cutler

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by cutler 3mo ago
Sorry, Bill, it's already game over. The Dark Side won. Witness Lavender and Where's Daddy used by the IDF to target extended Palestinian families for execution. The "most moral army in the world" has devised an AI syste
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by cutler 3mo ago
I predict 2027 will be the year of the PWA ... and desktop Linux.
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by cutler 5mo ago
AirBnB.
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by cutler 5mo ago
Codebases like Stripe?
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by cutler 5mo ago
Proton Mail is excellent as is their password manager and VPN.
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by cutler 5mo ago
Macbook Pro rival running ..... Windows?! I'd take a bottom of the line Macbook over anything running 'doze.
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by cutler 5mo ago
CSS, especially the box model, was not consistent across browsers.
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by cutler 5mo ago
Nothing has changed. The "flashy web" of the 2000s was ... Flash. Corporates paid premium rates to Flash Designers who couldn't write a line of HTML.
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by cutler 5mo ago
Responsive design out of the box? Were you actually there? Back in 2000 you could make a career out of scripting browser polyfills or "DHTML".
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by cutler 6mo ago
Joker, Janet, Glojure and now Let-go. Am I missing something?
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by cutler 7mo ago
Maybe people will finally take Marx seriously.
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by cutler 7mo ago
It must be hard to remain sane, let alone happy, after 2 terms of Donald Trump.
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by cutler 7mo ago
< It all seems totally insane. This is Microsoft we're talking about, right?
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by cutler 7mo ago
I used TB happily for years on Mac OS but its font rendering on Linux was one of the main reasons I never switched.
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by cutler 7mo ago
Typescript, isolates, Cloudflare dynamic workers, serverless. You've already lost the market WordPress serves.
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by cutler 7mo ago
Default EmDash size: 483Mb. Default WordPress size: 70Mb. That's progress?
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by cutler 9mo ago
Perl is incredibly elegant once you take the time to grok it. The real issue is today's limited attention span.
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by cutler 9mo ago
The answer to Life, the Universe and Everything, as we all know, is 42. Who needs Claude when you have Deep Thought.
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by cutler 10mo ago
... and is built with Next.js including no less than 12 enormous x-font-woff2 chunks of data at the top of the source code and another big __NEXT_DATA__ JSON chunk at the bottom. Hardly lean, vanilla HTML and CSS.
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by cutler 11mo ago
MVT for testing mobile spyware? There are whole sectors of industry, such as cybersecurity, where Python shines and Ruby is nowhere to be seen.
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by cutler 11mo ago
Try Clojure. Macros make method_missing look primitive.
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by cutler 11mo ago
Sounds like Scala type fetishism all over again.
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by cutler 11mo ago
iWeb was an utter monstrosity. Worse than MS Front Page, which I didn't think was possible.
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by cutler 1y ago
Making dynamically typed, single threaded languages faster via JIT usually comes at the cost of a significant increase in memory consumption which for businesses smaller than Shopify is a much more significant factor.
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by cutler 1y ago
"We're only making plans for Nigel" (XTC, 1979)
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by cutler 1y ago
Teach your kids how life is about getting something for nothing. Great parenting.
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by cutler 1y ago
I look forward to another of Sam's brilliant creations. It's a shame Overtone was abandoned as I think Clojure is the perfect language for this type of project.
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by cutler 1y ago
Smart fridge. Get a life.
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by cutler 1y ago
MTBF?
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by cutler 1y ago
Yes, I remember when Kubernetes hit the scene and it was only used by huge companies who needed to spin-up fleets of servers on demand. The idea of using it for small startup infra was absurd.

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