I had the same itch when I ported my personal blog from WordPress to Astro. I built a fully customisable self-hosted comment system called Discuss. It's got a dashboard and tokenized UI customisation. Pretty light weight too. It's available here - https://github.com/karthikeyankc/discuss . Do give it a spin or fork it. Would love to hear your feedback.
My website is hosted on 1and1 via PHP. I am guessing that this would not work for me as installation needs server access. Moving to VPS, along with transferring domain, would require more time than I would like to spend. Thanks.
Ah okay, yeah, you'd need server access. Perhaps a one click install to cloudflare or vercel could've helped you. They offer generous free tiers and for personal blogs that should be good enough. But if your website has high traffic, free tiers might not work thou. Either way, this flexibility should help others like you. I'll see if I can work on one-click setups for cf and vercel this weekend. Thanks for checking it out.
I've had pretty good luck with the following process for performance optimization loops:
- Have an agent generate unit tests until it gets to 100% path (not just statement) coverage, with every numerical test asserting checks against golden values to prevent regressions
- Let it rip on a performance improvement loop, for the widest E2E representative test case you have. Have it generate flamegraphs along the way so you can check in and steer it as necessary.
- Optionally allow for 1 ULP changes in output values so that it doesn't kill itself getting bit-exact results.
- Have it flag correctness errors as it goes, since your code probably isn't bug free.
This is also how I've done language ports from python to rust, and having the ironclad test coverage protects you from drifting.
I ran two papers and three blog posts of mine through here, and all but one (correctly) flagged as 0-1% machine written. The other (human written) blog post was 20%. Pretty good afaict!
Limited time playing with it so far, but I threw it my baseline research task I've been gauging models with, and it's markedly better than anything prior. Usually takes a few leading prompts to find all the information it needs and come back with the right synthesis, and Fable is the first to one-shot this.
I’ve found 1% to be a wild overestimate on required home repairs if you DIY. 3% is crazy, that’s half a mortgage. On my $500k home I’ve spent only ~$3k total on necessary maintenance over 5 years (0.1%/yr), and that includes resealing a leaking flat roof, some furnace repairs, a new dishwasher, some electrical that went bad, cabinets that came off the wall, rotting fence posts, and a separate section of fence that fell down. Insurance is always there for true catastrophes like a tree falling on you or flooding.
But it’s also a small home in an urban area, so more expensive to its size than most. My take on the rule would be to save your square footage in dollars each year.
Now, I’ve spent a lot more that that on the house, but the rest have been cosmetic or quality of life upgrades. I struggle to think of any single realistic necessary repair that would cost more than $2k in materials to do myself.
## Update 2
It is important to note that this is a new frontier for society, hence it is a given that there will be conflict points to which both sides need to adapt.
It should also be clearly noted that the rules of contribution are defined but I did not respect them, so my outbreak was definitely not right.
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