GeneralMaximus

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by GeneralMaximus 7d ago
I quite like Tailwind. I've had great experiences with it, especially on projects where the skill level of contributors was highly variable. That said, Tailwind is not as powerful as plain old CSS. It's a bit like training wheels
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by GeneralMaximus 20d ago
In many cases, yes. A software pipeline can only achieve as much throughput as its slowest stage, and much of the software we write can be modeled as a sequence of processing stages.
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AI Software Development – What Does the Data Say?(codemanship.wordpress.com)
3 points by GeneralMaximus 1mo ago|0 comments
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by GeneralMaximus 1mo ago
In an ideal world, I would do exactly what you do. I don't WANT to block ads everywhere. I would love to support my favorite websites, and if watching a couple of ads is what it takes for them to stay online, then I don't really m
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by GeneralMaximus 1mo ago
(Adding this as a comment because I'm over my edit window.) I want to add a third category to the categories that make sense as native apps: apps that are built by the platform vendor (and potentially shipped with the platform). GNOME
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by GeneralMaximus 1mo ago
Why would you not? I use Ableton, Figma, and Emacs regularly. I have a decade (or more) of muscle memory around these apps. If they suddenly decided to adopt the look, feel, and conventions of their underlying host platform, I’d be very ups
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by GeneralMaximus 2mo ago
Oh boy do I have a website for you! I love browsing https://www.themarginalian.org whenever I have a few hours to kill. It's a bit like TVTropes, but much more "literary" for lack of a better word. The author has
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iOS and Mac app development is constant churn(inessential.com)
6 points by GeneralMaximus 2mo ago|0 comments
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Wordgard Release 0.1(marijnhaverbeke.nl)
1 points by GeneralMaximus 3mo ago|0 comments
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by GeneralMaximus 3mo ago
> I've heard this sentiment repeated and I believe it, but at least the purpose of my own blog is to communicate insights I've had. I almost make a point out of not blogging unless I feel that I have something truly interesting
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by GeneralMaximus 3mo ago
This lines up with my own experience with writing and (more recently) blogging. You get over the fear of writing by doing a LOT of it, until you get to a point where writing a story or blog post stops feeling "special" and becomes
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by GeneralMaximus 3mo ago
This is a feature many apps actually need. E.g. Tauri uses WebKitGTK on Linux, which has historically been slow, unstable, and frequently lagging behind the main WebKit project. This is enough of an issue that even Tauri is working on the a
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Deno Desktop(docs.deno.com)
1122 points by GeneralMaximus 3mo ago|398 comments
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A Technical Deep Dive into the New Raycast(raycast.com)
2 points by GeneralMaximus 3mo ago|0 comments
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by GeneralMaximus 4mo ago
Not always. Some web pages don't send referrers by making all links rel="noreferrer". Mastodon used to do this by default, though now they've changed their stance. Links opened from non-browser apps don't have any r
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by GeneralMaximus 5mo ago
I don't even want a local account, I just want to be able to set a custom username for my account instead of some autogenerated jumble of letters. My Microsoft Account email is "contact@<my-domain-name>". If I set up a
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I built a programming language using Claude Code(ankursethi.com)
135 points by GeneralMaximus 6mo ago|183 comments
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I used a local LLM to analyze my journal entries(ankursethi.com)
1 points by GeneralMaximus 7mo ago|0 comments
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by GeneralMaximus 8mo ago
Location: Bangalore, India (UTC+5:30) Remote: preferred Willing to relocate: no Technologies: web platform (HTML, CSS, JavaScript), the React ecosystem, TypeScript, Tailwind, Astro. Good enough at UI/UX design to be dangerous. Résumé&#
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by GeneralMaximus 8mo ago
Yes! I'm currently working on a script that modifies a bunch of sensitive files, and this the approach I'm taking to make sure I don't accidentally lose any important data. I've split the process into three parts: 1. Wal
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by GeneralMaximus 8mo ago
At least according to Statcounter, Linux is currently at 3.86% worldwide: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide . It's slightly larger in the US at 5.28%: https://gs.statcount
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by GeneralMaximus 8mo ago
If you use `uv`, you can declare your dependencies at the top of a script: https://docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/scripts/#declaring-script-d... I've started using Python for many more tasks after I discovered
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Pushing the smallest possible change to production(ankursethi.com)
18 points by GeneralMaximus 8mo ago|3 comments
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by GeneralMaximus 8mo ago
> I think maybe we're talking past each other then. I'm saying I don't agree with the argument that music necessarily needs to have a story to be widely consumed in a positive way. I can imagine that this is true for a lot
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by GeneralMaximus 8mo ago
Could you put some kind of CORS proxy in front of those URLs? (I know it sucks that you have to do this at all, but c'est la vie.) You could even write a Cloudflare Worker or a Val on val.town to do that, and add a bit of caching on to
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by GeneralMaximus 8mo ago
I've started to "standardize" my own use of Markdown as "whatever works in the apps I use". For me these apps are iA Writer, Obsidian, and Astro's rendering pipeline (which uses the Remark/Rehype ecosystem
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by GeneralMaximus 8mo ago
> markdown is horrible, horrible format to parse... I agree entirely. But it's a lovely format to use . Programming as a profession is entirely about making things easier for our users , even if it means making things harder for o
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by GeneralMaximus 9mo ago
Location: Bangalore, India (UTC+5:30) Remote: preferred Willing to relocate: no Technologies: web platform (HTML, CSS, JavaScript), React, TypeScript, Tailwind, some Next.js Résumé/CV: https://archive.ankursethi.com/wor
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by GeneralMaximus 9mo ago
I live in India and a surprising number of people here are using AI. A lot of public religious imagery is very clearly AI generated, and you can find a lot of it on social media too. "I asked ChatGPT" is a common refrain at family
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by GeneralMaximus 9mo ago
I've been analyzing my Obsidian vault using local LLMs that I run via Apple's mlx_lm. I'm on an M4 MacBook Pro with 48GB RAM. The results are ... okay. The biggest problem is that I can't run some of the largest models o

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