Friday, October 23, 2026Vol. 1 · No. 236 · 70 stories on fileCollected from around the web
Omarchy
OmarchyTV (beta) is an Omarchy-style launcher for Android TV with themes, a Waybar-style bar, live stats…
By Marco Porro · @MarcoPorro · Oct. 22, 2026
Omarchy — via @MarcoPorro
OmarchyTV (beta) is an Omarchy-style launcher for Android TV with themes, a Waybar-style bar, live stats and a terminal-style screensaver. The companion omarchy-tv plugin lets an Omarchy PC push its theme to the TV and share its screen. It's based on tv-vibehack by @gathint and hosted on GitLab for now (gitlab.com/piermark/omarchytv).
Moved some GitHub Actions runners off Blacksmith ($400+/mo of compute) to an M5 Ultra 96GB Mac Studio at…
By Justin Poehnelt · @JPoehnelt · Oct. 18, 2026
Moved some GitHub Actions runners off Blacksmith ($400+/mo of compute) to an M5 Ultra 96GB Mac Studio at ~$110/mo with compute to spare. Thread context: runners managed with Tailnet (Tailscale) + k3s + actions-runner-controller (ARC); Mac Studio bought from Apple via Klarna financing (~$110/mo), not a hosting lease; also runs runners on an old Dell R630; staging/prod jobs stay in the cloud; on Starlink. A replier (joearroyo) also lets his idle M5 Ultra serve inference on Darkbloom (~34.5k jobs, ~$20).
Thread reply: a homelab makes sense for him at $0.1156/kWh with solar panels; attached NLR degree-day projections chart for La Plata County, CO (heating-dominant climate).
DHH on Rails' Agents on Rails Stage 3 benchmark (7 multi-step Rails tasks, 3-8 tickets each, new +…
By DHH · @dhh · Oct. 14, 2026
DHH on Rails' Agents on Rails Stage 3 benchmark (7 multi-step Rails tasks, 3-8 tickets each, new + legacy codebases): GPT-6.1 Sol is <5 pts behind Opus at <1/10 the cost ($0.80 vs $10.53/run). Best overall Sol 60.8% / 23m35s; most accurate Opus 5.5 max effort 65.3% (priciest, slow); fastest GPT-6 Astra medium 16m36s / 54% (max 62.3%, 22m36s); cheapest GPT-6 Luna $0.19 / 43.5%. Report by Evil Martians.
By Stanford Online · @stanfordonline · Oct. 13, 2026
YouTube playlist: Stanford CS336, Language Modeling from Scratch (Spring 2026). Students build an LLM end to end, covering pre-training data collection and cleaning, transformer construction, training, and evaluation. Course site cs336.stanford.edu.
Claude Dashboards (thread): connect a data platform or CRM, ask in plain language; Claude writes the query and builds a dashboard that updates as data changes, and every chart shows its query. Beta on paid plans.
Replying to argofowl, who asked how to juggle multiple accounts in the Claude desktop app without…
By Theo - t3.gg · @theo · Oct. 18, 2026
Replying to argofowl, who asked how to juggle multiple accounts in the Claude desktop app without logging out and losing the sidebar, Theo says 'T3 Code + cliproxy for now.' T3 Code handles multiple accounts as separate Claude provider instances, each with its own CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR. CLIProxyAPI is a local proxy that pools several CLI OAuth logins (Claude, Codex, Gemini, Grok) behind OpenAI/Claude-compatible endpoints with round-robin. Caveat: Anthropic blocked third-party harnesses from using subscription limits on 2026-04-04, so subscription routing through the proxy may need extra usage.
Andromedus: 'if you're not using Grok Bot with T3Code you're not at the frontier.' Screenshot shows Grok Bot messaging a T3Code agent session (Claude Opus 5.5) to continue filing GitHub launch issues; the agent filed them and linked them under a tracking issue. A T3Code MCP for Grok Bot is coming soon.
Claude writes ~90% of Claude Code's code. June–Sept merged PRs more than doubled while the share reverted fell 40%+; Anthropic blog explains how they changed code review and how to adopt it.
Will Larson (Imprint) on 'small-change': with PRs/eng/week up 4x avg (10x on some teams) and p50 review time 33 to 77 min, CI auto-marks a PR small-change if it's under 1,000 LOC, has no p1/p2 ai-code-review findings, the author has 10+ merged PRs in that service, it touches few services, and it skips shared libs (per-repo .small_change file). A review-small-change skill only approves or ignores (never comments, to avoid 'meat proxy review'), and review-pr-cluster reviews batches for themes. About 10% of PRs qualify so far. Incidents are down 42% and critical incidents down 78% half-over-half.
Day 4 on the merged X/Grok/Cursor plan: Cursor cloud agents burn most (~3.3% weekly usage/hr), regular Cursor agent ~2.5%/hr, Grok CLI ~2%/hr, Grok 4.7 medium ~1.3%/hr. Gotcha: Auto model selection picked Claude and billed $4.95 to credits instead of included usage, so pin a Grok model. Bots are his biggest usage; ~14%/day budget to last the week; 45% at midweek. Complains of usage anxiety and wants separate pools.
Devin Olsen shared Elon's 'ask your Grok Bot to remove your phone number from spam call & text lists'…
By Devin Olsen · @devinolsenn · Oct. 15, 2026
Devin Olsen shared Elon's 'ask your Grok Bot to remove your phone number from spam call & text lists' post to his bot, and it removed his number from multiple sites on its own.
Arash had Grok Bot find his phone number on people-search/data-broker sites and file removals to stop…
By Arash · @minimalduck · Oct. 15, 2026
Arash had Grok Bot find his phone number on people-search/data-broker sites and file removals to stop spam calls; shared it free as the 'Spam-Call Scrubber' Grok Bot template: finds listings, submits opt-outs, completes email confirmations, re-checks on a schedule.
Autonomous launched Harness Pro ($299, ships ~Nov 30)
By Autonomous · @autonomous_labs · Oct. 16, 2026
Autonomous launched Harness Pro ($299, ships ~Nov 30): a small USB-C desk screen (3.95in 720x720 touch, CNC aluminum, ESP32-P4, mics) that, via the Harness app on Mac/Linux, shows every coding agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor...) across your machines, one per screen with a 'pet' animating its work; swipe between them, tap and talk to send the next task, pings when one finishes.
Reply to ThePrimeagen's 'DOTFILES.md are so nice: put everything you want in there and tell the agent to set up your computer' (Oct 15, 81k views). altan: 'Or use nixos' - declarative, reproducible machine config instead of an agent-run Markdown file.
"Smartphones will never be the same." Screenshots: a Pixel 10 Pro XL running Arch Linux ARM with the omalauncher home screen (github.com/SimonSchubert/omalauncher), Tokyo Night theme, and Claude Code in a terminal. He asks Claude to learn omalauncher, then to build a home-screen widget for Bitcoin price; Claude writes a 30-bitcoin.owl widget using CoinGecko's free API and it shows live on the home screen.
(Portuguese) Someone recreated Microsoft Office as open source with no subscription
By Felipe Rabelo · @feliperabeloep · Oct. 11, 2026
(Portuguese) Someone recreated Microsoft Office as open source with no subscription: WordCraft (Word), DeckCraft (PowerPoint), GridCraft (Excel), all v0.5.0 dated Oct 10-11, 2026, each linking to GitHub. Felipe installed them and is testing this week. The post doesn't name the creator or give a link.
Google is making Markdown files native across Drive and Docs
By Chandu Thota · @ChanduThota · Oct. 6, 2026
Google is making Markdown files native across Drive and Docs: preview .md files in Drive, open them in Docs, edit, comment, and collaborate without converting them into a Google Doc.
Spotifast 0.12: a native Spotify client in Rust + egui (no browser engine) using librespot for playback/Spotify Connect and the Spotify Web API for library/search. ~100–250 MB RAM vs 600 MB–1 GB+ for the official Electron-style desktop app, opens in under a second, 0% CPU when idle (backend on its own tokio thread, UI only repaints when woken). Linux/macOS/Windows; Premium needed for playback; up to 320 kbps, no lossless or offline. Extras: Omarchy theme sync, Winamp skins, MilkDrop visuals. Sibling app ZapFast does the same for WhatsApp on the shared fastframe base. Site: https://spotifast.rocks/ Repo: https://github.com/crmne/spotifast
RetroBrowser+, a free Chrome extension that plays retro console games (NES, SNES, Game Boy, GBA, Sega…
By Md Ismail Šojal · @0x0SojalSec · Oct. 11, 2026
RetroBrowser+, a free Chrome extension that plays retro console games (NES, SNES, Game Boy, GBA, Sega, Neo Geo, PlayStation) in the browser, with save states, controller support, and CRT filters.
After Nintendo's 2024 takedowns of Yuzu and Ryujinx, RomM (by Zurdi, started Mar 2023) is highlighted
By Yasir Ai · @AiwithYasir · Oct. 11, 2026
After Nintendo's 2024 takedowns of Yuzu and Ryujinx, RomM (by Zurdi, started Mar 2023) is highlighted: a self-hosted ROM manager, not an emulator. It scans your own dumped ROMs, pulls metadata/box art/achievements (IGDB, MobyGames, Screenscraper, SteamGridDB, RetroAchievements), and plays in-browser via EmulatorJS. AGPL-3.0, ~9.1k stars, 400+ platforms, apps/plugins for Playnite, Android Argosy, muOS/Anbernic, RetroArch, Steam Deck, Syncthing; library sharing with permissions.
Hot take: "Steam Machine is dead" — a used PS5 (~$400) can now run any game with similar performance; hardware has no real software lock anymore. Quotes Mihawk9_9: PS5 Proton (PP), homebrew that runs 32/64-bit Windows games on PS5 via Proton, growing into "Mihawk OS," a Windows 11 clone, with a Linux compatibility layer planned.
