I spent most of the night converting a Rails application to the Hanakai set of tools. The application itself is an authentication portal for other applications, so it doesn’t have much logic. It was a good learning exercise, though. After fixing a few deployment issues, it’s now up and running. Win!
At PinPerfect tonight with Drew. He’s practising his golf, while I am rewriting the Sourcehut integration for my PostPress application so that it works with GitLab instead. If you’re reading this post, then it is working!
Moving to GitLab
Tonight I moved all my personal projects over to GitLab following Sourcehut’s changes to their terms of service regarding LLMs. I’m still not entirely convinced that my projects are in breach of these terms, but I’m making the move anyway.
I have some changes to do to my Rails application that I use to publish posts and upload images to my blog, so I am having to write manual posts at the moment, but it shouldn’t take me long to get this application updated to work with GitLab.
I still have another account to move from Sourcehut to GitLab, but I can take my time with that one.
Time for a new forge
I need to find a new forge now that Sourcehut is prohibiting the use of LLMs. There’s an interesting discussion about this on Lobsters.
I’m still trying to assess whether I am in breach of this with the two paid accounts I have at Sourcehut. The change to the terms is minimal, but I am not entirely convinced that I am breaking the terms and conditions of their service. With these two accounts, I have used LLM tools to generate code that, for the most part, I have amended before committing it.
I also have a repo for a web application I used to publish the content for this blog, which calls on an external LLM to generate alt text for images.
But better to be safe than sorry, so I think I will end up moving these accounts elsewhere. GitHub is out, so I am looking at GitLab again and perhaps Codefloe, which has the benefit of being hosted in Europe, but is only supported by donations. Self-hosting isn’t an option for me. I don’t have the time to maintain my own forge.
A shame that I am making this move, because I like the Sourcehut product. It’s minimalist and does everything I need it to.
First PSL of the autumn. Also learned of the phrase “pumpkin people” from a staff member at Starbucks. Love that!
18 holes with Drew this morning at our home club, Elderslie Golf Club. We both played well which was a bonus!
A little mid-week date night with Jen seeing Alyssa Bonagura at The Glad Cafe in Shawlands tonight. Jen’s love of country music is definitely growing on me.
Grandpa and grandson together on the course for Pros’ Day at the golf club today. The weather wasn’t great, but good banter and good golf kept us all going.
I have been using the Zed text editor for such a long time now. The nightmares of using VS Code are now distant memories.
So what do I go and do? Install Vim again. This time, it’s the Vim Classic version. A fork of Vim 8.x, maintained without the use of generative AI tools.