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It's funny because different people would interpret this sentence differently. If you have high level understanding of the tech behind it, this feels like a threat. But if you don'…

Those people are designers. And they don't necessarily understand software, data, or security. When I explained to my non-technical friends about how they were being tracked by web…

In my experience, those operations require understanding, judgement, and taste. But all of that only matters if I care about the codebase enough for it to matter. So I don't think …

The author had 27 years of experience but still found "babysitting git" was painful. I couldn't remember what's the last time git got in my way. I guess such benefit from AI is pro…

My water heater once emitted a cryptic warning light. I called a local contractor, the person came and spent 10 seconds inspected the appliance, then start dialing the appliance ve…

> Yeah but you won't so it's not a big problem The reason you can comfortably say this is exactly because we orchestrate our society around what someone "could" do. Operating a dro…

I think the blog post's target audience were people who already embraced vibe coding. It's not for you (or for me). But still, between the lines the blog seems to want to picture a…

That's my point. It's not about the technology itself, because that's never cut and dry. It's about having a process to evaluate and criticize a technology before fully embracing i…

It's a thread border router and matter controller, providing Remote access to local-only devices, scheduling, automation... with better track records on security and privacy than c…

I think nowadays the Apple TV is more about smart home than TV. But as long as they keep calling it a "TV", most of the people will compare it with the built-in apps in their smart…

Well I didn't say it was achievable at the time. But is it really that unimaginable? > assuming nobody fell asleep on watch, the wood was dry, the fog cooperated, and the enemy had…

They already learned to use light and fire to transfer data over long distance. How much difference is there between beacon fire and fiber optic cable? But I think they would be mo…

It's totally fine to not to use k8s. Personally, I think I have made several good decisions in my career to use/avoid k8s in different scenarios. But if someone wrote a blog to bra…

If this creation stays as is, then it's not very complicated and pretty easy to understand and support. But that is a big IF, and very likely won't be true. Over time people will a…

The biggest concern about Ubiquiti to me is still its software/infrastructure quality. Off top of my head, besides all the UI/UX glitches: - They once allowed a human employee to a…

I totally believe this works for you. But in your case, isn't NixOS just another declarative orchestration system like Kubernetes? Similarly I can just run a standalone nginx, cadd…

> One thing that I think people new to it don’t realize is that it’s not at all batteries included - to get a basic managed cluster setup, you’re still going to be installing a bun…

IMO that is not a rockstar developer, but a junior developer rocking LLM agents. Completing each individual programming task is easy. Engineering the system in a sustainable way th…

Automation should always be the serialization of understanding of the system, which can execute on its own under normal conditions. When it breaks, your reaction should not be remo…

If they are ok with shortcuts being vibecoded, maybe it's time to expose a proper programming language to the end users as well. All my automation shortcuts can be easily explained…

I never care about AI usage disclosure, because I don't believe that human produced code is necessarily better than AI produced code, unless it's someone I personally know. People …

It would be nice if I could talk to my parents in person everyday, feeling their touches and temperature. But we live in different countries, so instead I talk to them over FaceTim…

> every single manufacturer that wants you to install their app and use their ecosystem That's good. I don't want a single company to control everything in my house. Having multipl…