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If vibe-coding is hopping into a self-driving car and telling it to take you anywhere you can get a coffee, then I use coding agents more like a bicycle - they let me get further f…

It's strange to me that Apple would choose to disadvantage themselves by selecting Google as their provider as opposed to, say, Anthropic or even OpenAI. Doesn't this mean they'll …

My Computer Engineering degree had an "ethics" course (really a course on "engineering communications", but it was considered to satisfy the ethics requirement for graduation). It …

This is exactly why, as someone who thought I'd be an IC with my head buried in code my whole life, I accepted a role as a tech lead last year. Humans will always need other humans…

I've similarly thought about building a language that compiles to Rust, but handles everything around references and borrowing and abstracts that away from the user. Then you get a…

Every so often, YouTube changes something on their site that causes NewPipe to stop working. Usually within a few days, NewPipe pushes an update that fixes this, and we're back in …

A similar exploration by Matthew Rayfield using the URL bar instead of tab favicons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7GtCLwTmV4

It's astonishing just how awful Spotify's software is. Everything it does, it does poorly, even down to things like playback and playlists that were figured out by other media play…

Looks like one of them is Pyne Pod: https://www.pynepod.com/uploads/bd58c18e.png The Geek Bar Pulse has the custom multi-segment on the side: https://oss.geekbar.com/products/melos…

An ex of mine used disposable vapes and I was shocked by how beautifully designed some of them are - transparent covers with visible inner workings reminiscent of the Nothing phone…

The worst toast I've seen is on Android Auto (itself already a veritable petri dish of awful UX) where, when the on-screen keyboard appears, a toast helpfully pops up informing you…

Add to that list QMK VIA, which allows reprogramming a keyboard running the QMK firmware from the browser! https://www.caniusevia.com/

This almost reads like a deconstruction of my favorite explanation of Lisp: https://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/lisp.html The explanation basically uses an AST that's apparent to th…

I had the pleasure of encountering them in-person at Strange Loop 2023! They gave us an impromptu demo of some of their experiments in the hallway after the last talks had ended an…

Re: your edit - I've always thought it'd make for a fun pet project to take the hyper-engagement-driven approach that social media apps take but apply it to Wikipedia. Like a Tikto…

I wonder how it must feel to be on a team at Microsoft working on actually useful features like WSL and then having all your work be thrown away by shit like this driving users off…

It's also possible to see the names, topics, and timestamp of the last message of hidden channels through their API. The channels are only hidden on the client-side. (To be clear, …