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I too (like the other repliers) am using a 13 mini. And I likely will replace it with another refurbished one when I must.

I'm really quite drawn to lisp (in general) but I keep bouncing off it. I think the main reason is I just don't know how to effectively work with a dynamically typed programming la…

I live on the Gold Coast and I have seen in my yard Aseroe rubra, glow in the dark mushrooms (not for a while now) and many others. Just this weekend I found one that looks a bit l…

Getting to spend 3 months on a self learning journey sounds wonderful. My hunch is that these deep skills will be valuable long term and that this new abstraction is not the same a…

There’s roughly 8b people in the world and somewhere between 2-3b have never used the internet. If OpenAI manages to capture the 6b internet users growing at 100% per year, they ha…

I spent a couple of years of my career working on a multiplayer / social game. We definitely got some angry feedback on that, but overwhelmingly the users loved it. Our game hovere…

These companies pirated their training material and reached settlements with the copyright holders. I imagine they’d do the same with software licenced under Not For Training terms…

I have a couple of hives of the local native tetragonula stingless bee in my yard. It does feel quite special to see them foraging and returning laden with various brightly coloure…

These companies are telling us software development is over. They are positioning themselves as the means of production. You want to build anything you do it through them. And sinc…

I was in the same boat as you until I saw DHH post about how he’s changed his use of agents. In his talk with Lex Fridman his approach was similar to mine and it really felt like a…

I’m building a journaling app primarily for myself but with a view that others might want to use it to. I’ve built it in rails and deployed it. The experience has been great and it…

I think a good, related example to your point is the “2 watched literals” algorithm used in SAT solvers. It uses lazy evaluation to significantly improve the speed of the SAT solve…

I considered Django pretty seriously and worked through most of the excellent Mozilla tutorial. I prefer Django's having models defined in code and being able to generate views and…

I work with python and typescript (occasionally c++) for my day job. I love getting to ship complete vertical slices of functionality. But I’m tired of all the faffing about. I’m s…

Yeah I’ve seen these posted here previously! Probably the most appealing new car to me at the moment. Hopefully they take off and we can get them outside the US

I want a dumb EV. No infotainment system. Just speakers and a way to plug my device into them. Anything critical to the car should be completely air gapped and require an absolute …

I certainly can’t say whether this is idiomatic as I was working it all out myself. But I’d basically write a type for each operation (as I’d read elsewhere). And honestly this was…

OCaml is probably my favourite language. The most involved project I did with it was a CRUD app for organising Writer's Festivals. The app was 100% OCaml (ReasonML so I could get J…

Perhaps related, after watching a talk by Gerald Sussman I loaded an image of the Kanizsa triangle into Claude and asked it a pretty vague question to see if it could “see” the inf…

I’m writing a journaling app, for myself first. It’s already usable and I’ve gone from not writing to writing each day. The idea is the app should be very easy to submit entries (e…

With having internet in our pocket we no longer value being able to recall information. There is no need when anything is a query away. I suspect a similar thing will happen with o…

I think I'm at the same conclusion. I basically want ocaml but with structural / compile time duck typing of all types (I know about objects but they don't seem widely used). And s…

I've been having a similar experience trying to build an app with liveview. I've been simultaneously building the same app with Phoenix + LiveView and Dream (OCaml) + HTMX. With th…

I too have been working on a CRUD app using Dream, SQLite, and Caqti (with HTMX and ReasonML) for a few months in my limited free time. I think I've hit a few of the same issues as…

Writers Festival program: basically you have a 100+ authors, a handful of venues, and 3 or 4 days to run the festival. The nature of writers festivals is interesting because there …