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New comment by Jackevansevo in "Your phone is about to stop being yours"

Jackevansevo — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:57:29 +0000

I don't understand, there was all this regulation for force apple to allow alternative app stores, and now google are pulling this move?

How is this not the same walled garden approach apple was forced to change?

New comment by Jackevansevo in "Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11"

Jackevansevo — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 12:49:12 +0000

Don't worry, they'll just destroy any goodwill they tried to claw back with these 'fixes' in following releases.

They absolutely can't help themselves but make their product more and more user hostile.

When perfection is table stakes

Jackevansevo — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:39:49 +0000

Article URL: https://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/when-perfection-is-table-stakes/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47403772

Points: 4

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New comment by Jackevansevo in "Good software knows when to stop"

Jackevansevo — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:22:22 +0000

if I ran an OS upgrade and was greeted by something like this I'd immediately be swapping OS.

New comment by Jackevansevo in "Why is Claude an Electron app?"

Jackevansevo — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 22:55:03 +0000

Because Anthropic and the rest of them are lying to you about the sophistication of these tools.

The fact that claude code is a still buggy mess is a testament to the quality of the dream they're trying to sell.

New comment by Jackevansevo in "Pytest for Neovim"

Jackevansevo — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 21:47:28 +0000

Sure, here's a recorded example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUeousvp4PQ

New comment by Jackevansevo in "Pytest for Neovim"

Jackevansevo — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 21:47:03 +0000

Rather than write something up or linking to a bunch of articles I recorded a quick screen capture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUeousvp4PQ

New comment by Jackevansevo in "Pytest for Neovim"

Jackevansevo — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 14:33:22 +0000

For the longest time I've been using vims built-in `compiler` feature with tartansandal/vim-compiler-pytest combined tpope/vim-dispatch

New comment by Jackevansevo in "GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic"

Jackevansevo — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 10:43:30 +0000

> Meanwhile I'm watching a community of mostly young people building and using tools like copilot, cursor, replit, jacob etc and wiring up LLMs into increasingly more complex workflows.

And yet, I don't see much evidence that software quality is improving, if anything it seems in rapid decline.

New comment by Jackevansevo in "Refactoring Python with Tree-sitter and Jedi"

Jackevansevo — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 21:08:05 +0000

Author here: I'm super familiar with this kind of find and replace syntax inside vim or with sed. Usually it works great!

But in this specific situation it was tricky to handle situations with things spanning over multiple lines + preventing accidental renames.

New comment by Jackevansevo in "Refactoring Python with Tree-sitter and Jedi"

Jackevansevo — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 21:04:10 +0000

This is super cool! I wish I'd known about this.

New comment by Jackevansevo in "Refactoring Python with Tree-sitter and Jedi"

Jackevansevo — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 21:02:13 +0000

Author here, I'm not aware of any IDE that can do this specific refactor

New comment by Jackevansevo in "MiniJinja: Learnings from Building a Template Engine in Rust"

Jackevansevo — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 19:49:32 +0000

To add some balance to everyone slating Jinja in the comments, I've personally found it great to use.

Sure you CAN write unmaintainable business logic spaghetti in your templates, doesn't mean you SHOULD (Most criticism appears to come from this angle).

New comment by Jackevansevo in "Mozilla roll out first AI features in Firefox Nightly"

Jackevansevo — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 11:46:39 +0000

Mozilla forever determined to do anything but actually improve their core product.

I know it's opt-in, but nobody is going to switch to a browser because they ship this kinda stuff.

New comment by Jackevansevo in "Oh My Zsh"

Jackevansevo — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 10:28:28 +0000

The defaults it ships out of the box makes the shell actually usable. Unsure I could ever go back to a regular bash/zsh prompt.

A lot of people will tell you this is slow and you've got to use X,Y,Z instead. If you're new, I'd strongly recommend just sticking with this, it's much easier to configure.

New comment by Jackevansevo in "Flathub – The Linux App Store"

Jackevansevo — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 19:32:51 +0000

I never mentioned anything about Nvidia GPUs...

New comment by Jackevansevo in "Flathub – The Linux App Store"

Jackevansevo — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 09:42:37 +0000

I see a lot of negativity in this thread. Personally I think flatpaks make it super easy to use a rock solid stable distribution as your base OS, and then run the latest and greatest software on top.

In years gone-by if I wanted the latest versions of software I'd have to use an unstable rolling release distro. Now I can just use Debian stable and essentially get the exact same experience.

New comment by Jackevansevo in "How long should your CI take?"

Jackevansevo — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 19:13:11 +0000

Backend webdev in Python, mostly worked for startups. Nothing crazy complex.

New comment by Jackevansevo in "How long should your CI take?"

Jackevansevo — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 18:23:28 +0000

But is it smart enough to go and test transient deps of code you've made changes to?

I've been impressed by Pants (Python build tooling) which manages this really well https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/advanced-target-selection#ru...

New comment by Jackevansevo in "How long should your CI take?"

Jackevansevo — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 18:18:20 +0000

It's a valid reason to have stuff run in CI (i.e. consistent environment). But for my line of work I can't think of a single scenario where the architecture / platform has ever caused issues in tests, typically it's caught at build time / when resolving dependencies/packages.