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New comment by seabombs in "How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown"

seabombs — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 19:59:58 +0000

It appears to use a lot of memory too, at least in Firefox. I can't have more than a few Linear tabs open at a time.

New comment by seabombs in "A Man Who Reads Books for a Living"

seabombs — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 23:18:59 +0000

Boring isn't it? Reading half a book every single day.

Not for him though, he loves it.

New comment by seabombs in "How the Atlas Network is shaping your life, even if you've never heard of it"

seabombs — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 03:39:44 +0000

There's a lot in here that I which I knew more about. You often hear about think tanks in Australia, and know they have political leanings but I wasn't aware of their precise nature. Shows my ignorance, but the movements between think tank boards and polticial appointments/the RBA are concerning.

The ABC does some truly fantastic political/economic reporting and analysis. This one is unusually long though, many of the author's (Gareth Hutchens) other articles are very good at distilling current economic trends and ideas into something understandable by lay people like me.

New comment by seabombs in "Kubernetes Ingress Nginx is retiring"

seabombs — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 03:19:37 +0000

I've been using Envoy Gateway in my homelab and have found it to be good for my modest needs (single node k3s cluster running on an old PC). I needed to configure the underlying EnvoyProxy so that it would listen on specific IPs provided by MetalLB, and their docs were good enough to find my way through that.

https://gateway.envoyproxy.io/

New comment by seabombs in "Steam Frame"

seabombs — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 22:57:02 +0000

Brilliant, I'm anxiously awaiting Australian pricing details (and release dates...) but could definitely seeing myself getting one of these as my first VR device, and the controller looks great too.

Being able to run games on device (and on ARM) is very cool, but I wonder if there is a cheaper/lighter/longer-battery-life version of this that is stream only? That's probably a better fit for me personally, I can't imagine not having a streaming device nearby when I would be using it.

Also hate to be picky, but looks like the frame controllers pair directly to the headset so maybe can't be used on their own? Would be nice to use them standalone too.

New comment by seabombs in "Nearly 90% of Windows Games Now Run on Linux"

seabombs — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 23:36:28 +0000

Proton/Wine is so good these days. Rarely have I had an issue running a game in the last 3 or 4 years. Sometimes EA/Ubisoft games that have their own special launchers don't work immediately, but ProtonDB and the Proton GitHub issues are great resources to get them going.

I remember when Cyberpunk 2077 came out it didn't work at first, but the Proton and Glorious Egg Roll devs got it running within a few days. Legends.

Even many games that support native linux run better under wine.

New comment by seabombs in "Advent of Code 2025: Number of puzzles reduce from 25 to 12 for the first time"

seabombs — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 09:45:30 +0000

Agree. It was getting in the way of me spending time with the family because I was distracted mulling over the puzzles.

I had thought last year that they could peak the difficulty around the middle of the month and bring it down a bit leading up to the 25th. But just finishing it earlier is probably better IMO.

New comment by seabombs in "AI and Home-Cooked Software"

seabombs — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 04:31:01 +0000

In my experience, the people using AI to make programs are still programmers. As in, they were trained in programming pre-AI. Managers are using AI to output manager stuff - documents, spreadsheets, etc. Similarly, marketers are using AI to write ad copy, not the marketing manager.

This may change as tools become better known or adopted. But for know the same people who did the job before are now using AI in that job.

FWIW, in my IRL experience, all the work output of those using AI for whatever task has been of poorer quality than without.

New comment by seabombs in "Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26"

seabombs — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 02:47:28 +0000

Thank you!

New comment by seabombs in "What’s New in PostgreSQL 18 – a Developer’s Perspective"

seabombs — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 22:34:32 +0000

It depends on the ORM, I know SQLAlchemy and Django ORM have some Postgres specific features (e.g. full text search/indexing). Some also let you extend the ORM to add your own features, or at least write raw SQL.

New comment by seabombs in "[dead]"

seabombs — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 06:02:06 +0000

When I worked as a pizza delivery guy (favorite casual job I had during uni) we only used those big pizza rocker things, which I think are better than these wheels. Easier to clean too.

New comment by seabombs in "We're Joining OpenAI"

seabombs — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 03:11:24 +0000

Insightful article, thanks for writing/sharing!

New comment by seabombs in "Zig's Lovely Syntax"

seabombs — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 01:19:36 +0000

I think the syntax highlighting for this could make it more readable. Make the leading `\\` a different color to the string content.

New comment by seabombs in "'Starter packs' have played a central role in Bluesky's rapid growth"

seabombs — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 01:12:42 +0000

I deleted Twitter years ago as I was getting over it. When Bluesky starting take off it sounded like it was "Twitter but better", so I created an account. Felt just the same as Twitter. Lot's of rage bait, hot takes and tired jokes (in my opinion).

This was my default feed to be fair, if I'd taken the time to follow some good people maybe it would be better.

New comment by seabombs in "MacPaint Art from the Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today"

seabombs — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 10:57:55 +0000

There's a term I read about a long time ago, I think it was "aesthetic completeness" or something like that. It was used in the context of video games whose art direction was fully realized in the game, i.e. increases in graphics hardware or capabilities wouldn't add anything to the game in an artistic sense. The original Homeworld games were held up as examples.

Anyway, this reminded me of that. Making these pictures in anything but the tools of the time wouldn't just change them, they'd be totally different artworks. The medium is part of the artwork itself.

New comment by seabombs in "Anyone Could Forget a Kid in a Hot Car, Research Shows"

seabombs — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 23:24:58 +0000

I take my 18-month old to daycare each morning, before parking my car a few streets away and catching the train into work. It is terrifying to think that one day I might just forget to drop him off.

My partner usually picks him up in the evening. About 6 months ago she was busy so I did it. I picked him up, drove home, parked the car in the garage and walked straight into the house. Something felt wrong, but it was maybe 30 seconds until I realised I'd left him in the car. He was completely fine, but it put the fear of God into me.

Anyway, I'll contribute my poorly thought out technical solution - a thermal camera that monitors the seats for warm bodies, if you lock the car when present it beeps the horn.

New comment by seabombs in "AI is Anti-Human (and assorted qualifications)"

seabombs — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 00:25:13 +0000

Great article.

> Don't underestimate the value to your soul of good work.

This in particular resonated with me.

My concern is not really that AI will take over my job and replace me (if it is genuinely better at my job than I am, I think I would quite happily give it up and find something else to do). My concern is that AI will partially take over my job, doing the parts that I enjoy (creativity, thinking, learning) and leave to me the mundane aspects.

New comment by seabombs in "AI is ushering in a “tiny team” era"

seabombs — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 02:11:50 +0000

Some of my colleagues will copy/paste several paragraphs of LLM output into ongoing slack discussions. Totally interrupts the flow of ideas. Shits me to tears.

New comment by seabombs in "The UI future is colourful and dimensional"

seabombs — Tue, 27 May 2025 10:23:16 +0000

Terrible performance for me too. Firefox, 3600X and 6800XT. Especially as the header morphs when you scroll down.

I don't mind the icons and general aethetic direction, but seriously undermined by the very noticeable, janky performance. Makes it feel cheap.

New comment by seabombs in "I think it's time to give Nix a chance"

seabombs — Mon, 26 May 2025 22:18:07 +0000

I installed it a few months ago, I thought it was pretty good! I couldn't find a prebuilt package mirror in or near Australia though so it was painfully slow to install updates, and I didn't stick with it.