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Vanta is a Markdown notes app for iPhone, built around on-device AI organization and GTD (Getting Things Done). I use Obsidian with Claude on desktop, and wanted a similar but auto…

Congrats on the launch! It would be useful to have a matrix somewhere showing how this compares to Jina, Firecrawl, etc.

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The GPT models, in my experience, have been much better for backend than the Claude models. They're much slower, but produce logic that is more clear, and code that is more maintai…

I built a little Chrome extension that shows the flag for where the account is based in on the profile page itself: https://grokify.app .

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This is solvable at the level of an individual developer. Write your own benchmark for code problems that you've solved. Verify tests pass and that it satisfies your metrics like t…

Close. It won because of Github. Git was gaining over SVN slowly but it was Github that really propelled it into widespread use.

DAOs are fixing this in the crypto world. You contribute to the protocol and get paid by the DAO. Everything is transparent and open. If you do this enough and earn the respect of …

> He worked hard to enable software reuse. No one was interested in his idea of trying to monitor component use during runtime to pay developers People are experimenting doing this…

I was mulling over this exact issue the other day but couldn't find the words to express it. Thank you for this.

I thought it was about resque, the ruby queuing library, switching from redis to kafka.

Khan Academy’s economics and finance videos are excellent for learning the fundamentals. Ray Dalio’s talks on YouTube, and his most recent TED talk are great for context around eco…

There are several teams working on better privacy preserving functionality: https://github.com/covid-apps-tracker/tracing-apps . What would be useful is a common standard for Bluet…

This will be popular, and might even replace regular usage, as Stories have in Instagram. It'll enable people to be more authentic, transparent, and casual. It will help counter Tw…

_why’s contributions to the Ruby world always had an art project element to them. His disappearance is just an extension of his art. It was amusing to me that his real name wasn’t …

When a company switches languages like this, it's usually because the engineers want to learn something new on the VC's dime. They'll make any excuse to do it. As many comments her…

I hope we are learning that substituting fake things for real things often have catastrophic effects. If fake meat becomes popular, this will get much worse. Food production is com…

Is there a better term for "hipster stack"? Rails and Django were most certainly considered hipster when they first came out.

IBM uses Swift for mobile apps https://developer.ibm.com/swift/2015/12/03/introducing-the-i... and develops Kitura ( https://www.ibm.com/cloud/swift ), a Swift web framework.

It would scale if the technology to create these financial instruments easily and to monitor the land existed. There are startups working on it.

This is a common pattern with many of Go’s features. Experienced folk sometimes tend to make unconventional design decisions. You don’t appreciate them until you’ve tried out all t…

Apple has had strong accessibility features since before they were a household name, when they were a fraction of the size of the company they are today. Here's a post from 2006 fo…