Possibly related: winglets make no sense to me.
Why are there so many shapes, and why does the a380 use the same winglet type as an a320?

Planes at the closest thing to magic that I've encountered. I just have no intuition around why they work. Rockets make sense, ships make sense.
There's just no experience I've had that had similar mechanics to a plane flying.

It's a mystery to me why Netflix decided to add games to their platform. Watching movies/TV is such a wildly different experience to playing mobile games, why would you bundle that together into a single subscription

What's the reason why some people start emails with "<first name>, " instead of "hi <first name>, "?

That's not a greeting?

Class based React was peak React

and it doesn't even require a buildstep? 😌

I've been putting off looking at @vuejs.org for a while and finally now started reading their docs. This looks like all the stuff React took away from us when moving to functional components!

componentDidMount - yes please!

Chatgpt seems really relieved someone finally asked

Be human, be cringe!

I vote for embracing cringe.
I don't think feeling cringe about old posts is correlated to them being of low-quality or not being of use for other people.

It may just feel cringe because after a while one forgets the thoughts that were happening during writing and read it from a v diff perspective

I don't think we're allowed to post AI generated images that aren't Ghibli today!

Really glad @bun.sh exists

Transparently transpiling ts files is such a treat, so glad I don't have to deal with that myself

Pretty interesting that the whole "every child should be able to code" thing we had going on 5 years ago may not be quite as necessary

:-(

I think that's realistically the only way to use a paid email provider - bring your own domain.

Otherwise you'll be stuck with whatever pricing/features/changed priorities they throw at you.

Having an email account is kind of terrible cause once you have one you're stuck with it forever.

Seems like everyone should just own a domain and plug it into whatever email provider they like, so they can transparently switch between Email Providers without loosing much?

I don't know who came up with the idea of using airport code for data center locations, but thank you - it's amazing.

So much better to read AMS than europe-west4

How can it be that there's no way to change the settings of display from my computer and instead have to use buttons to change all sorts of sliders?

Would be great if brightness could just be adjusted based on time of day, cause that's what I need to do manually every day 🥲

It's weird that none of the new LLM powered IDEs/editors has picked emacs yet as their base.

There's so many existing distributions already that one could build on to get sane keybindings and things, and the fact that everything can be scripted is just prime material for an LLM

I might just be really misunderstanding Starterpacks but I accidentally clicked "follow all" and there's no way to undo...

Guess it's on me to work out who that includes

Chrome extensions really seem the sweet spot for current AI models:

small enough in scope so no context window issues,
rarely critical so it's fine if knowledge if internals is just siloed away and weird enough APIs that one would need to spend time on learning abt extensions

It's time

Wearing two of my favourite products today

I eventually got it to stop producing new solutions and acknowledge that there's simply uncertainty - pretty cool!

But now I feel bad

One very cool change in the new claude model is that handles a lot better an "are you sure?" response. Instead of abandoning ship immediately it'll try to reconsider, and no longer endlessly apologises about it

Obviously having incredible devx is important, but having to deal with an incredibly granular IAM and VPCs is just a waste of time when the company is small

A big part of why I think @fly.io is successful is because GCP/Azure/AWS only scales in your compute needs but not in company maturity.

A 5 person startup having the same dials as a fortune 500 makes no sense - hope companies like fly io can build something that truly scales with orgs

And I thought the British airlines website is bad 🫠I do know that the actual booking infrastructure is all quite old, but it doesn't really explain to my why it's so bad (and cant airlines go around this anyway?) would be very interested in some inside scoop

bit more like hackernews than reddit but cool nevertheless

Frontpage Your frontpage to the internet.

This is actually already kind of close frontpage.fyi
Looks quite nice