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The "enshittification" hasn't happened yet. They'll add ads and other gross stuff to the free or cheap tiers. Some will continue to use it, but there will be an opportunity for sel…

I absolutely adore TextMate, but it hasn't kept up. It will often fail to respond to the `mate` terminal command, or it will take many seconds to start even on my mostly vanilla M4…

I really want a fixed-width font. I know most people dislike writing prose with monospace fonts. But I'm a developer, and proportional fonts always feel wrong.

Chicken feed can be nutritionally complete. We've industrialized chicken nutrition.

Not sure if it's still in use, but for a very long time, AWS billing relied on getting usage data via rsync.

Watt is not a unit of energy but instead a unit of power. A brain may need 20 watts, but it may use 20 watts for a lot more time than ChatGPT would. The brain may ultimately be mor…

Why is it "abusing," and what would you suggest as an alternative?

Could there be a different smell or air-flow coming from one side versus the others? My apartment building has identical elevator lobbies. I thought my dog was smart by not leaving…

Really cute. But I really want the ability to put the different tabs -- Brief, Workspace, Schema -- side-by-side. I know SQL and wanted to play with this, but the UX was frustratin…

I get you're being snarky, but I'll politely push back. I remained skeptical for a long time. Then I got one. I absolutely love it. In particular, the ability to have multiple note…

Recruiters and agents have been solving this problem for years. Firms hire a recruiter for jobs that they actively want to fill. Applicants hire a job agent. Those two meet. Very l…

FWIW there are several third-party mobile applications that work just fine to operate Sonos equipment. The speakers expose a few SOAP-based APIs to any clients on the LAN. Those al…

PHP trivially scales up to multiple nodes behind an LB. You're really only limited by your backend storage connection count and throughput. Go and friends may make for more efficie…

Frodo's eating a green-screen-like blob that your TV erases to add in a Big Mac. The car Vin Diesel is driving gets automatically replaced by the 2035 Audi. The actor just mumbles …

Even if you don't click it, you still receive the message. A big part of marketing is repeating the same thing over and over again in multiple forms so it sticks with you long enou…

A "correct" implementation would give you a temporary IAM role or something (STS) based on a JWT or other authn mechanism. This is not that difficult if you're already invested in …

Magic wormhole is great for live, peer-to-peer transfers. But it is not great if you want to distribute a file multiple times, asynchronously, or with other functionality gained fr…

Please elaborate.

For anyone curious about the vulnerabilities, this Ars article from November 2024 is a good read: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/11/micro...

std::move is just a cast operation. A better name might be std::cast_as_rvalue to force the overload that allows it to forward to move constructors/etc that intentionally "destroy"…

Even zooming on desktop (firefox on macos) is broken. I want to zoom in to see the street names and investigate the images, but the site makes it impossible. I can download the ima…

This is fun. The UI and concept are well-executed. I wish it did farnsworth timing, though. The idea is that the individualy characters play at full 30 words per minute speed, but …

Obligatory warning that SSRI withdrawals can be extremely dangerous. I was on Lexapro for a minute. It worked for a bit, but then I started to not care about anything. A certain am…

It is largely unenforced by the FCC directly, but ham operators can (and do) use directional antennas to find you in many cases. Once reported the FCC does take violations seriousl…

> workflow engines are somewhat of a design smell Probably so, but the real design smell seems to be thinking of a workflow engine as a panacea for sustainable business process aut…