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by 0xCE0 1y ago
This thread shows for itself the state of desktop app dev in 2025 :) The question was about "toolchains". For me, the word "toolchain" in the context of programming means compiler and linker stuff for some programming la
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by 0xCE0 1y ago
Checklists are one of the most powerful universal tool I know for avoiding/minimizing disasters/failures. In the context of software, I try to create user interfaces as masked checklists, because it forces making critical steps&#x
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by 0xCE0 1y ago
He has recently co-founded NDEA company, so he has to align himself for that. Same kind of vibe change feels for Joscha Bach after having some position in Liquid AI company. Communication is not so relaxed anymore. That said, I'd still
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by 0xCE0 1y ago
Great tip for finding no/minimal-BS appliances is to download their user manuals and check how they actually work instead of their marketing material.
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by 0xCE0 1y ago
Getting disgusted by seeing unnecessary complex and obfuscated code, and seeing how my own naive most obvious and intentfully explicit code describes the program execution like a story. Oh, and if you have opportunity to start the codebase
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by 0xCE0 1y ago
Great corrections from both of you.
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by 0xCE0 1y ago
The original intent of Unicode was great: a standard that creates a mapping between a unique number==codepoint and specific character of language (and here character means only abstract non-visual symbol==meaning, not visually rendered glyp
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by 0xCE0 1y ago
There are so many, but the first to come into mind was Knuth. The body of work is just insane for a one person (TAOCP, TeX/Metafont, literate programming/web, etc.).
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by 0xCE0 1y ago
Factorio has the best game UI widgets. It is a result of long development effort, as explained in their dev blog.
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by 0xCE0 1y ago
This premise is how AI is sold by the AI companies. It is the software-level equivalent of perfect cheap obidient slave (employee) for the master (employer). I really wonder how all this AI stuff feels/seems to a management person who
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by 0xCE0 1y ago
So, the design language of 2025+ is wobbly "organic" 3D'ishly morphing UI elements, either translucent or not. Surely it was hard work after engineering round-cornered windows and centered taskbars. Can't wait to see the
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by 0xCE0 1y ago
Google search is already dead/zombie. Borderline useless cesspool.
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by 0xCE0 1y ago
Oh wow, that must have been magical. Have you seen "Halt and Catch Fire"? These two masterpieces are my top 2 watchings. Both so amazing but generally unknown/underrated.
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by 0xCE0 1y ago
Freedom of computing/information, i.e. having ability to control computer hardware from software as one wishes. Windows and macOS + driver systems are not anymore allowing this freedom, so on the software-side Linux is our only hope as
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by 0xCE0 1y ago
The General Magic movie/document (2018) is amazing and underrated. Always getting teardrops while watching it (watched it ~3 times). A true old-school startup story. And the soundtrack is also beautiful.
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by 0xCE0 1y ago
Compare the quality and intentionality of this writing versus 2025 LLM generated/assisted stuff.
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by 0xCE0 1y ago
The article is poorly written. No clear message, topics jumped weirdly, and the overall style is like written by teenager/intern trying to be as impressing as some professional. But here's the thing with "GUIs/UIs/U
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by 0xCE0 1y ago
Yes, modern internet stack is a cesspool, and it cannot be saved. - Specs (be it for hardware or software) are too complicated. The complexity can be controlled only by large companies (e.g. HTML5 == Chrome == new IE). And software/har
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by 0xCE0 1y ago
It is quite funny and insane, that there isn't any quality vendors in the router/switch market (though can't say anything of $10k+ hardware). Same phenomenon is with domain name registrars (except one or two are feasible). Oh
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by 0xCE0 1y ago
I don't understand how somebody can code like this and reason/control anything about the program execution :) async (() => (e) { try { await doSomething(); while (!done) { ({ done, value } = await reader.read()); }
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by 0xCE0 1y ago
Your writing style reminds LLM for some reason.
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by 0xCE0 1y ago
The writer seems to be Eskil! https://www.youtube.com/@eskilsteenberg/videos
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by 0xCE0 1y ago
I hate that "scientific papers" do not have date of publication.
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by 0xCE0 1y ago
https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/
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by 0xCE0 1y ago
The real problem with "vibe coding" (or any coding, or with any product what so ever) is that the end user probably is not a programmer, and therefore cannot have professional judgement on the quality of the implementation. The on
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by 0xCE0 1y ago
If the sites are bluffing maybe you can too. If the actual page content is loaded and the cookie is just a modal box slapped on top of it, right click the cookie modal box > open inspector > remove the child element of body that conta
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by 0xCE0 1y ago
Sounds bad. - "Firefox uses AI that runs locally on your device to read the linked page and create the key points." --> Last time I played with local LLMs they were gigabyte sized models. So this has to mean Firefox is shipping
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by 0xCE0 1y ago
I use plain and simple .txt files.
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by 0xCE0 1y ago
There is also a distinction to be made between "technical" and "political" dependencies. Technical dependencies usually track some spec or common consensus, and political dependencies are e.g. timedate-library. Political
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by 0xCE0 1y ago
Google Search is 95% unusable as of 2025. I don't want to use it anymore (as opposed to always wanting to use it because it did the job best). Search results it offers are either paid or LLM generated garbage. From Google's perspe

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