Post #42287

2025-12-08 17:06 UTC

These are the principles I follow: indieweb.org/make_what_you_need indieweb.org/use_what_you_make I don’t have time to argue with FOSS creators to get my stuff in their projects, nor do I have the energy to maintain a personal fork of someone else’s work. It’s much faster for me to start up Claude and code a very bespoke system just for my needs. I don’t like web UIs nor do I want to run stuff in a Docker container. I just want a scriptable CLI application. Like I just did a subtitle translation tool in 2-3 nights that produces much better quality than any of the ready made solutions I found on GitHub. One of which was an *arr stack web monstrosity and the other was a GUI application. Neither did what I needed in the level of quality I want, so I made my own. One I can automate like I want and have running on my own server.

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@mjr@infosec.pub 2025-12-08 23:20

So the claim is it’s easier to Claudge a whole new app than to make a personal fork of one that works? Sounds unlikely.

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@MangoCats@feddit.it 2025-12-09 16:06

I don’t have time to argue with FOSS creators to get my stuff in their projects So much this. Over the years I have found various issues in FOSS and “done the right thing” submitting patches formatted just so into their own peculiar tracking systems according to all their own peculiar style and traditions, only to have the patches rejected for all kinds of arbitrary reasons - to which I say: “fine, I don’t really want our commercial competitors to have this anyway, I was just trying to be a good citizen in the community. I’ve done my part, you just go on publishing buggy junk - that’s fine.”

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