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gitgud

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About gitgud

Complex solutions create complex bugs...

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?