A web-based guitar created using DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash

Every time I mention 9router, someone recommends omniroute

. So I finally tried it for a few days. It's heavy — my 1+1 VPS can barely run it. But the feature set is actually comprehensive: compression tools, every provider you can think of, even social features like leaderboards and achievement badges. For free providers without auth, there's about a dozen besides opencode free. Most are obscure small models nobody really cares about. Out of all of them, only opencode free supports IP pool rotation. The rest either skip it entirely or only allow residential IPs. And opencode free's rotation isn't a straightforward IP pool fallback either — you have to add multiple keyless accounts and manually assign different IPs to each one to make it work. I'll give it some time. If nothing stands out, I'm probably switching back to 9router.

agreed

Claude appeal rejected.

Won't refund the subscription either. I'm half convinced the appeal email is itself phishing, because I'm pretty sure they log the IP. DHH came to Shenzhen recently and showed how he uses Claude Code over there. That's the safest way now, honestly: run Claude Code on an overseas machine, connect through Tailscale, never use it locally. So I need to rent an overseas box with a residential IP, and register and log into Claude there.

Sharing my current mobile only workflow.

Until late September it was the usual setup: parked in front of my laptop, terminal open, bossing pi around, fanning out subagents, then eyeballing diffs myself and filing the PR. Glued to the chair all day, every day. Late September I moved the whole thing to my phone, Hermes runs the show, pi takes the orders. My back is very grateful. Three weeks in, still no regrets. Stack: Hermes on flagship brains (gpt-6-astra / opus-5.5), pi on mid-tier (ds-v4.1-flash / sonnet / terra) with as few plugins as possible, the two talking over a2a. Hermes reads the issues, slices them into small tasks, spins up a worktree for each one, and dispatches a pi into it. When a pi finishes it pings Hermes, who decides: ship the PR or bounce it back for rework. I get back from a full day of being a tourist, or just wake up, and a dozen PRs are sitting there done. Pretty sweet. The catch is how black-box the whole thing is. My emotional arc has been a rerun of early vibe coding, except back then I at least read the diffs. Now even that goes to a flagship model. Boxes all the way down. If you don't have data anxiety, grok-bot and chatgpt-dot basically ship this out of the box, grok-cli and codex built in, native agent-to-agent comms. Downside: your code lives on their servers, everything's moderated, and one ban takes it all with it.