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Coding Agent Instructions for Working with SQLite

• Somewhat safe (instructed to ask for approvals before destructive ops)
• Verbose — keeps you in the loop about what operations it's doing
• Tested with GPT-5-high, GPT-5-medium, Claude 4 Sonnet
  • Be careful with inferior models that might not respect the instructions as strictly
• Drop this in your .ruler/ / ~/.config/ruler/ or wherever you keep instructions for your agent

Happy SQLiting! 🫶

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How we got Java instead of Self — a short history, the JIT breakthroughs, and a “Sliding Doors” take

1) From Smalltalk → Self (1986–1991)

• Roots: Self was designed in 1986 by David Ungar and Randall Smith as a radical simplification of Smalltalk: no classes, just prototypes (objects cloning and specialising other objects). Early work started at Xerox PARC, then moved to Stanford; the first compiler appeared in 1987. Public release: 1990. In 1991 the team joined Sun Microsystems. ([Self Language][1], [Wikipedia][2])
• The feel of the system: a live, image-based environment (like Smalltalk), with the Morphic GUI later ported to Squeak/Pharo and even the Lively Kernel. ([Wikipedia][3], [Gbracha][4])
• Why performance mattered: Self aimed for interactive, exploratory programming and speed. By the mid-90s, Self’s VMs hit ~½ the speed of optimised C on some benchmarks—astonishing for a dynamic, prototype-based language then. ([Wikipedia][2])

2) Th

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# --- OTel + log file prep (before nginx starts) ---
# Ensure /var/log/nginx exists
mkdir -p /var/log/nginx

# Replace default Docker symlinks (to stdout/stderr) with real files so the collector can tail them
for f in access.log error.log; do
  if [ -L "/var/log/nginx/$f" ]; then
    mv -f "/var/log/nginx/$f" "/var/log/nginx/$f.dockerlink" || true
  fi
  : > "/var/log/nginx/$f"

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[
  {
    "key": "tab",
    "command": "workbench.action.chat.switchToNextModel",
    "when": "chatInputHasFocus && chatIsEnabled && !lockedToCodingAgent && !quickChatHasFocus && chatLocation == 'panel'"
  }
]

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Do You like to YOLO?

You can auto-approve tool calls and terminal commands in Copilot’s Agent mode.

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With ❤️ from Eleanor < @intellectronica > ( OKIGU Consulting | Elite AI-assisted Coding )

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gistify.py

Create a gist with multiple files (including binaries) in a directory

By Eleanor Berger < @intellectronica > and Codex CLI / GPT-5.

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usage: gistify.py [-h] [--public | --secret] [directory]

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{
  "name": "GitHub → Todoist",
  "nodes": [
    {
      "parameters": {
        "rule": {
          "interval": [
            {
              "field": "minutes",

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
# /// script
# requires-python = ">=3.12"
# dependencies = [
#   "rich>=13.0.0",
#   "pyfiglet>=0.9.0",
# ]
# ///

"""Display a full-screen colorful banner that reads "I ❤️ GPT-5-mini".

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{
  "type": "excalidraw",
  "version": 2,
  "source": "https://excalidraw.com",
  "elements": [
    {
      "type": "ellipse",
      "version": 5,
      "versionNonce": 123456,
      "isDeleted": false,

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Source
../.config/ruler/instructions.md

Default Agent Instructions

• You have useful tools available as MCP or command-line. Use them.
• Unless you are absolutely sure that you have correct and, crucially, up-to-date information in your knowledge, always get information from the web. You can use Tavily for searching and getting information, and you can always use curl to fetch web pages.
• If you are working on something that presents web pages, you should use Playwright to open these pages, take snapshots, and inspect them.
• When working in a git repository, always switch to a new branch, unless explicitly insutrcted not to.
• If the git repo has a corresponding repo on GitHub, use the gh tool for things like looking at issues, opening pull requests, reading review comments, and looking at CI results.