Omarchy Review: Seven Weeks, Three Machines, One Verdict
Seven weeks after my first install, I'm keeping Omarchy. What worked on an RTX 3070 desktop, what broke, and what 4.5 RC changes.
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Seven weeks after my first install, I'm keeping Omarchy. What worked on an RTX 3070 desktop, what broke, and what 4.5 RC changes.
Posting every week is a tool, not the goal. What predicts a public body of work is never fully stopping, one deep topic, and the right things to measure early.
The agent pipeline that runs this blog, stage by stage: where AI is safe because its output is checkable, and where a human has to stay in the loop.
Ten skills my coding agent runs to fact-check drafts and find where my posts stop reaching people, tested on my own site before I sold them.
I graded my own site against a 2014 developer-marketing course. It was right about the two things I skipped, dated on platforms, and silent on AI answers.
Omarchy has 200+ keybindings and most work unchanged on a MacBook. Here's the ~15 that don't (screenshots, brightness, Fn, lid, trackpad) and why.
There's a one-command path to Omarchy on an Apple Silicon Mac. Installing it is the easy part. Here's what happened after, days in and still dual-booting.
Return-to-office mandates are what companies reach for when they can't measure output. Agents just destroyed the last proxies that were limping along.
A restructure log: what broke in the AIOS v1 tree at multi-scope scale, why identity-first beats type-first, and what shipped in v2.
Model names scattered across every repo's config rot the day a model gets deprecated or repriced. One git-versioned markdown table fixes it for good.
Four Claude Code hooks I run, plus a decoder for hook errors: Stop hook error: JSON validation failed, denied by PreToolUse hook, No such file or directory.
The CLAUDE.md entries that actually earned their place on a real project: mistake-driven rules, not a speculative template you copy once and forget.