herrherrmann

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by herrherrmann 3d ago
I guess it’s good to warn about bad actors early and throughly!
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by herrherrmann 3d ago
My first thought was “ah, this must be a JVM for Kotlin by the creators of Kotlin (Jetbrains)!”
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by herrherrmann 7d ago
… and run all kinds of scripts to verify the code, ignoring any pre-configured linters.
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by herrherrmann 7d ago
That implies that Claude writes better code by default, which isn’t necessarily true. Especially as projects get bigger, you can easily end up with unmaintainable LLM-written code if you don’t actively intervene and know a cleaner way.
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by herrherrmann 19d ago
The “(all genders)” bit is probably just based on the fact that they translated the German job ad (in German you have to be more explicit with the male/female/all versions of titles, because the default is usually just the male fo
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by herrherrmann 19d ago
I think it’s implied that accepting these kinds of PRs will take time away from working on actual improvements to the codebase. So, on the long term it’s better to be strict with these kinds of silly contributions, and focus on changes that
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The Raycast Keyboard(raycast.com)
3 points by herrherrmann 20d ago|2 comments
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by herrherrmann 23d ago
Many people care and should care. Of course if a piece of software (or any project/tool, really) gets a lot of usage, it’ll indirectly make its creators more powerful. I wouldn’t want to make a person more powerful if they support horr
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by herrherrmann 23d ago
I disagree. Technology is inherently political, and it’s valuable and important to get informed and reminded about the many horrible people that are directly or indirectly tied to any mentioned organizations and projects.
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by herrherrmann 26d ago
Neat! I like these opinionated lists, especially when it’s easy to browse and cherry-pick useful stuff. It’d be very good to mention how compatible the features are, though. Especially with newer CSS features, it’s easy to overestimate how
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by herrherrmann 1mo ago
You like using Google and Microsoft products as an end user (even ignoring all the ethical issues with these companies)? That seems surprising to me. I find their products so horrible compared to e.g. Fastmail.
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by herrherrmann 1mo ago
Cool, I didn’t know that! But makes a lot of sense.
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by herrherrmann 1mo ago
… and the sizes of their updates are usually impressive! Seems to be a big project that is managed well to keep a good pace and keep the community in the loop. (Although I don’t know much about their inner workings.)
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by herrherrmann 1mo ago
Yep, even music software like Ableton Live is using zipped XML for the project files (although the much bigger audio files are stored independently in sub-folders). There were even efforts to use the XML format to manage Ableton project fil
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by herrherrmann 1mo ago
It’s hard for me to imagine that most people care about speed. I think it’s more likely that they just don’t know how bad Chrome is (for the internet) and how evil Google is (it’s still the main search engine for most people). I think Chrom
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by herrherrmann 2mo ago
You should try Firefox or Waterfox then!
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by herrherrmann 2mo ago
Wow, that is one well-documented migration project! Thanks for sharing, I wasn’t aware they are so seriously on it.
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by herrherrmann 2mo ago
You can look up who the contributors are, e.g. in their open-source repo: https://codeberg.org/comaps There are also issues and projects with lots of discussions about what to prioritize, etc. So, bashing that “community” i
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by herrherrmann 2mo ago
I thought we’re talking about Building Relationships for a second. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2666920/Building_Relation...
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by herrherrmann 3mo ago
You can check this crowdsourced list for the compatibility of banking apps: https://github.com/PrivSec-dev/privsec.dev/blob/main/content... Authenticators should work normally, as far as I know (unless G
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by herrherrmann 3mo ago
I’m sure the general premise around AI-generated code is accurate. That being said, I’ve definitely had interesting moments where e.g. Claude produced code that matched the pre-existing codebase quite nicely, and slowly started building up
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by herrherrmann 4mo ago
> IMO the maintenance story is more or less solved if you can keep AI agents refactoring and improving it in a loop. That’s a weak argument, though, if the future of AI is totally unreliable when it comes to cost and quality. Right now I
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by herrherrmann 4mo ago
Did they? Genuine question, because I do wonder if people in some industries in the past were ever anxious about these specific things (especially skill attrition).
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by herrherrmann 4mo ago
Works well for me! Have been using Kagi for well over a year now. (I assume you’re talking about the German search results, not their German UI.)
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by herrherrmann 4mo ago
You mean the search results are loading slow? I’ve sometimes noticed that, but not really to a degree that it was significantly worse than Google.
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by herrherrmann 4mo ago
Yes.
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by herrherrmann 4mo ago
I had the same worries! It’s great to be positively surprised that it’s all good news in Obsidian’s case.
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by herrherrmann 4mo ago
That workflow just sounds exhausting to me. Would I always need to consider how much of a blast radius my AI-generated code might have? Sounds like there’s so much extra management going into these micro decisions that it ultimately defeats
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by herrherrmann 5mo ago
There are a lot of points in there that are just generally bad in modern applications – e.g. UI inconsistencies, lack of automation and general configurability (shared ways to handle windows, layouts, keyboard shortcuts, etc.). I think it’s
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by herrherrmann 5mo ago
Sometimes it’s just about using the path of least resistance. I’ve also contributed to Apple Maps’ and Google Maps’ data, even though I’d prefer to exclusively contribute to OSM and other open platforms instead. But, it was just easier to g

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