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Claude has no trouble with SQL queries, writing tests, utility functions, component sketches (React). But as soon as I start giving it reasonably complex stuff like interdependent generics (TypeScript…

> Just looking at JavaScript, with its ugly flights of brackets and braces and unnecessary-seeming reams of semicolons, made me miserable. Who's going to tell them you don't need the semi…

I don’t have a problem with people knowing the timestamp - it’s only precise down to the second.

We chose ULID for our Postgres PK recently, and this article helped a lot in making that decision: https://brandur.org/nanoglyphs/026-ids I personally prefer ULID since it is com…

All this negative sentiment around the App Router like in this post made me really scared to adopt it. I've just been working with it for the past 2 months and absolutely love it. The biggest rea…

I find it kind of ironic that an article about misperceiving expertise fails to mention the Dunning-Krueger effect[0], especially with passages like: > Imitators don’t know the limits of their expe…

The level that the hosts interrupted the voice assistant today worries me that we're about to instil that as normal behaviour for future generations.

The original design (PDF) document is linked in the article.[0] [0] - https://www.goldennumber.net/wp-content/uploads/pepsi-arnell... …

There was something so special and powerful about Affinity Designer V1. It was just a supreme amount of value and such a robust application that it became the tool I learned to do graphic design on, a…

Anecdotally, I don’t think anyone who isn’t interested in computers has ever had an easy time setting up a printer.

I’m not sure I would necessarily call YouTube a moat-creator for Google, since the content on YouTube is for all intents and purposes public data.

I'd love to give it a try, but the permissions list in the auth dialog is crazy. Including: "See and download your organisation's G Suite directory", "permanently delete all t…

Yes, Firebase / Firestore has this capability. You grant access to collections (and even fields) using rulesets[0]. Firestore is a NoSQL db so it's a quite different paradigmatically though.…

Also good point. However, while commercial spaces in general are (as you say) underutilized, my gut feel (non-empirical here) from being in large cities is that there is somewhat of a boon for hot-des…

Good point - goes to show it’s always easier to criticise behemoths like this from the outside. However, I wager that they have had long enough to plan around this one - _surely_ there are a non-negli…

In my opinion the writing for a way out of this mess has been on the wall for a long time now, post-Covid. This is with the only viable, but still heavily under-utilized product they have left: hot-de…

Not the same but analogous to Betteridge's law of headlines[0]: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org…