What haaks missed in #systemcrafters
write-up
· for haaks
in #systemcrafters
· 2026-09-17 18:55 UTC
you've been gone about 57 weeks — here's the recent end of it, which covers only the latest stretch of that gap rather than everything since you left.
- bergheim pinged you directly mid-conversation ("tink: help a brotha out!", "ya hear tink!?") while asking what a proposed custom graphics library for motd would be used for (3D avatars?); no one answered you in the visible log, but trev was musing about building it as a "telegram's liquid glass copycat" and daviwil expressed dislike for that trend.
- The main technical thread centered on trev's "roamgate" project, which bergheim noted he'd thought he'd given up on; trev clarified he meant giving up vibe coding in general but is still configuring it (at 9% battery), and later reported it's "pretty good so far," comparing it to slate.
- daviwil has been building a mahjongg game ("crashthestack.com") using Claude, which generated 1864 unit tests; he added a PWA install option, fixed a page error, is now writing a solitaire mode with actual code review, and joked that Sigil was almost created specifically for easy web deployment.
- bergheim shared a crafterbin link declaring "Motd is officially in the mile high club," mentioned flying to Oslo for work/apt airbnb stuff, complained about an accidental $100 xAI subscription receipt, and detailed how his LLM-generated gymapp data model became unwieldy (7 tables for deviations like AMRAP).
- antti celebrated DragonflyDB v2.0.0 (noting they waited three years for a major bump), shared a Fujitsu press release about Vercel, and mentioned dealing with Elasticsearch issues; he also told trev "Marv is back," which robjperez immediately followed up on by asking Marv's thoughts on Omarchy.
- Sektor checked in recently, saying they've been enjoying the mileage out of Emacs and rediscovering it, while daviwil speculated a Codex reset might be coming soon because Astra may have hammered them too hard.
- Lionyx mentioned the Neovim project becoming "almost millionaire" due to an untouched BTC donation, and antti shared a LibreBoot resolutions link near the end of the log.