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Ben Vinegar @benv.ca · 28/09/2026

Opus 5.5 product vids aren't just good because they look great they're good because they can explain the product better than you can

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Ben Vinegar @benv.ca · 22/09/2026

the index uses whichever file has the content

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Ben Vinegar @benv.ca · 22/09/2026

I recently learned there are way more monospace fonts out there than I was aware of somehow this led to making a video that tours 18 different fonts in 3 mins, set to chill lofi music (🔈) hope it's useful for folks - it was for me! www.youtube.com/watch?v=XukW...

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18 Monospace Fonts in 3 mins (chil lofi)

YouTube video by Ben Vinegar

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Ben Vinegar @benv.ca · 22/09/2026

🔧 tune your AGENTS.md in 5 mins go to ossrules.md, copy the prompt, hand it to your agent your agent will browse our index of OSS project rules and see which apply best to your repo

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Ben Vinegar @benv.ca · 18/09/2026

example use case: search skills for video generation skills (learn how these projects do it)

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Ben Vinegar @benv.ca · 18/09/2026

📜 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

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Ben Vinegar @benv.ca · 16/09/2026

this is a default product experience for everyone who uses Modem we auto detect customer requests, then connect it to shipped code no manual tagging, everything on autopilot

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Ben Vinegar @benv.ca · 16/09/2026

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

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Ben Vinegar @benv.ca · 10/09/2026

submitting feedback, issues, etc around jj is super appreciated 🙏 - help us make it great!

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Ben Vinegar @benv.ca · 10/09/2026

np! Mitchell Hashimoto put jj on my radar (when he first tweeted about hunk) and I'm starting to use it more

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Ben Vinegar @benv.ca · 10/09/2026

oof I guess I rushed this 😓 it'll show up soon

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Ben Vinegar @benv.ca · 10/09/2026

yes oops, I wasn't sure how best to communicate this - you're not the first to hit this snag

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Ben Vinegar @benv.ca · 10/09/2026

🏛️ announcing hunk v0.22.0 - now w/ `hunk log` - TUI for reviewing git/jj history - quickly jump from commit → diff - OR multi-select a commit range - supports mouse + all colour themes also in this release: multi-line comments, lower memory usage, more efficient --watch mode, and more! (🔈)

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Ben Vinegar @benv.ca · 07/09/2026

the only cli benchmark that matters

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Ben Vinegar @benv.ca · 06/09/2026

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

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Ben Vinegar @benv.ca · 03/09/2026

(This incident is now resolved, postmortem to follow)

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Ben Vinegar @benv.ca · 03/09/2026

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

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Ben Vinegar @benv.ca · 17/08/2026

Somebody was on vacation! 😅

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Ben Vinegar @benv.ca · 17/08/2026

🎙️ 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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Ben Vinegar @benv.ca · 31/07/2026

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.

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Ben Vinegar @benv.ca · 24/07/2026

✅ Yes the code matters In experiments we ran, well-named and organized code can dramatically improve agent outcomes: - fewer tokens spent/more context window preserved - fewer confidently wrong answers developed Verified against 14 model/harness combos incl Sol, Fable, GLM 5.2 and more

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Ben Vinegar @benv.ca · 20/07/2026

👋 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 ⬇️

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Ben Vinegar @benv.ca · 17/07/2026

thanks man, I hauled my own mics and cameras to Europe and tried my best

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Ben Vinegar @benv.ca · 14/07/2026

🎙️ State of Agentic Coding #8 with guest Mario Zechner is out. In this episode: - Vibe-checking Fable & GLM 5.2 - @mitsuhiko.at teaches us RL - How harnesses smooth out model jank - Loops, surviving AI fomo, and more YT: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lfp... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6m40...

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Ben Vinegar @benv.ca · 07/07/2026

np! Lots of contributors too who make it happen

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Ben Vinegar @benv.ca · 07/07/2026

🛠️ 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

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Ben Vinegar @benv.ca · 28/06/2026

Easy to miss these things when they roll into a larger bill I suspect there's many enterprise vibe-coded internal apps out there operating similarly

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Ben Vinegar @benv.ca · 28/06/2026

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

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Ben Vinegar @benv.ca · 13/06/2026

Oh I didn't make it, you'd have to ask the creator

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Ben Vinegar @benv.ca · 13/06/2026

there's a lot of tech companies in Toronto now

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Ben Vinegar @benv.ca · 09/06/2026

🎨 hunk v0.15.0 is out: - supports git --color-moved - transparent backgrounds - color token fixes - more themes - Sapling support (it's a VCS from Meta) also now there's a website → hunk.dev

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Ben Vinegar @benv.ca · 02/06/2026

A pattern I'm seeing with AI debugging: it's easy to get stuck inside the model's search space. So you burn tokens & time chasing candidate fixes, while the real answer sits in context only you have ... but never explored, because you quietly surrendered your thinking.

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Ben Vinegar @benv.ca · 28/05/2026

I would take a bullet for this clanker

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Ben Vinegar @benv.ca · 27/05/2026

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

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Jacob Stordahl 🏳️‍🌈 @stordahl.dev · 07/05/2026

As expected, another tool by @benv.ca has become part of my workflow - Glance solves the problem of given terminal based agents access to screenshots. It's been super helpful while I'm building by first TUI glance.sh

glance.sh

glance.sh — Share an image with your coding agent

Paste a screenshot, get a temporary URL. Built for terminal environments, coding agents, and CLI workflows where copy/pasting images is hard.

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Ben Vinegar @benv.ca · 04/05/2026

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

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Ben Vinegar @benv.ca · 10/04/2026

State of Agentic Coding #5 with @mitsuhiko.at is live. In this episode: - death of the IDE premature? - what's with all the bugs - will future models fix yesterday's AI code? - token abuse, slowing down, and more! YT: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCpY... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/7wUV...

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