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My strong feeling while reading this “philosopher CEO”’s manifesto: consumer VPNs primarily help customers fight for their right to stream Netflix. This doesn’t strike me as effect…

> the entire point of the ipad is that it's a handicapped tool amusing nonsense

This thread is pretty quiet for what strikes me as a substantial set of changes with, presumably, more substantial changes still to come for anyone not grandfathered into a Pro pla…

My parents bought one for the house when I was in elementary school. I still remember the sound of the Speech Synthesizer, discovering 20 GOTO 10, and playing Hunt the Wumpus.

CEOs have many audiences; great CEOs communicate capably with each. FWIW it's not entirely clear to me who Entire's long-term customer is , but the (interesting!) CLI that shipped …

Dohmke never spoke clearly to developers when he was GitHub's CEO.

Watching their public roadmap to see what happens. Right now, it looks about the same as it has for a while: useful new features and expected maintenance, moving along at a reasona…

Oh, that's very interesting work. And, yes, I'd also be surprised if (today's) agentic tools were at all helpful for that: it's way outside of distribution, and conceptual correctn…

I made some small contributions to cpython during the 3.14 cycle. The codebase is an interesting mix of modern and “90s style” C code. I found that agentic coding tools were quite …

Per PEP 744, cpython shipped with an experimental JIT (default disabled) in 3.13. It remains experimental in 3.14. See https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.13.html#an-experimental.…

This is self-destructive defeatism. It is also flat wrong on its substantive points.

Give https://www.paper2audio.com/ a try; it is targeted at just this use case. It’s a Seattle-local startup.

If you’re curious about or playing with t-strings, see https://t-strings.help/

I'd never heard of it, alas. Luckily, they live in pretty different language ecosystems.

Hi! Thanks for your deeply non-silly reply; it's nice to (virtually) meet a cofounder. If you have time, I'd love to hear your thoughts on Mullvad's campaign here in Seattle. For w…

Long ago, in the era of Firesheep and exploding prevalence of coffee-shop Wi-Fi, consumer VPN services were definitely valuable. But that was long ago. Now, HTTPS is the norm. The …

It's not unreasonable to ask but I think it probably is unreasonable to expect a strictly technical solution. It feels like we're in the realm of politics, policy, and law.