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Weirdly Apple seems to have something like this built-in for finding an apple TV remote - but the same flow doesn't appear to be launchable for any other device

Upthread the implication seems to be that smolmachines would be in some way a replacement for orbstack to run docker containers But it seems more like a completely different way to…

on the rare occasions where I need to loudly indicate my presence to a motor vehicle I wouldn't really want to be moving my hands - if I have time to move a hand to a horn I probab…

The way AWS keep their pricing section completely separate from their system and architecture docs, despite architecture being the primary driver of cost, is a major contributor to…

A bitmap index scan allows the database to narrow down which pages could include the data, but then still has to recheck the condition on the contents of those pages - so will stil…

This pitch seems ok to people using simple log aggregation tools or metric tools that have to be wary of tag cardinality But how does it compare to an actual modern observability s…

Any advice on how to learn modern Swift? When I tried to do learn some to put together a little app, every search result for my questions was for a quick blog seemingly aimed at iO…

A failure mode of ULIDs and similar is that they're too random to be easily compared or recognized by eye. This is especially useful when you're using them for customer or user IDs…

I invite you to look into feature flagging. It is entirely viable to never have more than 1 or 2 open pull requests on any particular code repository, and to use continuous deliver…

I’m amazed that this comment is so low down Stacked diffs seems like a solution to managing high WIP - but the best solution to high WIP is always to lower WIP Absolutely everythin…

Does pglite in memory outperform “normal” postgres? If so then supporting the network protocol so it could be run in CI for non-JS languages could be really cool

There's a couple of passing mentions of Download Monitor, but also the timeline strongly implies that a specific source was simply guessing the URL of the PDF long before it was up…

that looks neat - how but do you handle failover/restarts?

Other than motherduck, is anyone aware of any good models for running multi-user cloud-based duckdb? ie. Running it like a normal database, and getting to take advantage of all of …

This reminded me of a slide from a Dan North talk - perhaps this one https://dannorth.net/talks/#software-faster ? One of those anyway. The key quote was something like "You want y…

This doesn't seem accurate to me - Gambling sites legally operating in the UK already have strict KYC requirements applied to them via the Gamling regulator. Visiting a gambling si…

The only mention I can see in this document of compression is > Significantly smaller than JSON without complex compression Although compression of JSON could be considered complex…

It’s worth noting that if you DisallowUnknownFields it makes it much harder to handle forward/backward compatible API changes - which is a very common and usually desirable pattern…

oh, I can't edit now but that was supposed to say "nudge"

I think in some cases (like WhatsApp) the better model exists and is available, but isn’t used by the app - possibly as a judge to get you to give it more permissions On iOS Strava…

It would be cool if someone could come up with a way for the runtime system to automatically wrap errors with the calling context. That way you’d be able to trace the stack of func…

I chatted to a staff member on the checkout of my local coop supermarket She said that every shelf item is ordered on a JIT basis as the store stock levels require them - there are…

No, it's "hard", because it requires an extension to monitor all requests to a different search enging and hijack those to perform a redirect. This is a clever workaround by Kagi, …