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New comment by kurtis_reed in "This blog is written in en-GB"

kurtis_reed — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 17:24:58 +0000

Actually, it's "either the word 'whom' or when to use it". I guess you should learn actual English.

New comment by kurtis_reed in "This blog is written in en-GB"

kurtis_reed — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 17:20:23 +0000

Imagine someone wrote a blog in some obscure language that few people speak. If you happen to know that language, you'd think wow this is great. If you don't happen to know that language, you'd just think it's a shame. This is the same thing, just to a lesser degree. Some people might be interested in putting in the effort to learn a bunch of foreign cultural references, but not everyone.

New comment by kurtis_reed in "This blog is written in en-GB"

kurtis_reed — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 16:28:36 +0000

You could just use the US terms, then you wouldn't have to learn both.

New comment by kurtis_reed in "This blog is written in en-GB"

kurtis_reed — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:11:47 +0000

"The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own."

New comment by kurtis_reed in "This blog is written in en-GB"

kurtis_reed — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:04:28 +0000

Think of it as learning a second language. It should be a lot easier for you than most people.

New comment by kurtis_reed in "This blog is written in en-GB"

kurtis_reed — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:02:36 +0000

The French didn't like it when the Lingua Franca switched from French to English and the Brits still whine that British English is no longer the dominant variety.

It's a trade-off: you can write in your regional dialect or you can write in a more widely understood global style.

New comment by kurtis_reed in "Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux"

kurtis_reed — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:31:57 +0000

People buy Apple products for the same reason people buy BMWs

New comment by kurtis_reed in "Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux"

kurtis_reed — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:31:08 +0000

There are many laptops with similar specs that you can run Linux on, and for less money

New comment by kurtis_reed in "Vivaldi 8.0"

kurtis_reed — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:08:10 +0000

I tried Vivaldi a couple of years ago and it was slow as fuck

New comment by kurtis_reed in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

kurtis_reed — Tue, 12 May 2026 09:07:03 +0000

Python is faster to write so obviously you'll see things built in Python first more often than the reverse. What's that quote -- "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool..."

New comment by kurtis_reed in "Should I run plain Docker Compose in production in 2026?"

kurtis_reed — Tue, 05 May 2026 12:25:00 +0000

New comment by kurtis_reed in "Am I the only one who hates delivery robots?"

kurtis_reed — Sun, 03 May 2026 05:01:15 +0000

Guess what, human couriers use the sidewalk

New comment by kurtis_reed in "The Stanford Freshmen Who Want to Rule the World"

kurtis_reed — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:27:50 +0000

Paywall

New comment by kurtis_reed in "The CMS is dead, long live the CMS"

kurtis_reed — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:23:52 +0000

My god this title cliche is annoying

New comment by kurtis_reed in "The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode"

kurtis_reed — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:29:09 +0000

"Python doesn't have inbuilt types"

False.

New comment by kurtis_reed in "Apple randomly closes bug reports unless you "verify" the bug remains unfixed"

kurtis_reed — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 10:57:22 +0000

You know what I mean. If the issue is closed, it looks like it's been solved. A new issue may be created that duplicates it, etc.

Obviously it's up to the maintainer. I'm saying what the maintainer should do, not what they can do.

New comment by kurtis_reed in "Apple randomly closes bug reports unless you "verify" the bug remains unfixed"

kurtis_reed — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 09:03:47 +0000

If the maintainer merely doesn't fix the bug, then yes. If they close the bug report so it gets lost and other contributors are discouraged from working on it, then no.

New comment by kurtis_reed in "Apple randomly closes bug reports unless you "verify" the bug remains unfixed"

kurtis_reed — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 09:01:28 +0000

For feature requests, sure, but not for bug reports

New comment by kurtis_reed in "Why I forked httpx"

kurtis_reed — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:22:07 +0000

Who are they?

New comment by kurtis_reed in "Why I forked httpx"

kurtis_reed — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:21:22 +0000

Python doesn't have a big company behind it