vixalien

Hello all, been trying to switch away from Claude Code and have been trailing this:

- Harness: Opencode (via Openchamber) - Subscription: GitHub Copilot (50$) - API Usage (beyond subscription): Open router - Free models: Opencode go

Here's the models I've trialed and like:

- Large (alternative to Opus): GPT 5.3 Codex - Medium (alternative to Sonnet): Minimax 2.7 - Smol: GPT 5.4 mini

these models are not yet on par to their respective Claude alternatives for me, but maybe I need to switch to something else or tune them, what have you been using?

Also looking for nice Opencode plugins, skills, completion providers (alternative to Cursor that I could use with Zen).

Happy to hear about your choices and experience

Hello, I'm a junior engineer and has seen more and more people pivot to AI for agentic coding. Just wanted to know how you all use AI (if at all). Particularly interested in workflows you use to deliver quickly and fight AI-isms, such as skills, tools, harnesses, MCP, etc...

Thank you

Hello everyone. So a while ago I stumbled upon Shopify's Polaris, which is a React UI framework. It seemed like a nice project overall, and while I appreciate it being an open source project (they didn't have to do that), it has a weird licence which is basically a modified version of the MIT licence but with a clause that prevents competitive usage.

Now, the other interesting bit is that the project also has a Contributor Licence Agreement (CLA) which also seems to provide all copyright to Shopify. I don't really understand how these legal stuff work in software, but I heard that CLAs have been used in the past to profit off contributors by moving to another proprietary licence (MongoDB and Elastisearch did that)

Then do you (developers on HN) stay away from CLAs? It doesn't sound too risky for me, and I've probably listened to one too many open source activists.

Another question, if I may, would it be possible to relicense a fork of Polaris to MIT (removing the Shopify clause?)

Spotify wrapped, the story like thing that shows you the stats of what you've been listening to every year like what artists/songs/genres you've been listening to the whole year just dropped.

but the thing that's not talked about anywhere is that Spotify wrapped didn't release in some countries/regions where it was released previous years such as Rwanda, Venezuela, Bangladesh etc.

This is a bfd because Spotify wrapped is insightful and actually useful and them just removing the feature overnight for premium users without even notifying them is weird. the Spotify community site is filled with these complaints but staff won't reply or say anything about it, completely ignoring it. I kinda wished some media sites atleast reported it and then Spotify would say why they didn't release wrapped for some countries (mostly developing countries).

And it's not the first time either. many Spotify features are unavailable in my own region without explanation even though I'm a premium user. The list includes: Spotify canvas, video podcast, audiobooks, hey Spotify, karaoke mode, the Storyline feature and more... We are just treated unequally and it sucks.

You can find the project on GitHub: https://github.com/vixalien/ruhuka. Any ideas are welcome.

Looking for some inspirations.

Hey guys. I'm reviving my blog (https://www.vixalien.com). It's about web development. I want to create the best content but I don't have many references (strongly web development blog). Some starting points are: https://web.dev, https://taniarascia.com. I want to get some traffic so any help would be appreciated. Thanks.