Abin Simon meain

Beast Mode

Beast Mode is a custom chat mode for VS Code agent that adds an opinionated workflow to the agent, including use of a todo list, extensive internet research capabilities, planning, tool usage instructions and more. Designed to be used with 4.1, although it will work with any model.

Below you will find the Beast Mode prompt in various versions - starting with the most recent - 3.1

Installation Instructions

Go to the "agent" dropdown in VS Code chat sidebar and select "Configure Modes".
Select "Create new custom chat mode file"

Operator Mono w/ Italics on OSX Vim

Testing the matrix.org client-server API

Matrix is:

an open standard for decentralised communication, providing simple HTTP APIs and open source reference implementations for securely distributing and persisting JSON over an open federation of servers.

It's pretty fantastic, if you think on the massive problem of fragmentation all across the web. They've created an easy to use API, and you can do a kludgy test using curl from the terminal (*nix, mac, win). See: http://matrix.org/docs/howtos/client-server.html

It's pretty straightforward to do a quick test. I have an account at https://matrix.org / https://vector.im, so I used that to get a token.

Installation of NixOS with encrypted root

These are my notes on instaling NixOS 16.03 on a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon (4th generation) with an encrypted root file system using UEFI.

Most of this is scrambled from the following pages:

	;;; eglot-booster.el --- boost eglot using emacs-lsp-booster -- lexical-binding: t; --
	;; Copyright (C) 2024 J.D. Smith

	;;; Commentary:

	;; UPDATE This has been superseded by the following package:
	;; https://github.com/jdtsmith/eglot-booster
	;;
	;; Boost eglot with emacs-lsp-booster.
	;; 1. Download a recent emacs-lsp-booster from

	#!/usr/bin/env swift

	// Based on https://github.com/chbrown/macos-pasteboard/issues/8#issuecomment-906537204

	import Cocoa
	import Foundation

	let pasteboard: NSPasteboard = .general

	let dataTypeName : String = "public.html"

	const drawille = require('drawille')
	const bunny = require('bunny')
	const glmatrix = require('gl-matrix')
	const width = 200
	const height = 200
	const canvas = new drawille(width, height)
	const mat4 = glmatrix.mat4
	const vec3 = glmatrix.vec3

	let points = []

	const hoverTime = 400
	const fetchers = {}
	const doc = document.implementation.createHTMLDocument('prefetch')

	function fetchPage (url, success) {
	const xhr = new XMLHttpRequest()
	xhr.open('GET', url)
	xhr.setRequestHeader('VND.PREFETCH', 'true')
	xhr.setRequestHeader('Accept', 'text/html')
	xhr.onreadystatechange = () => {

	# GIT heart FZF
	# -------------

	is_in_git_repo() {
	git rev-parse HEAD > /dev/null 2>&1
	}

	fzf-down() {
	fzf --height 50% --min-height 20 --border --bind ctrl-/:toggle-preview "$@"
	}

	/* bling.js */
	window.$ = document.querySelector.bind(document);
	window.$$ = document.querySelectorAll.bind(document);
	Node.prototype.on = window.on = function(name, fn) { this.addEventListener(name, fn); };
	NodeList.prototype.__proto__ = Array.prototype;
	NodeList.prototype.on = function(name, fn) { this.forEach((elem) => elem.on(name, fn)); };