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Posts by Iain McLaren

TIL that #postgresql indexes can silently corrupt. Queries will still run happily but really really slowly.

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Airamerica

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Huh. A week ago, if you searched for calmshows in the app store (the exact name for one of my apps), the app did not appear. Now it's the first result again.

#thanksapple #fixed

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calmshows App - App Store Download calmshows by Elaine Bevington on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips and more apps like calmshows.

calmshows is a fun app that I built to track when your favourite tv shows and movies are available. No ads, no distractions, just joy.

One minor complaint. If you search for 'calmshows' on the appstore it does not appear. It used to be the first or second hit!

apps.apple.com/au/app/calmsho...

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Beautiful. it’s giving Gravity.

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#hollowknight #silksong #orchestravictoria #acmi

www.orchestravictoria.com.au/...

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I Told You So My quote from 2019

"How is everyone enjoying their singularity?"

geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/...

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Is there an awesome micromodels site that shows models of different types that can run on a 2 cpu host with 4gb of ram?

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New most common prompt:

You compacted halfway through. Please do a git diff, check the changes, and compare with our following original instructions:

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Wow. I submitted an app to the Apple App Store and it was accepted for distribution without a single rejection. One and done.

That has never happened before.

It's like a magical unicorn.

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The Real Future of AI Is Ordering Mid Chicken at Bojangles This month I ordered a meal at the Bojangles drive-thru in South Carolina, which is now using AI. This is how AI becomes the background noise of the world.

The future is already here — it's just not evenly distributed.
– William Gibson

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Waiting for Godot is waiting for the claude usage limit to reset

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Current status. Using two claude instances to update two projects using two programming languages at the same time while listening to an audiobook and posting to social media.

What could possibly go wrong?

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Table saws Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry as a career thanks to the invention of the table saw.

"Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry as a career thanks to the invention of the table saw."

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When you take a nice photo of your garden but can't post it because of #geoguesser

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haha facts.

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I’m building using vanilla XCode with vanilla UI components, so hopefully I’m ok …

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Well, I guess I am about to find out if only using standard #SwiftUI components and configuration settings is forward compatible.

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[ On | No ] syntactic support for error handling - The Go Programming Language Go team plans around error handling support

#golang just leaving error handling be is possibly the most golang move ever and I am here for it.

https://go.dev/blog/error-syntax

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If you add "Regards" as your email signature then I assume that we are at war?

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Oh agile | Iain McLaren

Oh agile.

https://iainmclaren.com/posts/2025-05-25-oh-agile/

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Lesson learned. Ridiculously expensive #Ubiquiti switches are well worth the cost.

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#Andor season 1 was ok. Andor season 2 is amazing. It's giving Rogue One.

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FWIW I get responses on Mastodon :)

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Yes?

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Archive for May 2025 You also mentioned the whole Chatbot Arena thing, which I think is interesting and points to the challenge around how you do benchmarking. How do you know what models are good for which things?

#s3 best practices:

simonwillison.net/2025/May/14/...

"- Ideally never mutate an object in S3, add a new version instead."

I agree but would go further:

- s3 versions are an antipattern. Always create a new s3 object with a new name.

Too extreme?

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Absolutely. Humans are single threaded. We can learn to context switch quickly and efficiently but any context switch incurs latency.

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Minimal CSS-only blurry image placeholders Absolutely brilliant piece of CSS ingenuity by Lean Rada, who describes a way to implement blurry placeholder images using just CSS, with syntax like this: <pre><span class="pl-kos">&lt;</span><span class="pl-ent">img</span> <span class="pl-c1">src</span>="<span …

Oh nice. A very clever css only image placeholder hack:

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Request to #golang devs. When creating a library, a go.dev link is great, but please also add at least one example, at least one test, or a detailed README.

Also, please provide real installation instructions instead of, or in addition to, a Docker instance.

Thanks!

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