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Since we're deep enough in this thread where we're talking about steak rather than AI, I'd like to lean into that. I used to sous-vide a lot . It was certainly great to get perfect…

Took me a minute to see the value - my first thought was "this is just cursor's cloud agents..." But the key thing here for me is "Every sandbox boots your app on a live URL." Curs…

As I mentioned explicitly in the comment you're replying to: yes, I did read that section. Did you not bother to read my whole comment before telling me to read more?

There's some good ideas and points in here, but this bit threw me: > # We tried this > In July 2025 we went full lights-off Isn't it pretty well-accepted at this point that the mod…

Unfortunately I never got around to trying it! I remember it being a contender around the time of Backbone, but then Ember and Angular were the main options thereafter.

Sounds like your argument is with SPAs, not React in particular?

"React is actually a library, not a framework" is definitely a thing people have said here and there since its inception. It's a distinction that doesn't seem to buy anything in te…

As someone who lived through all major waves of JS for the last ~16 years, I do love react, in a sense: React is the worst JS framework except for all the others we've tried. I'd t…

https://archive.is/WfCta

Interesting! Given the obvious AI-written nature of this, I'd probably want to double-check the math, but it's a neat concept. As a homebrewer, the standard approach is to look up …

I landed on something similar for my own game, though it's been pretty tricky. I'm building a physics-based 2d game involving slingshotting around planets. The realtime nature of i…

This is not to say that things haven't gotten worse over time, but... I don't think that chart shows what it seems like it shows. There were plenty of pre-2018 outages that don't s…

Yeah, I think all style comments should be handled by either a linter/formatter or be written in a style guide. Everything else is up to personal preference. Then, when a style com…

Winning 2000 games in a row sounds statistically unlikely unless the Windows version of solitaire does something behind the scenes to make the game more winnable. https://en.wikipe…

> This is the part that doesn’t demo well. ETL pipelines feeding into BigQuery from every operational system: Salesforce, Zendesk, and a dozen other internal tools. dbt transformat…

Is the pre-2018 data actually accurate? There seem to have been a number of outages before then: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1545696000&dateRange=custom&... Maybe that's just t…

Why do you assume I assume it's doable? :P For real, I'm not certain we will ever be able to merge AI code without human review. But: 1. Every time I've confidently though "AI will…

Figuring out how to trust AI-written code faster is the project of software engineering for the next few years, IMO. We'll need to figure out the techniques and strategies that let…

This is a great use of data to make a compelling case that sizing sucks for women's clothing! I do wish it attempted to answer the question at the end, though: "Sizes are all made …

It feels like someone asked an AI to read a year of output from a ruby link roundup newsletter and then had it write a report: many facts, minimal synthesis, and little-to-no usefu…

I'm a big fan of this genre of "a person got rich in tech and spent their wealth making an unrelated thing they wanted to exist in the world, untethered from the need to be profita…

> if you have any code you actually care about I would watch them like a hawk, in a nice large IDE on the side. This is about where I'm at. I love pure claude code for code I don't…

Yeah, this feels right on the cusp of being interesting. I think that, being charitable, it could be interesting if it turns out to be successful in hiring and coordinating several…

This article makes a number of the standard arguments for hiring juniors and a couple new ones: - Companies should hire juniors [at their own perceived detriment] to improve the ov…

This post was so in-line with her writing that I was really expecting it to turn into an ad for Honeycomb at the end. I was pretty surprised with it turned out the author was unaff…