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I briefly emulated it with UTM (QEMU) on macOS; the host was an M1 series chip. This story is the first indication that I might run Haiku on that machine's bare metal someday.

It's a delight to use, if a little esoteric at first. After the experiment phase, the software ecosystem comes up fairly limited. But I recommend visiting. Here are some more impre…

Then why make an app instead of a website?

Because they're the main prompt injection vector, I think you'd want to distinguish tool results from user messages. By the time you go that far, you need colors for those two, plu…

Gotta meet your audience where they are. As a Mobile Safari user, the foremost way I feel my use of the web is crippled is that pages assume a bigger screen or are just poorly arra…

Just having watched the video, the session setup, close, and launch seem tied to the idea of a single window per app. Is that right? What kinds of workflows is this explicitly mean…

> …requires an account holder to indicate the birth date, age, or both, of the user of that device… The way I read that, you just have to ask for an indication of age. Like when I'…

Anybody measure employees pressured by KPIs for a baseline?

> A problem repeatedly occurred on " https://factory.strongdm.ai/ ".

Why make a desktop windowing system app, for a user group who runs a bunch of simultaneous terminal sessions with tear-off tabs or tmux panels, and then force everything into one w…

The main problem I have with the language is compile times. Rust is good at many things, but not that. Xcode is optional, though its primacy has meant less adoption of Swift's firs…

I wrote this a long time ago, but I think the metaphor was about generative AI applications vs. traditional software applications, not about AI coding agents vs. writing code yours…

Hi, that's my website and my wisecrack article. It was a while ago, but I think the metaphor was that a train is traditional deterministic-ish software, whose behavior is quite reg…

Heh, if repression did not exist, it would be necessary to invent it?

Yeah that was pretty weird. Minimizing harm means both leaving people alone and not denying yourself random pleasant feelings.

Native performance doesn't earn that much user goodwill without native layout and behavior. You can't make a single design for many platforms and please everyone who chose each pla…

Baby don't hurt me

People who have them love them. I think there's truth to the idea that iPhone Air is a stepping stone to a foldable with thin halves.

Shell commands and files on disk are the classic narrow waist, and this type of tool, exemplified by Claude Code, locates a coding agent down in that ecosystem. Why shouldn't you b…

Two operators? Where I live it's zero

This is in keeping with the overall problem Figma presents to organizations. If you create a place to design software in isolation while eagerly forgetting about real world softwar…

It goes to show that the common system of employment, in which we spend our time toward the purposes and meanings of others, tends to provide no purpose or meaning for ourselves.

You must mean "APFS volume".

It is a slow to compile language, and that's my primary complaint about it. If you have basic errors they come back very fast, and code that compiles often works the first time, bu…