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Factory Droid Wants OpenAI Mode: Fixing VibeProxy and CLIProxyAPI
Factory (Droid) recently started pushing the openai provider for GPT models instead of the old generic-chat-completion-api. Even though most guides still say to use generic for everything, I tried switching. It broke instantly. Here’s why: Factory has three provider types. openai …
The Fireworks Kimi + Factory Droid Hack: Use the Anthropic API
I’ve been testing the new Fireworks Firepass, which gets you zero per-token costs for reasoning models like Kimi K2.5 Turbo ($7/week). I started with OpenCode, but my real goal was to use Kimi as a worker for complex “missions” in Factory Droid. The catch is that Factory’s …
588x Faster SQLite Ingestion With an Autoresearch Loop
I have a personal ETL pipeline that pulls financial data from a remote source, parses it, and writes it into SQLite. One market (USA), single Python process, runs on a schedule. It has worked decent enough for the few weeks it has been live. A few weeks ago I saw Karpathy’s …
tls_checker: Quick TLS Checks for a List of Hosts
tls_checker is a command-line tool for running concurrent TLS checks against a list of hosts. It resolves DNS, completes the TLS handshake, reports the negotiated version, checks ALPN, probes HTTP/2 when it makes sense, and can also attach ASN information to the result. Origin …
Trying Pencil.dev on My Hugo Blog
I saw Pencil.dev floating around on Twitter and tried it on this site. At a glance, it’s a design mockup tool. The part I cared about is that it plugs into MCP both ways: it can drive Claude Code and Codex, and you can also talk to the MCP servers outside the Pencil UI. Setup On …
I Switched to WezTerm
I switched to WezTerm today. I should have done it earlier. Setup was simple: brew install --cask wezterm, it picked up ZSH by default, and I swapped the Terminal dock icon for WezTerm. Then I did the only tweaking that matters to me: legibility. This is what I’m running right …