- Image transmission

- Launch day logistics, and where things went wrong

All hardware, software, firmware, and CAD is available on GitHub: https://github.com/radeeyate/UpLink, licensed + certified as open source hardware: https://certification.oshwa.org/us002826.html

If you just want to see the images received, I put up a gallery here: https://uplink.gallery.radi8.dev/

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, let me know. I'm happy to answer anything!

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/08/20/supply-chain-attack-on...

https://github.com/rustsec/advisory-db/issues/3161

The idea is basically GitHub Copilot or Tabnine, except instead of prompting it with code, you prompt it by playing a few notes on a MIDI piano. The model then continues what you played, entirely on-device.

The app is free if anyone wants to try it. Happy to answer questions about the model, training, Core ML, or the many things that didn't work.

https://archive.is/JfB5V