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Internator now runs on OpenCode (bye Codex)
Internator is a Ruby CLI that automates code changes and now operates on OpenCode for enhanced flexibility and efficiency.
Every iOS app I've shipped over the last nine years started the same way: a Rails developer with a great web app, users who want it in the App Store, and weeks spent on Xcode, signing certificates, and Swift boilerplate that has nothing to do with the actual product.
New overloads on TarFile.CreateFromDirectory accept a TarEntryFormat parameter, giving direct control over the archive format. Previously, CreateFromDirectory produced Pax archives. The new overloads support all four tar formats—Pax, Ustar, GNU, and V7—for compatibility with specific tools and environments.
Using AI to help download photos so we can consolidate all our images into one place. Over the years, [Audrey](https://audrey.feldroy.com) and I have accumulated photos across a variety of services. Flickr, SmugMug, and others all have chunks of our memories sitting on their servers. Some of these services we haven't touched in years, others we pay for but rarely use. It was time to bring everything home.
If you've been programming for any number of years, you've pretty much lived through a bunch of hype cycles. Whether it's a new development environment, a new language, a new plugin, or some new online service with an oh-so-powerful time-saving API, it's all "revolutionary" and "world-changing," at least according to the PR reps hawking The Big New Thing. And then there's agentic AI coding. When a tool can help you do four years of product development in four days, the impact is world-changing.
Open-source AI coding tool OpenCode features a native terminal-based UI, multi-session support, and compatibility with over 75 models, including Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, and local models. In addition to its CLI tool, OpenCode is also available as a desktop app and and an IDE extension for VS Code, Cursor, and other tools. OpenCode allows developers to use their existing subscriptions to paid services such as ChatGPT Plus/Pro, GitHub Copilot. Additionally, it includes a set of free models that can be used locally through LM Studio.
Here's what I've found: a lot of the value of Claude Code is in its configuration and correct prompting. When you're just starting, you think the value is really in the code it generates. But honestly, most of the value of Claude Code is in the code it doesn't generate-so you don't have to throw it away. The better you are at setting a really solid system prompt, at executing the agentic loop correctly with the right permissions, the right interceptions,
The gist of the idea is to run the whole user environment, desktop and all, inside WINE. So it's something like a bare-metal WINE sitting on top of the Linux kernel, with just enough plumbing to connect them up. This is significantly different from the current way, which is to run a completely Linux-based stack - the kernel, an init, a userland, a Linux display system, and a Linux desktop, and then run Windows programs inside that.
The reason for this is Snap - a Linux application packaging format - creates a local Trash folder for each VS Code version, one that's separate from the system-managed Trash, according to a VS Code bug report dating back to November 11, 2024. Not only that, but Snap keeps older versions of VS Code after updates, potentially multiplying the number of local Trash folders and the trashed-but-not-deleted files therein. Emptying the system Trash folder doesn't affect the local instances.
Every few months, the developer tool hype machine finds a new hero. In 2023, it was GitHub Copilot, the AI pair programmer that made autocomplete feel like magic. In 2024, the vibe shifted to Cursor and the new class of AI-first editors. And now, at least on X, Google's "agent-first" Antigravity is being pitched as the next inevitable thing. Meanwhile, the model layer keeps whiplashing.