Do you have a favorite dull software utility? Here's my favorite alarm clock that I install on each new phone:

https://f-droid.org/packages/...

Gimp (kinda dull cuz i do basic stuff in it)

autohotkey (sometimes used for games)

autoclicker (some tools (or games) have shitty UX and an autoclicker can be nice lol)

flameshot (I love this screenshot tool on linux. Sadly not available on windows i think),

espanso (I've just mapped some key combination to be replaced into a special character like :o/: replaces into ø instead of doing alt+0248. Kinda neat when learning a new (human) language without buying a new keyboard)

Windows PowerToys

yolomouse (mainly for videogames, early beta client is free. Paid on steam)

Autohotkey

Everything (instant global file system search)

Irfan View (because all Windows image viewers suck ass)

@Lensflare rzf is the best system file search and you can copy the search result file contents to clipboard so you can use it for a prompt or whatever. It's soo blazing fast.

I like ack, r (Ai assistant that powers my bash, I can type "Optimize my machine based on its hardware trough it's configuration" and it will do it. "Create a systemd service for this application with x arguments.", "Compile this application using make and resolve all issues.".

I have my own dwm showing full time what process is using mycg memory and much cpu and counts how mycg meters your pointer travels and how mycg keypresses you've done since reboot.

Besides that, I have AI in vim for refactoring.

I have custom shortcut keys in my bashrc.

Everything customized as F.

To ensure ssh connections stay open for sure: https://retoor.molodetz.nl/retoor/...

Dull enough?

@whimsical I think you are the perfect person for OpenClaw 😅

@Lensflare I made my own based on deepseek and telegram for deepsearch, reminders (persists, repeats). People use claude for OpenClaw, well, then you're not really using it because expensive as fuck. Also, other models will be way less potent. The maker of openclaw said he did not read source, pure vibe coded.

@Lensflare openclaw is not that autonomous. You have to configure plugins and stuff. So we still don't have the magic assistant that we want.

@whimsical I've never had to do this. SSH supports keep alive. Do the .ssh/config options or /etc/ssh/sshd_config options not work for you?

@whimsical this guy (Peter Steinberger IIRC) has been hired by OpenAI now and is probably making a shit ton of money.

@djsumdog I know that but I had trust issues and wanted 100% to be sure. Also it was used to debug a load issue at certain point iirc.

@Lensflare yeah, I did see that. I'm not really that impressed by the project at all. It just calls api's. I made yesterday a bot that accepts prompts and uses the real browser to do what you want. I made it browse for 20 dev communities and store it in csv. I made it spam my devplace, I made it post to snek. Those are good challenges because snek is totally custom how it works and my devplace is a nextjs site, so it has to navigate with updated Dom and vision. I was surprised how cheap the Gemma3:12b vision was. It uses deepseek, deepseek-reasoning, qwen-embedding and the gemma3:12b for vision. It works perfect, but figuring out how to post on my devplace costed 7 cents and that's quite much. Also it takes long, on that site the big red post button is not clear enough so it brute forces its way trough. We'll, at least it works. But it can navigate the web and do filesystem mutation and shell access. Yolo. It works with minimal prompts. It makes a huge plan of it.

@whimsical tbh, I don’t know what technical challenges there were and how hard they were to overcome but this guy somehow made it to the top of news and is apparently becoming rich now.
Maybe you can, too? :)

@Lensflare my `r` project that I boasted here very long before claude code and codex existed should've made me rich. But it was too soon for people. I said straight from beginning, this is gonna be a thing. Now everyone is hardcore terminal vibe coding. Makes me bit crazy.

But there is no intent to become rich, I already have what I want. I code every day of the week whatever I want. Call me simple, but that's what I've always wanted.

@Lensflare the claude model people use for it is aggressive in taking action. Configure this with claude: https://molodetz.nl/project/gists/... and telegram and you basically have the clawbot. That simple botje works fine for building software but it does not have context management or orchistration - two hard parts.

Orchistration is the current fetisj. My `r` has good orchistration.