I've used AI to help code some JS stuff for Synchronet, and in my AI prompts, I usually tell it I'm writing for Synchronet's JavaScript object model and point it to this documentation page: https://www.synchro.net/docs/jsobjs.html
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From Nigel Reed@1:103/705 to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Monday, February 16, 2026 10:27:16
I also do that, well, I've pointed Gemini at the documentation a few times but I tell it to use the synchronet object model. I've not personally touched any of the code, all the corrections I passed to Gemini to fix. Only thing I added was the comments on top so I hope it's slowly learning.
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From Rob Swindell@1:103/705 to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Sunday, February 15, 2026 21:41:12
Calling `system.lastuser` in a loop is slow, better to save the system.lastuser value make *that* the loop limit.
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From Rob Swindell@1:103/705 to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Sunday, February 15, 2026 21:42:22
Absolute paths are not portable to other systems. Use system.data_dir instead. --- SBBSecho 3.37-Linux
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From Rob Swindell@1:103/705 to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Sunday, February 15, 2026 21:42:28
Not going to use the sysop-configured preferred date output format? use system.datestr() instead.
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From Nigel Reed@1:103/705 to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Sunday, February 15, 2026 21:50:06
Gemini obviously doesn't respect the jsobj model! It has been spanked and corrected :smile:
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From Nigel Reed@1:103/705 to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Sunday, February 15, 2026 22:00:56