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I'm working on Monitor Monkey[1]

It's attempting to be the easiest and nicest way to monitor Linux servers. I'm currently implementing 0 config custom alerting. All you will have to do is write a file to a home directory with some json in it e.g event_name:blah,interval:1m,data=10 - no server side config at all!

So should be quite suitable for big deployments :)

[1]: https://monitormonkey.io


If one of these tools has broad model support (like aider) it would be a game changer.


Agree. My wish-list is:

1. Non JS based. I've noticed a ton of random bugs/oddities in Claude Code, and now Codex with UI flickering, scaling, user input issues, etc, all from what I believe of trying to do React stuff and writing half-baked LLM produced JS in a CLI application. Using a more appropriate language that is better for CLIs I think would help a lot here (Go or Rust for eg).

2. Customized model selection (eg. OpenRouter, etc).

3. Full MCP support.


If aiders creator sees this, any plans on implementing agentic mode, or something more autonomous like claude cli works? Would love to have an independent tool doing that.


It'd be great if this (or similar) got merged: https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider/pull/3781


https://github.com/BismuthCloud/cli

We’ve been working to open source ours. Should work with any open router model that supports tool calling.

Ours is agentic mode first.

Guess this is me dropping it live there may be rough edges as we’ve been prepping it for a little bit


Oh cool. How do you feel it compares to Claude Code? (Serious question, but I realize I’m asking a biased source. :) )


There's this one, but I haven't tested it yet: https://github.com/geekforbrains/sidekick-cli



Cursor agent? That's what I'm using now instead of Claude Code.


I'm a bit confused here, what promt do you use to start Aider and how do you just let Aider run wild so you can play cookie clicker?


the prompts are generated from the planning steps. If you were to follow the prompts in the planning phase, you would get output that is clearly the "starting prompt"

that is the first thing you send to aider.

also - there was a joke below, but you can do --yes-always and it will not ask for confirmation. I find it does a pretty good job.


Am I overthinking

    yes | aider


Hahahaa well that might work but I wish you could just say `aider --go-hog-wild`


fwiw it doesn't/that was a joke. In some cases the LLM will suggest running a command that doesn't terminate (eg npm run dev to run a webserver), so it'd get stuck running that command just waiting for user input.


:( big sad


Surely you can just ask the ai to make sure the code will terminate before it runs it? /s


You jest, but given something that's in it's training data, ChatGPT's able to say the code won't terminate (eg a code to give all the Fibonacci numbers), so there are subsets of the halting problem it can solve for.


Yeah, everyone is saying this article is great, but it's akin to "then draw rest of the owl". It's very detailed in planning, and then for execution just "paste prompt into claude". What prompt?


Trouble is when it sprawls into an unmaintainable mess. This software will all rot away


The trouble comes when a non dev makes slopware and it becomes relied upon. Then it will inevitably all come falling down.


non-devs have been left to their own for years and the gap to get professional devs in is still quite large. They built it in excel to fullfill a need and then grew to mission critical in a small group but the cost to ensure it is safe is six figures... or a story like that.


Yes it's a good litmus test of a good website or not. I hope Hugo will be around for a long time :)


Yes I've thought a bit more about this topic and am actually writing up a response to my own post - Database are probably ok if you take a raw .sql backup; which is essentially plain text, or at least will be viewable in some form in the future.


https://sqlite.org/ "The SQLite file format is stable, cross-platform, and backwards compatible and the developers pledge to keep it that way through the year 2050." Doubt you can do better than that.


My Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMiInY8BhSUtCarO6uu6i_g Videos about Linux and tech in general, I try and be entertaining as well as educational!


If anyone is interested in the tech behind this; I used the Django rest framework and vanilla javascript to write the extension. I wrote it to be compatible with Firefox and chrome with the firefox polyfill which worked a treat in development.

Until I came to publish and I had to convert the chrome extension to manifest V3 which was not as easy as I thought it would be.

The chrome approvals process also took way longer then firefox did!


testing!


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