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I think it captures the original motivation and thrill of exploration beautifully. Who doesn’t remember as a kid seeing a blinking cursor and the feeling there was an entire univer…

My experience with Melatonin was very hit-or-miss. Sometimes it landed like a hammer and I was very groggy the next day. Sometimes it seemed not to work at all. This was with all s…

Does it maintain the same performance when running only on battery?

This makes me really happy. Dave has kept the great things about SuperDuper (I especially love “what’s going to happen next” - wonder why other software doesn’t do this) and upgrad…

The amount of functionality in what we consider “styling” is unbelievable.

I lived in the US many years ago. USA Today was then already a bit of a joke - always a color pie chart on the front page, ludicrously generic news and sports, and on the last page…

When I was a developer I thought “without me all the people in the building have nothing to sell and they can all just go home”. Then I spent a few years in sales (long story) and …

It’s just amazing we keep using the word “leaders” when they’re clearly not.

Not sure how that’s helpful in the context of the question the article poses: What is the difference between a vibe coded thing and a “real” product?

I’m not there yet, but my vision for when I’m retired was always to spend leisurely time learning more stuff, building cool things, meeting up with fellow enthusiasts and perhaps c…

Not sure I understand the need for the exchange at scale. If I build a tool that lets a single person automate a tedious calculation then as long as they can depend on me maintaini…

It’s a great question, but I don’t think the article answers it. Not in any academic sense, but in a real-world sense a software product is something that as a user you can rely on…

Datastar makes this even simpler. No need to think about OOB swaps. Just regenerate the page and Datastar streams it over SSE and surgically updates the DOM. They call this “fat mo…

This is really good. The base is open source, and has both GUI and a CLI. For the purposes of this article, identifying what each cable can actually do, that’s covered. There’s add…

They did give the chips to China, but they didn’t work. Turns out they’d first taken them to the basement where someone cut them into pieces before sending them to China.

Small pedantic nit: Open-sourcing is not the same as reverse-engineering.

I’d suggest one additional heuristic: once your bad word detector has triggered, shut down the chat for 10 minutes. That way waves of assholes don’t monopolize the chat, and when t…

What is there to take seriously? Sending a ~50 bytes to ~200 listeners over a websocket about once a second is trivial even for a Raspberry Pi.

For those of us who still didn’t understand what this is after reading TFA, it’s a way of compressing data where commonly used sequences get a short token and less common sequences…

I went into this thinking I’m a big boy and don’t need all these warnings. I was wrong.

I knew you were going to do that

It’s more like a curated config. Like using Astro or Lunar instead of starting with a plain Neovim and crafting your own configuration.

Governments continue to cling to “we’re fully committed to privacy and we also must be able to protect the population against terrorism” Sigh.