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by wwalexander 6d ago
I've largely moved over to lobste.rs for actual technical news. They even have a "vibecoding" tag to let you filter out anything related to coding with LLMs.
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by wwalexander 6d ago
Using cross-platform web technology is absolutely a nuanced engineering decision that is the right one for many businesses. What is categorically bad is bundling a standalone browser runtime for every single service, wasting user’s storage
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by wwalexander 18d ago
> it added a killer feature: generated columns It would be super cool if somehow SwiftData could translate computed properties of @Model objects into these generated columns via the #Expression macro!
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by wwalexander 24d ago
E = mc^2 + AI
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by wwalexander 1mo ago
What does rent control have to do with corporate rollout strategy?
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by wwalexander 1mo ago
Self driving cars and AI aren’t science. Not sure what being pro or anti nuclear or AI has to do with corporate rollout strategy.
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by wwalexander 1mo ago
What “anti-science slopulism” are you referring to? And what does corporate rollout strategy have to do with science?
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by wwalexander 2mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs > Unofficial development for the system also continues on the 9front fork, where active contributors provide monthly builds and new functionality. So far, the 9fro
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by wwalexander 2mo ago
Swift generics tend to idiomatically use longer names, like Element or View or Content.
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by wwalexander 2mo ago
Are you generating these responses with an LLM?
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by wwalexander 2mo ago
Another fun New Reddit quirk: on iOS, the un-dismissable “better in the app” popover makes scroll stop working, meaning you can’t scroll up to get the iOS-native “Open in App” toolbar that actually opens the app, so your only option is to c
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by wwalexander 2mo ago
I much prefer the interface of Pixelmator and Pages to Photoshop and InDesign, and paying once (for the non-AI-augmented version of Pixelmator, which Apple indicate will continue to receive some manner of updates going forward) is a nice pl
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by wwalexander 2mo ago
What scene?
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by wwalexander 2mo ago
The author of this comment is an engineer at Bluesky.
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by wwalexander 2mo ago
If only Philips would support USB-C for their OneBlade electric razors, instead of a USB-A to proprietary figure 8 barrel plug cable.
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by wwalexander 2mo ago
The pricier ones have a case with just a USB-C port.
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by wwalexander 2mo ago
ccTLD hacks are both semantically incorrect and geopolitically unstable. The .io TLD will likely be phased out in the future due to geopolitics, and all the companies who decided it was more important to signal how hacker jargon aware their
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by wwalexander 2mo ago
Cloudflare
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by wwalexander 3mo ago
Not really fixable, unfortunately. The API requires an network call for each comment: > The v0 API is essentially a dump of our in-memory data structures. We know, what works great locally in memory isn't so hot over the network. Wh
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by wwalexander 3mo ago
> It's the same thing. In the latter case, something has validated that your NonEmpty has a first and a last element. No, it has parsed it into a structure that structurally has at least one element, not just the promise that ther
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by wwalexander 3mo ago
This is just validation that is using the type system to indicate the validation has already occurred. I think the real point of “parse, don’t validate” is to make the type system give you structural guarantees that couldn’t exist otherwise
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by wwalexander 3mo ago
> Japanese electronic tariffs in the 80s Also motorcycles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_motorcycle_tariff
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by wwalexander 3mo ago
guard has two advantages: the compiler ensures that you exit the current scope if the condition does not hold (via return, break, continue, etc), and bindings established in the guard clause (e.g. let foo = optionalBar) remaining in scope a
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by wwalexander 3mo ago
You can configure macOS to switch between languages by pressing the globe key, but it’s a far cry from letting you type in any of your languages without it autocorrecting/red-underlining.
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by wwalexander 3mo ago
iOS supports using one keyboard for two languages (for me, a USA keyboard with English and Italian). Unfortunately this doesn't exist on macOS yet.
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by wwalexander 3mo ago
Will this support expansion in the case of all bays being filled? EDIT: Nevermind, the product page has an option to add up to 32 additional drives via expansion units. Nice!
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by wwalexander 3mo ago
> In addition, every software company seems to go their own way and have their own “style” Hence Apple using the same set of SF Symbols across all their platforms. And I don't think icons are intended to be used to initially identif
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by wwalexander 3mo ago
What about toolbars? Those almost universally have both text and icons for each item. Why should menus be any different?
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by wwalexander 3mo ago
I strongly dislike Ive's influence overall, but skeuomorphism made it incredibly difficult and cost-prohibitive for a single indie developer to make an app that felt like a polished first-party experience for iOS. I'm glad it&#x27
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by wwalexander 3mo ago
Yes, I have been listening to Gruber complain about them for a year now. His critique is that "Apple's HIG used to say not to," not anything about what actually makes them bad. Curiously, I haven't heard him talk about A

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