Lobster Roll

Stories by a4rbay4mnv

Giving software away for free (simonwillison.net)
How can I help? Volunteer opportunities: Lobste.rs, OSS, programming, Internet related, other?
TL;DR: I'd like to volunteer some time each week toward making the world/software/the Internet a little bit better—perhaps a little bit kinder. Longer: During the pandemic, I picked up garbage along the roadside near my house. It was a small thing I could do to make things a tiny bit better. ...
Token-Oriented Object Notation – JSON for LLMs at half the token cost (github.com)
When it comes to MCPs, everything we know about API design is wrong (blog.fsck.com)
Sanctum 1.0.0 - small, reviewable, capable, PQ-secure and fully privilege separated novel VPN daemon and protocol (chants.conclave.se)
SelfHostLLM - GPU Memory Calculator for LLM Inference (selfhostllm.org)
Synchronous Reading with Friends (rhotter.com)
CROW: CROBOTS robotic combat for training World Model AIs (github.com)
An md file as a chat interface, with editable history/context, and tool calling (github.com)
I have wanted to be able to manage my own context in a person-to-LLM chat by edit the history of a chat to fix mistakes, narrow a discussion, etc. This VSCode plugin is the first thing I've found that allows it. It also support tool calling and you can reference local files.
Mini Models Battle: Claude Haiku 4.5 vs GLM-4.6 vs GPT-5 Mini (blog.kilocode.ai)