Archive of September, 2026

Notes on winget

With the Windows Package Manager (winget), it is easy to install software from the command line. This makes your installs scriptable and thus repeatable. This article is the WinGet counterpart to my previous Notes on Chocolatey: it shows how to reproduce a machine’s installation instructions and update your packages regularly. Install WinGet WinGet is supported…

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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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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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