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The classic solution-in-search-of-a-problem. If the founder had started by talking with people in the problem space, he could have discovered what problems were actually worth solv…

I suspect they ask for email first in order to determine whether to log you in via SSO vs. require a password.

I found php’s array methods lacking as well. The inconsistencies are a pain. I ended up porting many of the methods from lodash, underscore, etc. to php: https://github.com/mpetrov…

Seems inferior to C2PA, which is actually an open standard: https://contentauthenticity.org/

If that’s true and they do intend on shredding their copy on sale, what stops GitHub from buying it back themselves? (through a proxy, obv)

AI isn't changing the fundamentals of building software. It's changing the speed. Don't confuse the two.

Some feedback: show example input & output without requiring me to create an account. Looks interesting, best of luck!

Reminds me of this open source library I wrote to do the same thing: https://github.com/nextbigsoundinc/imagely It uses puppeteer and chrome headless behind the scenes.

Good point. What if we combined the best of both: more realistic images from tpdne.com and API-accessible metadata from your site? Seems like a matter of crawling the former to get…

Perhaps something powered by thispersondoesnotexist.com would better for that. That site returns completely AI-generated faces that seem much more realistic and candid.

The demos on the Jolly Roger site are hilarious. The bot sounds so realistic, and the bot even had the audacity to ask the scammer, “Are you a real person?!” “Hold on, there’s a be…

In my career, the biggest problem with ORMs I’ve used is something the author touched on: They can be terribly leaky abstractions. It seems that many ORMs end up re-implementing SQ…

My goodness, this describes me perfectly as well. The countless choices of a blank slate brings anxiety to a recovering perfectionist like me. Do I choose A or B or Z? I prefer imp…

No, he’s talking about the movie. You know, the one with the sub.

Oh, so you’re saying that omitting the version from the header will ALWAYS return this specific version, NOT the latest version? That certainly addresses the footgun I mentioned. E…

You’re saying that it’s LESS likely to specify the API path at the callsite than the HTTP header? o_O

I agree with you, so then why not stick with the previous /api/v2 url approach? And it would annoy me far more if my app that talks to GitHub inexplicably breaks in a few years bec…

Making the version optional is a bad idea, IMO. It lets consumers use your API without versioning, which is like telling them, “here, create a time bomb that may or may not explode…

The systems angle mentioned later in the article may seem a bit …engineered, but it works! I’ve moved a ton in my life, and I have an annoying habit of losing touch with friends wh…

I hadn’t considered it since it’s mobile-first, but that’s a great idea to try! I imagine that the arrow keys would control the movement of the empty space, right?

Inspired by another recent puzzle game [1] and bored at home while sick with the stomach flu, I decided to create a mobile-friendly version of the sliding-tile puzzle game that I o…

Really fun! This inspired me to create my own version of the sliding-tile puzzle game that I used to play as a kid: https://tileslide.com/