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Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound

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Techie, #scifi writer (galaxybound.com). Live in Croydon, London, UK. Originally from Norway. #sf #sff #sciencefiction #books #author #science #space #linux […] [bridged from m.galaxybound.com/@vidar on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]

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Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

I now have 6 homegrown claw-likes connected to a Matrix server on my personal wireguard VPN... Running Opus,.Codex, GLM5.3, Kimi. Fun times. #llm

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Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026

Opus 5 on Kimi K3 after doing a comparative test of its own work and Kimi's executed alongside each other, both in Claude Code, with the same prompt: "Kimi matched Opus on the stage that costs the most." "Kimi's D6 diagnosis is arguably better than Opus's" I've had poor luck with K3 on things […]

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Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

FFS. Just learned 124 Reg is now owned by GoDaddy. How I learned this? Their payment page causes Firefox to run out of memory just like GoDaddy.com Takes an exceptional level of incompetence. Any registrar recommendations, seeing as I clearly need to move my domains away from this […]

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Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

For some reason something possessed me to go to GoDaddy's website. Thankfully their website protected me against giving them any money by getting Firefox OOM killed. Yikes. Didn't know what I was thinking.

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Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

So 1 vote for "no, Kimi K3 is not beating Opus or Sonnet". After a night and a day of churning, K3 has managed to get almost exactly nowhere on optimising my compiler, on changes Opus at least has no problems with. But more than having problems with specific changes, I've had to babysit it from […]

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Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026

Kimi CLI will actually write a /goal for you to drive a loop. Testing it now to have Kimi drive a brutal optimization loop to speed up the compiler, and it wrote a very nice, structured goal plan... We'll see how quickly I hit my weekly quota for my (highest level) Kimi subscription too (then […]

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Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026

Strangely Kimi-CLI appears to have repeated the old Claude Code "re-print everything from the beginning of time" bug. It's now fixed in Claude Code. But Kimi-CLI is also Python vs. a Node JS (Claude Code), so it's not like they've directly copied it either (and Kimi CLI is pretty different).

Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026

I haven't seen this many butterflies at the same time since I was a child. Don't know it's an unusually good year for them here, or if we just have a more attractive selection of flowers this year. The white one seems to unimaginatively be named a "large […] [Original post on galaxybound.com]

A white butterfly with black markings perched on a leaf, pictured at an angle from behind with its wings partly opened

A brown butterfly with white spots, some with brown rings in them pictured from directly overhead with its wings fully open.

A brown and orange Gatekeeper butterfly with brown markings on a leaf pictures from directly overhead with its wings fully open.

Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026

Hit my weekly limit on Claude until Saturday..... Now time for Kimi to shine (or not) adding inlining support to my compiler.

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Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

P.S. since I've almost only posted tech stuff recently: I'm back to writing too. Turns out waiting for Claude to write code for me gives me extra time to think about novels... I *am* intending to finish Galaxy Bound 3, though I'll admit to having been side-tracked by other ideas too. I'm hoping […]

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Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

First type-inference attempt for my #ruby compiler is underway. It's likely to be brittle for a while, but it will enable very significant optimizations (e.g. de-virtualization of any method calls where it can be proven that the method does not get redefined, and the receiver type is known […]

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Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026

Claude has more than doubled the speed of my self-compiled Ruby compiler over-night, partly because it knows x86 assembly better than me. #ruby #llm

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Mullvad VPN @mullvadnet.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

Chat Control 1 is back. By a margin of 314-276, the EU Parliament voted to reject the legislation. However, since it was an urgent procedure, an absolute majority of 361 votes was required. As a result, the majority lost and Chat Control 1 passed. The urgent […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Cartoon image of an individual using a computer, wearing a blue shirt with the EU text and stars around it.

Two people in the background, one adding a sign to the large filing cabinet that takes up the whole of the space behind the individual with the blue shirt.

One person to the left saying "Shouldn't we just be looking for sex crimes and terrorism?" to which the computer-using-individual replies "That was during the previous term of office"

The filing cabinets have titles such as "terrorism, sex crime, researchers, the unemployed, drug addicts..."

Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 10/07/2026

Claude is now working on improving my Ruby compiler code-gen since so much more of rubyspecs is now passing and I felt like a change. It quickly eradicated 10k lines of pointless asm with a 1-line tweak... We'll see what a week of doing perf optimisations in a /loop end up looking like. #llm

Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 10/07/2026

I got to love how Google's Gemini is incapable of giving clear answers about Google's own documentation without inventing quotes and linking to third party documentation *and claiming they are official Google docs* (while also hallucinating what they say). At this point I'd frankly rather use […]

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Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 10/07/2026

For simplicity, years ago, I made my Ruby compiler materialise a Proc for every block call - it's semantically valid and it saved me implementing block capture. But it has massive overheads anywhere where you only ever yield and don't need an object. How much overhead? Turns out that after […]

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Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

About 11k passing rubyspecs form my #ruby compiler now (in the core/ and language/ groups; not measuring library/ yet), which is ca. 1/3 through. All with a #claude burndown loop running for the last couple of weeks. Now, it's prone to picking off the easy bits first, so it doesn't mean it will […]

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Solar Phasing @solarphasing.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

Voilà.. solarphasing.bandcamp.com/track/gai… #bandcamp #music #summer #sales #discography #art #culture #discovery #fedimusic #musodon

Voilà..
70% off about the full Solar Phasing discography
#summer #sales

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Poster promoting Count Binface, in the famous Obama style

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⛩️ 𝑫𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉 𝒃𝒚 𝑯𝒊𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒊 ⛩️ @deathbyhibachi.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Cosmic Decay #Art by Anthony Machuca

Reaper skully

Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2026

Down to 16 crashing failures in rubyspecs core/ and language/ directories for my #ruby compiler now, from 1050. The last 150 or so were Fable working overnight. #claude #llm

Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2026

/usage: "100% of your usage came from sessions active for 8+ hours" /loop will do that... #claude #llm

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Bruce Sterling @bruces @bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2026

"Yeah, just read the novel and then generate me an Olaf Stapledon movie from scratch, that'll be great" #AI #sciencefiction youtu.be/YIIp7Bg1yqU?si=x-2VNqkbg3h…

Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026

Pleased to see #rubyweekly featured Skrift (my Ruby font renderer) this week.

Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026

In the last 10 hours, #claude got my #ruby compiler from 2195 passing Rubyspecs test cases to 4513... That's still awful (there are about 25k test cases total), though many are for obscure details - keeping in mind when it first self-compiled it passed only a few hundred test cases... But this […]

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Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026

Former boss called me yesterday one day after he'd decommissioned the machine hosting a client's website to ask if we had any way of bringing it back (I help out occasionally on contract still). *facepalm* The site had been down for a month, and they knew it was due for deletion and they were […]

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Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2026

Over-night Claude Code with a /loop has driven Rubyspec compilation errors for my #ruby compilers from 150 files to 2. Many of the 148 unblocked test files are still going to fail at runtime; it's now started going through files that crash - there are still ca ~12k failing individual test cases […]

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Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026

#Claude has taken over my machine for the moment, using Firefox to debug my new #Ruby X11 server. It knows to interpret the Firefox logs and crash dumps and has instrumented the server to see exactly what triggers it. It's surprising some of the ways FF […] [Original post on galaxybound.com]

A picture of a screen showing Claude Code in a terminal with a window showing Firefox overlaid

Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2026

This has been a 4 ice-cream day so far, and its only noon.

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Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2026

#Claude is has now added enough X11 requests to get Firefox to run in our #Ruby X11 server... Ca 1995 dialup rendering speeds, since Ruby is on every hot path including blitting, but it works. 2.1KLOC now. It's obviously never going to be fast without […] [Original post on galaxybound.com]

Firefox rendering BBC News in a pure-Ruby X11 server

Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2026

A #ruby widget set running on a pure-Ruby X11 server (wildly incomplete, only a bitmap buffer and X11 backend for now). This is all Claude's doing for now - I've talked through design choices, but then got it going - it's ~2h worth of Claude churning for the […] [Original post on galaxybound.com]

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Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 23/06/2026

I may have a plan for a workable-ish X11 server subset in #Ruby... It's an insane plan... It may lead nowhere. Let's see how far Claude gets because I do *not* have time to spend on it... It's a path of a madness.

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Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 23/06/2026

Master procrastination: Have Claude give you a deep-dive in how to implement an X11 server from scratch... I do not have time for this, but I can't help it.

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Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 23/06/2026

#Claude just decribed the main D-Bus bindings as ranging "from unpleasant to GLib/systemd-coupled"... 😂 Not even an LLM likes D-Bus.

Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2026

Pure #Ruby font-rendering - now with emojis and scale-perfect box drawing. No FreeType dependency. github.com/vidarh/skrift

A demo of the skrift pure-Ruby font renderer showing various rendered text, box-drawing characters and emoji are rendered correctly.

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Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2026

Fun times. Handling emojis *from a bitmap* in the font (so not the most complex format, which uses embedded SVG) takes more lines of code than parsing, tesselating and rasterising text.

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Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 21/06/2026

On of my favourite things about 1) #llm 's and 2) owning my own codebase for an increasing proportion of my workflows is being able to tell #claude things like "do a thorough review of projects X, Y, Z and propose improvements" and have it come up with a plan that takes into account that e.g […]

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Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2026

A pure #ruby terminal emulator: github.com/vidarh/rubyterm This is the terminal I'm actually using every day. It's about 3kloc of Ruby, uses a pure Ruby font renderer, and pure Ruby x11 client library. It's also a gem, and you can use it as a rendering backend for text. It has a […]

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Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 07/03/2026

Right outside my house this afternoon. #photography #birds

A red robin sits surrounded by red and white flowers in a tree

Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 22/02/2026

Overheard in London park: Child: "Who were our ancestors." Mum: "Probably peasants." Child: "What does that mean?" Mum: "Poor people."

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Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 01/02/2026

Claude has a funny quirk where if you have it write things that include numbers, in the right context the odds are *heavily* skewed in favour of numbers that include 7, and if two digits or more, that contain "47". Once seen, you can't unsee it. #llm

Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 30/01/2026

Fun problem: Getting Claude to track knowledge claims in a large document, and cross-check the consistency of said claims across ~200k+ words of context. It does *remarkably well* at fact-checking the 90% easy cases, but the corner cases are *hairy* when you have to deal with all kinds of inane […]

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Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 28/01/2026

Using opencode with Codex after hitting my Claude MAX weekly limit until tomorrow evening feels a bit as being the victim of a cruel practical joke... On one hand the Opencode UI is *so much better*, apart from the ridiculous Knight Rider spinner. On the other hand, using Codex feels like […]

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Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 27/01/2026

New hobby: "Harassing" the parakeets outside my office by whistling at them until they get confused.

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Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 17/01/2026

This guy likes hanging out on one of my fibre connections... #photography #london #birds

Bright green ring-necked parakeet sitting on wire, with a chimney in the background.

Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 26/12/2025

Sunrise ca 9.15am, in Lillestrøm, Southern Norway, obscured in part by a smokestack. #Photos #photography

Sunrise over urban winter landscape with a smoke stack partially obscuring the sun

Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 02/12/2025

Codex is fine, btw.. It's just that I'm used to Claude Code's quirks. Being made to talk to Codex is like having a fun coworker you know how to work with tell you they're going away for a few days, and introducing you to someone you haven't worked closely with for a while and who is overly […]

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Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 02/12/2025

Forced to get used to Codex because I've hit the weekly top-tier Claude Max limit until tomorrow evening... A conversation with my son got me to tell it to outline all features needed to build a Crusader Kings 3 level RTS game, and then I told it to create a todo list... Then I told it to […]

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Solar Phasing @solarphasing.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/11/2025

Moebius - 1977 imgur.com/gallery/moebius-1977-xqTp… #illustration #drawing #space #scifi #sciencefiction #fantasy #worlds #imagination #creativity #vintage #art #culture #BD #comics #comicbook #moebius #france

Moebius - 1977