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I was into woodworking, then I got into building fly fishing rods from bamboo.

Fly fishing has been around for a long time. They used to build rods by hand out of bamboo - a specific species of bamboo native to southern China - before factories started making them out of graphite, fiberglass, etc. for cheap.

Modern fly rods are a few hundred bucks. If you try to buy a bamboo rod in a store, they run $2K-$5K. They take a lot of time and meticulous work to build, and the result is a functional work of art.

Woodworking is a ton of fun, and challenging. Bamboo rod making is a niche within a niche, and there are not a whole lot of people who still do it ... mostly retired guys with a lot of time. It's a great tradition, and it's about as far away from computers and technology as I can get.

I didn't even know how to fly fish until I built my first bamboo rod.

Here's a great video showing the process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfTvRxcTuV0

I love how every hobby has its inner nested hobbies and you can seemingly go infinitely deep.

I got back into making electronic music a while ago, and you can dig in deeper by getting into hardware synthesizers. And go deeper by getting into hardware modular synths. And go deeper by building modules from kits. And go deeper by learning electronics and designing your own modules.

It's like a big branching tech tree or tech graph.

With fishing, you can get into fly fishing. And when that's too easy, you start tying flies, or maybe tenkara, or, I guess in your case, making fly rods.

I love it.

> If you try to buy a bamboo rod in a store, they run $2K-$5K.

I got a bunch of cane[0] rods off eBay for relatively cheap[2] (but that was ~2010.) Sadly my fishing activities were strongly curtailed around 2012[1] (due to a family divorce) but I'm hoping to get back to it one day.

When I did get a chance to use them, they were much nicer (to me) than my companion's fancy new rods (even if the bend when fighting a fish was absolutely terrifying.)

[0] I'm not sure if there's any bamboo ones - it's been a while since I've seen them due to [1]

[2] Inspired, as many people are, by Chris Yates.

That's a wonderful video, thanks for sharing

This is very cool. Thank you. ...and that video is a pill-quality destressor. thanks again.

I come back to the video every once in a while and it is total zen.

Digg may have a bot problem but Reddit isn't far behind. So many subreddits are full of slop that they've become useless and/ or completely unreliable.

What's an actual viable solution to this kind of thing?

CATPCHAs aren't it. Maybe micro-fees to actually post things would discourage bot posting? I really don't know.

Seems like it's just dead internet all over the place these days.

Without irony: accept the death of the internet, and touch grass

Right now the page says Copilot and Actions are affected but I can't even push anything to a repo from the CLI.

Yep getting 500 errors intermittently on fetch and checkout operations in my CI pretty consistently at the moment. Like 1 in 2 attempts

Agreed. I believe that's marked under "Git Operations" and it's all green. Just began being able to push again a minute ago.

I would so very much love to see GitHub switch gears from building stuff like Copilot etc and focus on availability

The #1 priority at GitHub for this year is migrating from their own data center to Azure, any other work that gets in the way of this is being deprioritized: https://thenewstack.io/github-will-prioritize-migrating-to-a...

> It’s existential for GitHub to have the ability to scale to meet the demands of AI and Copilot, and Azure is our path forward. W

More existential than going down a few times a week?

This is an absurd state they are at! Weekly outages in 2025 and 2026. From developer beloved and very solid to Microslop went faster than I expected

They may have been Beloved before MS bought them. It takes awhile for technical debt to catch up.

Unless a major out(r)age forces a change of leadership, expect more slop down our throats.

Why not just use the mobile app? It has Claude Code built in. Maybe I'm an unsophisticated idiot but it works well for me. Some shortcomings with repo management but other than that, CC mobile seems ... fine

I've built something similar to run in my own cloud to run my own container images and add some features. The Claude Code web app has been pretty buggy for me and I like to run these things myself. If I do run into bugs or issues I still have access to the containers (and I do, because I vibe coded the whole thing). I gave it service accounts to the cloud it's running in, where the CI builds take place and setup dev environments per PR that deploy automatically. This is a massive productivity boost imo.

cc web can't run docker

Can't it?

I know Jules can, and I'm pretty sure I've used Docker on Codex Web. I'm surprised Claude can't if the network permissions are correct.

network is no issue. Just no container capability in cc web.

Absolutely not.

500-1000ms is borderline acceptable.

Sub-300ms is closer to SOTA.

2000ms or more means people will hang up.

play "Just a second, one moment please <sounds of typing>".wave as soon as input goes quiet.

ChatGPT app has a audio version of the spinner icon when you ask it a question and it needs a second before answering.

I haaaaate the fake typing noises.

Alternate between that and

    play "ehh".wav

160ms is essentially optimal and you can get down to about 200ms AFAIK.

With what system?

Merry Christmas to one of the last great internet communities that I actually like to interact with

Let's do it, how do I reach you?