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by alwillis 11mo ago
You know Google pays Apple ~$20 billion a year to be the default search engine, right? The rumored deal with Google is $1 billion, so Apple is still up $19 billion. There's only three frontier model makers: OpenAI, Anthropic and Google
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by alwillis 11mo ago
> Prompt ingested (time to first token) in "18 seconds" with the new chip... end of the joke 18 seconds on the M5; 4.4x times faster than the previous M4 running one of Qwen’s 8 billion parameter local models. That’s quite impr
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by alwillis 11mo ago
> Apple feeling like they have to partner with Google to replace their own "Apple Intelligence" They’re not replacing Apple Intelligence; the partnership with Google is for the backend of Siri.
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by alwillis 11mo ago
> All of the fuss seems to be entirely driven by Mitchell's clout, and maybe some interest in Zig. Nope, that's not it. It's mostly because he noticed the majority of terminal applications were okay but not great. So he de
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by alwillis 11mo ago
> I don't think there are any. It is likely just a social media hype. It's not hype. Here's a comprehensive review of a lot of terminals and Ghostty did very well--"State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Cham
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by alwillis 11mo ago
tmux is another terminal layer inside of any terminal. Newer terminal apps like WezTerm have a multiplexer built-in.
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by alwillis 11mo ago
WezTerm was my daily driver for a long time—it’s a great app. Ghostty is blazing fast and the attention to detail is fabulous. The theme picker is next level, for example; so are the typographical controls. It feels like an app made by a cr
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Apple's new Font Book icon is upsetting designers(creativebloq.com)
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India pulls its preinstalled iPhone app demand(appleinsider.com)
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by alwillis 11mo ago
Not on my MacBook Pro.
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> Mac, alt-minus. I've been using Macs for decades; it's called the Option key; no seasoned Mac user calls it "Alt". I know when a PC-style keyboard is attached to a Mac, the Alt key functions as the Option key. [1] -
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by alwillis 11mo ago
> First Law: An AI may not produce information that harms a human being… The funny thing about humans is we're so unpredictable. An AI model could produce what it believes to be harmless information but have no idea what the human w
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by alwillis 11mo ago
> I use AI daily as a senior coder for search and docs, and when used for prototyping you still need to be a senior coder to go from say 60% boilerplate to 100% finished app/site/whatever unless it's incredibly simple. I k
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by alwillis 11mo ago
Accessible info graphics [1] [1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20130922065731/http://www.last-c...
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by alwillis 11mo ago
https://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/images/ including how write alt text for charts.
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by alwillis 11mo ago
> I'm gonna flip this around... have you tried pasting the image (and the relevant paragraph of text) and asking ChatGPT (or another LLM) to generate the alt text for the image and see what it produces? There's a great app by a
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by alwillis 11mo ago
> As a (web app) developer I never quite sure what to put in alt. Are you making these five mistakes when writing alt text? [1] Images tutorial [2] Alternative Text [3] [1]: https://www.a11yproject.com/posts/are-you-
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> But it also includes BBEdit and Sublime and Git Tower and dozens of other Mac apps I paid for and can't easily use anymore. Those apps all run on current Macs today--but you do need to upgrade to a current version. Nobody should e
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by alwillis 11mo ago
> Why Apple don't just buy Intel? Apple doesn't need a fab. They bought P.A. Semi in 2008, which got them microprocessor design talent that lead to Apple Silicon. > That would allow better vertical integration. Apple already
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I Tested the M5 iPad Pro's Neural-Accelerated AI, and the Hype Is Real(macstories.net)
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> Then why wouldn't it eventually be able to tell if I'm using 2 or 4 spaces and format my code accordingly? It's not that an agent doesn't know if you're using 2 or 4 spaces in your code; it comes down to: - the
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by alwillis 11mo ago
/init has evolved since the early day; it's more concise than it used to be.
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by alwillis 11mo ago
> Currently Claude Code is the best, but I don't think Anthropic would pivot it into what I described. They don't have to pivot, since it already exists: Claude Code Router [1]. [1]: https://github.com/musistudi
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> It becomes obsolete in literally weeks, and it also doesn't work 80% of the time. You can tell Gemini or Claude it has to use your MCP tool of choice; you can also tell it not to use other tools if it's confused. Lots of MCPs
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by alwillis 11mo ago
Layout Land [1] is a great set of videos that explains CSS Grid [1]: https://m.youtube.com/layoutland
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by alwillis 11mo ago
Yes, the syntax takes a while to get used to; they were attempting to cover several different use cases. You can use ASCII art to “draw” your layout if you want to, which is quite accessible [1]. [1]: “Grid: how grid-template-areas offer a
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by alwillis 11mo ago
Another way to think about it: flexbox is for alignment of boxes in one dimension: horizontally or vertically. CSS Grid is for two dimensional layout of rows and columns. Back in the day, developers wanted page layout instead of the hacks o
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Improving front end design through Skills(claude.com)
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by alwillis 11mo ago
> Then again, writing stylesheets is still one of those things where, if you're not careful, everything spirals out of control. Often I'll make changes and wonder why nothing's happening and realize something was overridde
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> 2026 is nearly upon us, and Google, Microsoft, and Apple remain steadfast in the refusal to ever allow anyone to share wide-gamut or HDR images. It appears we’re getting closer to being able to exchange HDR images [1]: [1]: https:&#x2

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