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ThePrimeagen: Omarchy QA Update on Making a QA Agent Harness Go Fast

ThePrimeagen's Omarchy QA update says there are two things that are very hard about building a QA agent harness: how to go fast in the day and age of agents (which are very very slow), and "What is correct? What do we even test?"; a basic agent crawling the desktop in QEMU originally took ~15 minutes to open the lock screen, type in the password, and confirm "that we are back on the desktop", a few changes got that to ~5 for median, and with more changes and a custom harness it is down to ~2 minutes, which "still sucks", so for the last week ThePrimeagen has been experimenting with Clef ("cloudflare's jev, it has image capabilities, which is what i needed"), hoping to get logging in, system menu, lock screen, password, back to desktop, and confirming it is done down from 2 minutes to 30 seconds; if that works, ThePrimeagen can officially move to step 2, which they are not stoked about and may need some help with, and they ask anyone interested in helping to let them know.

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tcballard: Today in Omarchy (6-Oct-2026) on a Windows Release and a Tougher Testing Standard

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tcballard posts Today in Omarchy (6-Oct-2026), covering "A Windows release, a tougher testing standard, and a reminder that release day does not end when you publish." Try Omarchy for Windows 0.10.0 reached stable today: it starts Omarchy while updates download in the background, detects a frozen desktop and offers recovery, resumes more cleanly after Windows sleeps, synchronizes volume and mute, adds night light, and fixes a long list of GPU, clipboard, keyboard and display problems. After the team spotted a gap in how volume sync was tested, every changelog entry now needs a user check on physical Windows hardware against the exact release candidate, with the result and a screenshot recorded, and larger Windows releases will move toward "a roughly fortnightly rhythm." Their Familiar plugin reached v0.1.2 after testing RC.4 on the XPS, with one native Omarchy plugin command followed by an in-app setup screen for choosing Windows or Mac controls and downloading the backend and window controls. They say "Stable does not mean marketplace approved." After publication, hancore_linux found that Familiar could use private browser notification summaries as badge keys, which could expose parts of a notification to another local user; they call it "a review finding, not a reported exploit", and the marketplace submission is open and marked needs-fixes. Build Omarchy Plugins v0.8.0 also shipped with a GitHub-ready repository template; the still is a green pixel wordmark reading "TODAY IN" above "OMARCHY" on a black background.