Same. I have 12 mini and got a 13 mini refurb. Perfect phone.

I think most of these are built using Matrix: https://matrix.org. They have connections with most providers like iMessage, FB, Instagram, etc

I don't think they use that anymore though? From what I've heard it all happens locally now with a proprietary solution.

Interesting, i'd be curious to learn more. It's been awhile since I looked into Beeper/Texts type apps.

at least from talking to Eric at a meetup, I think some are still on remote implementations. I know texts definitely needs to do the iMessage implementation locally, but they're moving everything client-side, which to me as a thunderbird user, makes the most sense. I just wish we could have something like libpurple again that would allow me to finally get back to the everything-in-one-app paradigm

ok is there an "open source beeper" that has emerged that i can play with? cant use amber because closed source

The bridges made for Beeper are all open source (https://github.com/mautrix/), so you can set up your own Matrix server with bridges and use any open source Matrix client (https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/).

Besides Beeper, the only consumer bridge hosting service I'm aware of is Element One, but it's only barely maintained, so I'd definitely recommend self-hosting over that.

Agreed ! It showed up on my YouTube recommended and it’s been stuck in my head for days now.

Nice, I was playing around with Milkdown. it's pretty cool: https://milkdown.dev/playground. It's like a block editor like notion for markdown so you don't need the split pane markdown/preview either

Somewhat related, but I randomly got suggested this video on Youtube when it only had a couple hundred views. He's turned it into a series, and I have quite enjoyed it. Somehow bridges user interfaces and occult stuff haha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGpBQgZ5IsI&list=PLsfH1Ahi4S...

Check out https://futureofcoding.org if you haven't. When I watched Liber Indigo, my first thought was that it would be a great intro to the type of problems that community is messing with*.

* future of computing, esoteric/future interfaces etc...

I read the book also and found it to be a delightful experience

This is great, thanks. I've been going down a real rabbit hole on Thelemic magic and this really brings it back, full circle, to something I actually do understand.

Just got into this guy the other day. He's definitely being proven more correct as each day passes, eh

Been using Cursor and Claude Code to build a pretty involved electron browser.

Wanted a little UI for Claude Code. Found I would always go to tiktok or instagram while waiting for the agent to complete my code. Wanted to play around with that idea a bit further so I decided to fork my electron app and make a little environment for vibe coding, that provides activities to do while you are waiting for the ai to code. Listen to music, browse HN, watch tbpn and play a massive multiplayer game.

At any rate, if you are building a electron app, I can confidently say its the best starter template to go off. Using Drizzle, effect ts to give strongly typed ipc bridge. On github: https://github.com/longtail-labs/slide.code

This uses the claude code sdk for typescript, which doesn't support everything the cli does so it may feel a bit limited if you are a CC power user.

Anyways, open to any feedback and any PRs!

Damm, this got removed from the front page of HN real quick haha

> But honestly, I’ve always felt like this objection was overblown. I’ve got nothing against static typing; some of my best friends use statically-typed programming languages.

lol

Ya, it one shotted a Server driven ui app using elixir backend, expo with phoenix channels. Was impressed.