u/nickchomey — reddlx

The new Cheapseek's caching evidently doesn't work. Just burned $3 in about 30 minutes across 3 or 4 messages.

I'm not sure how phase 1 of Operation Cheepseek was implemented (seems that they're using some other providers, rather than DS itself), but it simply doesnt work. I just burned $3 of tokens with DS V4 Flash in 30 minutes across just a few prompts, because evidently there's no caching happening. I can see in my usage dashboard that each subrequest from the harness is something like $0.05-$0.10, rather than $0.0005, as normal.

My subscription is now at 93% monthly usage, so I dont see why I wouldn't just use DS API directly once it runs out...

Edit: folks are saying cache is fine for them. I created a new session and it is doing ok so far. It could be that I just had a one-off bug that turned out to be particularly expensive... Shame that I didnt notice it sooner.

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u/nickchomey — 3 days ago

▲ 14 r/GithubCopilot

Can you use BYOK if you cancel your Copilot Pro plan?

I'm stuck with an annual Copilot plan and it is utterly useless now with the new pricing - i only have access to old and overpriced models. I started just doing BYOK with OpenRouter and Opencode Go and it works fine, but when I go to cancel my copilot plan, they say that I wont be able to use anything at all. Is that just scaremongering and the reality is that i'll only lose the ability to use Copilot's models in Chat, CLI, etc?

u/nickchomey — 4 days ago

▲ 22 r/webdev

Please share examples of the most abusive (popups, asking for permissions, etc) sites that you know of

I'm trying to research particularly bad patterns related to "engagement", permissions overreach, etc... I typically wipe sites that abuse these platform capabilities from my memory as soon as I come across them, so can't think of any particularly bad ones to inspect.

I'd appreciate if you share links to some particularly egregious offenders.

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u/nickchomey — 1 month ago

▲ 5 r/rails

Do people still share universally-cachable templates between pages and people?

I don't use Rails, but have always been a fan. I was just re-reading this classic blog post and was curious whether this is still a common approach in Rails - specifically making templates universally cachable such that they can be shared between pages and people, then toggle elements with a sprinkling of js and css.

Is it still commonly done? Seems like it would be even easier now with things like alpinejs and datastar's declarative js attributes (eg <li data-subscriber-id="123" x-show="$el.dataset.subscriberId != currentUserId">)

https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3112-how-basecamp-next-got-to-be-so-damn-fast-without-using-much-client-side-ui

u/nickchomey — 2 months ago

▲ 0 r/ProWordPress

PSA - don't buy WP Shifty, Swift Performance or any other plugin from Must Have Plugins/SWTE Group

I purchased WP Shifty a year ago while testing various site optimization plugins, was immediately dissatisfied with it, and requested a refund. It took 10 days for them to do so, but finally did.

Now one year later they've charged me for another year and are not responding to my emails.

I am now going through the hassle of a credit card chargeback.

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u/nickchomey — 2 months ago

▲ 4 r/Wordpress

PSA - don't buy WP Shifty, Swift Performance or any other plugin from Must Have Plugins/SWTE Group.

I purchased WP Shifty a year ago while testing various site optimization plugins, was immediately dissatisfied with it, and requested a refund. It took 10 days for them to do so, but finally did.

Now one year later they've charged me for another year and are not responding to my emails.

I am now going through the hassle of a credit card chargeback.

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u/nickchomey — 2 months ago

▲ 1 r/GithubCopilot

I like vscode ghcp interface, but am now exploring alternatives. Codex and Claude still have favorable pricing - how does third party agents work? Might it be possible to get a $20 codex plan and use it via vscode ghcp chat extension?

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u/nickchomey — 4 months ago