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by kevinsync 9mo ago
I keep seeing versions of this soliloquy on here, sometimes multiple times every day. They make fine blog posts, it's something to say and something to read, but ultimately remind me more of piling into a Tiktok trend than anything els
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by kevinsync 9mo ago
I suspect they might transparently fall back too; Opus 4.5 has been really reasonable lately, except right after it launched, and also surrounding any service interruptions / problems reported on status.claude.ai -- once those issues r
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by kevinsync 9mo ago
It can go many different ways. You can be 110% invested over years building something (and getting paid for it) for somebody who is ultimately incapable of selling it. It fails, womp womp. You can be 10% invested in a pile of crap (and gett
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by kevinsync 9mo ago
It's interesting about text versus video -- I never ever look for video instruction for code, probably because I just came up on thick-ass books from the library and actual text on the computer in the 90's. THAT SAID, a while back
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by kevinsync 9mo ago
This is just a half-baked thought, partially because I have no clue how major LLM providers track output metrics for tokens returned (in the context of, "Claude used Tailwind for this solution instead of XYZ"), but it seems to me
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by kevinsync 9mo ago
Man, I've been biting my tongue all day with regards to this thread and overall discussion. I've been building a somewhat-novel, complex, greenfield desktop app for 6 months now, conceived and architected by a human (me), visually
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by kevinsync 9mo ago
I hate to say it (not a doom and gloom kind of dude) but to the general population, social media either is, or at the very least appears to be , one of the only ways up and out of the deep, terrifying economic chasm that our societies have
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by kevinsync 9mo ago
The press release says they're demonstrating this at CES 2026, which starts tomorrow (Jan 6, 2026) so I imagine we'll have some kind of verification one way or the other.. Or maybe CES is already happening?? [0] [0] https:/&
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by kevinsync 9mo ago
edit: I actually meant box-sizing: border-box LOL and mistyped, so maybe I'm just proving everybody's hatred for CSS. I still stand by what I wrote though.
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by kevinsync 9mo ago
CSS can be difficult (not hard, "difficult" like how we would describe a persnickety, sometimes erratic person in our life) but I get the feeling that when haters rant about how bad or illogical it is, they never even bothered to
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by kevinsync 10mo ago
This thought experiment insinuates that not working in tech means infinite money or resources, which I realize is not the spirit of the question, but in the event that funding is of no consequence... I would build sound systems. Huge ones,
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by kevinsync 10mo ago
I'd argue that there's probably a disproportionate ratio of thin:thick, and that the majority of creators have to consume significantly more than they create to find their perspective, voice, purpose and inspiration for their crea
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by kevinsync 10mo ago
> The Berenstain Bears’ A School Day Given how often people love to swear with certainty that they remember Berenstain spelled as Berenstein [0], I find it kind of neat/interesting when this sort of digital archaeology refutes the
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by kevinsync 10mo ago
Looks very intriguing! My main question after looking it over though is: given an existing codebase, how could I go about building a decision graph to essentially get "caught up" to current (I guess based on commit history?) to th
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by kevinsync 10mo ago
I'm a person who mostly types, writes tons of code, but also is a graphic designer, and I also have pitiful penmanship. I can write regular sans-serif (all caps or properly capitalized), as well as cursive, but ultimately the concept o
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by kevinsync 10mo ago
Hilariously, I discovered this very technique a couple weeks ago when Claude Code presented it out of the blue as an option with an implemented example when I was trying to find some optimizations for something I'm working on. It turne
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by kevinsync 10mo ago
I've been struggling with this throughout the entire LLM-generated-code arc we're currently living -- I agree that it is wack in theory to take existing code and adapt it to your use-case without proper accreditation, but I'v
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by kevinsync 10mo ago
I love this, it's a very clever and funny way to solve the problem. Makes me think about how there are infinite routes from A to B, some more scenic and whimsical than others.. as well as all the people I've met along the way who
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by kevinsync 10mo ago
Weirdly, I think Perplexity is getting a lot of mainstream name recognition because of podcasts. All the big slop pods like Rogan, Theo Von, etc are sponsored by Perplexity and the hosts constantly name check it by asking to “look stuff up
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by kevinsync 11mo ago
I already wrote something else in here, but one other thought I had afterwards was related to IKEA carts -- they have four 360-degree casters, which makes them extra prone to just flying in literally any direction with a bit of wind if th
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by kevinsync 11mo ago
Parallel but unrelated, you can play these tones [0] to unlock shopping cart wheels that have locked up on you. The literal only times I ever abandon a cart (not return it to the store or cart corral) is when they lock up and I can't m
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by kevinsync 11mo ago
I'm a bit late to the conversation but I'm on month 4 (?) of building a (greenfield) desktop app with Claude Code + Codex. I've been coding since Pulp Fiction hit theaters, and I'm confident I could have just written thi
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by kevinsync 1y ago
I left a comment [0] on the other thread, and this is irrelevant if you aren't using Photoshop, but there's a plugin called DITHERTONE Pro that gives you a lot of control over the dither algorithm used + color grade. For actual d
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by kevinsync 1y ago
I use a Photoshop plugin for complex dithering ( DITHERTONE Pro [0] -- this is NOT AN AD lol, I'm not the creator, just a happy customer and visual nerd) I'm only dropping it in here because the marketing site for the plugin demo
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The Argument for Letting AI Burn It All Down(wired.com)
3 points by kevinsync 1y ago|3 comments
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by kevinsync 1y ago
I was in the same boat on a side project (Electron, Claude Code) -- I considered Playwright but ended up building a simple, focused API instead that allows Claude to connect to the app to inspect logs (main console + browser console), query
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by kevinsync 1y ago
I mean, that was the literal whole point of the article, that they were culturally caught off guard. It happens! I'm going to try to find it again and edit this with a link.
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by kevinsync 1y ago
I grew up with stuff like Kai's Power Goo [0] so it doesn't bother me at all when developers step out of the box and bring a wacky UI! [0] https://youtu.be/xt06OSIQ0PE?t=266
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by kevinsync 1y ago
I cannot for the life of me find the article that explains this succinctly and with a hint of salience, but I recall reading sometime this year about how Klarna (a Swedish company) created the concept, in part, because the Swedish (cultural
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by kevinsync 1y ago
Dateline (with the Dateline NBC theme song playing quietly in the background while you browse your history and achievements)

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