Archive of September, 2026

architecture, llm

Do we need the Superpowers plugin in OpenCode?

A short look at whether the Superpowers plugin is worth keeping in a platform team’s OpenCode setup.

llm

What about token optimizers?

I was looking into token optimizers for OpenCode and found benchmarks of popular tools: Caveman, Rust Token Killer and Ponytail. To me the conclusion is that rtk should work, but it does not. Caveman is not automatically activated, but works (-8%). Ponytail got some positive feedback (-10.3%), but it also won’t auto activate; it is…

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Automation, Installation Notes

Installing and Configuring OpenCode

Install and configure OpenCode on Windows or Linux with Bun, MCP servers, permissions, watcher exclusions, and reusable skills.

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Programming, Python

Shuffling: Fisher-Yates vs Feistel

Compare deterministic Fisher-Yates and Feistel-based shuffling techniques for selecting every item exactly once per cycle.

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Automation, Installation Notes, Windows

Swapping Chrome for Brave on Windows

Let’s switch from Chrome to Brave, as it is a more privacy-focused browser and the ad blocker extensions don’t function anymore. I’ll also show how to make Windows start Brave when you type ‘chrome’ into your Run box. And let’s fix those profile icons.

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tips-and-tricks

Slack App shortcuts

Create a Slack app with an incoming webhook using a simple app manifest, then install it and generate a webhook URL.

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llm

The harness matters

GPT-6 Astra was released last week. Every time a new model comes out, I find myself looking for the pelicans on a bike (bigger comparison for ChatGPT here). The ARC-AGI-3 test sparked my interest, as it shows that the harness matters greatly! This chart makes one thing clear: results depend on the combination of the…

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tips-and-tricks

300,000+ open-source icons in SVG and PNG

Iconify brings together more than 300,000 open-source icons and lets you customize and download them as SVG, PNG, or CSS.

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