Signal, Le Chat, Anthropic, MarkDownviewer, Tmux-256color, XSS, LMDB

1. So therefore I don't agree about all of the aspects presented in this post. Even if the cryptography would be 100% rock solid even in terms of theoretical level, it still won't make app "safe". There are reasons why they want your phone number and force you to use their servers and do the key management. Ref: Traffic analysis (@ Wikipedia) 

2. Le Chat by Mistral AI - (@ chat.mistral.ai) - Yes, it's full model and back-end. So much talk about American / US / USA and China based AI and related threats - But let's mention the Mistral Le Chat from Europe / EU / France

3. Integrated Codestral FIM and CHAT with Notepad++, of course using Codestral for most of the code generation. Now I can ask code competition in Notepad++ directly. As well as of course added automated code checking and processing as batch using their API. - Nice! - Of course I've got more advanced models, but for light code related operations Codestral is very cheap and fast. Quite like the Qwen Coder.

4. Anthropic 3.7 Sonnet - I like it, it makes me fell less and less often that the AI is so bleeping stupid! It's actually good. Because we've got access to it, I've often started to answer "boring and obvious questions from colleagues" with stuff like, what if you would ask this from the AI and "prompt here". - Excellent. I know that the AI is capable of explaining the matter darn well, so why would I get bothered with it? I've been impressed several times today about that. - Especially with some models, it was annoying when you pointed out something being obviously wrong and they apologized. I didn't ask for an apology; I asked for correct information.

5. MarkDownviewer++ the depressing thing? I used it for MD presentation with the Notepad++. And it doesn't handle Unicode (utf-8 encoded files) like with Unicode like 😃 correctly. How lame is that!?!

6. Terminal with true color? - Tested that tmux-256color actually works with true color, it's not just 256 color, but 256 shades of color per RGB channel. Meaning that the full 24 bit true color is achievable. 

7. Evil bit (@ Wikipedia) - I just realized that my site / blog is missing link to this essential IPv4 networking documentation resource, linking now.

8. Lots of tinkering with XSS protection, CORS, CSP, etc... But finally it's done... Now I can continue focusing on the business processes when the core itself is solid. But of course that's what should be done with every secure web-service / API.

9. LMDB vs dbm.sqlite3 - In most of cases the SQLite3 compatibility and tooling are more important than the pure performance gains from LMDB when using it for Key-Value (KV) dictionary. Just like in some cases using simple JSON files is more handy than using database, because JSON files can be edited, copied, moved backed up, and individually handled with easy access. Each directory is like a key value database, with modern file systems. But I'll keep LMDB in mind, when time comes when I need it.

10. Brainstorming (@ Wikipedia) -  Who, What, Where, When, Why, How (5W1H Questions) - Yeah, same stuff every time, whenever something new needs to be developed. In many cases, it's actually surprisingly hard to get proper answers to the very basic questions. See documents like: Structured Analytic Techniques (SAT) Cheat Sheet. Ref: tabilizer/Intelligence-Analysis (@ GitHub) - kw: systematic methods, critical thinking, problem-solving, decision-making

2025-10-19