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Can someone who uses Xcode daily compare to say Cursor or VsCode how the developer experience is. Just curious how Apple is keeping up

Have used this for a hackday recently, found it easy to use, even for a complete newcomer.

This seemed like an inevitability given the reliance on enterprise customers and the move to maximise the revenue from Terraform with the recent license change. They have made a ro…

Last year while working in a nix using team, Golang was lagging behind on nix by a few months, I wanted to use a new feature from the latest version and it lead to some awkward con…

I see a lot of these data providers investing in chat style interfaces too, the main plus with aws is all the extra data a Confluence chat interface won’t have for example. Not sur…

gotta love a custom cursor

Do americans really call Lego bricks Legos? Based on the comments, it seems common enough, I always thought it was a plural like data

Are there good video resources for Retool in general, I looked at some youtube videos and found mostly creating a basic database view with a form. Any more substantial examples?

For those on the M2 Pro mac mini path, the Mac Studio looks a look more appealing. 32GB RAM, Max CPU and more ports for the same money. Will have to wait for benchmarks, but seems …

For those people who use a high workstation, what is the typical price? I feel like people spending more than 10k on a machine must not be bothered, they want the performance

...pristine FLAC quality into my BluSound Node, which is plugged into my Hegel amplifier... Spotify isn't for you, its for people who want a reasonable sound played on affordable h…

What do you use to orchestrate firecracker?

meticulously? What is it that Microsoft has really copied in the last five years?

There are lots of people, especially YouTube commentators who will rush to attack anyone who is seemed to have hated on their favourite creator. It doesn’t matter who started what,…

Honestly thought this was going to be satire about molly mae hague

> 95% of people I talked to were non-technical One takeaway I found from my experience, using a combination of linkedin and ycombinator co-founder match is just how many non-techni…

ELI5, why do people still choose to use mongo?

Does that mean dominos tastes good somewhere?

That message exchange screenshot is unfortunately seen too often in companies.

Companies that let employees leave because they ask for more money is also killing productivity at companies. If you are a engineer on say 70k and see a senior role at another comp…

Congratulations to the team, I spent a few years at depop, great to see them getting the recognition. For those interested, it is a scala shop, all terraform and AWS on the backend…

You would be surprised how few devops/platform engineers cannot write code that would get them a junior position for the code that runs on the platform.

As a recovering platform engineer, nearly 2 years out of the game, i identify a lot here. My experience is that platform engineers are mostly people who never actually write code f…

It looks cool, but is a big problem that people have that is solved by a first party product