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They should be toggles! Every now and then I will press the wrong button and will have to wait for the elevator to stop, open doors, close doors at a floor no one wants off on. I m…

Sounds a bit like the idea behind shadcn/ui. You start from the generated components, but the idea is to fork the code. (Then they seem to also have added their own kind of depende…

There are lots of good use cases for vibe coding (”never reading the code”), prototypes, various explorations and one-offs. I’ve done various kinds of migrations where I didn’t bot…

But people claim that text is AI-written on the most ridiculous grounds, like using proper typography. You might be missing out on interesting stuff!

Same. Meanwhile, I _read_ more code than I ever have.

Furthermore, for the example given, it would have made a lot of sense to me to generate those article summaries on the backend. Once and for all, no need to burden each client devi…

I would say yes, there’s a difference, in general. I would much rather leave the unsafe code to crates used and tested by many other applications, than have them in the application…

What really does not serve the reader any value is this comment now appearing on nearly every single HN thread. (And neither does my comment, sorry about that.) If you like the art…

In a possible defense of grandparent, whenever I pirate movies these days (seldomly), it would be not because I don’t want to pay, but either because I want the offline reliability…

I like it when the two paradigms can be combined. Where you (or a non-developer) can set up a dashboard by point-and-click, but in the end there’s a source file that can be downloa…

This is being addressed in the article. The service no longer does this, and he apologizes.

Yes, I agree. It's been small enough of an issue for me to care (I have `~/.parallel/will-cite` set by my dotfiles repo, so wouldn't even see it on a new machine), but now I switch…

I think the link (now) points to the wrong line in the source code. I found it, though. Anyone understands why they do this?

This page describes the behavior, "disables the automatic execution of postinstall scripts in dependencies": https://pnpm.io/supply-chain-security While this explicitly calls out "…

The limit of 16 rules is interesting. Where does that come from?

The end of this article leaves me hanging. Did she manage to find the previously employed insurance lady so that she could thank her, or not? I need closure!

Someone (maybe on this site) suggested to think of the bottom bars of the square brackets around the linked text to kind of frame the underline. Somehow worked really well for me, …

That is a very nice metaphor indeed!

I applaud this project, “setting all the options”. I think it’s a really good idea to become close friends with the software you use all the time, and getting acquainted through th…

He commented on this here: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/13/training-for-pelicans-...

Does “safe” here mean just “non-mutating”?

Took me a while to realize that it is an actual thing, rather than used as a placeholder (“three letter acronym”)

Me too, I still think it's cool. But while indeed easier-to-implement compared to SGML, it could have been yet a bit simpler. :) I once attempted to write a conforming parser, I re…

Ah, I was perhaps a bit unclear – I didn't mean to comment on whether certain languages made the list or not, I enjoyed the thorough walkthrough of languages being used for configu…