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New comment by allthetime in "Baby's Second Garbage Collector"

allthetime — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:33:39 +0000

On mobile all the text is about 3 times bigger than it needs to be as well making for an obnoxious amount of scrolling. Unreadable code examples.

New comment by allthetime in "Fedware: Government apps that spy harder than the apps they ban"

allthetime — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 01:37:30 +0000

Apple and Google’s App Stores? The companies whose CEOs were both standing at attention, present during Trump’s inauguration?

Rules for thee…

New comment by allthetime in "Cherri – programming language that compiles to an Apple Shortuct"

allthetime — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 01:23:54 +0000

I’m guessing you might know already, but just in case you don’t, “reduce motion” in the accessibility settings menu is essential to productivity and sanity.

New comment by allthetime in "Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018)"

allthetime — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 01:11:05 +0000

Window navigation is just ctrl+direction

New comment by allthetime in "Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018)"

allthetime — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 01:10:20 +0000

Absolute base line example.

Copy text in terminal

Mac: command+c

Linux/windows: ctrl+shift+c (unless you want to cripple proper ctrl+c functionality in which case you can (maybe) activate it from a UI menu)

The command key on Mac is somewhat magical and engages in all sorts of productivity and finger efficiency related context switching so that you can do more with less physical movement.

I’m genuinely curious who you think does it better

New comment by allthetime in "Cyber.mil serving file downloads using TLS certificate which expired 3 days ago"

allthetime — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:56:56 +0000

In this case some manual work may need to be done.

New comment by allthetime in "America tells private firms to “hack back”"

allthetime — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:46:58 +0000

Use your imagination, or, read some history.

New comment by allthetime in "America tells private firms to "hack back""

allthetime — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:18:20 +0000

Not if American tax payers stand up, fight back, and demand better. I won't hold my breath though.

New comment by allthetime in "Cyber.mil serving file downloads using TLS certificate which expired 3 days ago"

allthetime — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:16:40 +0000

"yet another chore"

use cloudflare, never think about it.

use certbot, never think about it.

New comment by allthetime in "Kotlin creator's new language: talk to LLMs in specs, not English"

allthetime — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 18:25:02 +0000

True. Not having to write Java for native modules anymore makes me really happy. Shame they haven’t replaced gradle yet though

New comment by allthetime in "Reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated"

allthetime — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 18:22:44 +0000

I’ve got a “I haven’t written a line of code in one year” buddy whose startup is gaining traction and contracts. He’s rewritten the whole stack twice already after hitting performance issues and is now hiring cheap juniors to clean up the things he generates. It is all relatively well defined CRUD that he’s just slapped a bunch of JS libs on top of that works well enough to sell, but I’m curious to see the long term effects of these decisions.

Meanwhile I’m moving at about half the speed with a more hands on approach (still using the bots obviously) but my code quality and output are miles ahead of where I was last year without sacrificing maintain ability and performance for dev speed

New comment by allthetime in "Reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated"

allthetime — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 18:18:01 +0000

Yeah. I work with bleeding edge zig. If you just ask Claude to write you a working tcp server with the new Io api, it doesn’t have any idea what it’s doing and the code doesn’t compile. But if you give it some minimal code examples, point it to the recent blog posts about it, and paste in relevant points from std it does incredibly well and produce code that it has not been trained on.

New comment by allthetime in "Stdwin: Standard window interface by Guido Van Rossum [pdf]"

allthetime — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:33:10 +0000

Does the chat bot brush your teeth for you too?

New comment by allthetime in "Kotlin creator's new language: talk to LLMs in specs, not English"

allthetime — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:34:48 +0000

Kotlin is generally considered a bit of a dud in the modern programming language space.

New comment by allthetime in "Kotlin creator's new language: a formal way to talk to LLMs instead of English"

allthetime — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:32:09 +0000

There should be a setting to include specific files in every prompt/context. I’m using zed and when you fire up an agent / chat it explicitly states that the file(s) are included.

New comment by allthetime in "PgAdmin 4 9.13 with AI Assistant Panel"

allthetime — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 19:07:09 +0000

postico is really nice on macos

New comment by allthetime in "The next generations of Bubble Tea, Lip Gloss, and Bubbles are available now"

allthetime — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 01:28:56 +0000

I thought there had been a major breakthrough in tapioca-tech

New comment by allthetime in "CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples’ movements"

allthetime — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 01:09:21 +0000

What does "try to beat this" mean?

I just opened it in another browser and got another ID. Did I win?

For some reason using Microsoft Edge is deemed suspicious.

New comment by allthetime in "CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples’ movements"

allthetime — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 01:07:16 +0000

Don't use apps with ads. I can't think of a single necessary one.

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

allthetime — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 21:46:38 +0000

As always the answer is… both. We make things that people didn’t know they wanted, and then they have good ideas about them that we didn’t think of. A truly great product finds the balance between developer creativity and user satisfaction