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by searls 8d ago
… which would only exacerbate the computational disparity they're operating under.
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by searls 2mo ago
I'll be honest, I struggled to get much done with SwiftUI each of the last four years but this summer I started 4 greenfield iOS 27 apps on SwiftUI and it's genuinely been pretty delightful and none have required escape hatches to
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by searls 2mo ago
I've been using agents to develop Mac and iOS apps for over a year now and I would say this post is bad advice, particularly because the excellent Xcode MCP requires Xcode to be running. The MCP tool gives you faster, better access to
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by searls 4mo ago
Akira showed me this work in progress in January and I was pretty amazed by it, but I have to be honest—as someone who prides himself on clever OSS repo names, he just absolutely put me to shame. English as a second language but he's a
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by searls 6mo ago
Read this: > Every time any of LinkedIn’s one billion users visits linkedin.com, hidden code searches their computer for installed software, collects the results, and transmits them to LinkedIn’s servers And thought, "no way in hell
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by searls 6mo ago
I'm glad to see this comment and the parent comment and the grandparent comment voted so near the top. I've had the same experience. I honestly would love to be able to give my Kagi key to the ChatGPT or Claude clients (or more re
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by searls 7mo ago
LOL, no, dumbing down was when I paid two months of subscription with the model literally struggling to write basic functions. Something Anthropic eventually acknowledged but offered no refunds for. https://ilikekillnerds.com&#x2
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by searls 7mo ago
lol, just yesterday a friend asked me if he should move his business to Railway from Heroku. Welp.
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by searls 7mo ago
This feels a bit like when some Hubbers broke off to work on PlanetScale, except without the massively successful, proven-to-be-scalable open source tool to build off (Vitess). If you're approaching this problem-space from the ground u
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by searls 7mo ago
Agree, extremely poorly reported out across numerous outlets.
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by searls 8mo ago
This is true of the CLIs that start with `xcode` but not of the CLIs that start with `swift`. As `swift-format` and `swift-test` have come into their own, they're just as reliable as any other language ecosystem. And the difference is
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by searls 8mo ago
This is madness. Some stories actually have good guys. I don't know Adam directly, but we have plenty of second degree connections. I've benefited immensely from his work, have never heard anyone say a single negative thing about
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by searls 8mo ago
FWIW, "write markdown, publish to my static site, and cross-post to social media" is exactly what I built POSSE Party to do. All your site needs is an Atom feed to read from https://github.com/searlsco/posse_p
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by searls 9mo ago
POSSE Party ( http://posseparty.com ) supports syndicating YouTube Shorts and Instagram reels, but trying to syndicate longer form video just didn't make sense IMO
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by searls 9mo ago
I created POSSE Party because I had similar concerns. Truncation and spacing are highly customizable. You can add a posse:post sidecar element containing JSON that formats exact presentation for each platform exactly as you want it. The bui
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by searls 9mo ago
OpenAI doesn't let you change your email address, either.
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by searls 10mo ago
It would be funny if OpenAI turns for-profit, faceplants, and then finds new life (as Mozilla did) as a non-profit sharing its tools for free.
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by searls 10mo ago
Funny, had it tell me the same thing twice yesterday and that was _with_ thinking + search enabled on the request (it apparently refused to carry out the search, which it does once in every blue moon). I didn't make this connection tha
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Show HN: Straight-to-video, for client-side video remuxing/transcoding(searlsco.github.io)
2 points by searls 10mo ago|0 comments
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by searls 11mo ago
At what point in history have you owned a particular piece of hardware for use with a particular piece of never-to-be-updated software and installed a major OEM operating system release a full 7 years after release without issue? I doubt su
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by searls 11mo ago
As somebody who picked up Backbone after Sammy and other earlier attempts, when React came along and took the world by storm, I more or less decided to nope out of JavaScript development and go back to Rails. Every generation needs to learn
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by searls 1y ago
This is a great reminder and I need to start doing this. Bullet point plans aren’t enough for lots of vertical slice work unless it fits really neatly into well known buckets (e.g. Rails MVC)
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Certified Shovelware(justin.searls.co)
1 points by searls 1y ago|1 comments
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by searls 1y ago
In early September, Mike Judge's post challenging the productivity potential for coding agents by asking where the supposed AI shovelware is. It's been stuck in my craw for the past couple weeks, because I keep running into progra
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by searls 1y ago
Yeah, I went to Dogo Onsen last year and after the fact people told me it was inspiration for Spirited Away and I literally didn't believe them. I've been to countless riverside onsen resorts in the middle of nowhere that look mor
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by searls 1y ago
I had some time to kill a couple years back and asked a Japanese friend where to go from Kagoshima, and she said I could take the ferry to Yakushima, so I walked to the dock, bought a ticket, and booked a minpaku lodge en route. Turns out,
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by searls 1y ago
I was doing a ton of agile, testing, and QA consulting in this era, and I feel like page objects worked well only in very narrow circumstances. Namely, QA departments where quality engineers were tasked with building very large and comprehe
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by searls 1y ago
This is a good idea. I'm so used to being miserly about my action minute allotment that this didn't occur to me until I realized that OSS time is free still (I think?)
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by searls 1y ago
Nice! I was too lazy but looks good
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by searls 1y ago
Thanks! To answer your question, other tools with package registries typically require accounts, increasingly 2FA, often encourage some sort of signing step. Having GitHub's ToS serve as the source of trust really simplifies things for

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