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by alabut 12d ago
I use my phone as a bike computer too but it only works on short rides around town. Anything longer gets cooked by the sun until the screen dims and battery stops charging. That’s why the head units in my bikepacking groups have screens tha
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by alabut 21d ago
Reminds me of the Butlerian Jihad in Dune and how the anti-ai revolt led to the rise of human thinking machines. They're the ones that roll back their eyes in the movies when they're calculating.
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by alabut 3mo ago
Oh no, they're going to knock down Soma? Such an iconic all-ages venue.
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by alabut 3mo ago
Oh yeah, we’re already there. In fact it’s a pre-ai thing too, where I saw a cyclist YouTuber explain how making thumbnails look too professional is an anti-signal. People often crave authenticity over production value.
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by alabut 3mo ago
I get the impression a lot of people use ai to clean up writing when English isn’t their first language, which unfortunately means they can’t see the robotic generic tone it creates. E.g. the references to user groups in Buenos Aires. One w
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by alabut 3mo ago
Terrible examples - they're both ugly. The honeycomb one is particularly bad because it's covered up with a cookie popup on the left and the chat widget on the right. Yes they both have the same overall structure as the Stripe lan
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by alabut 4mo ago
Simon Willison made a similar parallel recently: https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/6/vibe-coding-and-agentic... “The thing that really helps me is thinking back to when I’ve worked at larger organization
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by alabut 4mo ago
Well that's a first - a nice clean landing page explaining a pivot that still retains a personal touch in both design and writing. Makes me want to try out their new thing.
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by alabut 4mo ago
Don't know why this is getting downvoted. AI as air cover for layoffs seems very plausible for at least some companies, especially the ones that were already predisposed to doing layoffs pre-ai.
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by alabut 5mo ago
Sure, notifications are inherently disruptive by nature and there’s an admin tax to turning them off. But unless you’re installing new apps every day, it’s a one-time fix and not an ongoing distraction. That’s the realistic gray area in bet
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by alabut 7mo ago
At least they’re making some kind of minimal disclosure. So many of these fluff pieces have the same format PG complained about two decades ago: https://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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by alabut 7mo ago
Ha! CSS is at the very bottom. It's not exactly a fair test for stylesheets since so many styles look similar but aren't actually boilerplate setup, but it does capture the Groundhog's Day feeling of frontend work.
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by alabut 9mo ago
Promoting the good parts is very worthwhile and there’s a thriving scene. A bunch of interesting people talk over zoom and IRL regularly because of events.indieweb.org and we just had our 3rd annual weekend camp here in San Diego a few week
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by alabut 9mo ago
That’s a good take and is underrated. It’s what has kept me from completely automating everything in favor of a semi-automated approach instead of doing the “spray and pray” approach of blasting everywhere. Follow-up comments and engaging w
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by alabut 9mo ago
I wish that were true but if ease of use is all that mattered, then micro.blog and other “Indieweb in a box” services would be as big as Bluesky, or maybe even at least as big as Mastodon. The truth is that we’re social creatures and for so
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by alabut 9mo ago
I’ve been an Astro user for the last two years and I can’t recommend it. RSS support isn’t native, doesn’t support anything other than plain markdown, and all of the extra magic of MDX and their custom .Astro templates is wasted without fee
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by alabut 7y ago
Agreed. I love stacking the months like that and turning it into a never-ending river of days, looks like it'd be easier to estimate the length of time between two different months.
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by alabut 8y ago
Yep, and quiet electric motors is why air taxis could be a real thing again in major cities. E.g. Uber partnered with NASA to try to bring them to Los Angeles before the 2028 Olympics, with 18 heliports scattered around the county.
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by alabut 8y ago
Yeah, the reality check in that video was eye opening. Clearly it’s a deliberate strategy to roll these things out at flight schools at first, so they’re always circling within landing range. Electric planes will definitely graduate to shor
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by alabut 8y ago
The embedded video is super short, so here's a longer piece by a youtuber that spent some time with the same model when they hit Australia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CS3isCH4bk
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by alabut 9y ago
Can confirm. The founder of this site is actually a close personal friend that started teaching me about this stuff years ago, first in a more casual way when catching up and then recently much more in-depth as he started documenting his ex
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by alabut 10y ago
I also liked the article's critique of Western philosophy as being too analytical and divorced from real life. Apparently that wasn't always the case in the ancient world and philosophy had more practical application, which probab
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by alabut 11y ago
Ugh, it's so much noise for your neighbor though. I worked next to someone with an old IBM keyboard for a year and was grumpy the entire time. Couldn't find headphones strong enough to cancel out what sounded like someone shooting
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by alabut 11y ago
Partnered (YC S12, http://partnered.com ) San Francisco, Senior Engineer, Full-time We’ve built an exclusive private network of startups and brands that connect for business partnerships. It’s a hard problem to solve and we’ve sh
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by alabut 12y ago
Dude, congrats on the hustle! How did you land your first artist and convince them to crowdfund? Was it a weird experiment for them or totally natural?
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by alabut 12y ago
Yeah, the MDRV6 with Beyerdynamic Velour earcushions are my secret sauce for getting in the zone. The stock pleather earpads will give you "hot ears" that make long shifts uncomfortable. If you keep going down the audiophile rabbi
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by alabut 12y ago
That's not the default behavior for inline elements. In that example with the 4 hearts, you can imagine a visually ugly effect where a browser width is narrow enough to show 3 of them and the last one drops to a new line.
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by alabut 12y ago
Dude, you should brag about your approach to private offices, like your designer wrote about: http://blog.circleci.com/silence-is-for-the-weak/ It reminds me of Joel Spolsky's articles on their approach to workspa
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by alabut 12y ago
Nope, the military isn't as strong in Turkey as it used to be. Jailing a bunch of top generals will do that.
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by alabut 13y ago
Paul Buchheit said something similar at startup school years ago and I watch the video every once in a while to remind myself not to be similarly prescriptive when I meet new people. His key takeaway slide was a simple equation: Limited Lif

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