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by barnabee 8mo ago
It’s orders of magnitude slower than Helix, which is also a full blown editor. When all your other tools are fast and well engineered, slow and bloated is very noticeable.
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by barnabee 8mo ago
It’s almost all the model. There are many such tools and Claude Code doesn’t seem to be in any way unique. I prefer OpenCode, so far.
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by barnabee 8mo ago
Some people[0] like their tools to be well engineered. This is not unique to software. [0] Perhaps everyone who actually takes pride in their craft and doesn’t prioritise shitty hustle culture and making money over everything else.
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by barnabee 8mo ago
I’ve had good success with Claude building snappy TUIs in Rust with Ratatui. It’s not obvious to me that there’d be any benefit of using TypeScript and React instead, especially none that makes up for the huge downsides compared to Rust in
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by barnabee 8mo ago
Yes, they should regulate any product or service offered by profit making companies to consumers, regardless of whether they are provided “free” of charge or not.
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by barnabee 9mo ago
Background playback is a feature of the browser and operating system, not YouTube. Consumer laws should prevent Google doing this. We need an anti-DMCA to make circumvention, bypassing, or disabling of user’s device or OS features illegal.
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by barnabee 9mo ago
I follow a number of creators on Patreon and have never once thought I want/need a Patreon app.
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by barnabee 9mo ago
Not OP but my GrapheneOS phone is fine with me installing things on it. It just seems like a better Android at this point.
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by barnabee 9mo ago
I’m currently experimenting (alongside working as usual) with a reasonably non-trivial rust project that will be designed “project managed”[0], built, and tested by LLM agents (mostly Claude, via OpenCode) based on me providing high level r
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by barnabee 9mo ago
s/didn't win/isn't winning/ Nothing is forever (and Microsoft owns Github now, so if I were a betting man…)
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by barnabee 9mo ago
Depends on the project and team There are plenty of situation in which all that matters is that the people actually building are happy with it and a tool that literally nobody else uses would be fine. Indeed, for many engineering jobs (soft
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by barnabee 9mo ago
I think this kind of thing just bothers some people and not others. I first started to understand and notice update rates and responsiveness as a gamer playing 1st person shooters. I hate (ok, I find it a bit jarring) the jerky scrolling of
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by barnabee 9mo ago
It’s much easier to have to remember fewer rules and for things to be ok if you get some wrong, yes. Especially for casual users of HTML.
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by barnabee 9mo ago
Because HTML is designed to be written by everyone, not just “engineers” and we’d rather be able to read what they have to say even if they get it wrong.
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by barnabee 9mo ago
GrapheneOS is not quite "without" Android but it's without what makes it bad (Google) and works fine for me. I hear LineageOS is ok too.
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by barnabee 9mo ago
I'm old enough to remember everyone praising Apple for not following Microsoft and making iOS it's own separate thing. It's totally mad that they're now trying to converge their two differentiated, successful, and (mos
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by barnabee 9mo ago
Tailwind being funded is evidence to me that there’s still far too much money in making software compared to the rest of society, not too little as the author would like us to think.
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by barnabee 9mo ago
There's a difference between many people preferring not to have control over the device they own and it being illegal to have such control. Yes, absolutely, most people would be better off not having that control and most of those peop
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by barnabee 9mo ago
The ideal endgame is that AI lets us build tools that make it impossible to tell what application or device is using their APIs and everything becomes open to third party clients whether they like it or not.
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by barnabee 9mo ago
At a minimum the RAF has operated hundreds of surveillance flights over Gaza. Multiple sources linked on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_and_the_Gaza_wa...
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by barnabee 9mo ago
Enough that in my experience Claude is great at it and there’s even less justification for Tailwind if you’re using AI.
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by barnabee 9mo ago
I’ve had zero problems getting Claude to generate CSS. I generally ask for the following, from scratch for each project: - A theme file full of variables (if you squint this actually looks a bit like Tailwind) - A file containing global sty
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by barnabee 9mo ago
It's mostly about the UI. Browsing a network share is pretty ugly (generic icons, filenames, etc.) and can be unintuitive. Basic things like quickly finding the latest file you've added can be quite difficult. Ultimately if you ju
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by barnabee 9mo ago
> You mean for the sharing library and streaming services and all the other features that require identification to even use Plex is for streaming my media from my server to my clients. I know a decent number of people who use (or used)
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by barnabee 9mo ago
I’m quite surprised that Berlin is a place where it’s seen as odd to go to a café alone. I’ve certainly done it there plenty of times, but it would never have even occurred to me that it may be unusual.
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by barnabee 9mo ago
I enjoy a laptop free café. I’ve (thankfully) never come across any that has a problem with reading though.
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by barnabee 9mo ago
Most people in one specific country? Here we take the bus if it’s the best route. We also read books and sit alone in cafés (sometimes at the same time).
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by barnabee 9mo ago
I fairly often go out with just my Garmin watch and an ereader (Boox 6”, which is just about pocketable). I can sync music to it and use it for contactless payments, which is just about enough. It’s possible to do a bit more but it’s more b
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by barnabee 9mo ago
I enjoyed the post as a whole, there’s joy in someone discovering and sharing pleasure in something you enjoy that’s new to them. But yeah, I found the whole intro section a bit confusing because it’s just extremely common to find people en
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by barnabee 9mo ago
It’s absolutely not the case that people are good enough in general at optimising their time and lives that the things they spend the most time on are the “best” they could have done. Most people will readily admit to this, especially when

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