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Understanding requirements means talking to customers. A customer can be anyone, even other devs that consume your code/product.

I'm sure the number of submissions has gone up exponentially due to AI. Since real people review apps, Apple should charge per app / version submission.

At hobby scale, you don't have to care about the details. Just ship a zip or container image with docs and let the user figure out the rest. Self hosting is going to require some b…

The problem is that not everyone can afford/wants to spend on a high quality cut. A good cook can make a cheap cut of meat taste great. There's no single right way of cooking a ste…

Unless there's a material change to the form, why not just update the changed parts? I'd also question architectural decisions if you need to send 100kb+ of html down the wire for …

It totally depends on your area. In the PNW I get sap and conifer tree pollen all over my panels and have to wash them at least twice a year.

The one day, your chef leaves, the food goes to shit and productivity/output/morale drops. When the new chef arrives, then everyone has to relearn everything. Software shouldn't be…

Why can't somebody take simple smartphone hardware and make a modern media player that is not a phone? Because you can do that with any phone and just not use the phone part?

I'm on the opposite side of this. With LLMs, I no longer feel the need to use crazy frontend frameworks and abstractions. I'm back to building static HTML with minimal JS (and idea…

Great frameworks have great CLI tooling and just work. Be opinionated and consistent. The fact that this supports multiple frontends and multiple runtimes is a hard no for me, alre…

I use the tampermonkey extension (formerly greasemonkey). AI is fairly good for writing scripts.

I appreciate having an opinion vs a bunch of safe words saying nothing. Most CEO communication probably isn't even written by them and has a person-less touch. It's totally fine to…

I care that the data is out there and helps with weather forecasting. My taxes pay for that. Do you care about roads, schools, fire stations and police too? Please donate to those …

Testing != Distribution. You can run directly on a connected iOS device, without setting up anything related to the app store.

Who is going to pay for the data collection? If we can't trust the government, what are we paying taxes for?

Why does early education need to be productive? At that age, I'd much rather my kids learn life skills, socialize, play, etc than any kind of "curriculum" learning. There are a lot…

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Sorry, but 5 year olds don't need a tutor, let alone solo screen time. If you're giving your young child screen time, it should be with a parent, and then you might as well spend i…

Petty? It's just a tool, people have opinions, rational or not. The stupid thing is getting up in arms because someone said something you don't like.

It's still a smartphone. The perfect dumb phone is just a dumb phone. (Bonus, they're an order of magnitude cheaper than a decent smartphone).

Then don't use it? I don't get the hate just because it doesn't fit people's use cases.

Or you could do some of your own troubleshooting? Uploading a git repo is different than uploading a zipped/folder, especially if your index.htm/l isn't at the root.

As the saying goes, there's no such thing as a free lunch. Servers cost money. Users pay for it with their privacy/data. Intrusive ads. Dark patterns. The increasing eyeballs on sc…

IMO, the wind turbine is way too complex to be actually useful. It's definitely not reproducible for $30 unless you have access to a junkyard. The power drill required for it isn't…

Communication is key. Think about a restaurant high in demand. There is implied communication that the initial experience might not be great in A) lines out the door, B) reservatio…