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I didn't understand programming at all until I read about (not even tried) Smalltalk. And it's because of Smalltalk I write Ruby today. My favourite thing about it is the lack of "…

My clankers are instructed to use "Outside In development" with "red/green TDD" at all times. They write really good Gherkin features and then work inwards writing unit tests as th…

I really liked the 12" MacBook (although my all time favourite computer was the 12" PowerBook G4 - chunky by today's standards but I just loved it). I saw a review of the MacBook N…

I've only ever sat in a Ferrari, never driven one, but the interior looks exactly like what I'd expect from a modern Ferrari. As for the exterior, I really don't like the front - b…

The worst I would ever get was "here's our Access database - can you rewrite it". That was utterly useless to me. What I needed to do was sit with a user (not a manager/the person …

When I quit my day job and started Rails freelancing a big chunk of my work was from companies with "that tech guy" who had built a database in Microsoft Access that was vital to t…

Minor correction - Xerox knew they could not commercialise their invention so they wanted someone to take it off their hands. So Apple didn't copy - they paid for it (in stock, not…

If the account is to be believed that's not what happened. They asked the LLM to do something on the staging environment, it chose to delete a staging volume using an API key that …

I'd add in "code is easier to write than it is to read" - hence abstraction layers designed to present us with higher level code, hiding the complex implementations. But LLMs are b…

As a long-time Mac user, "it just works" actually meant "it either works or it doesn't" - a *binary*. Whereas other OSes were shades of grey - it _might_ work if you spend time sea…

It also depends upon how you manage it My process, which probably wouldn't work with concurrent agents because I'm keeping an eye on it, is basically: - "Read these files and write…

That's the demand for GROWTH. They've hit the limits of iPhone sales - and upgrade cycles are slowing. Hardware products in general are "streaky" - ie. demand and sales drop in the…

I agree it's not just React - I think a lot of people simply do not know what CSS can do nowadays. I do like Tailwind (I guess it fits with how I think). But to make good use of it…

I remember writing a function to convert a string from snake case to camel case and calling it `humpify`. And another that would take a string and locate the constant with that nam…

(slightly off-topic) Many years ago, I got a puppy to keep my older dog company (it was as disaster as she was an over-excited nightmare and in the end I gave her to a friend, wher…

As other posters have said - capitalism. But also privacy - it would be amazing to just be able to connect to any app or service you want, interact and react to stuff that's happen…

My favourite way to use it is to write tests first, then say "make these pass". It will generate some code, run the tests, say "oh, there's an error here ... let's fix that ... oh,…

I should refine my original comment: good marketing is about meeting the right people with the right message at the right time. That kind of persistent nagging is the wrong time, w…

People often mix marketing and sales. For me marketing is about "understanding your market". You wanted an iPhone because His Steveness knew what many people were looking for in a …

There's a whole section in the article about experimenting with different positions and weights of the haptic feedback as the dial is moved and how to tie them in to the display on…

I love that. Also the MacOS "Zoom" button makes so much more sense than the OSX/macOS green button - and I still miss window shading.

I feel the real problem comes when people stop publishing on the (open) web because 1) no-one is reading it directly and 2) they know their hard work will just get slurped up and r…

This is the issue I have with the "build vs buy (or import)" aspect of today's programming. There are countless gems, libraries or packages out there that make your life easier and…

I have done that with XReal glasses and my phone. But they still look kind of off when wearing them in public (slightly bigger than normal sunglasses, cable from one ear and other …