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gitgud
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About gitgud
https://github.com/benwinding
https://benwinding.com
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/benwinding; my proof: https://keybase.io/benwinding/sigs/bVV_JyagfOPTVOiqOf50YZB4rhM0EIDgUvumlGAA6mY ]
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Comment #49217696
I love this choice. As I began reading, it was immediately clear that it was deliberately written by the author, not AI marketing slop
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Comment #49209470
> They're at 93.91% uptime over the past 90 days, according to https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ , and that doesn't even include today's outage yet. I don’t love GitHub, but…
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Comment #49119124
I assume they signal what menu item does what, to make it less confusing on different screen sizes. I.e. Large displays get “icon + label”, whereas small displays just get “icon”
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Comment #49118615
Good UX abstractions out perform bad ones, which means they endure, are copied, and eventually become the implied standard UX… some examples of this are; the hamburger menu, tiny i…
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Comment #49076123
So no human in the loop then? Sounds like a recipe for tech debt…
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Comment #48986690
> Mainframes survive, but serving a much tinier portion of the market than they used to. I would argue mainframes rebranded to "cloud" which is ubiquitous and more people interact …
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Comment #48963849
So at that tiny 500kb size I imagine it could be compiled to web assembly, and run entirely in the browser right? Couldn’t find a link, is that hard to do?
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Comment #48877929
This is one of the reasons why native proprietary coding agent runners like claude-code, codex, grok-build etc are so dangerous for privacy… you just don’t know what “secret sauce”…
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Comment #48852890
Not allowing full screen is the most insane thing for a “chat app ported from the web”… the browser probably has a better experience now…
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Comment #48442403
> Kirsten: All of this, to me, illustrates how quickly things are moving. I mean, when you really think about it, the whole tokenmaxxxing thing has become a thing, peaked, and now …
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Comment #48334235
Article and this post seems to be AI generated… but this is a good quote > AI coding assistants hallucinate package names. They confidently suggest npm install some-plausible-sound…
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Comment #48333978
> I realize I don’t have much knowledge about the best way to architect applications There is no “best way”, it always depends on what you are building. The main advice I would giv…
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Comment #48306872
> we need to stop filming people, and we need a societal norm that treats a violation of this ban on par with spitting someone in the face. Agreed. Filming strangers in public is m…
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Comment #48301383
I started believing at 4 years old when going to a christian school, then stopped believing a few years later when I realised I couldn’t see any proof of any god watching, planning…
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Comment #48276772
Finding bugs in PR’s are exactly what GitHub copilot, GitHub cursor bot and tonnes of other PR bots already do…
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Comment #48186459
What does the AS stand for? A polite fyi, when skim reading this, it looked like it said AssNotes…
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Comment #48114726
Well damn, start the countdown till the inevitable exploit of this. I’m thinking maybe 1 or 2 weeks from now…
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Comment #48020109
It's cheap to change code , it doesn't mean you have to add more of it...
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Comment #47939366
Considering they’ve become a 1 trillion USD company, they’re truely moving fast and breaking things…
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Comment #47896220
> I’m a new solo dev with almost no audience. If a large org or a well-known developer sees the idea and ships a similar implementation, they can get more attention immediately tha…
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Comment #47828870
> Putting this here in the hope that someone at Anthropic reads it. Needs more sensationalism to get their attention, like “Tell HN: Claude won’t implement this basic feature!” /s
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Comment #47828785
I don’t think they “got lucky”. nextjs is an old project now, and for a long time it was the simplest framework to run a React website. This is why most open source landing pages u…
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Comment #47724122
Really interesting! Is there a list of all supported CAD operations? Can I “revolve” 2D sketches? Can I make assemblies?