Exactly my feeling. Posting on X and Bluesky feels like standing in a hall with thousands of people in it, all talking to each other, politely ignoring everything you say.
I acknowledge that it is a chicken and egg problem: posting more would lead to more engagement, but somehow I don’t feel it.
Don’t know about the product but what I would love it to do is to distinguish between text and instructions. Like dictating text and then saying “oh, btw please make the phrase ‘CSS is awesome’ bold”
Don’t trust US-based companies (with your data). It’s time to move to EU providers. Where non-exist, there lies opportunity to build something!
Why is this a horizontal slider?
Yes! There were plenty of past time inventions (e.g., instruments, sewing machines), that fostered creativity and making, that reached the mass market. But since at least ~40 years, pretty much all newly invented stuff is about consuming. Except the computer.
I find the code AI writes for me at work a lot "better" than the code it writes for my pet projects.
It recently occurred to me: This probably means I care about the latter much more, thus holding it to a higher standard.
Contrast that with smartphones or tablets: they're primarily tailored for consumption. And the few things they help to create, they make so easy to do that the creations are mostly meaningless (e.g., photos and social media posts).
I'm incredibly thankful that computers happened during my youth.
Sure, a big part of why PCs were successful was that they enabled consuming video games. But even there, the same device could also be used to create or at least modify. Many PC games came with map editors, for example.
Computers, as a mass-market phenomenon, were a happy accident in history. I can't think of any other recent invention marketed to consumers that's primarily made to create, not to consume.
I think many people got burned mocking too much and now they’re overcorrecting.
You stole my next post!
Completely agree! When creating skills and other such artefacts I always think: this is useful information for every one working on this codebase! Why hide it in .claude/ ?
I think the incentives are aligned in a way that it’s just too tempting to not only not filter benchmarks but explicitly post train on them. So Anthropic not even bothering to hide that they’re not filtering is at least honest.
> RTFM!!!111
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Der Vergleich hinkt stark. Die EU sanktioniert den Iran. Es besteht zwischen Politik und der Bevölkerung bereits ein Konsens, dass die Taten des iranischen Regimes zu verurteilen sind.
Controversial opinion: Tabs (the UI concept) were a mistake!
Especially in the browser, they offer no advantage over separate windows, but come with the huge downside of having to use different keyboard shortcuts than the OS already provides for navigating windows.
Progress on my journey to digital sovereignty, leaving Apple and Google behind:
- Sold my AirPods Max
- Switched my search engine and browser
For the most part, it won't be as hard as I thought; I only fear the day when my MacBook Pro needs to be replaced. markus.oberlehner.net/blog/escapin...
So Tailwind is now showered with sponsorship money. Good.
Now that leaves us with hundreds of other open source libraries, blogs, and ad supported websites that are still struggling.
By far the most useful kind of tests! Also with 100% humans in the loop.
I have a perfectly fine iPad Air lying around that is completely broken. Just because it gets no updates anymore. Providing full Linux support should be mandatory after ending support.
What is your experience with the Apple ecosystem? Does it feel like magic for you, or is the magic broken because it just doesn't work some of the time, like for me?
Copy and paste between devices? Copying text on the laptop and pasting it on the iPhone feels like magic! But again, in 50% of cases, it just doesn't work.
Playing music via AirPlay on multiple HomePods, too, feels like magic when it works™. But in 50% of cases, it doesn't, and even when it does, pausing the music or skipping tracks has a multi-second delay between pressing the button and the HomePod reacting.
AirPods should automatically switch between devices, and when they do, it really feels like magic. But in 10% of cases, they don't, and it is super annoying, whereas my regular Bluetooth headset just works.
Apple is the champion of providing magical experiences THAT JUST DON'T WORK.
Just now, my girlfriend started typing in our new Wi-Fi password on her iPhone; *magically* a pop-up appeared on my phone asking if I wanted to share the password with her. I pressed yes, but it didn't work.
This side effect of the brave new LLM world really scares me. Much more than the vague prospect of all of us losing our jobs to it eventually.
I decided to spend more time on writing and building. So, this might be my only conference next year. But I heard so many great things about @madvue.es that I had to apply for this one!
I am honored to be part of it!
Car manufacturers can focus on the hardware and building better cars, while customers benefit from a more uniform experience across different makes. Everybody wins.
Don't be stupid. Don't try to become something you're not! If software is only one aspect of your product, don't make it your product!
If a couple of car makers would collaborate by financing work on an open source Car OS, everybody would benefit. Eventually, the open source Car OS will be better and more stable than any closed-source competitor.
With cars, there are plenty of people who are scared of buying a new car because they've heard horror stories of cars disabled by software bugs. Even I, a tech enthusiast, would prefer to buy a dumb car. Probably because I know all too well how software development in big (car) companies goes.
You have nothing to gain and everything to lose in the software arena. You don't gain new customers with good software, but you're going to lose customers if your software is bad! And ultimately, the whole industry will suffer!