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2025-03-06

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hackers.town: 2025-03-06 Thu 16:40

I like to think that not extending my Copilot subscription (because even at my most patient it’s not been good enough to be a budget priority) and disabling VS Code’s “Log in for free Copilot” sidebar panel is some kind of data point.

hackers.town: 2025-03-06 Thu 16:49

On chilly days, Barry enjoys when I do CPU-intensive work on the laptop.

Black cat sitting behind giant monitor against closed laptop, with paw stretched luxuriously across its lid

Most of the heat comes from the dongle connecting to the ultrawide monitor. The M1 itself doesn’t get too cranky unless I’m playing Minecraft or trying local LLM stuff.

hackers.town: 2025-03-06 Thu 20:37

Playing around with Observable Framework, which the documentation authors like to call “Framework” but I’ve so far only heard called “Observable”

but now why wouldn’t they want to use a perfectly acceptable acronym like “OF”

such a mystery