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by andrewingram 8d ago
Only one i'd trust less is SpaceX, and they're other major player in this space...
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by andrewingram 10d ago
Yeah, I kept looking for the first place it was defined in the article and... nothing
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by andrewingram 19d ago
I had a lot of fun with Snowboard Kids. Not quite Diddy Kong Racing, but one of my favourite N64 racers.
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by andrewingram 22d ago
I play quite a few games on my Mac Mini via Crossover, but rarely anything particularly graphically intensive. Though I do see occasional buzz about improvements in the game porting toolkit leading to significant perf improvements when they
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by andrewingram 1mo ago
I probably wasn’t clear with my experience. I was trying to get Claude to present my ideas, with a lot of steering and refinement, but it always seemed to be plagued by Claudisms. Even after getting rid of most, it took me rewriting all the
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by andrewingram 1mo ago
I used Sol to extract the remaining decryption keys from the Super Mario Maker 2 (Switch) game files. Someone had previously extracted all the keys from the original release, but not any of the new ones from updates. Not only did it succeed
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by andrewingram 1mo ago
The article reads eerily like the Claude-authored drafts I did for some internal explanations of Relay’s design philosophy (it’s a GraphQL client I’ve been advocating for). I’m not one to make accusations of AI authorship, but it was a part
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by andrewingram 1mo ago
Are you paying? I see an endless stream of AI or bot-like posts in the replies of basically every tweet I see with any traction, but i'm not a paying user so I may have the bad version of the platform.
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by andrewingram 2mo ago
> conflicting styles don't make sense Sometimes true, but one issue here is that because Tailwind utility classes vary from being a 1:1 mapping to a single underlying style rule, to mapping to several, it's not always obvious w
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by andrewingram 2mo ago
For anyone who didn't know, caniuse lets you upload your actual usage data. Then for any capability, next to global support you also see the stats for your user-base. https://caniuse.com/ciu/settings#usage
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by andrewingram 2mo ago
Whilst I don't _really_ consider 37k LoC a day to be a particularly extreme number, my issue with all the high profile high output usage of AI, is that it doesn't really prove much of value. I use AI in a pretty single-threaded wa
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by andrewingram 2mo ago
> Note that Rails was built as a framework for making blogs This doesn't seem right. Yes, the "build a blog in 15 minutes" demo was pretty memorable, but I don't think it's ever really been pitched as a sweet spo
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by andrewingram 2mo ago
I think it depends on the project, but I've found that using installable libraries becomes a bottleneck over time as you find yourself running into their limits, or trying to customise them in ways they really aren't design for. I
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by andrewingram 2mo ago
I call it "being shot in the face with bullet points". I was trying to use an LLM to write up some guidelines on how to use a piece of tech, and I kept getting frustrated that it felt like a slide deck rather than sincere persuasi
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by andrewingram 3mo ago
One thing i've struggled with with Prosemirror (via TipTap) is that I very often need to interact with JSON representation of the document programmatically to extract data from it, this means I need (okay, strongly prefer) a statically
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by andrewingram 3mo ago
At work we've tried switching to vitest, and it's 1.5-2x slower than Jest (I think it's related to our very large and circular module graph), so performance is very much a your-mileage-may-vary thing.
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by andrewingram 4mo ago
If you look at the origins, the primary motivation was finding a way to get a good data loading developer experience without having to adopt Relay and GraphQL.
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by andrewingram 4mo ago
As they say (they being me), no design survives implementation.
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by andrewingram 5mo ago
I remember regularly scrambling to redesign our marketing site, because the CEO was going to start speaking to investors in less than a week. So we'd always end up with a homepage that represented a new narrative the CEO was trying out
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by andrewingram 5mo ago
I'd hazard a guess that there's a large gulf between proportion of users who know as much as you, and the total number using these tools. The fact that a message can perform wildly differently (in either cost, or behaviour if usin
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by andrewingram 5mo ago
This points to a fairly fundamental mismatch between the realities of running an LLM and the expectations of users. As a user, I _expect_ the cost of resuming X hours/days later to be no different to resuming seconds or minutes later.
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by andrewingram 6mo ago
There's a _big_ continuum between disagreeing over something and an ethical hard line, it feels like a slippery slope to interpete a suggested approach for one end of that line as advocacy for applying that same approach to the other e
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by andrewingram 6mo ago
I used something similar for my Super Mario Maker 2 level viewer (eg https://www.smm2-viewer.com/courses/1HH-CJ8-KYF ) In the level data, the start/goal tiles (approx 10x10 blocks of solid ground under the player a
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by andrewingram 7mo ago
I have a few parallel AI-authored side projects on the go that have quite different shapes, and I feel quite different things about each 1. A survival horde game (like Vampire Survivors and Brotato). At the moment it's very primitive,
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by andrewingram 7mo ago
I did a slightly less ambitious prototype a few weeks ago where I created added lazy loading of GCS files into the just-bash file-systems, as well as lots of other on-demand files. Was a lot of fun.
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by andrewingram 7mo ago
just-bash comes with Python installed, so in a way that's what this has done. I've used this for some prototypes with AI tools (via bash-tool), can't really productionise it in our current setup, but it worked very well and w
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by andrewingram 7mo ago
Yeah, whilst git was more popular than mercurial, I still think mercurial would have won if bitbucket had a better UI. It's interesting to me that the only thing that made me vastly prefer using Github over bitbucket is that Github pri
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by andrewingram 8mo ago
Ambiguity increasingly feels like the crux of estimation. By that I mean the extent to which you have a clear idea of what needs to be done before you start the work. I do a lot of fussy UI finesse work, which on the surface are small chang
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by andrewingram 9mo ago
I mean, the use of GraphQL for third party APIs has always been questionable wisdom. I’m about a big a GraphQL fan as it gets, but I’ve always come down on the side of being very skeptical that it’s suitable for anything beyond its primary
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by andrewingram 9mo ago
It’s no secret that RSC was at least partially an attempt to get close to what Relay offers but without requiring you adopt GraphQL.

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