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Could you explain why you care?

I completely agree with you, and that is an amazing quote.

Premature abstraction is one of the worst pitfalls when writing software. It's paid for up front, it costs developer time to understand and work with, it adds complexity (tech debt…

Not who you're responding to, but I'm not a huge fan of vibe coding for 2 reasons: I don't want to use crappy software, and I don't want to inherit crappy software.

Your second example of a choice is a consequence of a choice. Those companies chose not to comply with new reporting rules which resulted in having their Pentagon access revoked. T…

This may be the "cell phones in public" stage, but society has completely failed to adapt well to ubiquitous cell phone usage. There are many new psychological and behavioral issue…

It provides a perverse incentive for those running prisons (usually the government but also private owners) to put more people in prison for their slave labor.

Rectangle is amazing and I highly recommend it, but it's a window manager and not a display manager.

I'd call your ISP, because mine is not small and offers "business" class service which costs the same as residential, reserves a static ip, and slightly boosts uplink speeds.

I think it's whatever their company pays for! If this hard hat means lower insurance costs for the company then it's just a math problem.

None of them, since they basically all copied Netflix! The grid view limits users to slowly looking over limited categories of content. Any list based tree structure would be bette…

I never felt like this was too terrible... NSString* result = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@ %@", @"Hello", @"World"];

There are book binders that will do one offs, and the binding will probably be better than the original if you get it sowed & glued correctly!

Could this be because every privacy relevant permission, except internet access, now requires a manual approval dialog? Why list every permission when it's only used for specific f…

I believe that it not only increases engagement, but also increases likelihood to click ads and buy things. People seem to like to shop as a distraction / coping mechanism. I have …

It never occurred to me that loop unrolling could end up being a de-optimization due to compiler optimizations!

My first guess would be for some large environmental tax write-off.

Yep, afaik if allocation of memory for the object fails it's canonical to immediately return nil.

Huge agreement to keeping up with the iOS and arbitrary app update requirements. My personal projects are in a place that releasing even minor updates is an endeavor I just don't h…

Unknowingly, I've trained my friends and family to assume they aren't going to get an answer immediately. They now text to call when I have time. Or they immediately get to the poi…

Yes, iOS and Android developer here. Switched my daily driver from iPhone to a Pixel 3a. Difference is negligible in everything except for cost.

#3 is very true, but where is the line? If your website crashes on every request, then it's clearly not ready. If it crashes only on Thursdays when Carl uploads that one spreadshee…

Roll a tennis ball under your foot multiple times per day. It feels amazing and completely cured my plantar fasciitis within a few weeks.

This is how technical screens are done, as a conversation. Cheating happens, but it's blatantly obvious.

As a part-time tennis pro. The combined benefits of watching the best in the world and then comparing it to a video of yourself playing is tremendous for most people.