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As someone who has had to clean up systems that only did a _npm install_ to get compromised, despite being good Renovate citizens, it doesn't matter if it is not "on the production…

Maybe you should stop invading other countries if these comparisons hurt your feelings buddy.

I had to buy an SSD and some RAM to help my son build a PC. The SSD cost 30% more than I paid two years ago and was half the capacity (1TB). The RAM cost double what I paid two yea…

Same, hard pass on remote shell as a service that is Node and its ecosystem.

Interesting that they are “dumping” them in Australia and other countries at prices that are competitive but far above what they cost in China. Below cost of production my ass. The…

I wonder if similar costs were paid when the West was industrializing? Spoiler: Yes.

Potentially going to sound privileged here, but why not both? Personally when going on the road I like portability (14" MBP or MBA), but at home I want raw non-thermally throttled …

We have that as well as air-conditioning at the office, so... :)

We started playing as kids, just trying to whack the ball and not getting out. The rest of the jargon and strangeness was absorbed slowly over time until it because natural, like a…

I hate going to our European offices over summer. It’s 2026 and their concept of climate control is opening the windows or maybe finding a fan somewhere and turning it on. That doe…

1Password? The last year with it has been so bad I canceled our $80 Family subscription and switched to the native Apple one despite its feature gap, because 1Password just couldn’…

Try mentioning AI in a remotely positive light on Mastodon, e.g. just as a side comment about how it let you finally finish a side project or something cool, and you’ll get a wave …

I know macOS is not considered a gamer platform, but I appreciate enough that he built for macOS too that I purchased a copy! (Speaking as someone who also owns a Windows 11 RTX 40…

I run nixOS as well on my home infrastructure (gateway/firewall, a couple of internal servers). But I have had, uh, non-trivial breakages happen also when I upgrade the system itse…

I use Xcode, but just to run the app with Command-R so I can see log messages or stack traces if I need to drop it into the agent for analysis. Everything else is done by Claude Co…

The apparent quality of our pull request messages and documentation is sky high (at least from a language and grammar perspective), but I do miss the days of hand crafted prose, it…

This is super hard for me as well. I know that a part of why I did so well in programming was being forced to think about what to do and how things worked for so long, and it gave …

I grew up in a similar environment, similar trajectory, but in Africa. Dad was a teacher in a rural school, mum stayed at home. Until I went to school I would stay outside all day …

Yeah, no joke. For bald people like myself these headphones are unusable once the mesh stretches enough that the metal bands touch your skull. I could go 30 minutes before the disc…

This is 100% already happening. No need to worry about licensing or dependencies any more, just have the LLM launder it into a plausibly different structure!

There would also be no way China would admit to any breaches.

I had an Air with the same camera system as the 17e, I believe. Coming from a 15 Pro Max, it was perfectly serviceable if you were happy with the limited zoom options and lack of w…

This is an insanely privileged post. “Advice for my fellow Ivy/top 10 grads”, is more accurate. Mate, no matter what you do, you will have at a minimum an upper middle class life a…

You can also add golangci-lint with the modernize linter and tell Claude in CLAUDE.md to run it on every code change as an ambulance at the bottom of the cliff. Won’t stop Claude f…

Whenever I fly to Europe (from New Zealand), I always go via Singapore, I just zip through, everything is convenient and clean. Transiting through the American shitshow that requir…