Ben Vinegar

🖥️ new project: Glance Desktop® OSS native screenshot tool built in Rust + GPUI it's like regular screenshot tools, but with: - one-click links to share imgs w/ remote agents - fancy GPU-rendered looping bgs, export to mp4/gif ⬇️

🎨 released hunk v0.23.0 yesterday: - proper text search via `/` - instant GitHub PR diffs via `hunk gh pr` - your terminal colours right in hunk - open files in Zed - plus fixes & perf improvements

📜 introducing ossrules.md - learn how leading OSS projects use agent rule files - discover skill files that projects actually use - level up your own projects and workflows I've personally learned a lot just exploring

today an engineer found a bug where we over-billed some event types, and made a fix Modem pinged him - a customer flagged this 2 weeks ago, but it got lost in the noise he had no idea! so he followed-up & let them know it was addressed 5 mins of setup → never miss a follow-up

👀 here's another take on browsing git history inside hunk: hunk-history (extension) ⬇️ looks pretty nice

we're now processing a lot of data, which is great but the days of infrastructure easy mode have come to an end

🎙️ State of Agentic Coding w/ @mitsuhiko.at and @benv.ca returns In this episode (#9): - how agents are getting more autonomous - the subsidies will continue until morale improves - herdr and VC-funded terminal apps - vibe coding from your car, and more! Available on YT, Spotify, and via RSS ⬇️

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It's becoming normal practice to plug your coding agent into tools like Slack and helpdesk software to find customer insights. Turns out it's super inefficient, because you're just fetching and smashing raw strings into your context repeatedly. So we released a new MCP server that solves that.

👋 New blog post: "How coding agents read files – and how to write for them" In it I explain how code optimized for agent-discovery can lead to major token savings on search + retrieval, even with frontier models like GPT-5.6 Sol Plus other important findings ⬇️

🛠️ 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

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

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

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

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